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ChickenLadyLovesLife

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  • Normal amount

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  • I had a friend with a VIC-20 but it didn't have a tape drive. We would play games on it, but we had to type the code for the games into it by hand first, every time we wanted to play. It's wild how normal that seemed.

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  • In the early '80s we used to hang out at my one friend's house and play games on his TRS-80 which we affectionately called the "Trash 80". We were all in high school except Monty who was 23 and enormously obese. Monty had a real job as a programmer somewhere and one afternoon he sat down at the Trash 80 and wrote a very plausible hi-res version of Space Invaders from scratch in about half an hour. At the time it meant nothing to me, but now after a 30 year career as a programmer myself I understand just how impressive that actually was.

    Monty wired up his car's alternator to the ignition switch and he would leave his keys in the switch, hoping that somebody would attempt to steal his car and die. Not knowing about this, one of our friends ran out to his car after a D&D session, started it up and drove around the parking lot. Monty was so disappointed that nothing happened. I kinda miss the '80s.

  • Second worst reason

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  • I've used potatoes and apples personally. Never used Spam because it never occurred to me to do so.

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  • I thought the first worst reason for carving a hole in Spam was to make a weed pipe, but then I realized what OP probably actually meant.

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  • The Soviets during WWII called Spam "second front" because they were a little tetchy about having to fight Hitler mostly by themselves for most of their part of the war.

  • Trumpcare

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  • I just have to make sure i don’t have any emergencies or car accidents that require a trip to the hospital

    Just go and then don't pay (and hopefully they don't kick you out). You can always negotiate later to pay a much smaller amount than what they initially bill you for.

    A bigger concern is something like cancer. Your chemo will not be covered by anything and as a result you simply won't get it.

  • Trumpcare

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  • as almost every other country’s systems show

    You can take out the "almost" here. Literally every other country on Earth pays half or less per capita than what we pay in the US, and this has been the case for decades.

  • Trumpcare

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  • I looked at an apartment once which was the upstairs of a house. Dogs had eaten large chunks out of the bedroom doors and there were two giant piles of dog shit left in the kitchen. The owner was enormous and unable to climb stairs so she hadn't seen the state of the place after the previous tenants had moved out. After I told her what the situation was, she said if I cleaned it up myself she would knock off $200 ... from the security deposit. Get fucked.

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • Well, I surprised myself by making it through the first video, at least. It was interesting to hear the guy ripping on the "hide the menus" concept as hard as I've always done. That shit drove me berserk when it came out.

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • You didn't even mention the ribbon lol.

  • Ciiiiircle of liiiife

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  • They did know that lead was toxic.

  • Senior devs...

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  • 100% Ballmer is yakked out on coke.

  • Senior devs...

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  • I started working as a professional programmer in the mid-90s when three-tiered design was all the rage: a data access layer, a business logic layer, and a presentation layer. It seems that nobody actually knew what "business logic" was even supposed to be, because I kept inheriting projects where all the middle tier did was hand data objects from the data layer to the UI. In theory this prevented the UI from being fundamentally bound to the data access, but all three layers were always written in Visual Basic which got kicked to the curb in a few years anyway.

  • Melania humiliated as UK premiere of her movie gets single-digit ticket sales

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  • Surely the only people buying tickets are teenagers who want to have sex in an empty theater?

  • The Truth Is Out There

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  • It's insane that in this day and age people still believe in Bigfoot. It's obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

  • Concorde cockpit in a museum

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  • Looks like an ornithopter cockpit lol. I liked the new Dune movies well enough, but there is (was) a lot of stuff in them that was kind of jarringly off. One thing was the ornithopter cockpit with the shitload of modern (our modern) switches that Duncan Idaho had to flip to get started, completely not fitting in at all with pretty much every other example of technology on display.

    I recently saw the first movie again and it seems they had edited that part out, although maybe that was just for the TV version. They had also edited out the exchange where Duncan sees Paul on Arrakis for the first time and says "you look like you've put on some muscle." "Really?" "No." Just a terrible Marvel-style cheap laugh and the movie benefited from not having it there.

  • This is why you should respect our vets

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  • My mother-in-law used to be a vet. When she sold her practice (to a national chain that told her explicitly that they were buying it to close it down and reduce their competition yay capitalism) she took home enough euthanasia drugs and syringes to take care of herself and everybody in her family if it ever comes to that. That's probably the only thing you would actually want in a real apocalypse.

  • Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement

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  • My pet theory is that Musk was installed at Tesla by the Saudis (who apparently have a bit of money) to destroy the very idea of electric cars by putting out as bad and overpriced a product as possible. Despite his best efforts, people still want the goddamn things.

  • Correlation equals causation

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  • Not directly relevant, but I'm surprised at how many people I've known over the years who think "correlation does not equal causation" means "correlation equals not causation". In other words, they think correlation is somehow proof of a lack of causation. "Correlation does not necessarily mean causation" would be a better formulation of the original expression.