Lung cancer and smelling really bad is manly, says the Insane

Another day, another news article about prediction markets being manipulated by people trying to win money

The fact that so-called "prediction markets" (techbro for casino) welcome and basically require insider trading to be the"most accurate" is the most definitive proof they should never exist

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro looks pretty cool, now that my (dead) laptop is finally in my possession again I'm probably going to buy a new main board (now on discount so that's neat) and maybe buy the pro upgrade chassis whenever it comes out

I find it funny that the American ambassador to France is not allowed to talk to any members of the French government because he made some stupid comment when some hardcore right wing loser got beat to death by hardcore left wing losers and when the French government demanded he meet with them to tell him to shut up he just didn't bother attending
Also he (the ambassador) got pardoned for doing all sorts of fraud but is the president's daughter's husband's father so crime is legal

this is the best thing ever

They don't tell you this but the freaks that post on the Internet all of the time (including myself) are not the people you would see if you actually go outside, if you asked most people their opinion on some hyper specific Internet thing they won't care they just want to exist.
I will conclude this by saying that social media, by and large, ESPECIALLY when powered by algorithmic recommendations, needs to be destroyed

If someone offers you a guaranteed 10+% return on investment, they are TELLING THE TRUTH. You should give them ALL of your money. There is absolutely no way it can fail miserably and you lose everything

As someone who has feelers in various communities I can say absolutely no one ever knows what anyone outside their particular community actually thinks

Is it the law that if you play loud music in public it must always be terrible, I don't remember that one ever passing

Thinking of writing a blog post where the body is going to be exactly four words

Software developers should not be lawyers.
Software developers should not pretend to be lawyers.
Lawyers can hardly pretend to be lawyers.
Software developers can hardly read documentation there is no way they can ever understand something as [needlessly] complicated the law is, ESPECIALLY IP law. Even worse, what works in one locale will likely not work in another.
Copyright is a complicated tangled monstrosity, licensing even more so; which is why big companies usually have legions of lawyers that even then barely understand IP law.

Welcome to WiFi here are your options today
- 2.4 GHz on, devices will frequently only use it and get sent to buffer hell
- 5 GHz and 6 GHz only, devices will disconnect about once every few minutes

No matter what, you lose!

We're already back apparently one of the RAM sticks was bad

RE: https://froth.zone/objects/64093070-7778-4e9f-b473-5905f1eb369a

froth.zone will likely be down all day today as Hetzner tries to figure out the hardware issue that has seemed to crop up

See you on the other side, hopefully

Conservative leadership learning that every [American] conservative under the age of like 40 is an unabashed Nazi will never not be funny

I remembered my password and wrote a bunch of words again. Read them if you want.

https://blog.froth.zone/sam/reflections

Is the manosphere what zoomers call the closet now, there is probably more repressed homosexuality there than a Catholic boys' camp

The S in CIFS is for Sucks

Who would have guessed a group of people that don't believe in anything and layer everything they ever say in so many layers of irony it's impossible to tell if anything is sincere or not have no consistent worldview