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#BuyerBeware #CaveatEmptor #DestroyBillionaires

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/

The 2017 BCNDP platform said to maximize BC's current hydro infrastructure, but which didn't explicitly say to end #SiteC, which they completed. Chagrin x1000. #caveatemptor #readthefineprint

Watch the #bcgreens membership grow, starting late next week...and even bigger if an ecosocialist doesn't win the federal NDP leadership.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp

#muddledMaunderings of a doddering fool. Part n/x #CaveatEmptor
#ImaginaryNumbers were the downfall of any hopes I had for a career in science. Algebra was required for a major in any science. You had to not only take it, you had to pass it and my brain just couldn’t do it. Organic chemistry didn’t help either, but I’d already failed algebra twice so I didn’t really put much effort into it, as in studying. But I’ve held onto a broad interest in sciency stuff in general to this day.

Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" (25 Nov 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/open-season/

and damned expensive, too.

It had taken centuries to make, and if all the great artists of the Classical Age and the Renaissance had seen it, they’d have agreed that the fellows who designed it (for design, of course, was its secret and its glory) knew their business. Being a Philistine, I will add only: never talk to me about Art or Beauty or Good Taste or Style, because I’ve seen the bloody elephant." [3/3]
-G.M.Fraser "Flashman and the Dragon"

An example of Cataphasis, affirming what can't be said? Maybe not.

Every other page in the entire series is #NSFW #TW trigger-warning-central #CaveatEmptor and for some will read funny as all hell. #Flashman

222) #TrumpMedia is a dreadful business with an astonishingly high stock price for a company that is barely a business. #WarrenBuffet would shudder at the absence of investable fundamentals

What is interesting though are the gyrations of the price. The stock is a proxy for the probability of #Trump electoral success. It has not been performing well of late

#CaveatEmptor

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/business/trump-media-stock-truth-social.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IE4.ExTD.NgAFHkC21Q7t&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#DonaldTrump #StockMarket #USPolitics #Politics #Election2024

That Pedal Show on YouTube released a new episode yesterday and it is about 90 minutes exclusively on the Gibson Firebird.

I haven’t quite watched all of it yet, but I’m down to the last few minutes.

Seriously… for the good of society (as well as my bank account) please… whatever you do… don’t let me go near a music store for a few days at least. If I walk into a Guitar Center (or something similar) I am absolutely not going to be able to stop myself and I am 100% walking out of that store with a Firebird.

For the love of all that is good in this universe, don’t let me go into a music store.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/06/gibson-firebird/

#BuyerBeware #caveatEmptor #Firebird #Gibson #gibsonFirebird #Guitar #Music #retailTherapy #ThatPedalShow #YouTube

#CaveatEmptor

I've seen articles re: 'free' copies of #VMwareWorkstation #VMwareFusion
- I haven't looked into this myself, but several of them implied 'free' customers would be required to create 'Broadcom accounts' in order to get the 'free' software...

This also implies that 'free' customers will have to agree to a TOS that requires agreeing to allow #Broadcom to spy on you, granting Broadcom other rights, or waiving your own rights

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/14/vmware_workstation_pro_fusion_pro/