Late stage capitalism. It’s all rent seeking, all the way down.

Yup. At my job it’s fairly common for annoying “urgent” requests to come in late afternoon on Fridays. Often from some of the upper management folks who do very little work. They finally realize “whoops, the weekend is almost here!” They suddenly want to check a box somewhere to make it look like they actually did something this week. And, of course, the requests are always a hand-off to someone in my department to do the actual work (which the requestor will take full credit for after we close the ticket).

No thanks. But nice try, travel agent cartoonist!

You could say they went down a…puts on sunglasses…FernGully.

And how am I supposed to ignore my family without it, exactly?

Joke’s on them. I get up at 5AM and I’m a worthless member of society.

I am a side sleeper. I find I sleep better if the head of the bed is tilted up a few degrees. So I’m really saying this cartoon is actual science, folks.

It’s the dead eyes. Every photo of Mr. Beast has them.

ShutUp10 is awesome. I have sent them dog treats (donations) multiple times.

Do custom installation (ISO) creation utilities like NTLite still allow you to remove the requirement?

I’ve been to Vegas a couple of times, many years ago. I enjoyed the shows, food, and silly debauched spectacle of it all. But it gets old after a day or two.

Did almost no gambling at all. The machines are very boring to me, and I’m too intimidated to play at a real game with other humans. I would misunderstand the rules and the odds, and screw up the etiquette. I know enough to know that the house has a significant edge in almost any game you play against them. Even on the “best” odds games.

One of the guys that I went with made a decent chunk of money at Texas Hold’em. He said he really wasn’t that great at it, he just got lucky and found a table full of drunk tourists who couldn’t play for shit, and yet they would try to chase after it.

The casinos that have popped up in my home town all look dreadfully depressing.

It’s sad how normalized gambling addiction has become.

Meh, Gordon Ramsey vibes.

My LG Gram still going strong after almost 3 years. Amazing battery life, extremely lightweight. Absolutely useless for gaming, but it’s been awesome for what I actually use it for. It travels with me every week in a backpack.

Interesting, I didn’t know it costs extra in some places. TIL.

My pets depend on me and I love them.

Remember when tap-to-pay was new and didn’t work at a lot of places and some people were freaked out over it?

And now most of us use it without a 2nd thought.

I speculate passkeys will be like that.

Written by the assistant to the manager, no doubt.

Lot of judgement ITT. At least these guys have someone.

My sense of direction and route memory are complete dogshit, and always have been. When GPS became commonplace it was a godsend for me. But some people are still assholes about it and give grief for using GPS for 95% of my driving. Especially older people.

Thanks!