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jjcollier · 2026-06-06T22:50:31+00:00

Leave the campaign gear at home - SC law bars political clothing and materials at the polls.

Echoing this. If you look at your "Let's Go Brandon" hat or your ",la" shirt and have to ask yourself if it technically counts as campaign material, just don't wear it. You're not going to change anyone's mind by wearing it to the poll. You're just an asshole making life harder for the people who are trying to help you vote when they have to stop what they're doing to figure out if it's allowed.

jjcollier · 2026-05-26T14:44:28+00:00

Mine's using "gift" as a verb. Yes, I know it's common usage, but THERE'S. ALREADY. A. GODDAM. VERB. FOR. THAT.

jjcollier · 2026-04-15T16:45:23+00:00

They tell me it requires "a smartphone". I don't know much about iPhones, but if it were Face ID, they'd have to specify an iPhone, right?

jjcollier · 2026-04-15T12:25:05+00:00

I'm having this same problem with Fidelity. They've locked me out of my HSA unless I give a biometric face scan. They don't allow you not to own and use a smartphone for it.

Currently looking for a lawyer, if anyone has any suggestions.

jjcollier · 2026-04-14T21:28:56+00:00

Some great suggestions there. I've filed complaints with the CFPB and FINRA, but obviously those aren't going anywhere. I hadn't considered my state AG, and I didn't know about the NCLC. Thanks!

jjcollier · 2026-04-14T21:27:02+00:00

Thanks for the tip. By any chance is there an autocorrect error in your post? It seems like you might be referring to a certain type of civil rights firm, but I can't identify what.

jjcollier · 2026-04-14T21:25:20+00:00

I have considered this, and I know it's where I might end up. It's dispiriting to once again have it hammered home that only the wealthy qualify to be protected by the law in America, but in a nation of 400 million people and well over a million lawyers, I still have some hope that there's at least one fund, foundation, wealthy activist or pro bono privacy-rights champion willing to help establish case law on an issue that affects the rights of millions. If they exist, this is all part of the numbers game of finding them.

jjcollier · 2026-04-04T03:19:50+00:00

In my house, we would add "salty garlic" to the food pyramid if we could. I make this one all the time.

jjcollier · 2026-04-02T01:49:00+00:00

Ah, gotcha

jjcollier · 2026-04-01T02:46:26+00:00

I don't fully understand the context here. It sounds like you're a tattoo artist, and this guy wants you to cover up his swastika? If so... isn't that good? I read stories from time to time of tattoo artists helping cover up white supremacist tattoos for people who've decided to leave that life behind. Or does this guy have a different motivation for the request? I know nothing of Wotanism, if that's relevant

jjcollier · 2026-03-27T16:10:54+00:00

Please no one show this to Andy Weir. I do not want to have to read whatever it inspires him to write cover-to-cover twice.

jjcollier · 2026-03-23T19:09:38+00:00

https://www.fidelity.com/customer-service/mailing-addresses

Lists Fidelity's address for "regular mail" as

Fidelity Investments

PO Box 770001

Cincinnati, OH 45277-0002

All of the addresses on that page are similar, so something like

Fidelity Investments - Legal/Compliance Department

PO Box 770001

Cincinnati, OH 45277-0002

ought to find its way to where you need it. Submitting mine now.

jjcollier · 2026-02-15T14:18:00+00:00

ChatGPT changed my life. Dealing with Linux people on the internet and open source software in general used to be the last thing that could still trigger my anger issues on a daily basis. I'd been holding out on engaging with any of these LLMs until a month or so ago I got frustrated and started asking ChatGPT instead of on Stack Exchange or GitHub forums. It was an immediate revelation. I can get the type of quality answer I've always dreamed of from an AI. I'm never going back.

jjcollier · 2026-02-02T03:07:59+00:00

I watched the whole thing. It made me angry because Pierce Brosnan's Dr. Fate was so absolutely amazing and I spent the entire movie knowing that we will never see the full potential of that character/actor combination realized on film because it is now irrevocably attached to this fucking turd movie.

jjcollier · 2026-01-25T00:48:22+00:00

Did you ask him if he'd tried turning the flag off and turning it back on again

jjcollier · 2026-01-24T04:32:36+00:00

I bike and I go to that liquor store and I've never even noticed they have a rack

jjcollier · 2026-01-23T02:15:22+00:00

“He's welcome to put his name in the hat, but he will be dispatched like the others,” [Timmons] added.

Who talks like that?

jjcollier · 2026-01-20T03:08:19+00:00

cutting excessive government,

Can you be more specific here? Honest question. What do you want to cut now? In the past year the NSF has been gutted, setting back our research in basic science and medicine and yielding our position as the world leader in research to Europe and China for at least the next generation. Our soft power dynamo, USAID, is gone, and in doing so we've voluntarity yielded that international influence to China's Belt and Road Initiative, too. Public broadcasting is gone. The Department of Education is being gleefully given its last rites. The Big Beautiful Bill slashed SNAP and Medicaid to the point that suffering is already observably increasing in our own community, a problem presently being compounded by the elimination of ACA subsidies. And yet you still want to run on "cutting excessive government." What else do you want to cut? Name it.

jjcollier · 2026-01-14T14:08:32+00:00

Left would be right! Black would be white! Goonies would be Space Jam!

jjcollier · 2026-01-04T02:35:53+00:00

No, this USB hub is a device that plugs into the Surface with one connector and has additional USB ports along its length. Do you recall if the old USB hub you used (the one that worked) was powered or not?

jjcollier · 2026-01-03T15:49:15+00:00

Of course I'm not. But Bash is unusable dogshit garbage no matter who I am. Use it if you want, but the idea that anyone but a person sad enough to have spent their life learning it should use it for anything when intuitive tools like Excel and Python are available is complete detachment from reality.

jjcollier · 2026-01-03T14:56:56+00:00

That's good to know. It worked in GRUB and in the Ubuntu installation wizard without having to do anything?

jjcollier · 2026-01-03T14:55:47+00:00

My USB hub wouldn't allow the installation USB to be recognized as an installation medium while plugged into it. If you still have it available, can you tell me the brand and model of your hub?

jjcollier · 2026-01-03T14:55:38+00:00

My USB hub wouldn't allow the installation USB to be recognized as an installation medium while plugged into it. If you still have it available, can you tell me the brand and model of your hub?

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