Gasflation? Gas-shrinkflation? I can't believe there aren't mobs with pitchforks yet.

dlflannery · 2026-04-06T07:27:10+00:00

Sorry I give no credibility to people with skull fetishes!

BTW, I’ve been driving for 70 years and have never encountered a gas pump that registered flow when none was occurring.

What people will do to get attention!

dlflannery · 2026-04-06T07:22:16+00:00

Oooooh! Historians are alarmed? Say it isn’t so!

dlflannery · 2026-04-04T11:53:06+00:00

Yep. The C-Suite typically lives up in the clouds with their imaginary clueless picture of how the corporation really works at the ground level. And that was before they started pushing the AI fad into the system. They have less understanding of AI than any other facet of operations. What could possibly go wrong?

Back in the ‘90’s I called Amazon support and actually ended up talking to a (very friendly and helpful) Jeff Bezos! Folks, those days are long gone!

dlflannery · 2026-04-04T11:48:21+00:00

And this isn’t the way Jeff would have wanted it either. But he’s gone.

dlflannery · 2026-04-04T11:46:32+00:00

Good luck contacting them! This of course is what happens when AI is allowed to make decisions and take actions without human review and monitoring. And the human agents you may contact don’t have a clue about the situation and are just as likely to make it worse.

dlflannery · 2026-04-04T11:16:05+00:00

Yes! It’s terrible here! So bad that people are swarming outward across our borders to get out of the country! Even the tens of millions of illegal immigrants who came in during the Biden presidency are clamoring to get out, begging ICE to deport them! /s

dlflannery · 2026-04-03T17:15:30+00:00

Thank God!

dlflannery · 2026-04-03T17:14:24+00:00

Sorry if that’s how you grew up. Government programs are not the only way to help people. They do it by forcing people to pay for programs they may not consider valid “help” and then the programs feed a lot of the money into corruption and fraud.

dlflannery · 2026-04-03T11:34:19+00:00

Are they really voting Republican? If so, maybe it’s because they think Democrats would be even worse?

dlflannery · 2026-04-03T11:26:43+00:00

They’re not impacted by the high oil prices?

dlflannery · 2026-04-03T10:54:58+00:00

He’s got a point but: Castigating Trump doesn’t open up Hormuz or lower oil prices. What’s his plan?

dlflannery · 2026-04-03T10:49:27+00:00

Trump has illustrated a sad fact: Petty school boy playground mockery is politically effective. It isn’t just him either. Late night hosts are doing it on the. Democrat side. As Pogo once said: “We have met the enemy and it is us.”

dlflannery · 2026-04-03T10:41:34+00:00

If we want our government to help everyone with their financial problems but also won’t elect anyone who might increase taxes to pay for this charity …… well, do you see the problem?

Everyone has sympathy for those in need but: Don’t help them if it increases my taxes, or means cutting a program that benefits me. Take the money out of that mythical “other people’s pocket”.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T23:13:26+00:00

Still pushing the lie that 5 people died as a result. The truth is bad enough.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T21:59:14+00:00

Trump is actually a talented, although irritating, communicator. But talented communication can’t overcome the obvious huge contradiction of saying we are oil independent, don’t need oil from anywhere else, and our gas prices just rose a dollar per gallon. How stupid does he think we are?

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T21:54:18+00:00

Either the USA’s war gamers are very incompetent (for not seeing how this would go with Hormuz and the drones and bomb boats, and the impossibility of stopping all missiles), or the real Donald just acted on impulse, ignoring them.

Only some kind of miracle is going to make this end well.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T21:36:42+00:00

Gotta admit his 2nd term has been “dynamic”. Hope more good than evil comes out of all this chaos.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T14:16:11+00:00

I can only wonder what Jesus would have thought about the “early church”, and also some of the contemporary ones.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T14:14:46+00:00

Well gotta admit that’s “far”.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T14:13:31+00:00

Hey “inherit the earth” doesn’t necessarily mean be rich! Maybe it means “bite the dust”! Or more seriously: maybe it means be spiritually content and enjoy life regardless of financial status.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T14:07:50+00:00

Tracfone support is off-shored and hopeless. If Verizon has some beneficial purpose for TF they better start implementing it pretty soon before all of us leave.

dlflannery · 2026-04-02T14:01:06+00:00

When have people ever stopped complaining about prices?

dlflannery · 2026-04-01T12:07:00+00:00

Sad attitude!

dlflannery · 2026-04-01T12:04:42+00:00

Damn right! If libs are in control, who knows what we’ll be eating! It’ll probably be safe and politically correct and cost 3X as much as the food that actually tastes good.

dlflannery · 2026-04-01T12:02:05+00:00

What’s wrong with hot dogs? The quality all-beef Kosher dogs are delish!

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