We’ve gone as a society from playing board games with friends to playing video games with friends to watching people we don’t know play video games to watching video games play themselves.

They just really don’t want people in the equation do they?

No.

Everyone has their own opinion about it but I don’t think that there is any eternal consequence to it.

It’s just a really shitty thing that people have to go through sometimes, either shitty that they prevent the child from being born and then have to live with their own guilt about it, or shitty that they let the child be born regardless of their feelings and then have to deal with the consequences.

It’s a bad roll of the die anyway you look at it

It can do that, but it can also make it so that it is difficult for you to do anything other than perform that one task for 2 hours.

I think it was Alan Dean Foster who said (paraphrased) that time travel is impossible not because time travel is impossible but because there’s a certain point where all of the time traveling that can be done will have been done.

The only downside is that you never know if you’re on the final loop or not, so everything you do may be the most important thing you will ever do, or it may not matter at all.

I’ve played both but every copy of mouse trap I’ve ever had either didn’t work or worked very shittily. Massive disappointment all the way around

Any food that gets labeled as a “superfood” quickly falls prey to over farming, causing the nutrition quality of the food to plummet because the food is being grown too rapidly to absorb the nutrition from the environment the way that it did before it was aggressively over farmed by profit seeking corporations, causing it to quickly cease being any kind of a superfood.

Okay so here’s my take on it not that anybody asked.

There are likely back doors in all computerized Networked devices.

There is likely some identifying information being sent back to random servers from a myriad of places.

That being said, you are not worth the time to directly observe.

Most likely, all of this data goes into a large database where they analyze trends and look for people that are outside of various tolerance zones.

Other than that, all of your data is just noise, grist for the grist Mill.

It is only when you become a person of interest who is worth devoting the time to directly analyze that these risks escalate to the point where you should have concern about it.

99.9999% of us are just not important enough to pay attention to.

It’s almost like El Cheeto dorito was born for the role.

I just tell them whoever they’re calling for died. I let them bask in the awkwardness for a bit before they hang up.

We have an app like that that has a lot of our clients pii in it and in order to keep it safe we host the app itself on a remote machine and when people need to use it they RDC into the machine with a shortcut.

They have local admin permissions on that machine but the only thing that that device can do is run that application and the firewall outside of it prevents it from going out to the internet or other places.

Maybe it’s overkill, but doing things like that help prevent and protect our clients which is the most important thing for the company I work for other than making money.

There is no fixing the human condition. Maybe when the computers become sentient they’ll not look too poorly on us.

I think we could be rehabilitated we just can’t be in charge of the rehabilitation

Nobody actually has an answer to that because there is no answer to it.

The system is so broken that there is no longer a way to fix it.

Any processes that could be implemented that have the potential to fix the issues comes from a broken system.

These processes would then be administered by the broken system.

Therefore no matter how good the process is, it will end up broken.

You may say that I am a hopeless person.

You may say that I am wrong and there is obviously something that can be done that has not yet been done.

I would say you are right, but experience indicates that although the possibility of reform exists, the capacity of the system to reform itself would be administered by a broken system.

Therefore even reform will end up broken and fail.

There was a reason why Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. I’m just out here handing out rosin .

I could see a certain amount of time in prison, like a decade.

Obviously this homicide was aggravated by the circumstance that the CEO was technically the administrator of.

Therefore I feel like the punishment should be somewhat lenient given that the CEO inadvertently escalated the situation resulting in his own demise.

Kind of like if somebody beats up your best friend and then you beat them up in retaliation, the punishment should be more lenient on you than it is on the original aggressor.

No, they wanted you to go into the surgery assuming that your anesthesia was paid for only for you to get home and 6 weeks later receive a bill for $8,000 in the mail.

Every gender suffers always.

Suffrage in this context literally means the right to vote.

Honestly my dude. Lie.

Find a job you’re interested in and then tell them that you have the experience needed to do that job. Make shit up if you have to. Get the job and then learn how to do it as you go.

I’m probably going to get down voted for this. I don’t fucking care. It’s the truth. If you’re telling recruiters the absolute Rock solid truth then you’re giving them all of the cards and they are going to try to get you to underbid your abilities and skills but if you’ll put the effort in and just reach a little bit you’ll be fine.

Like, I wouldn’t say apply to be a doctor when you don’t have a medical degree or anything but apply for that senior position when you only have a Junior’s skill. Go for executive vice administrator or senior associate programmer or sysdmin Ii or whatever the fuck is a step above your actual capabilities and then do your God damnedest to grow into the role in the first six to eight weeks of the job and more than likely you’ll be fine.

Back in the day I did very similar and it has worked out swimmingly for me and I believe you’re a smart person and that you’re capable and that you can succeed if you’re given the opportunity and if you have to lie to get your foot in the door then fucking lie and go for it, and once they let you in turn that fucking lie into the goddamned truth.

I read somewhere that nicotine decreases the half-life of caffeine in your system, allowing you to consume more caffeine and feel fewer effects from it.

This would explain the common trope of people smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee.

That being said, this is pulled out of my memory and I would have to spend quite a while trying to find any evidence of it, although everybody I know that smokes are consumes nicotine also consumes quite a bit of caffeine.

When I was a kid I read that mint flavorings can help the blood vessels in your head dilate, increasing the amount of blood flow to your brain and therefore helping you do better on studying and tests.

Whenever I have a test to study for or to take, I made it a point to keep some sort of mint flavored candy around, and consistently across the board I have always done better on tests than my peers.

That being said, it is entirely plausible that this is a placebo effect, but I like my placebo and it works for me. Perhaps it will work for you as well.

Coal. For some reason Republicans love that stuff.

Neither will trump or any other Republican