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New comment by mike_bob in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

mike_bob — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:59:53 +0000

Wait a gosh darn second... I was told, by our president no less, that only California had a housing crisis, and it was specifically caused by democrats. Is this the fake news I hear about?

New comment by mike_bob in "Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions"

mike_bob — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:47:38 +0000

Color me shocked... one of the most profitable companies in the world, that doesn't contribute anything positive to society, is unethical. Just another day in America that ends in Y.

New comment by mike_bob in "Tesla Roadster"

mike_bob — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:04:21 +0000

Meanwhile, Elon is trying to buy state parks in Texas after bribing the governor to the tune of $150 million. Sad days ahead when fascists can openly flash their money around and buy influence on the cheap.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/boca-chica-spacex...

New comment by mike_bob in "US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion"

mike_bob — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:53:49 +0000

It's the biggest most beautiful deficit ever. If the democrats were in charge they would have spent far more on sex changes for kids, it's the TRUTH!

New comment by mike_bob in "Tesla Roadster"

mike_bob — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:40:56 +0000

Yup, integrity doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how many dollars you have in your bank account to buy influence!

New comment by mike_bob in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

mike_bob — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:55:03 +0000

Insane these awards are going mostly to executives, Musk getting it for engineering sciences is a slap in the face to anyone that previously received the award.

New comment by mike_bob in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

mike_bob — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:54:53 +0000

100%. A few months ago I walked away from a 5-year job in biotech programming a manufacturing execution system because I couldn't take interfacing with people thru a screen anymore. My boss was a chemist with an MBA, knew little about what I did, just how I had to follow regulations. I was so silo'd it was boring and lonely. The only highlight was working with the low-paid production staff on how to understand and improve their processes.

New comment by mike_bob in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

mike_bob — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:31:53 +0000

You got that exactly backward. Modern republicans are the ones that get the most in corporate PAC money, at the high end it's like 60/40% split... the majority to the GOP. Also, the fact that modern republicans brought Citizens United and just earlier this year NRSC v. FEC.

You really can't make a valid case to say the dems are the corporate dominated party. ffs, they are the only ones even attempting to put common sense regulations on the financial industry, something Trump called "bad for business" when he undid antitrust legislature that got passed under Biden.

New comment by mike_bob in "I said no and Apple said yes"

mike_bob — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:01:15 +0000

Back in the day I was doing tech support when OS X was the latest, and this was 100% relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvXZVJXIyqM

ngl Mac users are to computers as Tesla drivers are to cars, they buy them because they don't want to learn anything.

New comment by mike_bob in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

mike_bob — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:37:42 +0000

Amazing you know more about my father than me. Please tell me more!

New comment by mike_bob in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

mike_bob — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:52:02 +0000

Go cry me a river of lies Mr. Microsoft Exec. Corporate culture is a blight on humanity.

New comment by mike_bob in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

mike_bob — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:15:48 +0000

Yes, all together. He has 4, 20-footers with extra insulation.

New comment by mike_bob in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

mike_bob — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:02:21 +0000

If only you knew my father and his distrust of most things. He's been watching 5+ hours of Fox News daily for 30+ years. There isn't much left in that mind.

New comment by mike_bob in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

mike_bob — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:54:15 +0000

These are slightly higher end, and from what I've seen they go for $2-3000. But still yes, it is ridiculous, and the company wont offer them for sale per the current contract! For convenience sake he'd rather pay the monthly fee than haul all his junk out, get them to pick the container up, buy new ones, and put all his cheap useless junk back in.

It's maddening!

New comment by mike_bob in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

mike_bob — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:38:38 +0000

My personal experience with this is my father, who lives in a rural area with 10+ acres, has placed several shipping containers on the property as storage for his junk. He's charged just over $500/mo for them. He's had them for 18 years. The value of property in those containers is maybe $5000.

Consumerism is a disease, and the USA is super good at it.

New comment by mike_bob in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

mike_bob — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:48:36 +0000

No surprise under a republican controlled government, the FCC considers this type of behavior "good for business".

New comment by mike_bob in "San Francisco institution 'heartbroken and furious' after erasure of public art"

mike_bob — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:46:32 +0000

Like the people running AI companies? Yeah, the tech world certainly has a never ending supply.

New comment by mike_bob in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

mike_bob — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:13:28 +0000

This has been ramping up like crazy the past 2 decades ever since the conservative ruling on Citizens United vs FEC where they decided it's a corporations right, as a person (with zero input or approval from it's actual employees), to donate unlimited funds to politicians. The main stream media has whitewashed this topic so much over the years, and now we're seeing government actually suppressing factual reporting, and/or threatening them with lawsuits so they conform.

It's insanity, but that's the new GOP for you, all the good people have left or been forced out. The only people pushing back on this are the Bernie Sanders and AOC types, which IMO is far less dangerous, and better for the common person, than a radicalized right wing.

New comment by mike_bob in "How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret"

mike_bob — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:53:39 +0000

Yes, but that'll never happen in the USA, the ultra-wealthy are a protected class under conservative, and sometimes democrat, rule.

Same thing goes for the oil industry and CO2 emissions, which we've known about for 5 decades.

New comment by mike_bob in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

mike_bob — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:38:44 +0000

And sadly regulations wont happen until 2029 at the earliest, and only if democrats win majorities. That's simply the truth.