I was thinking poetic justice, personally

I replaced a 10-year laptop in 2021. I probably could have eked out another year or two of use, but I don’t regret getting a new computer when I did.

We didn’t start the fire…

IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed.

Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me.

Add a comma? Also hell,

Calling the boiling point of water simply “warm” is a bit sus.

“Everyone gangsta 'til…” 😂

Adding/removing blankets…easy to do before you go to sleep. Annoying to wake up with the balance wrong when you’d rather have slept in comfort for another half hour.

I’m always happy to see a HTCPCP reference!

Perfect

I read that as “number 5 taters”

In the United States? They certainly can, and “fired for lying about credentials” gives the employer a reason to contest unemployment. But apparently there are enough employers that don’t cross-check that it can work as a strategy.

I’m not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I value honesty and want to see dishonesty deterred. OTOH…if you can do the job, what’s the point of having the degree as a checkbox on the job application? Bullshit metrics should be removed.

Don’t give up the ship

British burned Washington

Battle of New Orleans happeenened after the peace treaty because news traveled slowly in those days.

That’s about it

Target launches a new product to try to revive its failing sales!

Personally, I felt like a “real adult” at age 30.

This question makes me think of a scene from one of the Little House On The Prairie books where one of the characters, a teenager (Mannie maybe?) is registering for a homestead in a new settlement area. The government agent is asking for his details: Name, birthplace, age.

“Oh, you can put me down for 18” wink

I’m half and half. Agreed that it’s fucked up, particularly if they’re actually talking about millennials and not gen Z.

But I disagree in principle about student debt. It’s a valid tradeoff to make (between getting a job straight out of highschool and going to college to open up better paying careers), and I wouldn’t have any problems with student loans if tuition were still reasonable.

I’d say the bigger problem is the structure of the economy. College is supposed to unlock a lot of “grownup jobs”. That breaks when you actually only have McJobs available after that big college investment.

The youngest millennials are 30. Student debt ought to be paid off by now for most.

I’m not sure if this is a fail of 1. “Kids these days are called millennials” (lol, whatever Boomer) or 2. The economy really is THAT much fail whale that a 10 year repayment term has become a 15-20 year repayment term for the majority.

And I would move 560 more… 🎵

To a new town about 4 hours away. I was 8, we moved because my dad got a new job!

I stopped reading at “the Internet got going in 1995”. FFS, even the web dates back to 1991!