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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Somewhere in the not so distant future…

    Google Search: “Install printer driver windows 11”

    Result from random blog:
    “My first experience with printer drivers was 35 years ago. My grandma had an IBM PS2 that ran MS DOS and an HP Deskjet printer. It connected to the computer via a parallel port and printed a whopping 1 page per minute. Every year at Christmas, Grandma would print off her famous pecan pie recipe and we would all gather around the printer, eagerly listening to the sound of the print head slowly whooshing back and forth in anticipation of the tasty goodness to come. Blah blah blah. Five more pages of meaningless stories that have nothing to do with installing print drivers followed by a solution that only works for Epson printers.”



  • Propaganda is a powerful drug.

    I had an acquaintance try to tell me that Presidents didn’t use executive orders before Obama. He was mad because Obama “started the whole executive order thing”.

    It took me a minute to process the level of stupid that it takes to actually believe that considering,
    1.) The US constitution grants the president broad discretion over the executive branch.
    2.) An “executive order” is nothing more than a directive from the president to an agency or department under the executive branch.
    3.) Nearly every president since Washington has issued executive orders, although they weren’t called “executive orders” and did not have any sort of numbering system until 1907.

    So basically he was mad at Obama and every president thereafter for checks notes doing their job.