We did microcontrollers in college. But it was like understanding advanced algebra, where I studied enough to pass the test. So it’s real far back in my brain.

If you put a piece of green carpet and a microcontroller in front of me, there’s a 50/50 chance I won’t know the difference.

I have some positive stories about Norm.

At a comedy show afterparty, these women groupies came for Norm. And Norm, not interested, said, “Hey You don’t want to party with a old guy like me. My dick doesn’t work! Those fellas could probably use some company!”

And they did! They all left together and Norm just hung out with the staff.

If you ever met comedians, they’re timid and shy, and often starving for attention. So to see someone like Norm MacDonald do that made him so incredible to me. Just super confident in himself.

The difference is that a lot of people strongly hated the Clintons. So any slip from her was a reason for the opposition to pounce.

Kamala has so much swagger that even Republicans are supporting her. It doesn’t help that so many people are disgusted with Trump. So If Kamala slips, she turns it into a backflip and the opposition are too busy infighting to mount a attack.

In my city, there’s hundreds of empty homes for sale, valued at 250k-500k more than what they were a decade ago.

The houses an hour away in the burbs are all in the middle of nowhere, supported by stripmalls and a single big box store. Those houses are also the same price.

That’s where you’re wrong bucko!

I’m a software engineer skilled in devops, Linux and web applications! I spend much of today making Jira tickets and drawing diagrams!

I’m so fucked

1/10th life Crisis

Arent you excited by the idea of a Chief of Staff Brainworm?

We can all have brain worms!

I feel like some loud conservatives made NPR freak out and now they’re trying to sprinkle in stories like this.

Because the moment conservatives run things again, they’ll absolutely continue gutting public radio.

I was 23 years old. I was sleeping in a closet for $300 a month. I was working at a Mexican restaurant in the morning, taught kids in the afternoon, and some nights I worked at a bar. I was bussing a table where I overheard a guy talk about how he was thinking of retiring early since his 401k is worth millions because “The Economy” was doing incredible. His bar tab costs more than my monthly expenses.

I went home taking leftover uneaten food by customers.

I think about that all the time, even while I’m making senior software engineer money today.

Vampire Survivor.

It’s very much like a Dragon Ball super fusion. For the next 20-30 minutes… I am fused with the game.

Sold.

Link doesn’t seem to work for me because the parentheses breaks the link.

Here’s the steam link for anyone else

Ah yes, a game that taunts me about my shitty regex-fu.

After a decade, I don’t think I’ll ever remember how to regex without a cheat sheet.

Absolutely love this game. It has all the energy of SNES games of my youth. It’s one of the few games I’ve replayed after beating.

Downvoted.

As a supporter of getting professional help like therapy, I get kinda frustrated at the whole process.

My company has two options: a in-company therapist and TalkSpace.

The in-company therapist is a nice lady but I don’t like that her boss is HR, where I have the most problems with. She’s also technically challenged and uses the company storage to save reports. You know who else has access to the company storage? IT. And I chill with those guys and absolutely know what they can see.

I had two really good therapists who quit TalkSpace in a year. But then, five people who were more like guidance counselors. They didn’t have any credentials in their profile outside of basic social work, and didn’t give me anything better than (ugh) an AI therapist.

Honestly I have to pay out of pocket for therapy now.

You’re not kidding. Public school in the city.

There were so many dumb things I had to memorize. Periodic table. Solar system moon and planets. Multiplication table.

Even worse is the people who see memory as intelligence because of that BS. I remember working at a office and the boss called Steve, the guy who knew 15 digits of Pi, as his right hand man. Steve is currently still working there. Congrats Steve your superior memory apparently can’t get you out of your deadend job.

blastoise slander?

Pelosi can fucking go.

She may come off as a darling of the Democrats, but to me, she’s just a old boomer who is part of the old guard of politicians who make money being a politician.

My buddy pays $100 for a cell phone service, and gets a new $1000 phone every two years. When I told him he pays $4400 every two years, his jaw dropped.

He first talked about how important it was for him to have wireless while hiking. He hiked ONCE in the past year. And if it’s super important, he can rent a device during that trip.

It’s ridiculous. I buy used $300 phones and pay $10-20 a month.