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Surprisingly, in the Midwest.
Located on Deck 6, Room 2054. Mass evacuation site for decks 5-10.
I’m someone’s favorite.
Surprisingly, in the Midwest.
I have a friend who works for a local, but widespread bank, and got to head up their digital security and IT stuff. Not sure what all it encompasses, but he quickly found out that it was a lot, and the previous guy quit because he had had enough bullshit.
Long story shorter, after a particularly bad week, he decided to just… Stop doing his job.
Kept all their legal stuff and sensitive info under lock and key, but the smaller stuff, he just let it go. Went on vacation, turned everything off, didn’t do everything for a temporary replacement (which isn’t even his job, it’s hr’s) and spent a week playing video games and spending time with his wife and baby.
Several employees just in his building basically ended up doing nothing by the end of the first day because they had locked themselves out of the system.
By day 3 there were several lines that couldn’t be used by the tellers in every branch, older employees were bricking their systems so fast, construction workers started taking notes.
By the end of the week they had people showing up at his door to try and contact him since nobody could get ahold of him. Some legit thought he was dead.
His first words when he got into the office on Monday, we’re “THAT is why you pay me.”
And after that, he was given 3 people to help out (he had been asking for 4) and they had a company come in and redo a lot of the computer systems that year.
Still works for the bank, still has a team although I think they’re bigger now since they’ve opened a few more branches, and still tells that story at every gathering after his one single beer gets him tipsy.
Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?
Imagine if the x-men movies all had the same director, all from basically the same team… But the director made Hugh Jackman audition for the part of wolverine every single movie, constantly tried to replace him, constantly threatened to replace other actors, and ultimately Hugh Jackman finds out the latest chapter in Logan’s story is coming out soon, and nobody even bothered to call him about it.
Now replace Hugh Jackman with David Hayter, the director with Kojima, and the other recurring actors with other voice actors from the series.
I used to be obsessed with all things metal gear, and after tons and tons of interviews, tweets, things said in panels, and at conventions… Kojima is a fantastic creative, tells some great stories, and there isn’t a single negative thing I can think to say about that aspect of him… But on the personal side… Ehhh…
Fuck Konami, but also mildly fuck Kojima.
I will never forgive him for his shitty treatment of David Hayter and other voice actors.
Honestly, this right here is the main reason I don’t believe any real-world bending would end any way other than Earth Kingdom dominance. Peaceful dominance, hopefully.
You can’t wipe out their infrastructure as long as someone is alive who knows how it’s done.
Oh, fire nation bulldozed your house because they felt like it? Well boom. Stomp stomp punch. New identical house made of stone.
Bridge collapsed to cause chaos? Stomp stomp punch, it’s back.
Don’t feel safe living out in the open where fire nation scouts could murderhobo you harder than my last D&D group? Stomp stomp punch, now you have a vast mansion underground in which you can simply… Not go above ground until you need to.
Of course, underground living isn’t simple as “hole in ground, hide all day” but still… There is 0 reason the EK shouldn’t go full Vietnam War tactics.
Demo ranch. Started making comments about the George Floyd protests and I was out
AvE started praising the trucker convoys
Shadiversity got super homo/transphobic and also is just an arrogant douche since his book.
Big “as a gay black man” energy.
It finally clicked for a friend when I asked him if he knew how old the “young women” were in another case, and he said “I don’t know… 25?” which then got corrected to “16 or 17” when I reminded him that the “young women” in question were minors.
So finally I called out and asked his daughter to show us the cool picture she was working on in the study, and she excitedly runs in to show us. She was 9 at the time.
I asked him how he enjoyed the picture that “young woman” drew for us. I literally saw the change on his face when it clicked.
As long as you rake in the cash quick enough, you can be rich before anyone realized that you’re the problem.
And now you’ve got money to pay people to beat them into submission when they complain.
Lol ain’t that the truth.
But I also don’t do any of that for a job, so I doubt my boss will agree!
What if I can operate several different types of forklifts, reach trucks, skid steers, and an excavator, but I’m not “certified”?
Literally, if you know there’s 0 chance of it happening, why not test?
Note: this is very different when you’re a government entity making the claim and doing the test vs when you’re an individual making a claim and then someone else does the test, especially if law enforcement or other government bodies are involved.
If the UK investigators were so sure, then doing the tests remove all doubts, and nobody can point to it and go “then why didn’t you test? Seems shady to me” because… Well… Seems shady to me.
The last time it got above 95 where I live, I was a child, nobody went outside that week, and everyone was complaining that it was the hottest days they’ve ever felt there.
It’s already happened 3 times this year. Once in “winter”. All of this week has been above 95.
This is the hottest year of your life…
Every year.
Until you die.
Potentially of heat-related conditions.
Dudes an XP hog.
Then you get to NewGame++, try to skill your way through, then they pull out surprise moves, are a lot faster, and mock your pitiful attempts to damage them.
And this isn’t even their final form.
ng+7
Oh, their position can absolutely be changed.
It’s just that not enough of the American people are quite there yet.
It is whackamole, but every time you smash a mole, the next ones are much smaller and spread farther apart.
But you simply don’t understand, he wore a TAN SUIT!!!
Yeah but who has a month to just wait around when there are dissidents that need defenstrating?
0 interest in playing a game that removed all the content I payed for, then pay walled the new content.
Fuck bungie, fuck destiny, fuck their bullshit.