SARGE

It was.

In Ohio? I'm almost positive it isn't legal. It's definitely illegal in states like California. But they're banking on nobody recording their interview audio (which I will now be doing as Ohio is single-party state) and nobody complaining if asked.

I doubt it's a company policy, but I did send an email to their company offices to complain about it, for all the good it will do.

As someone who vomits at a strong smell of alcohol and gets nauseous with any smell...

Fuckin wat

Alcohol is no more evil than table salt or the dirt beneath your feet.

Guess what! Everything you consume is slowly contributing to your ultimate fate.

If you want to pass on any consumption, cool. Good for you.

If you want to be a judgemental ass towards others, there's the door. If it hits you in the ass on the way out, so be it.

Not programming, but in the same vein, A Trek Bicycle store manager asked me in an interview if I would be willing to work a trial shift the next day building bicycles. Unpaid, of course. Just to see if I was a good fit.

Of course, since I was used to building 50 a day, I would have gotten all of them done in a single shift whereas they were needing to call in stores from surrounding areas to come help in a few days.

I laughed and said if they needed help tomorrow I would be happy to work for my usual fee of $20/bike.

Oddly, I did not get the job

Any questionable software I have is coming up on 4 years old now, most of it is older than that. I move them to a new machine every time I upgrade, simply because I don't trust torrents anymore.

Honestly, I don't trust PDFs anymore unless they're from places I know are "safe" which kind of sucks because I've been getting back into RC as a hobby and it's hard to find non-pdf plans. I prefer vector files, but I'm having to try my luck with jpg and png files.

A lot of the programs I used to use have been surpassed by current FOSS projects, and I've been replacing them as I can. Finding an open source laser engraver program that isn't shit is proving difficult.

Addicts always gotta justify how they get their fix, I guess.

I'm not sure how Canada feels about a foreign legion, but I'm willing to volunteer.

Note: this applies to any country the Orange Jackass threatens to invade.

But like.... Organize first.

Otherwise you're just a crazed lone gunman dead in the street.

I'm starting to think "Fascinating" is the universal translator's attempt at censoring Vulcans.

Its basically what all of them say when what they should probably be saying is "What the actual fuck is wrong with you?"

Sidenote: I absolutely cracked up in the episode of strange new worlds where Spock

If they all got their proper iron necktie, French revolution style, the only time they would be discussed is when you read another report that the lasting damage they caused has been repaired and the systems they tried to eradicate have been restored.

Human: "We took the second warp core you helped us build and plugged it into the first one, just to see what would happen.... It blew up. But we got to do some pretty cool science in the process!"

Vulcan looking on in pure astonishment

Vulcan: "Fascinating. You were meant to place that in another ship, or study it for improving your own designs."

Human: "yeah, crazy huh... Can we have another?"

Vulcan: arches eyebrow "Very well."

Well, I'm not a primary target, but if I see someone rolling up on my street trying to force people into a vehicle against their will, I'm definitely grabbing my rifle and preventing a kidnapping.

They may not be coming for me yet, but I sure as fuck am not waiting until they do.

Honestly I think they're just waiting for people to fight back so they can justify lethal force from then on, "as a precaution"

It happens. I've definitely read a sentence, took it the wrong way, and only after rereading it later on (usually when someone responds to my comment) that I was incorrect.