TomMasz

I don’t dislike it but I prefer Anime Ace from Blambot for use in comics.

Nobody wants to work anymore.

So it’s just a single app running on a minimal Android implementation, the AI is done on remote servers and it still gets lousy battery life? Sounds like they dropped the ball on design. Nevertheless, no one is going to carry this that doesn’t already have a phone that can do everything the Rabbit does. It has no reason to exist.

Who the fuck would want to go to Afghanistan for any reason? Them boys been hitting the poppy juice a bit too much.

Both my parents smoked so I didn’t notice it growing up. Once I went to college and got away from that environment I really started to notice it all around me. Nothing was worse than opening up the closet and smelling the smoke on the coat you wore the night before at a bar. Luckily, my county was an early adopter of non-smoking sections and eventually outright banning and that changed everything.

Go ahead and laugh, but just wait until the class gets to Beowulf.

8/8 for all his Nazi followers.

“During the early 2010s White Americans were under serious attack as a collective in a way that warranted an organized response.”

White American here and I can unequivocally state that this was not true then and it’s not true now.

I’m on the Boomer/Gen X border. I’m still working because I want to but in a different career (college professor) than before, one with less stress and a lower salary. I have plenty of hobbies but don’t derive the same satisfaction from them as I do from work. I just don’t expect that to be the case forever, though.

It’s never been profitable but Huffman gets millions as CEO. Fuck spez.

In college, after working Friday night in the dining hall kitchen, a Pabst 16oz can was my shower beer before heading out to the weekend parties.

How I still got up to work Saturday and Sunday breakfast shift is nothing short of miraculous.

In theory, but then there’s Goop and its ilk.

From the same era when heroin was sold as the non-addictive alternative to morphine. “Truth in advertising” wasn’t a thing then.

Supply exceeded demand, it happens.

Anyone reveling in “punching down” is a piece of shit.

“Run” for president.

Who, exactly, was waiting for this?

Mid/late-90s, a woman who was having an affair with one of the managers gets a huge promotion despite not even being qualified for the job she had. No question as to why. Proceeds to embarrass herself at every turn, yet manager thinks she’s great. Meanwhile, truly deserving people are overlooked.

Mid-2000, same woman is now in charge of a new product team. I’m working as a technical consultant and evaluating products for purchase by GSA (Government Services Administration, the buying arm of the US Federal government). Her product is on the GSA-approved list but has never been evaluated for compliance. Lying to the Feds subjects you to the False Claims Act and can result in fines and being blocked by GSA from selling to the government. I alert company management to this. Not only is it a danger to the company, she had to have lied about it to launch the product in the first place. Lawyers get involved. I hurriedly evaluate the product. Luckily, it qualifies. We cross our fingers no one from GSA ever asks to see the paper trail.

A month later she’s leaving the company to start her own catering business (I’m not making this up).

It didn’t last a year.

What, no electricity, radium, or morphine? No wonder it was ineffective.

I assume this means encrypted P25 . Public service agencies have been using it for years, though not all of them encrypt.