ChickenLadyLovesLife

He's a New York sculptor, which means it was $100,000 of his parents' money.

I was part of a stable of about 50 programmers working for a company that manufactured lubricants circa 2000. For about a month at one point, the entire roomful of programmers spent the entire day calling into Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to try and get on the show. Absolutely nothing happened to the company -- lubricants kept getting manufactured and sent to customers on schedule. The entire operation ran on mainframe applications that dated to the 1970s. I'm not even sure what any of these programmers did other than myself, and all I did was write IE6-based web frontends that sat on top of the mainframe apps (and they're still running to this day lol, which means the mainframe apps are still in use).

I got as far as Calculus III and Linear Algebra in college. Nowadays I'm sure I could not do a derivation or an integration to save my fucking life and when I see a matrix my brain thinks "wow, numbers in a grid!"

Every time I've seen Russia mentioned in the MSM, it's "Russia has attempted to influence our elections" without mentioning that the influence was on behalf of trump.

My last company had a cool pathway where you could become a "distinguished engineer" instead of a manager and get the same sort of huge salary and stock options. Unfortunately, my last company also liked to lay off huge swaths of engineers, particular those who were a year away from being eligible to become "distinguished engineers".

Mandel Bro

If you're dumb enough to have been dumb, keep being dumb.

Donald Trump has done similar things.

Like shilling for Goya products from the Oval Office? Yes that's totally similar to turning down a raise.

In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.

Four years of "Merrick Garland is a professional and he is just making sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed before prosecuting trump".

Unrelated, but my elderly uncle drove a minivan with an automatic transmission that he drove like it was a manual. He would start from every stop by putting the shifter into "1" and then "2" and then "D" and then back to "N" when he stopped. He was a former Navy pilot (A-1 Skyraiders) and I guess he just couldn't accept the loss of control that goes with an automatic. It doesn't seem like this could possibly have been good for the transmission, but I dunno.

I remember years ago seeing a video about a company that was supposably developing tactile touchscreens. There was a layer underneath the LCD layer that could be puffed out with some kind of fluid to form bumps where the buttons were shown. Nothing has come of this, unsurprisingly.