Hundreds of billions! Of micropennies! Aaaaaaaaah!

I have this fear that we won’t even be able to trust fruits and vegetables. The most common food contaminations in the news always seem to be unwashed lettuce and such, which makes sense because of fertilizers.

Listen, the brisket doesn’t need the sauce, because unless you’re a weenie you get the moist… but ribs should be fucking dipped in that divine nectar.

The line about the library card is what drives me up the wall. It’s ridiculous how tough it is to get in some places. You want a freaking utility bill?!? I’m renting a room, for fuck’s sake. That isn’t just a texas problem though, because I know florida was just as stupidly difficult.

I think it’s overblown for the most part. Yes, the OS should just work… but it does, for 99% of users, on windows, and linux, and probably macos, which I haven’t used so can’t speak on.

The ones who blow up their systems are either techies who like futzing with stuff, or are using a ‘bad’ distro for their needs. If you’re switching over granny, you set her up with a long term stable kernel, a vanilla distro, and a browser. The few other stories are when people switch from windows and want something specialized to be the same. Those will need a customized solution, but it’s not much different than windows when something breaks. Whoever is playing IT gets to poke at a stupid amount of settings, registry edits, or esoteric drivers/dependencies.

Makes you wonder if they use the actors’ rehearsals, just have the interns pretend to do a play by reading a script and doing some motions, book an acting troupe’s time, or buy out a theater that’s having an actual performance.

I just want to make sure I’m hearing you right on this… 1/5? Where is that number coming from?

How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”?

Gee, it’s common even for ‘experienced’ folks. I just went to update to the 6.14 kernel this morning (everything that I use [and monitor for conflicts] was supposedly finally working with it), and apparently that didn’t play well with my desktop manager. Cue the tty at boot and trying different DMs until I finally said screw it and went back to the previous kernel.

It’s not a big deal, just one of those things that was jarring to read because I knew I had heard it differently in the past. It’s more irritating to me that I knew the ‘open heart surgery’ thing well, and hadn’t heard about this. Shows what some people are concerned with.

This wasn’t the first open heart surgery… opening/repairing the pericardium is not open heart surgery. Even in the wikipedia article, it specifically says “heart surgery.” In the cited sources from wikipedia, the listed first ‘open heart surgery’ isn’t until 1952.

I knew something was weird when I read your title, because that and the machine for heart-lungs in 1953 are always taught as huge leaps.

plant based wrapping

It was soy, if I remember correctly. Bloody rats weren’t even the issue for me, it was the squirrels!

In my memory, they will get you to try and do a brake fluid change, a transmission fluid change (if your car does those), steering fluid, expensively change your air filters, swap brake pads, pay for rotor something-or-other, bla bla bla.

Some people drop money because they don’t want to NOT do something important, and they don’t know any better.

Heh, where’s the emetic? Also known as the ‘sudden info dump.’

You know what the real nightmare scenario is there? You’re locked in the head, sort of half screaming because you don’t have to be doing all that shit anymore… and they start succeeding. They put a little effort in at work, they get promoted. They focus on a single hobby (or two!), and get good enough at it that others ask them to start a club and teach about it, just once a month or so, but the friends they make want to hang out more often. They smile at the person across the bus row, and a conversation starts, and suddenly there’s a date planned for friday night. They reach out to your parents, and your parents not only respond well, but admit they were conned by conservatives and want to reconcile.

No troubles… no difficulties. They slide in and simply become the better you that you couldn’t.

A year, lol. Most places have you on the street within a month of being hired, and you are placed with something called a field training officer, FTO. Any will laugh you out of the area as a poser if you’re trying to infiltrate their social lives to gather intel to use if you use TO. The field training phase lasts for 4 months at most. Cops cycle in and out of the job so fast they would never be able to afford a full year of training.

They also don’t use cops who have had tons of complaints. Those get given desk duty. The field trainers are the ones who know how to ‘write good,’ so they can criticize the reports that the rookies write. The rookies, mind you, are given all the shit cases that the others don’t want to work on, allegedly so the rookies can get experience in writing a bunch of different reports.

The bit about other departments not giving you a chance if you’re failed from a training phase is mostly true, but remember that the whole ‘desperate for new cops’ thing means the small places will hire you if you can breathe without wheezing, and sometimes even if you get out of breath walking to the donut store counter.

Remember kids, knowing is half the battle! don’t use this info in casual conversation to shmooze a cop you meet at the bar or a party to pick up details on their agency >.> <.<

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I mean, have you seen duck penises?

John fried chicken. It’s a southern term that you yankees wouldn’t get, don’t ya know. It refers to John, of the johnathan name, who first fried chicken. He did it a long time ago, don’t ya know.

It’s not a thing, sorry. You’ve been misled. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/yellowstone-volcano-erupt-more-magma-found

Here’s a video with a really cool dive into the science behind it. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts

I did this when I forgot a pair of shoes once. I felt so bad, but also so sly. The poor clerks probably have to deal with foot smell often, but it still just felt icky.

Your imagination isn’t accounting for all the insanity that people loading themselves do. Loading might be faster for the carried folks.

Some airlines do allow two bags.