I expect with Google about to destroy effective ad-blocking in Chrome that Firefox will soon enough follow suit. Mozilla isn’t smart enough, alas, to do anything else and it’ll give them cover to do what they’ve wanted to do for many years now anyway.

I can still block ads with other methods but for most people that’ll be that.

There should be an Oscar for performative offendedness. There are so many greats clamoring for an award in this category and we simply have no way to recognize them.

I had no idea that chest freezers were so cheap.

Still thinking like a poor person, I guess, because when I was a kid these were special and expensive. We move too much to make getting one of these practical I think, but I’d like some resilience against both the conservatives and the liberals and their variously-intentioned depredations.

I need my meat. And though I don’t think anything in particular is likely, it’s called “insurance” for a reason. I suspect in the worst case, food supply disruptions are more likely than electricity disruptions — in the US, at least.

I’ll never be a prepper or anything like that. I’ve always liked, though, to have some stopgap against things people fervently insist can never happen. Because most of the time, they do happen.

The economic realities of Baby boomers versus Millennials.

White Boomers, at least. The difference in those two vaults, though. The first one I could maybe learn how to do if you gave me a few years and a few hours a day of practice. The second one seems superhuman. It’s something, even if I were 12 again, I could never learn how to do. Not even a rough approximation. I don’t understand how anyone can ever learn to do something like that.

That is a good analogy, though, for the substantive change in the bare minimum required for a shot at good job and a decent life. The Boomers (again, the white ones) just had to show up. Now just showing up consists of four years of college, a few internships, and 2-3 years of experience despite being straight out of college, and all for an “entry-level” job with worse health coverage and no pension. And all of this in a world where the basic necessities of life are vastly more expensive and the possibility of retirement is near zero.

But hey, computers and TVs are cheaper!

For the first time since I was 23 years old, I did six full-hang overhand pull-ups tonight.

I’m getting there.