No way they could pack all the intrigue into a movie. As it was they had to rush some explanations, without blatant exposition, still did damned well.

One example; think on all of Princess Irulan’s writings at the chapter beginnings.

The government will still have to pay to use Excel. Too much shit will break, you can’t just flip an .xlxs into another program.

Unarmed? Got a 9 in the closet, “just in case” of whatever the fuck. Don’t know if it’s loaded? Maybe grandpa’s rusty 12-gauge is floating around somewhere?

Too. Fucking. Late.

Been screaming for years that this day was coming. And all the while Democrats, “gUnS Bad, KiLl kiDs!” Well, now you can get in on the “killed” side! But hey, at least you can die in a pool of blood while keeping your morals intact!

“But if I fight back I may DIE!”

Yes. That happens when you fight for your life, sometimes you lose. I’ll die with my boots on, please and thank you.

Solid answer! Guess I’m a cow patty for even asking, but you came to the rescue.

Why was the US funding FOSS projects? That strikes me as weird, inappropriate and suspicious.

Bingo. Lots of stupid things at this level boil down to legal protection. You’ll see it everywhere once you learn and look.

Haven’t seen either in ages, probably never will again. Crash struck me as hamfisted, but pretty good for a single viewing. Brokeback Mountain hit hard in the feels, maybe a little too hard, but I didn’t get the “in your face” vibe I got from Crash.

I got an AC powered unit off Amazon a couple of years ago. How can I tell if it’s fake? Jewelry comes out bangin’, but I’ve wondered it if should work even better.

Wife got this stuff last week and it seemed to make a dramatic difference.

OTOH, I can’t see this thing having a legit transducer. Anyway to tell without tearing it down? Guess that’s easy enough if I really care.

Should I try something rusty? Should a “real” one work for that? Also, it gets the water pretty hot. Is that an indicator?

I have a few.

This is how my tech interview went this week. For every question the panel had I returned a battle story. They were laughing and serious at the same time. Bagged it!

But… HR stuck their nose in and wants their guy interviewed. So now I have to wait a week for them to (hopefully) say, “Thanks but we’re going with Shalafi71.”

I do much the same in my head.

Know what’s crazy? We sling bags of mulch, dirt and rocks onto customer vehicles every day. No one, neither coworkers nor customers, will do simple multiplication. Only the most advanced workers do it. No lie.

Customer wants 30 bags of mulch. I look at the given space:

“Let’s do 6 stacks of 5.”

Everyone proceeds to sling shit around in random piles and count as we go. And then someone loses track and has to shift shit around to check the count.

I consider The Register to be the gold standard in tech journalism. When asked how I keep up with evolving tech, I told the interview panel that any tech news they see on mainstream media was likely broken by The Register 3 days previous, with original sources and quotes from top corporate officers.

Also told them I had followed several tech subs on reddit in the past, but as the site has devolved into bots talking to one another, I’ve turned to lemmy for tech community interaction and advice.

(No, I’m not using lemmy for that so much, but if I land the network admin job I will!)

Permabanned for saying evil shit about Russians, a few times. Funny thing is how fast they would be on negative comments about Russia.

And BTW, Russians can die in a fucking fire. Lived under threat of nuclear annihilation for my entire childhood, and now the filthy gangsters are fucking with, and have ruined, American politics.

And what kinda shithole is this? We’re redneck as fuck, and on the bleeding edge of town. I hear nothing but the occasional gun pop from the woods, and you can barely hear that if you’re outside and paying attention.

While we’re telling voodoo tales, The Case of the 500-Mile Email.

Had never heard of this, and my first computer had a tape drive. Went to a tiny computer camp and we had a sweet D&D game, but it took 10-minutes to load, if it didn’t fuck up. Had to start it before our break or we’d only have 5 minutes to play.

I could whip up rack ears but making threaded holes confounds me. Even got a tap and die set, still can’t figure it out.

Nah, I have a NetGate (pfSense) rackmount router/firewall with multiple ports. Isn’t that pretty standard with enterprise gear now days? Only 2-port routers I’ve seen are ones I build from old PCs.

A VIC-20 was my first computer and I had never heard of this! Had to do the same with a magazine.

LOL, give it up. Lemmy is full of kids who have never had a physically challenging job in their fucking life.

“I saw bad things!”

Is no way comparable to:

“I’ve blown out my back and knees, can barely stand up in the morning and can’t make a fist.”

And for those bitching about the first two items, 19 of 20 of them are, and have always been, fat fucks.

Anyways, looks like GenZ is about to get hard as fuck in the next few years when they see what real suffering is.