same. Kid and I had the same symptoms, our doctors had no clue what it was. It went away in a few days. I was at an international conference late January and was sick a little over a week after that, so it lines up pretty well. I was WFH for two years before it was cool, and am pretty much a hermit otherwise, so we’re all pretty sure it was COVID.

can’t move goalposts if they’re dead!

Try increasing your ability to comprehend the written word before criticizing anyone else’s ability to do so.

Learn to communicate if you expect others to assume you’re an adult.

You have a remarkable inability to do the above, work on that, and you might be able to actually carry on a conversation.

It’s crazy how if we had all managed to stay away from each other for roughly a month, we might have eradicated the flu and possibly the common cold as well.

I’ll take that dead smiling fish upper right.

I see you fellow anti capitalist.

I remember this asshole of a kid in middle school selling these neat looking pens for a dollar each.

I found a box of them at a flea market that weekend and had my mom buy them for me, they came out to like 10 cents each. I sold them to every kid in class for a quarter and shut his shitty grift right down.

The CPC is a highly selective group that picks its own members and runs the country. That doesn’t sound like democracy.

Also, new alternative parties don’t exist. Are they allowed?

From Wikipedia:

While only the CCP holds effective power at the national level, there are officially eight minor parties that exist alongside the CCP. Founded before the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China, these parties must accept the “leading role” of the CCP as a condition of their continued existence.

Throw some drone trucks in there and baby, you got a stew going.

I thought it was just op being meta

Caligula: You’re telling me those things have had one neck this whole time?!

The meme economy will not be regulated.

Worked in a call center once connecting terminally Ill old people to nurses (a specialized aska nurse line essentially).

My job was just to call people who needed a call back and then hand them off to a nurse when they answered the phone. I’m talking like 15 seconds of phone time with these people on average.

The shit I heard in those 15 seconds was wild.

“Can’t talk, I’m on the other line with Jesus” was one of my favorite dark replies from a person with essentially terminal COPD.

But there were plenty of “I lived a bad life, I know why this is happening to me” type digressions.

I’m convinced it’s because a shit load of old people have committed, and so far gotten away with, serious crimes at some point.

Random calls from “authority” decades later stun locks their brain in a memory loop.

Sure, but normal new car prices are ridiculous right now.

Apparently the average is 48K! https://www.moneygeek.com/insurance/auto/average-price-of-a-new-car/

Yikes, a new subcompact is 23K on average.

Always ask a credit bureau before asking your doctor if it’s right for you

My favorite interaction ever, as a QA:

me: Our integration testing environment is constantly broken due to bad practices among all the teams that share it. They need to be aware of the contract they expose and how they’re changing it before they deploy their code to any shared space.

management: Given the recent complaints about the instability of the QA environment, we’ve decided to shut it down and eliminate all QA positions.