Flutterby™! (short)

Unlike reports from ChatGPT, Google's "AI" seems smart enough to know that I'd have to drive my car to the car wash. Unless, of course, I was going to use a self-service bay.

First of all, what did Oregon do to the person who named the "Oregon Grape" after it. Second, I now have Opinions about the landscape designer who recommended it.

It finally sprawled enough that Charlene said she wanted it out, and I suspect I'll be following runners all summer...

We had a Cuisinart electric tea kettle that we loved. It died. We replaced it with the same one, and that started making weird annoying noises(!).

Replaced that with a used Veken off of Facebook Marketplace, but various interface elements of that suck. So we're still looking.

Are there differences in reliability between a $50 kettle and a $200 one, or are they all just bling?

Saw someone talk about how AI lets them do things that would take their IT department $500k to implement, and maybe it's time to concede that Agile has been a total disaster?

We know how to build good software. We choose not to.

Kit Bashir @Unixbigot@aus.social

“Come with me if you want to live”

That old line.

“I said, come—“

“I KNOW. I’M THINKING.”

“What, uh, why, I mean, your destiny”

“Siddown, kid”

“There’s no time”

“You’re a time traveler. They could have sent you back with plenty of time to act, but they made it so you’re rushed and disoriented. Sit.”

“I don’t get it, you’re in danger…”

“The time war is a manufactured crisis. Keeps wages down, gives the people an external threat to distract from the real villains”

“Prove it”

I handed her a copy of “So, you’re a child soldier in a proxy war”, then tapped my earbud. “Control, the tip was genuine, I’ve got another one.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_No_Time