Aw gross tig buddy cartoons yikes.

Can you share those links so I know what sites to avoid?

Not really what Valve did. Valve kept doing cool things that benefit the customer, while the competition actively drove them away.

I don’t follow social media. Is BlueSky feature rich and only getting better?

You don’t like a really solid 20 hour assassins creed game stretched to 100+ hours of grind?

I don’t know about you but content has gotten better for me.

Ranma 1/2, Squid Games, Super Mario Bros Movie, new season of Arcane. I felt like every 1-2 months, there was always something interesting.

Also note that I don’t pay for Netflix. I do own stock.

BUY MORE NETFLIX SUBSCRIPTIONS…

Honestly this is how I met my wife.

I used to get all preachy about how stupid Star Signs were and how dumb it was to watch heroine movies. But then, I was just tired of feeling so angry. I just started listening and approaching them from an understanding perspective.

My wife told me that was the only person who ever made her feel heard. and I’m also a lot happier!

I was thinking about this for a while.

I’m very short and direct with people. I’ve gotten more polite, but like if someone starts to ramble, I politely redirect them back to the focus and to stick to time. It’s great at work! Every non-essential thing eats into my work hours.

But I noticed I was doing it with friends too. and I realized how selfish I was becoming to them. Like, I’d cut them off to bring up something I was interested in. And they’d politely listen.

Over the year, I’ve gotten better at recognizing that fair exchange of time with friends. They can talk about babies, or life. And I can talk about which Pokemon is acceptable to eat.

I went to see HR a month ago and they had a post-it of their password for their password manager. We use passkeys too.

And this was after security training.

That was my take too.

Security training was something you know, and something you have.

You know your password, and you have a device that can receive another way to authorize. So you can lose one and not be compromised.

Passkeys just skip that “something you have”. So you lose your password manager, and they have both?

Tinfoil hat conspiracy coming up – the large quantity of layoffs meant security has been tossed aside.

1. Employed engineers not having the bandwidth, resources, time to bake in better security. Literally having to do more with less.

2. Fired engineers may had tribal knowledge on how something worked. Now only God knows.

3. Unemployed engineers are bored engineers. Not saying they did the deed, but maybe they discovered it.

Electric bikes are so freaking cool.

I hate how they’re everywhere in Asian countries.

And in America, it’s like a luxury.

My dishwasher broke and for a year, our dishes got progressively ickier and ickier. Then we got a new one and everything felt clean again.

Maybe it was all mental. But the hot wash kills a lot.

Lucky you. I just had a crazy person who stopped logging in after they got banned for two days. :-(

Make sure your windows are open wide enough to allow a person to jump through.

I noticed you were reading through the Babylon 5/Star Trek crossover fan-wiki and I find that very attractive…

Teleports behind you

Nothing personal, kid

How am I supposed to leave 10 car lengths while speeding through a school zone? Explain!

But nobody is excited enough about mustard to hear about it for that long

I think this is different.

The issue is people who can’t read the room. People just blabbing and talking AT someone. That’s not even small talk. That’s just holding someone verbally hostage.

Small talk imo is those “feeler” questions. Hows the weather? See that thing on TV? How was traffic? You having the case of the Mondays?

It’s just noise to break the silence. I don’t have patience for it. Speak your intentions.

You wanna talk about your train collection? Do it. That’s not small talk, that’s a topic.

“I had the worse weekend. Can I tell you about it?” Straight to the point with their Intention.

“Did you know there’s a New Mustard based on ancient seeds found in Mongolia?” Real direct intention.

Absolutely. He’s just moments away from having a Roseanne Barr moment in his career.