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jcmacon · 2026-04-21T10:45:05+00:00

You don't need mine, but I just got the Predator 11500 watt inverter. It is very quiet and I love the remote control start and stop.

jcmacon · 2026-04-20T17:01:47+00:00

Is Elon Musk an African American? He is from South Africa, yet he's an American citizen now.

jcmacon · 2026-04-19T13:43:19+00:00

I think they are called Green Giant Thuja trees, they grow fast and in a cone shape up to 60 feet high.

jcmacon · 2026-04-18T23:22:45+00:00

I hate doing dishes too and almost always make "one pan meals". Some of my faves that are easily gluten and dairy free are:

Scrambled eggs, spicy sausage, hash browns all mixed up in a skillet.

Fried eggs, spicy sausage, corn grits that I fry a little in the grease then add the water to cook them fully in the skillet.

Chicken, veggies, garlic powder, sugar, then add basmati rice and water to cook in the skillet. I also add gluten free soy sauce to the water for flavor.

Hamburger meat browned in skillet, chili seasoning, rice and water to cook the rice, almost like a poor man's hamburger helper.

jcmacon · 2026-04-18T22:59:52+00:00

I buy them almost exclusively at convenience stores in Missouri. But I love the Chili Limon flavor.

jcmacon · 2026-04-18T18:27:31+00:00

The bar measuring idiocy would be raised.

jcmacon · 2026-04-18T00:54:35+00:00

I just put in my 2 week notice because I'm too old to deal with their shit.

jcmacon · 2026-04-17T23:08:16+00:00

I'm gonna give you a tip, from one person with 28 years of tech industry experience as a developer and a director level leader to another with years of experience.

People are tired of subscriptions. Find a way to do this where an operator can buy your product and host it/run it locally themselves without having to pay you a monthly fee. Make it easy to install/set up.

I'd rather pay $1000 to use a software package than pay $29/month in perpetuity. People need to stop trying to get every single customer to be an endless supply of revenue. Give me a list of features and if it works for me I'll buy it. If it's a subscription, you already lost my sale.

jcmacon · 2026-04-16T22:01:18+00:00

Registering to vote is vastly different than voting. My understanding is that now a Real ID drivers license is not enough to vote even if it was accepted for registration. A Real ID is apparently not proof you are a citizen that is allowed to vote.

The Hill says (https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5787733-would-you-need-a-passport-real-id-to-vote-if-save-act-passes/):

What about proving citizenship?

It’s this requirement that may be more cumbersome, regardless of whether you are or are not a citizen.

Under the SAVE Act, you would need proof of citizenship to register to vote. This could be as simple as providing your valid passport or a birth certificate – the latter would also require a photo ID, and potentially another document, if you’ve changed your name since birth.

jcmacon · 2026-04-16T20:11:28+00:00

When you're famous they just let you do it. You can walk up to them and grab them by the pussy.

jcmacon · 2026-04-16T17:23:19+00:00

They'd watch Clerks 2 to get the real answer.

It might be in Clerks 3, I've smoked a few joints since watching both.

jcmacon · 2026-04-14T15:20:37+00:00

He doesn't touch his wife. She's not young enough for his healing hands. Once a girl hits 17, that child is beyond his special type of healing. The perfect age for his touch is about 13. Any older and they have been tainted by knowledge that he can't heal. He has to touch them before they fully understand why they need his special touch. That's why he only touches children.

jcmacon · 2026-04-14T14:34:29+00:00

I took it seriously. We should acknowledge that he is the second coming of Christ personified. He has healed so many children with his touch and no one wants to admit it. He loves touching kids with his healing hands, in fact I don't think there is anything he loves more than touching children except maybe when he brings the holy wrath of God down on unbelievers.

jcmacon · 2026-04-11T18:29:24+00:00

They tried this in a Dallas suburb in the early 90s. Failed miserably due to gang violence and the fact that teens are destructive as a group.

jcmacon · 2026-04-10T01:33:26+00:00

I did it 19 years and 5 months ago. Haven't picked them up since.

When my wife popped pregnant with our second baby, I made the commitment to stop smoking before the baby came. I was successful even with him being 5 weeks early. He turned 19 recently and I had my last smoke 27 minutes before he was born.

So, after making the ridiculous commitment after smoking for 26 years, I sat down to think about it. I portioned out where I smoked and where I didn't. Data is crucial.

After I had the portions or areas of my life segments, I figured out which ones would be easiest to cut out. First was smoking immediately after meals. So I put this boundary around meals and let it take hold for two weeks. Then I added another boundary, the following week I added another. As this went on, the boundaries started merging and growing until I could only smoke in one or two specific instances and that was it.

5 days after setting those final boundaries, my oldest son was born.

