Considering “Violeta” is Spanish… it’s probably in pesos. About $650 usd.

I’m not a robot. I’m an android. There’s a difference.

Mostly, it started with small startups and then big corpos thinking “hey they were successful! And their team looks happy!”

So they emulate it. The thing is something that works for groups of 5 doesn’t work so well for more than that.

Also, yeah. There’s probably somebody in the corporate decision tree that realizes it’d increase opportunities for middle management to suck the soul out their minions, but usually the people pushing it are just stupid, and trying to be “hip” and “cool”, and all “how do you do, fellow kids?!”-ish cuz they read about it in a Forbes magazine.

They ain’t called fundays.

it’s hilarious how the idea of open concept office is “to encourage cooperation and stuff” when in reality all that happens is that it drives people to get noise cancelling headphones so they don’t hear Garry chewing gum as noisily as humanly possible, or all the “hmmmm Mmmhhmmhhh” sounds he makes while eating lunch at his desk. (Seriously, Garry, you’re not making love to it.)

Or Chatty Kathy on the phone gossiping about this or that.

People are weird. the world was a better place when we didn’t realize how weird.

For IT or something, if you have an outage because a piece of hardware failed, then you need to look at your network redundancy. single points of failure like that shouldn’t exist- and it’s been that way for decades if not longer.

if IT is in on a holiday, it’s more likely either that their company wants on site coverage because “reasons”… or it’s patch day.

The only really relevant thing in that article is

“Generational trashing is actually eternal human behaviour,” wrote the novelist Douglas Coupland in an essay for The Guardian earlier this month. And he should know: he coined the term “Generation X”. Baby boomers, he recalls, once poured scorn on Gen-Xers like him, who themselves grew up to be sniffy about the [avocado-and-toast eating habits of “snowflake” Millennials. And now it’s the turn of Generation Z, with their TikToks and identity politics, to be judged by their elders.

There’s actually a scientific term for this: the “kids these days” effect, which can be traced all the way back to the writing of the Ancient Greeks. “Since at least 624 BC, people have lamented the decline of the present generation of youth relative to earlier generations,” according to the psychologists who named the phenomenon. “The pervasiveness of complaints about ‘kids these days’ across millennia suggests that these criticisms are neither accurate nor due to the idiosyncrasies of a particular culture or time – but rather represent a pervasive illusion of humanity.”

The rest of the article isn’t about people forgetting how to mend a fence and generally being incapable.

Again. This fence thing didn’t have to be generational. You. Went. There.

Think about that.

You literally start off with

While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. …

Your comment is inherently ageist. Full stop. And by the way, there’s plenty of boomers who never knew how to fix shit.

You didn’t have to, but you made it about entire swaths of generations.

Bro, you can grab any old saw and cut off an end it -takes practically zero knowledge.

Stop bitching about “kids these days”.

More likely, the person either didn’t have a saw or was just lazy. This isn’t a generational issue. Don’t be ageist.

I use muhle’s open comb head with feather blades.

Can’t go back to cartridge shavers.

(And for the love of all that is holy people, dump the goop. TOBS cream, or even the expensive French soaps like Martin D’Candre are less expensive per shave and just better.)

Not really. Most CF filaments are PLA with a chopped strand fibers added in, and the strength gains are marginal.

You can get CF-impregnated ABS/ASA but it’s really hard to work with and liable to be weaker unless you get everything perfect.

Ultimately the best approach is to go the same route as the Defcad people, printing the lower receiver of an AR and paying cash for the rest (or maybe also stock and frame. The important bits line the breach block, barrel and other things that get hot would still be metal.)

The thing with that is that the LR is technically “the firearm” as far as the ATF is concerned.

anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi. but you’re welcome to try… anytime."

(good god did Walter Koenig play that role. it’s incredibly different from Chekov, and he was amazing at both. and wow are the one liner’s in bab5 just… memorable.)

If you’re looking for things that still have an enduring relevance today… check out the OG the Day the Earth Stood Still not the remake with keanu reeves. that one deserves the George Lucas Holiday Special™️treatment. It’s classic 1950’s scifi at it’s peak. (yes, that’s easily my favorite movie. hands down.)

It’s easily one of my favorite TV shows of all time.

Though the line that’s been rolling through my head since Gaza started is Delenn getting pissed at Lando and G’kar, shouting “When does it end?!” That rant is…. Piercing.

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

-Marcus Cole, (Babylon 5, a late delivery from Avalon)

they’re sent en masse, yes. To literally everyone.

Yup.

Edit: why do you think google bought Fitbit?

Even if there is no one, they assume you’re married.

I remember having one sent to me in high school. It was weird. It’s just name scrappers getting every name they can.

They’re fun at parties, too. Both kids parties and adult parties.

They do that so that legally your wife can open the advertisement. They don’t and you wanted to be a loser, you could report her for tampering with your mail. I’m not sure what the postal investigator would do. “Knock it off and call a divorce lawyer” might feature somewhere in the possibilities.

In any case they’re just pulling names off a list some where. They assume you’re married and in a typical cis relationship.

Same reason they add “or current residents” as well.

They want it read, they don’t care if it’s you or your wife or the luchador that’s randomly moved in with you.

many “normal” EULA’s aren’t really binding, if you get down to it.

Also. Relevant XKCD