Transporter Room 3

There is a red-tailed hawk that roams around my area, and every time we hear it, my wife rolls her eyes and goes “I KNOW it’s not an eagle” because of how many times I would mention it whenever the screech would play on TV or movies.

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?

Normal people: “this is SO me!” last done 2years ago

Neurodivergents: every month

COMPLETELY unrelated, I have about $800 worth of RC equipment to make my own planes and cars, and haven’t touched it in over a year.

I want to break it out and make use of it to get my money’s worth, but apparently I don’t want to want to…

My 3 year old calligraphy set has only been used twice, and not even for the purpose they were purchased.

I also like to go with “Cosmically, nothing we ever do will amount to more than the life of a fly, so the end result is the same.”

It doesn’t go over well…

Next time someone says that, respond with “wow, so fuck anyone with brain issues that keep them from forming memories the same way you do, right? Guess grandpa Rick doesn’t care about my family since his accident, huh.”

you having a grandpa Rick, or family to speak of, is irrelevant. The point is, it forces them to confront the fact that there are many reasons someone might forget a thing. They’ll probably still be shift about it, but at least when they’ve unbunched their loads, they might think twice before immediately concluding the other person sucks for forgetting a thing.

Maybe I’m being optimistic with that, but I don’t appreciate when people try to assign my motives to me, instead of understanding my own, and get confrontational when that happens.

I still say that, knowing fully damn well that it probably was important and I going to feel like shit later for forgetting.

I was about to say, “what do you mean ‘old days’, I’m still playing!”

This game will outlive DOOM being run on things.

Or more likely, someone will figure out a way to play one in the other.

JUST

DO IT

Hell, make it 100%.

All countries

100% import taxes on all ICE

Make people demand EVs

Motivate countries to produce in-country.

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”?

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

Do… Do people care what the REAL scarlet Johansson, Jennifer Aniston or Elton John have to say about Ukraine defending itself and it’s people against a fascist invasion?

I mean, I find their stuff entertaining, sure, but like… Why would I listen to their tactical analysis in the first place?

I usually go with “long story shorter…” because I know no matter how much I try to condense things, my explanation will be long simply due to my need to over-explain.

“I’ll be sure to tell my niece that God wanted her to have leukemia since he thought that’s what she deserved.” is my goto

If God created everything, then God created evil.

Only the Chavatar, master of all four elements, could stop them.

Yes, the understanding was “everywhere in the US” since HOAs are pretty much exclusive to the US.

Whether it’s true or not, it’s kind of weird you assumed anyone references is “progressive” or “not progressive”

HOAs are everywhere and I’ve never met anyone under the illusion that the HOA Karens/Kyles are strictly conservative.

It’s a weirdly political comment on a non-political meme from a non-political meme page.