They’ll make you listen to Vogon poetry. If your head explodes, you’re not a bot.

I know it’s wrong and that I’m going to Internet hell for admitting to it, but there’s a smell when Grandma would light her cigarette in the hot box car with the windows up that I find nostalgic to this day even though I find the concept of smoking in a car repugnant

The crazy thing is that it was so prevalent, I don’t really remember the world smelling smoky unless I went into a small room like my grandparents living room.

I didn’t notice it in places like restaurants and bars until after the bans came.

I would guess that my generation has a diminished sense of smell because of it.

It’s not me and I have an office. It doesn’t get to me.

But I can definitely see that it would bother a whole lot of people.

On that, I’m old enough to have begun my working life when people smoked cigarettes at their desks. This is a much, much better alternative.

People bring their dogs to work all the time in my office. Fortunately, all of us are dog lovers, so we all enjoy it.

The other trend that doesn’t bother me, but surprises me is that I’d estimate about two thirds of the people in my office vape at their desks.

We also have bean to cup espresso, which is nice. People will go find high end beans and contribute them. It works out nicely.

We’re highly educated professionals, damnit!

By tenth grade I had been commissioned to write some software. When I completed it, I walked away from all of it because of the social stigma. Didn’t touch a computer again for ten years. I won’t say I regret that because walking away led me to other life adventures, but I will say I regret the circumstances that drove me to do it.

I had to go look up when those things came out (1977) because by the time I got my hands on one in 1982 in the school library they were already little more than toys even when compared to the luxurious Vic 20.

I know we played some games off cassettes on them. I feel like Oregon trail was one of those games, but I’m suspicious of my own memory because I know I was playing that on my Apple 2, which I think had joystick driven hunting on it.

God I’m getting old and can’t remember the finer points anymore.

I do remember that other kids bullied the HELL out of me for carrying one of those plastic boxes full of floppies with me at school. Not a good time to be a nerd back then.

I was seventeen when the Simpsons became their own show. The cultural impact was enormous and immediate. By the summer of 1990, images of the Simpsons were freaking everywhere. Clothes, glasses, miscellaneous trinkets, everywhere.

So it’s not really necessary for the first couple of seasons to come short against seasons three and four.

The seismic wave the show caused from its beginning were enough to garner those scores you see.

If caffeine is considered a serious drug in my lifetime, I hope I’ve got a good cellmate because I’m going away forever.

So I don’t get it.

One side of corporate mouth: Old people are too expensive and they don’t obey. We need to fire them so we can hire cheap, malleable, young people.

Other side of corporate mouth: Old people must work until they physically collapse and die at their station. There is therefore no room to hire additional workforce from the younger generation.

That’s what I was asking. Thank you. I didn’t quite know how to phrase a Google question to figure it out.

What is LLM in the context of lemme/tech?

I see that and think of a specialized law degree.

If it’s a Netflix adaptation, then wouldn’t it be an overly drawn out true crime documentary?

LinkedIn. Where you can read endless and meaningless hubris from managers who used to abuse you.

I did see a former co-worker post a hilarious meme though.

“Nobody wants to work anymore.”

“Wrong. Nobody wants to work for YOU.”

Does this type of illustration exist with a comparison between humans and various insects? I think that would be really interesting.

Positive? POSITIVE!? Oh yeah, buddy?

WELL YOU JUST HAVE A NICE DAY AND I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS!

WHADDAYA THINK ABOUT THEM LEMMY BEANS?