🌸Christopher Meza 🌸

Gamer, real estate agent, pug owner, dystopian future advocate.

[Newtype Len @Saturday_Anime]

>Masamune Shirow
>no smart phone
>no emails
>communicates with outside parties via his editor
>writes letters and notes with pen and paper
>snail mails them to his editor
>editor scans them and sends them to intended recipients
>all communication done via JPEGs

This seems unusual for someone who created such worlds as that of Ghost in the Shell -with everything being so cybernetic and techno-logic.

But here I am still writing things down in a scheduling book, ignoring emails, reading print, and siloing projects and communications.

Sometimes that's what it takes to survive in the digital world.

[Original Spike1962 @Spike19621]

I didn't post this 😬

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.

I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.

The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.

Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.

At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.

Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.

$8,900.

Not for the entire outdoor unit.

Not for a complete system.

Just the inverter board.

That’s not a typo. $8,900.

In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.

This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.

Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?

🎩 Patrick Henning

[𝔻𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚛𝚎 @DESIRExDEATH]

𝗧𝗛𝗘 ＦＩＦＴＨ 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 (1997)

In 2257 a taxi driver picks up a beautiful woman
who may be key to the survival of humanity.

⚍ 4K [2160p HDR REMUX] • ⎙ 81.7ɢʙ
⚌ 35mm film scan [1080p] • ⎙ 35.9ɢʙ
⚊ 1080p [encode] • ⎙ 10.9ɢʙ

⏱ 2ʜʀ 6ᴍɪɴs • 🔗LINK IN MY BIO

[Ripper's Archive @rippersarchive]

Smiling Friends (2020-2026)

All Twenty-Seven Episodes

1080p (5.05GB)

Audio: English
Subtitles: English

[Banned Man @BannedxMan]

BREAKING🚨🇮🇱

BBC correspondent reporting live from Gaza says Israel used white phosphorus.

The broadcast is instantly cut.

[Neet @neet_sol]

Employment is a humiliation ritual

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Thomas Massie announces that he is introducing legislation to immediately stop federal funding for Flock Cameras and any other mass surveillance cameras operating under a different name.

Massie compares Flock Cameras to the FISA program, calling them un-American and saying they are always abused by bad actors.

"We cannot be trading our freedom for a little false promise of security."

[🌸Christopher Meza 🌸 @Beanor]

Someone's trying to reach me and doesn't know it ...

[Bradson @Bradsongeye]

“I’m 33, make $60k, have zero debt… and I still feel like I’m LOSING at life.”

Caller: “Dave… everyone my age has new cars, fancy vacations, big houses. I’m just… ordinary. I feel like I’m falling behind.”

Dave: “Stop. Right now. You’re not falling behind, you’re winning and don’t even know it.

33 years old. $60k income. No consumer debt. Manageable mortgage. You’re in the top 1% of financial health for your age and you think you’re losing?”

Caller: “But I paid cash for my Master’s instead of taking a vacation or buying a nicer car. I feel like I missed out.”

Dave: “That Master’s degree is the best money you ever spent. You invested in yourself. The people flexing on social media? Half of them are one paycheck from disaster and drowning in debt they never post about.

Social media is a highlight reel, not real life. You’re living the real version, debt-free and free.”

Caller: “So what do I do about the constant comparison?”

Dave: “Quit staring at the shiny stuff. Build real community. Real friends. Real connection. When your life is full of people who actually matter, the fake flexes stop mattering.

You’re not losing. You’re already winning. Now go live like it.”

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

Animator hotdiggedydemon says he is reconsidering the decision after previously announcing plans to travel to Switzerland to pursue physician-assisted euthanasia:

“Decided I’m not thinking clearly, will reassess.”

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I turn 79 today. 

I don’t want any gifts. Instead, my team and I decided to revolutionize the fitness industry — and we’re doing something crazy to celebrate.

Here it is: https://t.co/qL6ECpWWYH

Between today and Sunday, August 9, when you join the Pump Club app and complete four workout programs in your first year, you pay nothing. 

Zero. Nada. Zilch. 

No fine print. If you show up and do the work, your first year is free. The payments are automatically sent back to your card. 

If that feels shocking, then let me say it even more plainly. 

Sign up for the app through that link. Try it free for 7 days. After your trial, pay $100 for your first year. Complete four workout programs. Get $100 back automatically: $50 after your first, and $50 after your fourth.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Fun Fact: Mitch McConnell has taken more medical leave in 2026 than most mothers in America get for Maternity Leave.

You’re not angry enough.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime.

This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

[Gia Macool @GiaMMacool]

Your husband is the only person who ever loved you purely by choice.

Your family was already written into your story.

Parents loved you because you were theirs.

Siblings stayed because you shared blood.

Even your child is there because you’re the mother.

But your husband walked in as a complete stranger.

No obligation.
No duty.
No shared past.

He could have built a life with anyone else.

Yet he chose you.

Chose to grow old with you.

Chose to call you home.

That kind of love is never automatic.

It is a daily, deliberate decision to stay, especially when it’s hard.

So never forget to thank the man who still chooses you every single day.

[Solvaix @Solvaix]

$164,000 A YEAR. THAT'S WHAT ONE COMPANY SAVES BY LETTING ONE PERSON RUN FOUR EXCAVATORS FROM A SINGLE CHAIR.

The machines sit at four separate rural gravel pits, each one busy for maybe 1-2 hours out of an 8-hour shift, one or two trucks a day. Not enough work to justify parking a full-time operator at any single site.

One operator runs all four from a single bank of screens, hundreds of miles from any of them. An AI layer watches all four feeds at once and tells them which pit needs attention first. The grade-control display does its own terrain read, catching depth errors down to a couple centimeters as the bucket moves.

Four site-based operators: about $224,000 a year combined.

One remote operator plus four AI-assisted consoles: roughly $60,000 a year in wages, $240,000 in equipment across all four machines, cameras, wireless control units, and the AI layer itself.

Under a year and a half, the hardware pays for itself in wages alone.

The article below calls this the next wave after digital agents. It's already stepping off the screen and into dirt nobody gets paid to stand in anymore.

[🌸Christopher Meza 🌸 @Beanor]

@EvanLuthra Copyright and intellectual property law have to change. I can't recommend what to change, but it's can't remain the same.

[🌸Christopher Meza 🌸 @Beanor]

@GameStalgiaX Anarchy online.

[🌸Christopher Meza 🌸 @Beanor]

@sternpinball Lego... Any theme. Pink Floyd. The labyrinth, the matrix, new trons, Rick and Morty/new adult shows. Try some original themes with own ip, or do a pile like 'millenial's, or 90s'

[🌸Christopher Meza 🌸 @Beanor]

Contrary to popular belief, men do need windows and sunlight. This looks like a corpo man hab unit.

[HOUSE PORN @HOUSEPORN___]

It's the perfect apartment for a man fr