14GBps ssd is fast enough to keep the existential dread away. Usually. Maybe not when updating Windows.

…Skunt?

Later that day, my anus: “You have betrayed me!”

Will happen to every new medium eventually. It’s inevitable under capitalism.

There’s another consideration: it has to be as cheap as possible to produce. And that explains the advent of reality TV.

They would fix it but they can’t hear our complaints over the sound of their money printers…

Working in IT, you learn CYA very fast.

Indeed, nothing quite as cathartic as going “No, U!” and proving it with an email forward.

You can give yourself an instant raise by working 50% of your usual pace. BAM your pay per hour just doubled.

I fucking love it. I’ll never understand people who hate birdsong, no matter what time. Are your windows really that thin? Relax and enjoy something nature provides for free at no cost to you whatsoever.

Perish like a dog it is then. There is no tearing down reality without you inside of it.

I’m lucky to still have both maternal grandparents at age 41, but grandpa’s mind is unfortunately heavily on the decline. He was always an intellectual which makes it extra painful.

At first it annoyed me slightly but I’ve noticed that I can understand most of them without having to use a translator, so now it’s just free language practice. And deciphering memes is decidedly more fun than taking a course.

It happens, especially in tech, but I’d say it’s still the exception to the norm.

Nah, precisely because we would cash out and settle for peaceful lives long before we’d become billionaires or even millionaires. It takes a certain type of person to begin earning millions and conclude “that’s not nearly enough, I need this times a thousand”. None of them are “good” people.

The Romans would call this an ill auspice.

In the company’s defense, stealing an entire turkey is Lex Luthor levels of villainy.

The alternative is to feel like you already knew “everything” at that earlier age… which can’t be true and simply denotes stagnation in your development.

You’re supposed to look back to any point in your past and say “I know a lot more now than I knew back then”. Which won’t always be the case, but if you find that you’ve “peaked” for a long period, chances are you just closed off your mind to new information.

For me it was Connect. Scratched that RiF itch juuuust right, and still does.

Nonde godver