being ran over

being run over

The incidence of kidnapping was WAY higher in gen-x days with no cell phones to rat out the pervs. And even when it was way higher, most child abuse happened by someone well-known to the victim. Stranger-danger was unbelievably rare.

My entire school in the 4th grade (so 9yo) lived next to a busy highway used by full 80t logging trucks, dump trucks, semi-trucks with full loads, in an area where snow is common in winter. We’d trudge down the boulevard of the highway, alto sax or trombone cases in hand, lugging it all to school and back. The whole class would. All grades would, from 4-7, hair and clothes flapping in the wind as a semi would roar past.

Then from the 8th grade we’d attend the school in the next town over. We’d get ourselves to the bus stop and disappear for 8 hours, completely out of contact, the eldest child with a house key and no ID, no phone, no tracker watch, no geofencing.

Tell me again how modern life is dangerous.

“an overregulated economy, high energy costs, high labour costs, high taxes and a declining level of education and qualifications.”

Yeah. Because self-regulation and no taxes certainly worked for, for example, America’s skills and education level.

Didn’t his base want to get rid of all the Mexicans?

Yes.

They’re not gonna let the Mexicans live in Mexico any more than this assclown’s best bud bibi is letting gazans live in Gaza. Any land grab will look the same. And wow, do they have no fucking idea what they’d be up against.

Trump could unite the cartels …against America.

It’s like a bleep on YouTube over some naughty word a guy says before he mows bad guys down with his machine gun. YouTube wants to protect its already-confirmed-adult viewers from hearing the spicy words as it could detract from the purity of the bloodshed.

I tend to write my cover letters at 0137 on way too much caffeine. I get the callbacks, so something in that must be working.

I talked general stuff with the Google guy (pingpong balls in a bus et al) but no coding challenges.

I guess I have truly left the realm of hard coding (at C) as it’s all “solve this excellent infrastructure requirement and then rip out your brain and grab the crayons because it’s in yaml and fucking ansible” now.

News flash: New Mexico renames Donald Trump

I learned this from my dad. The hardest part is to be nice to absolute assholes, but I’ve seen it does improve relations when you have to work alongside them.

Yes, I’m pissed that I have to mod my behaviour to be extra-nice to these dicks. Yes, I do enjoy that they coordinate better with me after I’ve nicely indicated where the last joint effort could have been better with that coordination.

It’s all about how we be professional knowledge workers work and coordinate like adults and express disappointment and a wish for improvement, I guess.

high maintenance costs of VLANs

Said no one ever, until now.

The tricky part of being in society is that we want systems that work for more than just ourselves: It’s not a purely transactional relationship.

Great news! It doesn’t affect you either way, so we know your opinion on the matter is completely unbiased. That’s excellent.

its from the US.

You’ll see that on the fedex tracker anyway (both fedex and the tracker being American too)

Not really anything to do with capitalism. If

You think for-profit healthcare, including elder care, pharma care, and long-term care, aren’t a huge problem with capitalism written all over it, with every layer maximizing profits and minimizing services, then I urge you to re-assess it.

and Party On, dude.

Nothing. Now go watch Matrix again.

carried by gorgeous visuals

She sure did.

Yes! I can’t find that Thompson Twins mix on streaming any more. I may have to actually self-host just to play my own rip of it.

I dubbed it into a blank and then cut it into a loop so it’d repeat forever, and used that as tunes when I needed to walk somewhere really far. It’s etched into my brain.

Loved it for the memes, but now I’m coming back for the tunes.

Later: Wait. I already have every Offspring album. ;-)

Spam and malicious emails aren’t the same as a newsletter

And weren’t differentiated in the chain so far. You want to keep those goal posts in place, bud.