• Brave Sir Robin ran away (bravely).

I think it’s pretty safe to say that when your country is run by a murderous tyrant who has his own mother arrested on [presumably] fabricated corruption charges, human rights are of little concern.

I’m sorry, but if a prospective employer is asking me to do seven rounds of interviews, I’m going to take that as a giant red flag that they a.) don’t respect me or my time and b.) are woefully incompetent at every other aspect of their business.

I see these types of posts on Craigslist all the time. “1959 Cadillac. Perfect candidate for restoration. $2,500 firm.”

And it’s like, uh, no. I’m positive that at one time that WAS a 1959 Cadillac. But, the floor pan is completely rotted out. The engine consists solely of the block. The rest of the drive trane and hood are gone. And the rest of the car looks like someone heard One Piece at a Time on the radio and thought it was a repair manual.

At best you’ve got $500 worth of scrap metal and that’s if YOU load it on a flat bed and haul it to the junk yard yourself.

“I am definitely going to remember putting this here.”

Narrator: “He forgot almost immediately.”

If they could detain him indefinitely, that would be great.

Frasier and to a lesser extent Cheers.

Lol I can’t even find my firearm. I know it’s around here somewhere. Somewhere really stupidly obvious. I just set it down like two seconds ago. 🤔

The 1960’s were rough for a lot of reasons but four of the highest profile assassinations in US (or even world) history occuring within five years has to be right at the top.

John F. Kennedy in 1963,
Malcolm X in 1965,
Martin Luther King in 1968,
Bobby Kennedy in 1968

Morons.

Nixon did his damnedest, before winning the 1968 election, to prolong the Vietnam War in hopes of leveraging the conflict for political gain.

I can’t even comprehend being so ruthlessly evil that I would gladly fling tens of thousands of people into a wood chipper to boost my political career.

Smells like… Breakfast.

“Mister Falcon”

Well maybe next time you’ll think twice before you put noms in the trash.

“Huh. What’s this? A spur of the moment Teams meeting with some VP whose name I barely know? Ah. And there’s HR. So it’s THAT meeting.”

Yet another example of media conglomerates and sympathetic governments helping increase the awareness and sophistication of piracy while doing almost nothing to prevent it. Good job guys! Slow Clap

My childhood did suck. If you offered me $1M to go back and relive it, I wouldn’t do it.

That said, it’s pretty common for people to feel like their younger years were the “best years of their life.” Some of that comes from being ignorant of or not having to deal with adult level problems. Some of it from just how the human brain stores long term memories; by creating a lot of shortcuts and glossing over details.

One thing I’ve learned is that life is hard. But being hard doesn’t also mean that it can’t be good.

You don’t know how it works because you didn’t study tin foil hat engineering.

According to data from the world’s largest job board, Indeed, demand for IT jobs is rapidly declining. Backend development, testing, technical analysis — all of this is being automated faster than education systems can adapt. Since the end of 2022, global tech corporations have laid off more than 635,000 employees. Behind this figure are engineers, designers, analysts, UX specialists — people who, until recently, were considered the elite of the digital world.

This is not because of “AI.” This is because the river of dirt cheap debt dried up and corporations ran out of gambling money to blow in pursuit of the next big thing. I’ve spent a lot of my career working for non-tech companies who have this idea that they have a massive treasure trove of data which they are sure can be monotized. So, they set out creating solutions in search of problems. Every project I’ve worked on in the last 5 years has failed for this exact reason. Rising interest rates brought most of the gambling screeching to a halt.