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You can go simpler: 4 wealthiest people are richer than the rest of the people who aren’t those 4 people.

Man that’s just tragic. Such a terrible way to go.

“Hacker” when the password could be guessed by an elementary student. Jfc.

He got the company car on day 1.

I would trade the cardinal that kept flying into the sliding glass window over and over and over at the last cabin I stayed at for this duck. I had to tell at that thing repeatedly because it’d leave for 10 min and start all over again. The amount of bird shit outside on the patio was absurd.

Yep, I know the writing was on the wall ever since they announced Silicon. While annoyed at the time, getting out from under Intel’s thumb was probably the right choice, and they’re way more powerful machines as a result. Still not a fan of Apple myself, but wanting to do it themselves is respectable.

I haven’t seen a TWAIN error in at least 20 years.

Lol I saw that Lenna’s Inception is starting later tonight. Reminds me of a friend who was streaming it back in like 2020. The devs had some kind of cloud feature they used to send him an in-game mail that said hi to him by name and thanked him for playing it. Was really damn cool at the time.

Hopefully PM because also gamer me has no gd idea how to stop gaming at 1:59 am even if I have work in the morning.

You absolutely can, right now. Once.

The gamer in me says to set a timer and stop playing at 1:59.

Hayyyy :3

Many, many moons ago I worked in a 24/7 restaurant as a cook. I was one of the few 3rd shift cooks on the weekends and there were a few servers I worked with who were a pain in the ass. One was Casey and she definitely did everything her way even when everyone was telling her she was doing it wrong.

Well one night I had already had enough of her garbage when she says through the window that she thinks she’ll have a grilled chicken salad. I said to just let me know when she’s ready for it. 15 min later, she punches it in and I get to work.

I put this together as perfect looking as I could make it, everything lined up exactly right and it looked just like the menu in every way. What wasn’t like the menu was the long line of dill pickle slices I put under the chicken. Couldn’t see it at all. I put this thing up in the window for her and have her a grin.

She thanked me and grabbed it, and immediately took it out to a table for a customer. I realized I done fucked up. You don’t mess with a customer’s food, ever. I had NEVER seen an order for a grilled chicken salad on 3rd shift.

I was preparing to get yelled at by the manager and to be written up. I waited for 10 min… Nothing. 20 min. Nope. 30 min? Casey comes up to the window to say she wanted to have her grilled chicken salad now and also to pass on her customer’s compliments to the kitchen because it was the best salad they ever had there.

I then told her what happened and she just laughed and thanked me because she also got a pretty big tip out of it.

Yes, it’s absolutely a hellscape out there right now. It was bad before, with poorly written requirements and unknowing HR depts, but now applications can be instantly rejected, including when they were suitable candidates.

Good luck!

It can definitely be difficult to find jobs without having a degree, but they do exist. A lot of the time you’ll have to start at the lowest level and work your way up, but knowledge is knowledge and that would be apparent in your performance. Unfortunately because a lot online job applications are now filtered by AI, you may run into issues just getting an interview. Only thing I can suggest is mass-applying to several places and see what gets you a response.

Either way, if you do have a desire to learn and show that in an interview, it’ll always be a positive.

And a quick edit: don’t forget to look at public school districts or other local public offices for IT job, they’re usually needing additional help.

Don’t discount your own knowledge just because you’re self taught. I’ve been in IT for 26 years now and help in managing over 100k user accounts and hundreds of servers, and while I’ve had some formal training, >90% of what I use daily is self taught. It’s a desire for knowledge that matters, not how that knowledge is derived.

You had it worse then! While there were so so many cats, this was a first date where we didn’t really click and I was happily able to escape as soon as I realized I was in for a bad ride with allergies.

Yeah doesn’t happen for me very often either, but happened twice to me in about a month now. Finished E33 recently and it was a hell of a ride the entire time. But then after that I went on to play Nier Replicant for the first time. Damn, I need a therapist after games this hard hitting.

Looks like you already know the joke since you basically explained it. You just don’t have much sense of humor to go with it.

Several years ago I had no idea I had developed a cat allergy. The way I found out? Stopped by the apartment before a first date for a woman who had over a dozen cats. Didn’t stay there long before realizing my eyes were swelling shut lol. Let’s just say I took that as a sign to:

1. Avoid being inducted into crazy cat lady harem
2. Begin allergy shots.