I do not wish, in any way, shape, or form, for my dreams to enter the material world. You ever have that dream where you spend hours picking chicken out of your teeth? How about the one where you need to pick up your great-grandparent’s remains from a firebombed warehouse that is simultaneously in the middle of the city and surrounded by swamp? Or the one where a turtle comes out from under the stove, a spider starts stalking it, and every time you look away and look back they get bigger, then the turtle is a beetle, and then the spider finally catches the beetle by impaling it on 4cm fangs?

No? Just me? Fair.

Hail corporate.

girl scout cookies … are high value

I hate that this is how you found out, but…

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Fudge-Mint-Cookies-10-Oz/11997740

You will be shocked

…bet? 😂

https://slrpnk.net/post/16304035

I do not miss scrambling to cover someone else’s tech debt when an executive gets caught with their pants down.

NES Megaman death sound.

Excel is the database. Excel is the status console. Excel is the web scraper. Excel is the data analyzer.

All hail the mighty Spreadsheet, let us VBA. 🙏

…I feel seen.

There’s a kind of learned helplessness with some developers and tests. It’s weird.

I got handed the keys to the network monitoring suite many moons ago. I immediately started editing the default alert actions to display relevant information, and in some outlier cases escalation procedures.

Most times, it was ignored. Other times, it was skimmed and half-followed. A few people outright refused to do anything differently than they had before (kick it up the ladder).

Glad to be rid of that place.

Without suffering, there is no enjoyment.

And yet even with suffering, there is also no enjoyment. Welcome to treatment resistant persistent depressive disorder!

Can’t wait for Medicaid to get axed so I can go live in a concentration camp.

They believe whatever they feel is true, and bury themselves in echo chambers where everyone believes the same things, so that they aren’t confronted with cognitive dissonance.

And, importantly, have convinced themselves that anyone arguing against them is doing the exact same thing. Classic projection.

The grates allow cool air to be forced up in front of racks. Unless your company cheaped out on datacenter construction, picked a room too small, didn’t leave room for the ramp to get up to proper height without breaking code on the incline, and had to rig a half-height raised floor that barely left room for electric, let alone proper air flow, so there had to be a huge air handler on top of the unit to blow cold air in the wrong places. And then bought a generator that wasn’t beefy enough to cover the AC, so every time the power went out it’s a mad scramble to put rolling units in place to keep the room at ~90F.

And all of the brass thought themselves geniuses for saving a few dollars.

May your wedding towels be full of nutrients!

Wonder if it’s like when they land on a can of beer.

at best political soap opera entertainment far removed from reality.

Unfortunately for those of us living through the bullshit, it’s all too real.

VLOOKUP. Every time. Also Catan Cities and Knights.

other than maybe hatred towards minorities

dissents

There are dozens thousands of us!

President Camacho would be a marked improvement.

I’m curious what the actual data looks like.

I’m sure it will be available for purchase shortly.

Came here looking for Grey, was not disappointed.

My mom smoked and drank through all three of her pregnancies. Maybe more. I was young at the time. Go me.