for the love of everything don’t look at your keyboard

Signed,
Xennial who was in IT for 25 years and never learned to touch type

How many bananas is that, cost-wise?

You can tell from the pixels.

Zero once again ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

4 points

Goose egg for me.

Honk.

“Sorry doc, was thinking about work. Did you say something about line go up?”

That sounds like mental illness.

ETA: Replace “work” in that quote with practically any other activity/subject, whether outlandish or banal.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about baking cakes.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about traffic patterns.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about cannibalism.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about shitposting.

Obsessed with something? At best, you’re “quirky” (depending on what you’re obsessed with). Unless it’s money. Being obsessed with that is somehow virtuous.

If these leaked blueprints are to be believed…

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Just like Portland. Burned right to the ground. Never mind all the intact buildings and people living there still. That’s just a liberal hoax.

…it’s shit like this that makes me root for the meteor.

Firing someone into the sun would be expensive and very difficult. Firing someone at the sun would be much more economical and just as effective.

Pakled:

East coast US here. Eee-eye eee-eye oh is the only way I’d ever heard it pronounced until today.

Neat.

I did the math not long ago. If I retired at 65, I would have enough money to live for a little bit and then starve in the streets. If I retired at 45, I would have enough money to live for a little bit and then starve in the streets.

The only difference was 20 years of drudgery.

Of course, there’s always the “work until I die” option.

Awesome. I remember discussing this on one of the other ST communities a few months ago. I did find my copy… but it’s in bad shape. Feels like it’s going to fall apart if I try to read it again. Thanks for this!