Lovable Sidekick

Call it taking a sabbatical to have a kid. They can’t demand proof of the kid.

Haven’t read that book, but I’ve been very successful with the opposite approach. A favorable article about a company’s stock in popular mainstream media (not business publications) can push the stock up briefly over the next couple weeks based on false hopes of the clueless general public. Get in immediately, get out within a couple days if nothing happens, and within 2 weeks if it does. My other rule is only do this with options, not actual stocks. And yes, I too would call this gambling - but investing is never not gambling. It’s just more or less so depending on how you do it.

Haven’t you seen late-night infomercials? You can buy real estate with no money down!!!

Just because I see so many comments saying don’t get married, I’ll put in that I’ve been happily married 37 years, no regrets. Pick the right person.

Jeeps - there’s an old movie about a small town infested with C.H.U.D.-like critters underground. As the plot crawls along, multiple characters keep saying bad things about their Jeeps, like “Could you drive? My Jeep is still in the shop.” By the end it’s pretty obvious somebody didn’t like Jeeps. Then during the credits the director drives up in a Jeep, gets out and says, “They say every story has a moral, and I guess the moral of this one is, Don’t Buy a Jeep.” Then he tries and tries to start it and finally gives up. I probably saw this back in the 80s on Showtime, and I’ve been searching for it ever since we got the Internet lol.

Credit card companies hate him!

You’re in the 1% or 2% of the population who actually learn from mistakes. Unloved by the business world for not being a profit faucet.

I agree, an accident isn’t a “decision”.

That’s pretty shocking - it sounds like the actual problem was being $255 short the and just never catching up.

Sounds like the guy had already defended himself solidly. I wonder if the union dude really made a difference or if the dragon was already dead.

Early in my software dev career I had a contract job at a young company called Microsoft. Without going into boring details, what I saw in terms of miscommunication, wasteful practices, and odd behaviors by overstressed managers led me to see it as a typical startup that was outgrowing its ability to run itself. At that time they were handing out full-time employment like candy - most of the programmers in my hallway got converted - but I left, because I didn’t think the company would go anywhere. This was two or three years before the stock went nuts and programmers there became millionaires in their twenties.

I definitely see the possibility for abuse, but making a zero-tolerance assumption that these glasses are worn only by pervs seems as mindless as assuming a black guy walking down your street is obviously casing houses to rob, because why else would he be there? Or that a man eating his lunch on a park bench is definitely, unquestionably a pedophile looking for child victims, because what other reason would he have?

Likewise when you download a free app whose ad explicitly says, “No ads!” and it does, in fact, have ads.

“Looks like you’re about to kill the dragon. How about killing a sixpack of Miller Light?”

Longtime woodworker here, I’ve never built a traditional china cabinet - that’s mighty nice work! Hat tip.

Many moons ago I had the good fortune to get a contract job creating an online tournament system for a game company. When I asked if there was a requirements document or a spec they said, “The only spec is: we need a tournament system.” It was totally my kind of project - I had carte blanche to do it however I wanted. What I came up with was way beyond expectations. I got a letter of commendation from a small game company in Utah that produced games for them. We field-tested it in a couple actual game tournaments and it worked great. Sadly, for unrelated business reasons my system ended up never being used, but it’s still the project I’m most proud of because I pulled it off almost singlehandedly.

7. Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Incorrectly tho. They meant incel - somebody who can’t have sex for social reasons - not a eunuch, who is physically castrated.

Since at least the early 90s we’ve seen a continuum of unlimited variations on themes, and we’re still here. But somehow, having to adjust to one more new change is going to “shatter” everything. This is like seeing “Game Over!” in a youtube title.

meaning, “Block whichever sites we say.”

Yet another FREEDOM bill from the Party of FREEDOM