She's me but in reverse. Benjamin Bussin'.

Any day I learn some Dutch is a good day.

I'm a school bus driver now and it's great. I get to drive a big Tonka truck around and gaslight children. Sure, I make about 1/6 of what I used to make as a mobile apps programmer, but at least I get good subsidized health insurance and I only work 5 hours a day.

bevolking

Ok, I see that these letters are next to each other on the keyboard, but ... damn.

He doesn't lack mental capacity. He understands that "trump won the 2020 election" means he's loyal to the trump cartel. He worships Baal but he knows he can't just say "yeah, I worship Baal".

Freedom in the US means the right to ride your Harley Davidson fart noise machine wherever you want.

You guys get shock collars? We get the kind that explodes your head.

No Country for Old Muppets

It's the second-best version of A Christmas Carol, after the Blackadder version.

Well, the organization was kind of like Habitat for Humanity, just smaller. They mainly existed on charity donations. Looking back on it (forty years later), I suspect that the guy running it was embezzling a lot of the money.

Circa 2005 I created a mobile app (for the honest-to-god-that's-what-MS-named-it "WinCE" OS that later became Windows Mobile) that allowed workers to survey power line networks in the field and indicate all the trees that needed to be trimmed or removed. The app used a local SqlCE database and the workers would upload their recorded data at the end of the day back in their hotel rooms using Remote Data Access, an MS technology which allowed SqlCE databases to "sync" with a master Sql Server database.

It almost always worked flawlessly (100% during development, natch), except for once in a while when synced data would somehow end up in a weirdly corrupted, mangled state on the central server. Like, records that were lacking a primary key value (!), something that is basically impossible to achieve. I opened a ticket with MS support and we went back and forth on this for a few weeks until they basically said "yeah that's fucked" and recommended that I modify my app to sync the same data multiple times to ensure it made it to the server correctly.

I actually had substantial faith in MS products up to that point (facepalm).

I'm a school bus driver and I got a card at the end of the year from all the kids at one stop. They all signed their names, but one fourth-grade girl added "thank you for driving us from place to place and for making us smile every day. We ♥ you!" I about melted. Much more meaningful than the fucking Panera gift card it came with (I know, I know: never look a gift horse in the microwave).

These kids are all rich as fuck, so it's not exactly the same as OP's story.