Imagine being the one who has to explain that Putin died when another person burst forth from his body like an alien.

I can’t relate to your question since that has not been my experience.

If I could only recommend one resource for learning about interacting with others, it would be Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

You don’t have to have money or a brimming social life to go on dates or have meaningful relationships. You do have to make some effort at building those relationships though. The book I mentioned will teach you a lot of the basics.

You wouldn’t have to work hard. You could build a great big house with rooms by the dozen, right in the middle of the town. …if you were a wealthy man.

"I’ve sent Bill, who’s a really great guy btw, back to Home Depot three times to buy a part that he already has two of at home but your dumb ass just sits on the couch every night instead of thinking ‘gee, I should probably repaint my hideous living room.’ But you know what? It’s fine. Bill deserves someone who will actually take some initiative instead of sitting there binging Grey’s Anatomy every night like ‘GoD wIlL bRiNg ThE rIgHt PeRsOn InTo My LiFe’. --God (Probably)

I would tell you but then I would have to kill you.

Touche.

A flying nasty dirt magnet that takes you places.

So basically JavaScript with TypeScript.

One takes you places, the other is a nasty dirt magnet. Which one is which is entirely subjective.

Murthy claimed he himself worked six and a half days a week until retirement, typically 14 hours and 10 minutes a day, clocking on at 6:20 AM before downing tools at 8:30 PM.

What a fucking slacker wasting ~66 hours per week that he could have been GRINDING. Pathetic.

/s

Jellyfin has a built in DVR. It works with HD Homerun tuners.

Forgiving my dad. He was a terrible father but he’s a good grandpa. We made amends and I’m glad to have him in my life.

Definitely more common in suburban areas with more single family homes or places with larger apartments.

That said, having to drag all your laundry down to the laundromat or building laundry is very inconvenient and sucks up a lot of time. I don’t miss that at all.

“Veridian Dynamics. People Lie. Companies protect their interests. It’s different.”

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I had to sign up for a business account because of Cox’s data cap. Sadly they’re my only option and they suck ass.

eBay if I can wait a few days, otherwise O’Reilly’s.

Am American. Can confirm. In general, we are dumb as shit.

It is. It always has been to one degree or another. We’ve just gotten really lucky and apparently that luck is running out.

I once worked for a big corporation that makes hydraulic rescue tools, where management somehow failed to grasp that the chief selling point of these tools is that they do the job reliably every time. No firefighter wants to be trying to get someone out of a car like, “Damnit! The cutter is acting up again. We should probably look into that.”

But the executives kept demanding that we add “features” to the tools that effectively compromised the reliability and then got all surprised Pikachu face when it was explained to them that the customers thought the tools were overpriced half-assed garbage.

I guess my point is I’ve seen plenty of incredibly stupid examples of management ignoring the engineers and yet somehow Musk demanding that radar be scrapped in favor of cameras is right at the top of the list. Especially if you want your customers to live long enough to buy your products more than once.

Reddit was never “mainstream social media”. Annecdotally, I have heard more people referring to Reddit in casual conversation so maybe it is becoming more widely accepted.

If that’s true, then I still have no regrets about leaving. If I wanted to look at a news feed full of hot garbage I would have stayed on Facebook.