I love working as much as I love music and gaming (my hobbies). By this I mean that I love doing the thing that is officially my profession. What I don’t like is dealing with the humans in or around what I do for a living. Humans suck. I also hate having to work. Tasks are not nearly as fun when you have the constant threat of homelessness, starvation, and unchecked illness with probable death hanging over your head.

I put the lawyers under Oracle since they are the physical manifestation of the corporation. Think of Oracle as “crack” and Oracle Sales as “crack dealers”. Each horrible in their own special way.

The only thing worse than Oracle are Oracle sales people.

It is shocking to me that nobody got why xenophobia heavily contributes to the current population collapse in Greece (especially given the headlines of the past ~decade) and that nobody got the My Big Fat Greek Wedding reference before you did.

The root word of xenophobia is the Greek word xénos which means stranger or foreign.

And there you go.

Somewhere along the way my copy got janked. I liked it so I keep using it.

LDME/Cinnamon

Which edition of Mint?

He is an old, fat, ugly weirdo

Remove “making friends” and I’m down with the entire lot.

Please do not underestimate the negative impact of an unhealthy obsession with sex.

Dumb? Maybe, but these were teens. Dumb is obligatory. Misleading headline? No.

Yes. There is also supposed to be “trigger discipline”. Your finger should be kept to the side and not on the trigger until you intend to shoot.

In the US, in order to drive a scooter (like a Vespa) you need to take a basic motorcycle safety class. No such requirement exists to carry a gun.

Or your dog. Safety first!

You get handcuffed as a precaution. You do not have to be arrested. You can het handcuffed on a traffic stop if the officer decides they have cause to search your car. Etc.

What I meant by drives are NAS. I buy the drives on sale spin up a new array, migrate the data, and redirect the mount point.

I use to cold store until I realized that unless I have access to it, it might as well not exist. Now I keep everything live, even backups going back to 1997.

The only data I have “lost” are copies of my old warez CDs from eastern Europe because I have no idea where I have stashed them, and a pack of Zip Disks because I have no functioning Zip Drive.

I have a crate of old hard drives going back to the late nineties. Am I the only person that migrates the data to new drives regularly? At this point it is a yearly tradition for me to pick up larger drives during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. Why rely on old 4tb drives when you can move them all to fresh 14tb drives?

Ops is like Hotel California.