I do this, but be warned some companies use Amazon for fulfillment. I have ordered directly from manufacturer websites and still ended up with an Amazon package at my door. I just make a note to find a different brand if I ever need that thing again.

Wow, you’re bringing back very specific memories from my childhood. I hope you’ve managed to heal somewhat and found things that make you happy.

There are definitely people who can’t handle it. It makes sense in a way; pretty much everybody will lose it once they start starving, so there’s definitely a line. Some people just have that line much closer. It seems like a physical tolerance, not really a psychological or character trait.

My spouse is like that and can’t go more than 6 hours or so without food. I’m the opposite and can easily go more than a day without before getting cranky, but I assume that’s from a lot of practice as a kid.

Maybe they’ve never seen the original? It is a bit deep fried here, but that would still make me feel old.

Absolutely. My spouse looks at me like I’m crazy for putting black blankets on the floor in front of all the south-facing windows, but it’s a noticeable difference in those rooms. I also keep the leftover pasta and kettle water out until it’s cooled down instead of dumping hot water down the drain. Helps to avoid running the humidifier too.

That’s a roast

I Think You Should Leave is such a gold mine of meme templates.

Yeah, it was all tapes. We only had to use them once when I worked there: after finding out the UPS connected to the mainframe was a dud. And then it really was roulette because the first two tapes were unreadable, so we ended up with three week old data.

The trouble is that Management’s only job seems to be turning their problems into our problems. Or maybe it’s just the only thing they’re good at.

I’d believe it’s real. In 2016 I was at a company trying to migrate off an old IBM mainframe and green screens. It wasn’t like an airline with complex or critical code; it was just a barely functional ERP for a warehouse. Source control was the furthest thing from their minds. Some companies and IT departments are very reluctant to change, regardless of how much time and money it save.

It gets worse if you use Microsoft D365 AX products. Then you have to provision an entire Build server for builds which has to run Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10. To do a build you run a pipeline in Azure DevOps, which runs the compiler in a full Visual Studio 2019 environment, which has to run on a special Azure virtual environment running Windows 10 hosted by Microsoft. It’s so fragile.

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Works in Jerboa.

Making your own meaning is Existentialism talk! Embrace the lack of meaning!

If he’s in it then I’ll have to add that to my watch list. He is incredible in Foundation.

When I was a kid we would have yearly morel hunts. My uncles were always scouting the neighbors’ woods, and once morels were sighted we’d sneak onto their property and gather bags of 'em. We’d usually get about 10 pounds between the six of us cousins. Then Grandma would fry them up and we’d feast.

One year I ate at least a pound by myself. That night I got so violently ill I thought I would die. I never ate morels again.

Now you have me wondering if one of us picked a not-morel and I was the unlucky one who ate it.

I was just thinking this should be a “First time?” meme instead. It feels like there’s always one instance down.

But it’s nice that Lemmy as a whole is never down, just individual pieces.

My kid is obsessed with the Mario sets. Unfortunately almost none of them have physical instructions, so you need to use the LEGO Mario app.

Sometimes I will find him going through the instructions on the iPad for sets we don’t even own. He just likes watching it get built and doesn’t know YouTube is a thing yet.

I was gonna say the same. If I had to go back the only change I would make is avoiding the cops, school councilors, relatives, and judges I thought I could trust. Every attempt we made to get away from our mom made the beatings worse.

I’m having the same issue. I thought I had food poisoning because I have chills, stomach cramps, and constipation. But the only culprit would be the three cups of raw broccoli I had on NYE.