Christian, Dad, Husband, #PureBlood Texan who wants a better world
Texas, USA
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♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
In late March 2026, 68 year old Dan Simpson of Boise, Idaho, was delivering pizzas for Domino’s, a second job he had worked for 14 years. When the store ran out of Diet Coke on an order, he tried calling the customer. No answer. So he stopped and bought it with his own money.
The customer’s Ring camera caught it. The video went viral, a GoFundMe was started, and strangers raised more than $170,000 so Dan the Man could retire a little earlier than planned.
After 24 years of sobriety, he looks forward to simpler days with his plants, his cat, and helping others in recovery. Sometimes the smallest kindnesses still come full circle.
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
I made my own RAM! And it almost works!
If you think regular RAM is expensive, try PDP-11 memory. It's like $1000 per megabyte if you can find it.
So, I set out to make my own. With ChatGPT in hand, we got busy in the EasyEDA designer. I've done PCBs before, but nothing this complicated.
We got the schematic done, the PCB laid out, routed, and the Bill of Materials ready for production. With the FPGA code saved away, I ordered 5 of the boards to test.
I’ve never flashed an FPGA before, so I bought an FT232H and wired it up. I installed openFPGALoader and after a few false starts over compressed bitstreams, I managed to get it flashed. All new territory for me!
After a bunch of bench testing, I ultimately put it in a backplane with an M8190. And the good news is it shows up as both 4M of RAM and reserved space for the ROM. The bad news is that access to any ODD memory location fails. So I’ve got something that amazingly almost works end to end, but has a really fundamental problem.
So at this point, my RAM works, but only half as well as it should. I'll keep you up to date!
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
This Newark tow yard charged a trucker $4,000… so he walked right into their yard and started filming the staff 😳
"You walked in that yard… it was trespassing."
"He approached me ready to buckle up with me."
"Take it down. Take it down."
"Bro, you just scammed me for $4,000. You want me to take it down?"
Is this tow yard running a scam, or did he bring this on himself by walking into their yard? 👀
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
Patrick Stewart was once filmed dancing and singing on the bridge of the USS Enterprise-D in 1991 as a birthday surprise for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Though never intended for public release, a copy of the clip eventually surfaced as a bonus feature on a DVD.
Rest in peace 🙏
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
Trichodina is a single cell that built a gear. Its underside is a ring of interlocking hook-shaped denticles, each nested into the next like a circular saw, and the count is species-specific. No blueprint, no brain just some “unintelligent” proteins that self-assemble into precision.
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
There's a printer in our office that hasn't worked since 2021.
Last month Facilities asked IT to dispose of it.
Easy.
Except company policy requires a signed Asset Disposal Authorization before any equipment can be removed.
The authorization must be printed, signed by the department head, and attached to the equipment.
I submitted the form.
Finance rejected it.
Reason: The printer still has a book value of $14.62.
They can't write it off until the next depreciation cycle.
Fine.
We moved it to storage.
Facilities rejected that because storage is reserved for operational equipment.
It's not operational.
"Then it needs to be disposed of."
I explained Finance won't let us.
Facilities said that was an IT issue.
So I found a solution.
I submitted a repair estimate.
$480 to fix a printer worth $14.62.
Finance rejected the repair because replacement would be more economical.
I submitted a replacement request.
Finance rejected it because we already have enough printers.
I attached the rejection to the disposal form.
Finance rejected that too.
Last Friday an auditor asked why we had a broken printer sitting in the hallway.
I explained the situation.
He said leaving unused equipment in a hallway creates an asset management compliance risk.
He recommended assigning someone to oversee it.
My manager just informed me I'm now the official custodian of the printer.
It's been broken for five years.
It has no toner.
It cannot print.
But it has an owner, a depreciation schedule, and a quarterly compliance review.
It has more job security than I do.
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
>Cisco has major hacker vulnerabilities that they can’t fix
>look into it
>indians are in charge of all the engineering
Lmao
Cisco warns of hackers exploiting a firewall vulnerability
Cisco has released security patches for a vulnerability in its ASA and Firepower firewalls that hackers are already exploiting.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-76418, has a severity score of 8.6/10.
Attackers can exploit it without logging in, potentially forcing affected firewalls to restart and disrupting VPN connections.
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
Seeing John Ternus smear his fingers all over a beautiful screen is not a selling point it’s disgusting. Apple has completely lost their minds.
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
There’s a job waiting for this man at Callahan Auto!
Not to mention, he’ll never pay for brake pads again!
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
Just found out my ailing millionaire aunt is willing most of her money to charity. Why are boomers like this?
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
Just a psa: I had a job before I was old enough to drive. Babysitting at 13, and at 15 years old a local fast food joint. So it’s hard to understand grown adults who won’t work but still expect someone else to pay their way.
Lazy f*cks.
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
Not a single handwashing station in sight
Illegal street food vendors line the sidewalks in front of Walmart in Long Beach, California
It looks like the city is doing enforcement and the Hispanic community is not happy. Every single one of these sidewalk vendors needs to be removed and their owners need to be deported
This is America, not Tijuana Mexico
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
An indian man choked to death after abusing the free samples at Costco and you’re laughing?
Hi Sweta, I think I can shed some transparency on this
You see, when Costco was founded the target audience was 100 IQ American Whites and not 76 IQ retard-adjacent 3rd worlders like yourself
While I understand dying in comical Looney Tunes fashion is part of your culture it's not something we generally worry about in the US, mostly on account of that not being retarded thing
While regrettable that your husband died because he couldn't do something most 1-year old babies figure out, take solace in knowing he at least didn't walk in front of a train and ruin the commutes of normal Americans
You probably would have been happier if you had just stayed in India
Hope this helps
♨️CaptainHottub♨️ retweeted
A Houston mail carrier was arrested outside his own post office with school tax checks stuffed in his Range Rover.
Eurey Dewayne Smith has delivered mail for almost 14 years. Prosecutors say investigators found 12 letters in his SUV, and 11 were addressed to the Spring Branch ISD tax office.
That is just the tip of it. Federal investigators are chasing more than 220 stolen property tax checks worth over $4 million, missing from the mail since January, then altered and cashed.
Families were reporting this back in February. It took until October for anybody to get cuffed.
Texans already get crushed by property taxes. Now they have to wonder if the mail even gets the check where it's going.
The Harris County DA wanted a $1 million bond and says heavier charges are coming. If the charges hold up, throw the book at him.
We are six days from an election, and people are trusting that same mail system with their ballots. Somebody had better be watching it.
click2houston.com/news/local…
