But if you live long enough it’s all new again! Some good lines from Andy Huggins, 74-year old standup comic:

“Went to the doctor to see if I had arthritis. Turns out I have early onset rigor mortis.”

“The great thing about dating women my age is I don’t have to meet their parents.”

“Anybody ever drop their phone in the toilet? I did that, so I put it in a bag of rice.
Anybody ever drop a bag of rice in the toilet?”

Right, and that will happen because TV shows aren’t produced by billionaire-owned media corporations.

In the early 2000s I had a manager who hardly ever gave me anything to do. Like in 6 months I did maybe 3 weeks work. And it’s not like I never asked. I was already fairly disgruntled and had other reasons, but it led to me leaving the company for a job at a cancer research center. The problem with not doing anything at MS is that unless you can hide it somehow your review comes up and you have nothing to show for the year, you’re kind of screwed. So after a relaxing 6 months it was a good time to jump ship. Anyway, a couple years later I read MS was laying off like 600 people - which might have been their first layoffs ever, I dunno. It was supposed to clear out “deadwood” - so I checked after another couple months and found out my old manager was still there! So much for “clearing out deadwood” lol.

Capitalism fanatics will say with great conviction that business has to be efficient because of competition, while government is inherently inefficient because it has no competition. There’s a little truth there, but the complete truth is that business is as inefficient as it can afford to be. The more money a company has, the more inefficiency they can absorb. In my mind that’s one good reason not to allow these gigantic mergers of mega-billion-dollar corporations. Huge entities with tons of money can be inefficient and sloppy as hell for a long, long time before they fail.

Mainly lack of marketing I think. When I went to England a few years ago they were everywhere. I bought one as soon as I got home. Fantastic invention!

I just want to polish the scenario I’m running for my D&D group Wednesday.

Popup blockers aren’t as satisfying as a browser plugin that adds a “Fuck Off” button to them.

I’d go with the Captain Kirk chair.

“and we’ve made deals also"

Deals? Uh-oh. So the plan is to stiff our creditors and declare strategic bankruptcy. I feel so Great again.

I still mostly call him Bonespurs.

Anybody who watches Fox News - are they saying “uncertainty” in every other sentence yet, like during the entire Obama administration?

Or is 2025 uncertainty a different kind of uncertainty?

Teleportation or building your time machine into a spaceship so you can land.

My daughter has used AI a lot to write grant proposals, which she cleans up and rewords before submitting. In her prompts she tells it to ask her questions and incorporate her answers into the result, which she says works very well, produces high quality writing, and saves her a ton of time. She’s actually a very competent writer herself, so when she compliments the quality I know it means something.

Retired dev here, I’m curious about the nature of “the mess”. Is it buggy AI-generated code that got into production? I know an active dev who uses ChatGTP every day, says it saves him a hell of a lot of work. What he does sounds like “vibe coding”. If you’re using AI for grunt work and keep a human is in the workflow to verify the code, I don’t see how it would differ from junior devs working under a senior. Have some companies been using poorly managed all-AI tools or what? Sorry for the long question.

And no doubt struggling to blame their bad decisions on each other and preserve their salary bonuses.

I used to feel that way, but Trump has done so much damage he’s just not fucking funny anymore, and I wish people would stop generating all the noise to point out how stupid he is. We know, and by now it’s WAAAY past funny.

Sadly Mr. Japan died in April.

Could things like this go in linuxmemes? Memes are fun but it would be nice to keep this a place for actual information. And no, this is not a comment on what it’s saying, I’m just tired of so many memes.

I remember when “meme” ment an idea that had caught on in the public mind, not any image with text slapped on it.

I honestly don’t see one that looks right.