Sometimes war is brought to your door.

Recent ones: Gaza. Ukraine.

Man you are really sucking the financial industry dick

You get a kickback for defending big banks?

Your bank isn’t a fan of them either

Fortunately there’s THOUSANDS of banks and Credit unions.

Every time I talk to people about going to court for a speeding ticket, everyone shares the same story:

The judge is very fair. Sometimes, they shave the fee significantly. Sometimes they cancel it.

I don’t fully understand judges and what they get assigned. But it feels like getting the cool substitute teacher when to go to contest a speeding ticket.

That’s brilliant.

I cannot believe my license lets me drive all sorts of vehicle sizes that can outright crush/kill, right off the bat.

But to operate a forklift or ride a motorcycle that is more likely to kill myself? Nah gotta have a license.

The maintenance part crushed me. Most of my other self hosted home setup, I fiddle with at most 2-3 times a year. Next cloud, I logging in at least once a month because something wasn’t working.

This also works for male friends too. Make it a brag.

Tell folks that your homie right here got the best pump game and easily the tastiest penis.

As a department lead, I was invited to a party to celebrate all the IT engineers they just hired. Theyd be in charge of managing our servers and hardware. These were dudes (and gals) who probably had more degrees than most companies combined, and probably build OSes for fun.

One of them wore a shirt with a animal on it, and a non-tech made a bad joke about furries. They all just stared daggers at him.

This was definitely a trigger for me.

A few years ago, I had some great email exchanges about a position. I was an experienced dev, and I knew what they were looking for. But to make it official, I had to go through their HR person.

This was the first time I was going to talk to someone from the company, live in a video call.

And the moment we jumped on a call, her first words were, “Do you have a green card?”

I was born here. One look at my skin color and that was her question.

Don’t knock it until you tried it.

And by try it, I mean try picking it up and throwing it in the trash.

Ah, I see it didn’t mention the time a police officer murdered a man in a wheelchair by shooting him nine times in the back of the head.

GPU, render my 4.2 MB json file!

The NY apartment I rented on a business trip was a 1 room with 2 beds.

The front door hit the bed.

What makes it suspicious? It’s a communication protocol.

This is similar to an article I was reading about how Steam became so super successful compared to all of its competitors.

From memory: success was not about blowing away the competition with unique features, but providing gradual value while your competition shoots itself in the foot.

Over the past few years, not a single space game has escaped the expectation No Man’s Sky has set. Starfield’s loading screens was compared to No Man’s Sky gorgeous transition from space to planet surface.

That reminds me. I ordered Uber eats and the driver, a black girl, drives up and it’s hysterical. She’s telling me how her last delivery was a racist PoS, threatened cops on her, and she’s so sorry about my order but angry about the situation. I’m just standing there hungry for my food.

We sat on the porch and I let her calm down, then I dont know why, but I asked if she wanted a hug. She was taken back but she agreed, and it was a super weird hug. But she felt better I think. I dunno.

Mexican coke > regular Coke

Mexican coke Lite > Diet coke

Sorry y’all that’s just coke math.

Ikea has been releasing some banger electronics at mid-level pricing.

I don’t know the quality, but if it’s similar to IKEAs other stuff, I’m on board. I have furniture from them that’s been going on for 30 years that was supposed to be my “starter furniture”. And with the widespread Chinese knockoff BS that’s all over Amazon, I’m strongly considering it.

Open-source?

More like open fire!

Can confirm. I’ve been curious about mushrooms for years and joined a mushroom pick. There’s another guy who is normal like me. But everyone else, I’m 90% sure are forest druids and like a slow zombie bite, I’m already seeing myself become a crazy kook.