I do much the same in my head.

Know what’s crazy? We sling bags of mulch, dirt and rocks onto customer vehicles every day. No one, neither coworkers nor customers, will do simple multiplication. Only the most advanced workers do it. No lie.

Customer wants 30 bags of mulch. I look at the given space:

“Let’s do 6 stacks of 5.”

Everyone proceeds to sling shit around in random piles and count as we go. And then someone loses track and has to shift shit around to check the count.

I consider The Register to be the gold standard in tech journalism. When asked how I keep up with evolving tech, I told the interview panel that any tech news they see on mainstream media was likely broken by The Register 3 days previous, with original sources and quotes from top corporate officers.

Also told them I had followed several tech subs on reddit in the past, but as the site has devolved into bots talking to one another, I’ve turned to lemmy for tech community interaction and advice.

(No, I’m not using lemmy for that so much, but if I land the network admin job I will!)

What till Americans figure out where high quality small arms come from. Glock anyone? Beretta, Heckler & Koch, Benelli, Browning Arms Company (yes, Browning), SIG Sauer, Springfield Armory, Taurus (some), Chiappa, and more. And don’t forget our Filipino friends at Rock Island Armory!

Sadly, this part of the tariff shitshow may actually work since we already have plenty of quality domestic producers. But fuck me, the SIG Sauer is the standard US military sidearm and Glock is standard everywhere else. Have fun cop budgets!

I could whip up rack ears but making threaded holes confounds me. Even got a tap and die set, still can’t figure it out.

Nah, I have a NetGate (pfSense) rackmount router/firewall with multiple ports. Isn’t that pretty standard with enterprise gear now days? Only 2-port routers I’ve seen are ones I build from old PCs.

LOL, give it up. Lemmy is full of kids who have never had a physically challenging job in their fucking life.

“I saw bad things!”

Is no way comparable to:

“I’ve blown out my back and knees, can barely stand up in the morning and can’t make a fist.”

And for those bitching about the first two items, 19 of 20 of them are, and have always been, fat fucks.

Anyways, looks like GenZ is about to get hard as fuck in the next few years when they see what real suffering is.

It’s human to see patterns where they don’t exist and assign agency.

True Crime podcasts and YT channels

Female detected! I joke, but I don’t know any men into that content, and I’m ceaselessly amazed at the variety of women who love it. My wife will soon be home, in bed and totally absorbed in watching white trash confess (while trying to lie) to cops about their heinous acts.

That’s a bingo! I’m only taking the time and spending the money for a movie I know damned well I’ll enjoy. Guess I’m part of the problem.

Sleeping? You should see me get out of bed, stumbling around hunched over for 10 minutes until all my parts agree that, no, it’s not that painful, and, yes, we’ll all start playing nicely soon enough.

Same age and my wife and I tend to watch old movies or YouTube. When there are free channels for any well-produced fiction you care for like Omeleto, why bother with Hollywood?

Talk to MAGA folks. They don’t think we need allies or trading partners. They think the USA is big and strong enough to not only stand alone, but stand against the entire planet.

It’s hard to get across how ignorant these people are. Their information comes 100% from Fox News, Facebook, friends, family and like minded people in their echo chamber.

I live in Florida. During hurricanes we literally live and die by NOAA. And day to day, we work and plan our lives around the National Weather Service (a subset of NOAA). Posted on NextDoor.com about the administration slashing NOAA and “have fun paying for private weather service, you voted for it”. (Perhaps less snarky than comes across here.)

You would be astonished, at least I was, by the outpouring of gall and hate I received. I won’t try to relate it all, but even faced with personal consequences, the answer was, “Fuck all that and fuck you! Good job Trump!” That was the most “popular” post of the week. Oh my, the replies would not die off. Imagine hating on the government weather service!

Best responses were a tie:

One lady proud to pay for her AccuWeather subscription. “Where do you think AccuWeather gets their data?” “I’m not arguing with people like you!” LOL, wanted to add, “Not arguing with someone that pays for free weather data.”

One guy went off about vets, in reply to no one but the post, for some reason I can’t begin to ascertain. Wish I could inject what I know about Trump and vets straight into his brain, leave him a twitching mess of cognitive dissonance.

Maybe cognitive dissonance is what I triggered? Just thought of that and I may be onto something.

(I use Weawow BTW. Weather is very important to me and they got it going on. Even has sun and moon info. You can choose your weather provider (I use NWS) but you can choose from 6 others. Norway even! Only data I wish they added was tidal, lol, and a compass would be nice. Free app of course, but I’d be glad to pay a one-time fee.)

I think you are wildly underestimating the people who will say fuck it and keep rolling with 10. For that matter, how about the people who don’t even realize it’s EOL? Sure, they’ll get warnings, which they’ll promptly ignore.

MS Office rules the corporate world because their standards never change.

There is no real alternative to Excel, that’s the killer app. Anyone arguing differently hasn’t got the corporate experience to argue.

Doesn’t even matter if an alternate is better, and none are, it’s about rock-solid compatibility and knowing your sheets and books will still work in 20-years.

MS fucks about with OS updates, but notice that they never break Excel? (or Word or PowerPoint for that matter)

Didn’t stop him shooting himself in the foot over illegal alien labor.