I know the chemistry and I know some of the universities working on it in the 70s and 80s. I don’t know how I’d get in the door with no credentials. I like to think I could talk myself into Oxford… it’s delusional, but I like to think it.
First I’d bask in all the social and financial safety nets that Reagan and the Bushes hadn’t been able to destroy yet. Watch some pro-union TV ads. Then try to meet Mr Rogers and Ramblin’ Rod.
Then I’d probably try to invent rechargeable lithium tetrahydride batteries a couple years ahead of time, use the money to invest in MS and Oracle, and funnel the profits to Enron and Bernie Madoff before their bottoms drop out. Once I’m too rich to jail, I’d have some other people I’d want to “meet”… while armed.
We just think you’re bad at grilling, but don’t want to hurt your feelings.
Has put their soul into a nondescript device ✅
We all have to keep on guard for bean memes. Thank you for the warning, bean meme.
Why shoot the driver? You want their suffering to be psychological, not physical. Use the gun to quickly kidnap 6 people, steal some rope, and find the nearest track switch. Probably not in that order.
Nearly 50 here: I’ve had the urge to do an all-nighter for weeks now but I know I probably couldn’t pull it off and that I’d be a wreck for 36 hours afterward.
The satisfaction you’re looking for comes from the process of learning and doing, not having the final product explained/handed to you. You have to remind yourself that the joy is in the making, not the final product.
That’s not in the deepest, most troubling depths of the uncanny valley, so it’s not DLSS5.
My grandfather (a small plane mechanic and gadget guy since the 1930s) was always weirdly enamored by dashboard warning lights because, “In my day, you’d take the car for a drive on Sunday and spend the rest of the week fixing it. Problem lights would have been redundant.”
I’ve been thinking about nuggets like that from him ever since acollierastro posted her spark plug video.
They only want the freedom to be able drain the bank accounts of their cattle constituents into the bank accounts of the oligarchs who own them.
Gasoline is also used in making cocaine. Better to smoke pot and just put errands off until tomorrow forever.
It’s bad enough I still follow one of these accounts on mastodon, I can’t have it here too. There is where I come to pretend I’m not wasting my life.
In my case, if they paid attention to my medical history it shouldn’t be much of a surprise to them, and yet it always seems to be.
Its like its the middle of winter and the forecast says its going to be sunny an relatively warm on the weekend. Then you wake up Saturday and it’s freezing rain and thunder.
Nah, just spend the week before the date going over all that stuff in your head over and over and over, making sure it basically the only thing on your mind. Practice ALL the conversations you’re going to have. over and over again.
Then when things don’t go exactly as rehearsed, panic and blurt out something stupid. If they laugh, they’re a keeper. And if they don’t leave it means they have flag color blindness.
Perfect system.
You forgot to check your voicemail and missed the message that they finally found a compatible organ donor for you. Since you didn’t respond they gave it to a racist landlord who funds a bum fighting ring instead.
I did finally clean the SIMMs out of my big box of leftover gear. If I haven’t used them this millennium, I probably won’t need them.
In my day we just committed seppuku if our uptime dropped below three-nines. I was always pushing to get my elusive 5th on a high traffic SaaS site I was lead on for many years.
I remember sitting in a Chaos Engineering conference session in Vegas (2009 or 10) while logged into 12 servers on my moto droid via tmux because someone pushed a bad patch while I was out. I just don’t understand why I look back at that fondly.
For this to be a “boy dinner” post the title need to be something that sounds like a lyric from an 80s country song. “My girl left me and took the truck. Now my dog is sick, I got no luck”