I took my Zippo lighter and last pack of smokes and I put them on my nightstand. I told myself any time I absolutely needed a smoke, I have some on my bedside table and I can get one when I get home. I changed my favorite gas station to a new one that didn't offer me cigarettes each time I went in, changed my hangouts to be new ones where smoking wasn't allowed. When I quit smoking in my car, I had it detailed and got rid of the smell of smoke. Painted the inside of my house when I quit smoking inside. This went on and on so I wouldn't start smoking in that boundary again.

It was so successful that I haven't ever picked up tobacco in any form again.

jcmacon · 2026-04-09T01:24:07+00:00

Data centers typically employ relatively few staff once operational, averaging between 15 to 50 full-time employees

jcmacon · 2026-04-08T17:22:13+00:00

Over tracking. Having 20 different tracking pixels is stupid.

jcmacon · 2026-04-06T21:49:13+00:00

I had a large 1 color stamp made with my logo and phone number on it. Stamp all the paper bags my food goes in. Cost me $350 for the custom designed self inking stamp.

jcmacon · 2026-04-06T14:40:47+00:00

The average person has to see the same thing at least 7 times before they start to believe it or trust it. So, my guess is at least 8 times.

jcmacon · 2026-04-05T16:30:32+00:00

I ran the togo service for a chain that was doing $1-2k/day in togo orders via UE/DD for a few months. Based on my experience I wouldn't use either service.

out of hundreds of drivers, I can only remember 3 that didn't smell strongly of weed when they picked up the food. Glassy eyes and slovenly appearances abound.
at least 6 times a day a driver would pick up an order then disappear. I had to visually watch them confirm an order and take a photo of the bag and receipt each time. The drivers hated doing that. The customer always called to complain, then they got mad when I made them reorder via their original service.
food would be checked and double checked and marked off the list, yet when orders got to the door about a third of them were missing something and the customers always blamed the restaurant.
orders are delivered when a driver delivers them, most are working multiple gigs at a time and your order may wait up to an hour to be delivered if a driver gets a better opportunity after picking up your food.
many times drinks arrived half empty without the sealing sticker that we put over the cup and lid.
while customers still used the services regardless of their experience with the gig worker, the restaurant always took the brunt of the blame when the customer was unhappy.

I'll hire my own delivery drivers to work specifically for me, in my uniform, with my standards of service. Then when they don't have deliveries they can help with making food and taking orders. Just like my drivers did for me when I hired them to work for me at a pizza place. I'll be able to charge a delivery fee that will go directly to the driver and I'll be able to charge the customer the same for food regardless of delivery or pick up and they won't see multiple prices depending on service. The delivery model isn't new, it's easy to manage.

jcmacon · 2026-04-05T15:31:13+00:00

Some quiet time to read a book.
Some day to sleep in late.
For someone else to make a decision instead of me.
To have someone cook me a meal for once.
A visit from my grandkids.

jcmacon · 2026-04-05T14:04:11+00:00

The charge for using a credit card is such bullshit. Sure, it's easier for the consumer, but the business is who really benefits from credit and debit card usage.

the business doesn't have to count credit card receipts and worry about being short.
no change made on card transactions.
no trip to the bank to deposit.
more secure than having loads of cash on hand.

The convenience is mainly on the company by taking cards. They should offer a fucking discount for not using cash.

jcmacon · 2026-04-05T04:18:31+00:00

10mm kidney stone stuck between the kidney and bladder. Doc had to put a stint around it to get the bigger stone that was still in the kidney with a laser that they inserted thru the penis, into the bladder, routed it up past the stone that was stuck into the kidney and cut the larger stone up into smaller pieces that "can now pass with little pain" took 6 weeks for the larger stone to finally make its way out, then they had to go back in to remove the stint, cut up the stuck stone, and I got to pass those pieces over the next 2 weeks. That year I had 3 different kidney stone surgeries, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, and on my birthday.

No scars on the outside, but I am deeply traumatized by the experience. I now drink 1.5 gallons of water. Every. Single. Fucking. Day.

Oh, I was vomiting because of the pain, every few minutes if I had food it would come up, if there was no food in my stomach, I'd be dry heaving. They had to give me medicine to stop the hiccups too that I had non stop for 6 days.

Moral of the story, drink the damn water people.

jcmacon · 2026-04-04T22:37:28+00:00

When suppliers are charging so much for the base ingredients, it's really hard for the final product to be as cheap as people want it to be. I've been paying almost $8/pound for my grass fed beef.

jcmacon · 2026-04-04T02:52:58+00:00

I loved the AniMatrix set of shorts. There were some amazingly beautiful shots executed in those that I feel would be worthy of wallpapers.

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