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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It was.

In Ohio? I'm almost positive it isn't legal. It's definitely illegal in states like California. But they're banking on nobody recording their interview audio (which I will now be doing as Ohio is single-party state) and nobody complaining if asked.

I doubt it's a company policy, but I did send an email to their company offices to complain about it, for all the good it will do.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would never let him live that admission down.

Every day I'd be reminding him about what cognitive dissonance is, and that he was all for a policy change until he learned that the belief he held and was ACTIVELY ADVOCATING FOR aligns with an ideology that someone who makes a lot more money than he does told him to hate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As someone who vomits at a strong smell of alcohol and gets nauseous with any smell...

Fuckin wat

Alcohol is no more evil than table salt or the dirt beneath your feet.

Guess what! Everything you consume is slowly contributing to your ultimate fate.

If you want to pass on any consumption, cool. Good for you.

If you want to be a judgemental ass, there's the door. If it hits you in the ass on the way out, so be it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Look, if you want to wrangle with a bear to try and get that pelt, you go right ahead.

I've had enough suffering in my lifetimes, I'm hunkering down and waiting for the department of temporal investigations to show up and take me home.

Besides, you need at least 3μg of pergium, which I'm sure I don't have to remind anyone is not native to the solar system.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Not programming, but in the same vein, A Trek Bicycle store manager asked me in an interview if I would be willing to work a trial shift the next day building bicycles. Unpaid, of course. Just to see if I was a good fit.

Of course, since I was used to building 50 a day, I would have gotten all of them done in a single shift whereas they were needing to call in stores from surrounding areas to come help in a few days.

I laughed and said if they needed help tomorrow I would be happy to work for my usual fee of $20/bike.

Oddly, I did not get the job

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Unfortunately due to some temporal shenanigans, I'm stuck here without so much as a self-sealing stem bolt.

No transporter system.

Besides, why would I want to wipe my pattern buffer ~~prisoners~~ ~~guests~~ experiments?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

There's 1,000 jokes that can be made in sure, but in the US I once found a grenade while magnet fishing and called a guy my parents know who is a cop. The moment I realized what it was, I told my friend to run to the end of the bridge, and I gently laid it on the pile of rope I was using.

They have a whole bomb squad that's about 30 minutes away at full speed, and they rolled up with their trailer, a guy in a suit came over to the bridge and placed it in a box, put the box in the trailer, and one dull THUNK later all I had to do was sign a paper saying this is where I found it.

I specifically called my parents friend rather than 911 because I had read too many accounts of cops showing up and attempting to arrest the magnet fisher for any number of reasons.

UXO is no fucking joke, don't for a second think you can handle it without training. You really have no idea what explosive compound they used or what it's stability level is after being exposed to the elements.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You're splitting hairs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've legitimately tried that, even tried no alarm at all.

The no alarm is a bad idea just because every so often I just sleep right on through, if I've had a particularly harsh day.

I think my brain just goes "you sneaky fuck, I know you REALLY want to get up at 7 so we are getting up at 630ishjust to be sure."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Any questionable software I have is coming up on 4 years old now, most of it is older than that. I move them to a new machine every time I upgrade, simply because I don't trust torrents anymore.

Honestly, I don't trust PDFs anymore unless they're from places I know are "safe" which kind of sucks because I've been getting back into RC as a hobby and it's hard to find non-pdf plans. I prefer vector files, but I'm having to try my luck with jpg and png files.

A lot of the programs I used to use have been surpassed by current FOSS projects, and I've been replacing them as I can. Finding an open source laser engraver program that isn't shit is proving difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Addicts always gotta justify how they get their fix, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Why make things balanced?

What service does the pile of shit in a suit provide that justifies equal weight of all those workers?

My guess is "not enough to deserve it"

Things aren't balanced until we are all on level ground with each other. No fulcrums in sight.

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