911, what's your emergency?

I found a dead body on the side of the road.

Where are you? I'm sending police to you now.

Uhh, I touched it.

OK, don't do that. Do you have hand sanitizer?

I may have eaten some.

...

Also, I tripped. I may have slipped inside.

What does that mean?

I...completed.

Listen just stay where you are, police are on their way.

I just had to make a password for a hotel.

8 to 20 characters Uppercase Lowercase Digits OR special characters.

The capitalized OR is important. You can have either numbers in the password, or special characters, BUT NOT BOTH.

Took me 8 tries.

• First one was too long.
• Second and third used both numbers and characters, but I thought the characters were TOO special.
• 4 through 6 used both numbers and special characters.
• Seventh password used just letters and numbers, and it was accepted.
• Eighth try I used just letters and keyboard characters, and that was accepted too.

It goes on the end of a curtain rod. What you do with the rod after that is none of my business.

Turn it into a bedroom. I've heard a single person can eat up to 12 spiders a night while they sleep.

Do they accept NFTs?

Okay, stay with me here. What if this time we put the vaccine in the ivermectin?

The place I work has had an amazing 5~10 years. Constantly surpassing prior revenue "far and beyond what we expected". And yet, annual raises are capped at 3%. No matter how well the company is doing, nobody gets a raise higher than 3%. 7% inflation? Fuck you, here's 3%. Management wildly speculates about the coming year, and misses targets? Fuck you, here's 1.5%. Sure, the company grew wildly last year, but not as wildly as they predicted, and they just can't afford raises this year.

Coupled with all this growth meant a hiring spree. As the company grew, it seemed like there were always new faces walking around.

Then, the rug pull. Their #1 customer (about 50% of the business) announced they wouldn't buy anything in 2024. Management found out in September. Before announcing anything, management forces everyone to sign a non-compete agreement. Nobody is allowed to go to work for a competitor, supplier, partner, customer, or start a new business in the same sector for 2 years after leaving the company. The agreement is filled with scary clauses such as forcing the ex-employee to pay all of the company's legal fees in the event of a disagreement.

Once everyone signs (a few people left instead of signing), they announce the loss, and say that a lot of people will lose their job in 6 weeks. December 23rd. Christmas. This is painted as the CEO being generous in letting everyone know ahead of time, so they can make arrangements. Actually, it's their legal obligation (look up the WARN act).

Remember that surge in hiring? Some of those people had only been with the company a few months. Some of them came from our competitors. Suddenly, they're out of a job, plus they just signed an agreement that's going to probably force them to move to get another one.

Yes, I know, non-competes are generally unenforceable, but that's not the purpose. Because they're not enforceable, they're written to scare employees into not testing the company's resolve if they ever leave or are fired. Someone suddenly out of work usually won't take on that risk.

So yes, I'm a little radical now. I don't hide it, I'm the "office socialist". And I found out I'm not alone.

I just bought an MSI motherboard. The memory slots are labeled, A1, A2, B1, B2. So of course it makes sense that the first populated slot must be A2. Followed by B2. Then A1, and finally B1.

Make sure the memory is in the right slots.

First star means they ate all their broccoli at suppertime. Second star means they got all their chores done. Third star means they went a week without peeing the bed.

lol, not the rich. If only there were some legal mechanism to freeze his accounts...

I see "anti-government" and "against government tyranny" in this story a lot, but these people are NOT anti-government. They're very pro-government, as long as the government uses its power to enforce their beliefs. They're very willing to use the power of government to enforce the laws as they see them, and ignore the laws they don't like.

The Taliban used to be free of restrictions

Haha lol.

I spend most of my time on Twitter.

Concerning.