Thanks for bringing this up, because it frustrates me as well. Most of the time I’m watching on a TV, and there’s no way to block YT ads on a TV. The people I share my house with aren’t technical and will watch YouTube even with ads. So to keep them out of my house I pay for YT premium.

Suggesting that people just do something technical and janky to block ads isn’t a solution for me, not because I can’t do it, but because there’s no way my family will do it.

Imagine what happens if someone with a charming smile and strong eyebrow game shoots another health care CEO.

It’s not just specific cars around me, it’s everyone. Just today I was behind a Ford Raptor, a Cadillac, a CRV, and a tractor trailer that didn’t bother signaling.

Carbon steel has the heat storage of cast iron but transfers it fast like aluminum. I thought a cast iron seared steak was great until I used carbon steel and omg is it so much better.

I used to love cast iron but carbon steel has stolen my heart

It was very relaxing for a bar in Brooklyn. Not even any TVs in it.

I went to a bar like this in Brooklyn. It was decorated like the outside of a trailer park, complete with little trailers that were dining booths. There were strings of lights for ambient lighting and the tables had camping lamps.

The rest of the furniture was lawn chairs and folding tables, and they served hot dogs and hamburgers and potato salad, standard picnic fare.

The sleeper has awakened!

Let them pay for security. In the words of the IRA: They need to be right all the time, we only need to be right once.

I was really confused why my mom was crying because people were breaking a wall down.

And then Knight Rider was there for some reason.

And then we got a small bag of concrete in the mail that was apparently from the wall that made my mom cry.

Indie games existed, they were just called shareware

Same here but my parents are used to ditch weed from the 70s so I make sure to get them some CBD stuff so they’re not blitzed out of their minds.

I think it was upgrading to Win 2K but it was a quarter century ago

If this is one of those shitty companies that makes people come into the office I could see IT guys wanting to do some maintenance when folks are gone. I remember back in the day I patched a few hundred Windows machines on a holiday because I could get it done faster without having to pull Karen away from her Freecell game.

Of course, back then I had to go from PC to PC with a Windows update disk which isn’t the case anymore. Maybe they needed to route some cables? Do some network maintenance?

Resibrands is basically franchises for painters and home improvement folks. These are not engineers or scientists.

Oh good I thought me and my kid were the only ones that happened to.

And it’s a manual?

You’ve got a gem there.

I loves me some crunchy air

Wild turkeys can fly short distances. Domesticated turkeys can’t because they’ve been bred to have huge breasts

Same here. I changed my LinkedIn status and a former coworker pinged me and said he set up a Discord for other job seekers. I joined and posted my skills and desired role and he forwarded my resume to his employer because they were in the early stages of finding someone for that role.

After a week of interviews I had a new job. Of the 60 or so applications I sent to similar roles during that week only about half replied, and all of those were rejections.