Semi recently had mine try to take me through a private business parking lot which was entirely fenced off, and didn’t even connect on the other side. That was… confusing, to say the least.

Lmao this one got me

I’ve had controversial opinions about judges, cops, prosecutors, and etc, who are involved in particular egregious violations of their duties, do not deserve due process. They’ve clearly demonstrated they don’t believe the system has value.

Good bois and girls.

I was semi recently explaining to someone that monitors are basically small TV’s, with more variety in sizes, form factors, and refresh rates.

So that we feel vindicated in actually owning your productive time. So that management can show they add value by watching you work.

I’m constantly preaching that “we don’t work in a widget factory, there is only the work there is to do, and if it’s all done, wtf are you complaining about? Asses in seats does not correlate to work completed. As long as we’re available to complete tasks, you’re getting what you’re paying for.”

My management prizes my ability to write complex things ina professional and easily digestible manner. However part of that process might look like I’m doing nothing at all, while I’ve got a half a draft written and I’m just sitting there for an hour and a half doing sudoku puzzles while what I’ve written vs what I need to say percolates in my brain. And yet I have to be cautious about it because some of them are convinced we work in a widget factory, where ass in seat and hands on keyboard equals work produced.

Right? Shocker, I’m able to listen to a thing actively and vocally contribute while doing something mindless like doing/folding laundry or making food because they use different parts of my brain.

The meat mech is capable of doing something physical with no thought, while engaging language processing for something else.

The human car wash method

It’s pretty much a ritual of mine to be and stay hammered most of my travel day.

Chug most of a half pint of liquor in the parking garage, double of Johnnie Walker Black for pretty much every hour I’m in the airport, order some mini bottles (or carry on my own) on the plane, sleep until my destination, and then do whatever it is I’m doing that day.

But then, I handle my alcohol extremely well (and have the red hair gene that makes you less susceptible to its effect and process it more quickly). So I don’t really get in trouble.

It’s often said that Democrats today are Republicans of the 90’s/00’s, and this is further proof of that on top of the reasons you mentioned.

I also love word, publisher, and visio.

I grudgingly accept outlook.

I despise PowerPoint

Meat bad, Cartels Okay

The United States went so hard on being anti-communist that we became anti community.

As long as the demand exists in the market, the niche will be filled. There’s simply too much money to be made.

As a related example:

Mexico has a cartel problem not because their government is weak, but because the scale of the American drug market means every cartel has an annual income that dwarfs any conceivable taxation revenue. Which means they’re better armed, better staffed, better equipped, and overall a more formidable threat than can be dealt with.

Even fully legalizing drugs in the US might not undercut the cartels at this point because their operations have extended so far into legitimate forms of income at this point. Cartels are an agricultural powerhouse, and are responsibility for the vast majority of avocado production for example.

I knew GPUs had gotten bigger but then I built an all new PC, upgrading from a 2080 to a 4090.

Holy shit. That thing is fucking huge, man. I was literally stunned pulling it out of the box. Just set it down and stared at it for awhile trying to process technological progress. It’s like 8 times the size of the GPU I had in 2006.

This was my choice and reasoning as well.

MTG and Boebert would be interesting, see if I can get them to fight over who gives a better hand job.

I’d sit next to Ted Cruz if I wanted to stroke out after having a bad faith argument where he repeatedly uses bad debate tactics as devil’s advocate.

Same with Clarence Thomas. Except my goal would be to make him strike out instead.

Drugs that make you pass out and any amount of water you’re able to submerge yourself in do not mix.

I like lifting, I genuinely hate core Day. Something about it convinces my body I’m dying and all I want to do is vomit.