Same here with dad. I handled my shit in the 4th grade a single time. Bullies at my school remembered and I got left alone. I got suspended and dad got me ice cream because I was standing up for myself.

Several years later some bullies from another school who didn’t know me tried pulling some shit in the wrong place. Not school grounds so there were no policies stopping us. I had just turned old enough to drive. A group of them tried their luck and started talking shit. So I pulled out my tire tool and started swinging. I didn’t hit anyone. I just came out looking crazy and they went on their way.

This will not be everyone’s experience, but in mine you just have to look insane enough that no one doubts you’ll try to maim them.

I grew up poor as hell. I broke the cycle in my family just in time to have to deal with this shit. My garden is looking like it’s going to do well this year and if meat starts getting scarce I can go hunting from time to time or get some yard birds from the friends I get my eggs from, but god damn (or maybe I’ll go vegetarian, wouldn’t be the first time), I just wanted a little more time not having to live hand to mouth.

But I’ll make it as long as flour doesn’t get to be the price of beef. And I’ll complain the whole fucking time.

I thought Junior just meant they only had 3 or 4 pair of programming socks.

Relevant xkcd

Right? Minute 55-60 is the 15th minute. Fuck that. If it takes that long then the team is too big for agile or the scrum master had lost control.

You’re right. The other side of that is I did a little contract work for a company that is working on software for unmanned commercial flights.

Those guys actually made me feel better. They were all super smart, meticulous, and incredibly good at their jobs. It was the first environment I’ve ever been in where I felt like I could just barely keep up. I always felt one commit away from fucking things up. So I moseyed on down the road as soon as the thing I was contracted for was finished.

It was such a cool job and they offered me a permanent place. I just couldn’t feel behind every single day for the rest of my career until my system destroyed people’s lives.

With disabled hardware decoding.

Also USA. My teachers ran the gamut from not letting anyone to treating us like adults. My school was VERY white with only a handful of black kids across all of high school. One of the teachers was well known for never letting the black kids go until one of them went and peed in his trash can to prove a point.

The ones who treated us like adults got treated with the most respect. Weird how that works.

I’ve had to explain to three different people that they’re not getting a production window on Christmas Eve. I’m the only person in the office from the day after Christmas until January 2.

Ah, the ol’ Lemmy Pokeroo.

Or not. I’m in Texas wearing one and it’s in the 60s right now.

Every company I’ve worked for either gave us digital gift cards or, when I was a manager, let us charge meals specifically to our business credit card for a certain amount per month (team outings) without prior approval.

He never wanted the job. He wanted to be funny and travel and cut up. Cheney had more power in his Whitehouse than his dad had in Reagan’s and that’s a. LOT.

Not everyone. Republicans.

And I think Trump may believe he’s personally fertilizing all IVF eggs and that’s what he means by “father of IVF”.

That is a totally normal way to say things by the words that I would use.

Cruz was such a shitshow. “I don’t have to answer because I’m not part of the state legislature”. We know exactly what that means you fucking coward. Brave Sir Rafael ran away.

Trump is a deep cover Democrat trying to force conservatives to be gay through the music of the Village People.

is an overly-emotional drunk whose hysterics and lack of self-control during his

You leave me out of this!

nomination hearings

Oh, carry on then. That motherfucker is giving the rest of us overly emotional drunks a bad name.

I won’t say why but I feel personally attacked by this duck. Well done!