Lmao for real

Every time I’ve gotten a real pay increase it’s because I’ve hopped to a new company.

I hate to admit that my first couple times as a manager I left as soon as I felt like I actually knew what I was doing and not just faking it

Same with my Filipino dad who as a chef used hundreds of Mexican workers. When I was in grade school living in south Florida all the Brazilian kids would call all the other South American kids Mexicans.

The worst is when you’re trying to look for something but one of the discord bots has said a word similar ten billion times so that’s all that comes up. You’ll try to ban the bot to see other comments but then you just get like blank space or some shit where the bots comments would be

Last time I had cable there were channels with music only they were like channel 674574 or some shit tho

That’s another good point. The last one I used had the LoTR cast commentary audio files as options. I was able to req one piece dubbed and the dude who ran it spent like three months adding the dub versions for a show I never got around to watching lol

Also older videos you can’t really find legally online

I went and watched the old first Mutual of Omaha videos and they’re pretty strange. Think it was the first episode that starts with the host, a monkey, and an owl greeting you. The monkey starts swatting at the owl and then the owl freaks out. Older videos are so great because they keep the weirdest shit in that would’ve been cut today

Another Mutual of Omaha video I remember had the crew lassoing a bear from a canoe because idk conservation

https://youtu.be/xnG43fP9CKE?si=QSnFJxcoEf-i1aa5

One of the biggest perks of pirating junk. I know some services allow its users to create and post collections. It’s fun to find a movie you like and see what user collections that movie was in.

Hah I was about to say that only bad part of startups that I’ve had was that you weren’t sure if you’d have a job six months from now. I probably just got lucky and jumped on board during the “throw cash at everything phase”

I just roll the dice and use the reheat button. 90% of the time it works every time

Hong Kong

I just expected like a flat New York “too tame to be fun” city but was met with mountains, beaches, and so many bizarre but charming events.

Not that I don’t like New York but it has changed a lot. I don’t want to say it lost its personality but I feel like a lot of big cities have become idk… commercialized?

The food in Hong Kong was pretty disappointing tho or maybe I built it up too much in my head. I went to so many restaurants that were recommended to me by either locals or expats and they were all so bland. Which is wild because I didn’t have to go far across the border into China to find amazing dishes.

Yeah I think men and women should all have some basic level of repair skills. I feel like somewhere along the line everyone got too afraid to break things or hurt themselves.

I really liked the first Moana but I can’t think of any story worth telling for a sequel.

Subaru had a fun campaign targeting lesbians in the 90s after they noticed that lesbians were driving their cars.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/109f0678-1848-44c1-b0d7-e753cd71fe9a.jpeg

My hobby project car right now is a “lesbian wagon” for my niece

Naturally as it’s a JS Subaru the bushings are shot

Maybe our microplastics will start self healing us or give us cancer 2.0

…either way 50/50

Idk, the only places that sells boneless “wings” are usually crappy chains that coat them in a half inch of breading then coat em in a syrup of sugar. I’ll stick to just wings without quotes thanks

That’s a terrible price since boneless wings are chicken nuggets

Real John Mcafee vibes

Careful, the next generated image is gonna contain a windmill with clogs for blades

I guess I’m asking because everything I’ve learned about America seems to not be what I was told? Idk how to explain it. Like it feels like USA is one event away from ~~a civil war~~ outright corruption and turning into a D class country.

Might be time to check how much doomscrolling you’re doing. You can drive from Miami to Seattle and you’ll just run into the same dude but with maybe a different flair.

The news and politicians try their hardest to make it look like we’re one single-issue vote bait away from war.

I should probably say that I’m more of a product manager these days so I don’t think I feel quite the pressure you feel to have an impressive git backlog but at one point I did feel that way

I’ll get asked by fresh college grads all the time what I’m working on at home and It’ll take me a second to realize what they’re talking about bc I haven’t worked on a real non-work related project at home in years

If anything I’ll get new devs who I’ll invite to lunch and they’ll be nervous so I try to break the ice by asking what have they been up to or what their hobbies are. They’ll start speed running through their list of pretty obviously pointless github projects that remind me of the fluff ones I did when I first started. It’s adorable

The only personal projects that ever get my attention are the ones that the person describing them is obviously passionate about. You’ll see them grinning ear to ear when telling you how many hours it took to fix a bug.

This is a very ranty way of saying that you shouldn’t stress about projects at home. I was told early on that social skills carry you further than technical skills which is probably bullshit but I was never going to be an amazing coder so let me have this one