ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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"I'm not gay ... I'm a rapist!"

I used to work for an organization in Atlanta that was similar to Habitat for Humanity but smaller. Our mission was to build and rehab housing for homeless people. Ironically, our typical project involved buying an "abandoned" house that was actually occupied by a large number of squatters. The first step was us carpenters going in with shovels and axes and whatnot and rousting everybody out. We would then do an absurdly overpriced renovation on a property that would have been cheaper to tear down and rebuild from scratch, and then the house would be sold to a single family that was relatively well-off enough to afford a mortgage. I was too young to realized it at the time, but I think the whole thing was just a charity scam being run by the CEO.

That's what happened to Larry Niven's Ringworld. Cool concept but laughably unsupported by basic Physics. Niven had to write a sequel not because anybody wanted to see more of his characters but because he was tired of readers telling him what a moron he was.

The Integral Trees was a way better concept and much better thought out.

To be honest it was closer to a hundred than to fifty.

with your bare hands

Belgium took care of that one preemptively.

I cared about that shit until I found out that although I was getting $75/hr my bill rate was $300/hr. I started focusing solely on meeting attendance and then I got some equity. Shit is so unbelievably fucked in the programming consulting world.

At my last company we had our standup meetings at 7AM so we could overlap with the end of our offshore team's day. I didn't have to be at work until 9AM so I would just take a long hot shower while listening on speaker to the interminable minutia spit out by fifty people who had no idea what a standup meeting was supposed to be. If something involved me I would just dry off my hand and pick up the phone and say my "blah blah blah". Nobody ever suspected anything.

He's the type to pray before meals ... because his mom cooks them.

When was the last time Switzerland actively made first strikes

I'm not sure, but I know halberds were involved.

They got rid of the exploding roads, though. Or so they say.

I remember when the original name for the invasion of Iraq was "Operation Iraqi Liberation" until somebody decided that was a little too obvious an acronym.

If it does ruin his presidency, that just puts Peter Thiel's creature into the Oval Office.

I'd never even heard "Charlie Kirk" until he was assassinated. I knew there was some right-wing talking head that everybody made fun of because he had a tiny face. When Kirk was assassinated, my reaction was "holy shit, he really did have a tiny face."

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I dunno, Harleys aren't cheap.

Witless Protection

I don't think it's all that common. In my case, I was laid off by a west coast tech giant and actually got something of a severance for the first time in my life. Instead of finding another job right away, I bought a used school bus and converted it into a motorhome. Since I thereby already knew how to drive a big bus, getting a job as a school bus driver was a natural progression. Mainly I do it for the health insurance which is otherwise pretty useless and insanely fucking expensive.

The AI driving thing? I don't see why it won't be a thing eventually. If kids get run over from time to time, they're easy to replace at that age.

I used to make well into six figures as a programmer. Now I drive a school bus and I'm vastly happier. I'm always surprised when I wake up on a Monday morning and realize that I'm not dreading going to work (I actually look forward to seeing my elementary school kids). I make less than one-sixth of what I used to but I have savings and already own my house outright, so it's all good.

It's going to suck when AI takes over for CDL holders, however.

My brother makes $200K and his wife makes $100K. Somehow they are broke. It just doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. They do Uber Eats for literally every meal but that can't account for all the money, can it?