Makes you wonder how many people got jailed for a crime they didn’t commit before the widespread use of fingerprints and DNA just because they resembled someone else.
Makes you wonder how many people got jailed for a crime they didn’t commit before the widespread use of fingerprints and DNA just because they resembled someone else.
What could possibly go wrong?
Both my parents smoked so I didn’t notice it growing up. Once I went to college and got away from that environment I really started to notice it all around me. Nothing was worse than opening up the closet and smelling the smoke on the coat you wore the night before at a bar. Luckily, my county was an early adopter of non-smoking sections and eventually outright banning and that changed everything.
Go ahead and laugh, but just wait until the class gets to Beowulf.
It’s never been profitable but Huffman gets millions as CEO. Fuck spez.
In college, after working Friday night in the dining hall kitchen, a Pabst 16oz can was my shower beer before heading out to the weekend parties.
How I still got up to work Saturday and Sunday breakfast shift is nothing short of miraculous.
Mid/late-90s, a woman who was having an affair with one of the managers gets a huge promotion despite not even being qualified for the job she had. No question as to why. Proceeds to embarrass herself at every turn, yet manager thinks she’s great. Meanwhile, truly deserving people are overlooked.
Mid-2000, same woman is now in charge of a new product team. I’m working as a technical consultant and evaluating products for purchase by GSA (Government Services Administration, the buying arm of the US Federal government). Her product is on the GSA-approved list but has never been evaluated for compliance. Lying to the Feds subjects you to the False Claims Act and can result in fines and being blocked by GSA from selling to the government. I alert company management to this. Not only is it a danger to the company, she had to have lied about it to launch the product in the first place. Lawyers get involved. I hurriedly evaluate the product. Luckily, it qualifies. We cross our fingers no one from GSA ever asks to see the paper trail.
A month later she’s leaving the company to start her own catering business (I’m not making this up).
It didn’t last a year.
Plus overweight, bearded, and balding with a ponytail.
I will vote for Democrats for every position and hope like hell it all works out.
For a “genius”, he sure is slow on the uptake.
“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry” - The Sheep
I don’t anymore. Besides an (unrelated) injury I no longer enjoyed it. Too many distracted drivers and it’s only getting worse.
I hit a deer while riding my motorcycle. I saw it crossing the road from my left, tried to evade it, heard the bang of my fairing hit it, and next thing I knew I was lying on my back looking up at the sky. I ended up with a shattered collarbone, broken ribs, and some road rash on my left side. I have absolutely no memory of falling or sliding at all (and I’m okay with that).
The most likely explanation for why I survived was that I was only going 30 mph (50 kph). That same day another rider wasn’t so lucky. There was a husband and wife in one of the cars behind me that were both EMTs and I got experienced care right away. Plus, I was wearing boots, gloves, a leather jacket, and a full-face helmet. The road rash was from my jeans wearing through during the slide.
If there was ever an opportunity to wear a monocle, this was it.
Mac: Firefox is my primary, Edge for things that don’t work in Firefox, Safari for things that don’t work in Edge.
PC: Firefox and Edge.
My school has labeled the main cafeteria “All You Care to Eat”, which I still think has a loophole.
I have a closely cropped beard. I grew it in the pandemic just to see if I could. It didn’t look too bad and my wife didn’t object so I kept it. Beats shaving every day.