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TDub wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:41 am guarantee it's vile

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:31 am

TDub wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:41 am guarantee it's vile

I have zero doubt YOU would feel as such.

On an unrelated note.....

Yesterday I asked two co-workers if they were involved in an automobile accident, and they were not under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, and they didn't have any legal issues, what would cause them to "run" from the scene? I asked that because there was a "hit and run" in front of our building yesterday.
Which brought us to police chases.
I have very mixed feelings about all this. A lot to take in.
https://isp.illinois.gov/StaticFiles/do ... %20DIR.pdf

What I have some issues with is that I have personally witnessed the police let people with guns, who pointed them at shoppers and store security personnel, who stole high priced merchandise from a store (Neiman Marcus), just drive off on their merry way.
Don't get me wrong, I would never feel it is/was ok if an innocent person got killed in a police chase because someone stole something but I sure as shit don't feel someone who points a gun in a threatening manner at someone else after stealing high priced items should get a free pass for doing it.

Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:53 am

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:31 am

TDub wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:41 am guarantee it's vile

I have zero doubt YOU would feel as such.

On an unrelated note.....

Yesterday I asked two co-workers if they were involved in an automobile accident, and they were not under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, and they didn't have any legal issues, what would cause them to "run" from the scene? I asked that because there was a "hit and run" in front of our building yesterday.
Which brought us to police chases.
I have very mixed feelings about all this. A lot to take in.
https://isp.illinois.gov/StaticFiles/do ... %20DIR.pdf

What I have some issues with is that I have personally witnessed the police let people with guns, who pointed them at shoppers and store security personnel, who stole high priced merchandise from a store (Neiman Marcus), just drive off on their merry way.
Don't get me wrong, I would never feel it is/was ok if an innocent person got killed in a police chase because someone stole something but I sure as shit don't feel someone who points a gun in a threatening manner at someone else after stealing high priced items should get a free pass for doing it.

So woke.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:54 pm as a country, we are way too soft on crime.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:54 pm as a country, we are way too soft on crime.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 2:03 pm

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:54 pm as a country, we are way too soft on crime.

it starts at the top

why would anyone respect laws when our president-in-waiting doesn’t

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:37 am I have always been fascinated by advertising, and the way the "experts" go about trying to appeal to and catch our attention. What are the societal and demographic vulnerabilities, the biases and preferences, the buttons they're trying to push and leverage as they attempt to motivate us to spend our money on what they're hawking.

I regularly receive mail from local real estate agents wanting me to hire them if I decide to sell my house. And although I only glance at them long enough to make an accurate attempt at the recycle bin, I think I can say without exception, they all feature large glossy pictures and descriptions of the fabulous, incomparable, $1.5 or $2.4 million dollar sale they recently had, how few days it was on the market, etc.

Which is why, when this passed thru my keep-or-recycle filter this morning, it got stuck:



"Your Home Could Be Next!"

After asking myself, Who the hell would hire a real estate agent based on their sale of a house like that?, and then I think I got it!

What I guess is the obvious pitch: "If I can sell a house like this, I sure as hell can sell a house like yours. So, Contact Me Today!

Yes? No?

I love it!

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:37 am I have always been fascinated by advertising, and the way the "experts" go about trying to appeal to and catch our attention. What are the societal and demographic vulnerabilities, the biases and preferences, the buttons they're trying to push and leverage as they attempt to motivate us to spend our money on what they're hawking.

I regularly receive mail from local real estate agents wanting me to hire them if I decide to sell my house. And although I only glance at them long enough to make an accurate attempt at the recycle bin, I think I can say without exception, they all feature large glossy pictures and descriptions of the fabulous, incomparable, $1.5 or $2.4 million dollar sale they recently had, how few days it was on the market, etc.

Which is why, when this passed thru my keep-or-recycle filter this morning, it got stuck:



"Your Home Could Be Next!"

After asking myself, Who the hell would hire a real estate agent based on their sale of a house like that?, and then I think I got it!

What I guess is the obvious pitch: "If I can sell a house like this, I sure as hell can sell a house like yours. So, Contact Me Today!

Yes? No?

I love it!

JKLivin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:02 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:37 am I have always been fascinated by advertising, and the way the "experts" go about trying to appeal to and catch our attention. What are the societal and demographic vulnerabilities, the biases and preferences, the buttons they're trying to push and leverage as they attempt to motivate us to spend our money on what they're hawking.

I regularly receive mail from local real estate agents wanting me to hire them if I decide to sell my house. And although I only glance at them long enough to make an accurate attempt at the recycle bin, I think I can say without exception, they all feature large glossy pictures and descriptions of the fabulous, incomparable, $1.5 or $2.4 million dollar sale they recently had, how few days it was on the market, etc.

Which is why, when this passed thru my keep-or-recycle filter this morning, it got stuck:



"Your Home Could Be Next!"

After asking myself, Who the hell would hire a real estate agent based on their sale of a house like that?, and then I think I got it!

What I guess is the obvious pitch: "If I can sell a house like this, I sure as hell can sell a house like yours. So, Contact Me Today!

Yes? No?

I love it!

Targeting the Hispanic demographic by the looks of the color scheme.

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:18 pm None of the laptops I want to remove the drive from are working.

I removed one and I'm still alive, but when I opened the back on the next MacBook Pro, expecting it to be similar enough that I'd figure out how to remove the drive...long story short, you can't access the drive easily on this 2017 with a Touch Bar, because this one is soldered to the logic board along with the RAM and something else. If I knew what a logic board looked like I might try to remove it and have it destroyed along with the drive, but I'm not there, yet.

Hard to believe what a time sink this has turned into, not to mention having to order the right tiny tools, (I already have numerous small screw driver sets, but Ohhhhhhhhhh Nooooooooo, these screws are really special because of those woke Apple socialists out in Cupertino).

Time to see if I can find out what the logic board looks like and not let a few screws and some paper thin, overpriced metal stand between me and a cure!