Barclay is down to play too.

Their daughter is 16, the boyfriend 18.

Edit: it clicked after I posted. You mean it’s more than “mildly”. Agreed.

Brain no work today.

I agree 100%. My friends, peers, and I all wasted huge amounts of time during our undergrad degree,and to varying extents even in post-graduate degrees, fulfilling the university’s “one size fits all” curriculum standards.

I spent hundreds of hours sitting in lecture over nearly a decade. I DO NOT learn well from oral instruction but still was graded on attendance. I did homework far in excess of that required to learn and practice the material. I wasted so much time that I could have achieved double the number of degrees, even then with less work, if I had been given full autonomy and responsibility to learn the course material.

Super solid vehicles. I suspect these and the diesel Toyota Hilux will likely be amongst the scant archaeological evidence of the anthropocene.

Even science majors and grads don’t always get it at first.

I taught students and trained junior researchers during and after grad school. When I’d catch lab assistants doing lopsided centrifuge loads, especially in the big floor-standing centrifuges (I even caught one genius sitting on it to dampen the vibration), we’d take a trip to the physics department for a quick lecture on the amount of energy contained in their spinning samples compared to the amount of energy required for a plastic centrifuge tube to fracture and penetrate a human skull.

Gosling’s use of an unbalanced centrifuge made me exclaim “No!” aloud, though.

I was born on January 1st, whichever year before 2000 that I first click on.

I sometimes enjoy white chocolate, but admit it’s only a slight step above eating straight butter and sugar.

Then you won’t believe this: it’s the Phil McGraw School of Medicine at RFK Jr. University. The dean is Dr. Mehmet Oz.

I couldn’t agree more. I initially went to a small community college. I took o chem twice because my first professor was so awful that the entire class would have bombed if he didn’t curve the entire course so hard that we all got Bs or above.

When I retook it at a state university, I learned our confusion was due to him having no goddamn idea what he was talking about. His lectures didn’t match the textbook, which is why we were getting marked off for what often turned out to be actually correct answers on the tests he made.

Even STEM bachelor’s degrees can be a little iffy. I finished my undergrad and felt like what I truly learned was how little I knew.

I’ve tried it a few times for help with technical tasks just outside of my knowledge. It was most useful when giving me bad ideas that I argued against and, in the process, figured out better solutions.

I see you have met my last boss!

Totally agree, it’s a harder to debunk way of protecting your time. Grandpa story time!

I follow something I call the rule of thirds. Of any three unverifiable improvements in workflow, two remain secret and they and their saved effort are solely mine while the smallest goes to the company. If I bust out 12 in a row, the company gets the smallest four. Maybe three if I’m feeling catty. I occasionally dole out one of the retained 2/3 when I need to look good for a review or something.

I learned this from an employer a few years back. I maxed out the first year and made a ton of improvements, so my first review was stellar. My second year’s review, though, noted that I hadn’t kept up with the previous year, so it was just a “meets expectations”. I was outperforming most of my peers, but not previous year me, so they thought I was starting to slack off. That’s when I realized many managers are idiots so you have to game the system if you want to succeed.

Typo. Good catch.

If the average human hair is about 50 billion femtometers wide, it means it takes about 30 billion photons protons lined up side to side to equal that width. So really fucking small.

Edit: swap an r for an h and the meaning changes significantly!

I purchased two 12 TB HDDs last year when they were on sale and wow am I glad I did so. I joked how they’d last us the rest of our lives and now that might have to be true.

2025: IBM lays off 16-20k tenured employees.
Early 2026: “IBM emerges as a global leader (in asshole-tier cost savings), championing early career development by tripling their number of hired entry-level employees.”

Fuck you, IBM.

Absolutely. I was raised as a male in the United States, so crying was strongly discouraged.

I recommend “The Tao of Fully Feeling” by Pete Walker. I read it a few times and can cry my eyes out on a regular basis now.

I need to start faking computer illiteracy or at least downplaying my level of literacy. Employers notice how quickly I get computer-related tasks done, but then they expect that as my norm while my coworkers are struggling to use any device without a touch screen.

The last new hire I trained was in his mid-twenties and lacked basic tech literacy outside of the iPhone. I asked him to write up a quick protocol using a template I sent him. He typed the text of the Outlook file preview into notepad and went from there. I was baffled.