I agree. It's giving me vibes of one of my favorite "modern-ish" memes...
you wake up
you're still a lizard sunning on a red rock
it was all a dream
the concept of selling "feet pics" to pay back "student loans" is already losing its meaning as you open and lick your own eyeballs to moisten them
time to eat a bug
I've always wondered how accurate those tests are to begin with. I have to imagine, based on my experience, it's not great.
When I was young and dumb and hanging out with the wrong crowd, I was a regular drug user, including the most dangerous thing of all ... marijuana. GASP.
I worked several jobs that did regular "random" drugs tests during those years. And I passed each and every time. It makes me think the tests are heavily flawed and/or there's something unusual about my metabolism.
One time, my employer did a random test right after I got back from spring break. Let's just say, I probably wasn't sober more than 5 minutes for the past month at that point. Strangely, they let us go into a private bathroom that had a toilet and a sink to produce the sample. I literally just pissed a tiny bit into the cup, then filled it up the rest of the way with warm tap water. That was apparently good enough. I even knew they supposedly tested for things like creatine levels (to detect dilution) and chlorine/chloramine (to detect tap water), but I was hoping for the best. Apparently, it wasn't an issue.
On the flip side, a friend of mine who rarely smoked weed got busted. She'd literally smoked up the night before, for the first time in over 6 months.
Shit's fucked up.
My rescue pooch is sadly approaching end of life, as best I can tell. So, I'll be going through this process again some day in the not to distant future.
I'm not in New York, but I will say that when I was last looking to adopt, there were aspects of it that were definitely off putting and demoralizing. Some of the rescues had ridiculous requirements that made me wonder if they were actually trying to place their dogs in a home. One of the most egregious that I semi-recall: It was a breed-specific rescue (ex: Norwich terrier), but most of the dogs they were trying to adopt out were mixes. They required you to have owned that breed of dog before. You had to be in a long term relationship (i.e. no single people). You had to agree to let them make a home inspection every 6 months. They had to be added to the list of approved contacts at the pet's vet. They could take the dog back at any time and for any reason. Etc.
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Here's the raw truth, as I understand it. I'm one of the people who has used this phrase. Typically I pull it out when I absolutely lack the ability to explain and verbalize something in a way that the intended audience can understand and accept. Yes, it's a failing on my part, but also, despite what everyone wants to believe, not everything can be distilled down to a simple easily understandable explanation without losing the message. You'll probably understand when you get older.
Realistically, it's not so much a guarantee that you'll understand the exact nature of what I'm saying when you're older. It's more that when you're older, you're probably going to be more willing to accept that I have my own perfectly valid reasons, even if I can't articulate them effectively, that the world is complicated, and sometimes it's those complicated and difficult to articulate threads that are actually the only things holding everything together. So, when I say you'll understand when you're older, I might not mean that in the most literal sense, it's very likely that I'm speaking more in a metaphorical way.
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Software development. I certainly didn't coin the phrase, but it's well-known and I agree, pretty fitting even outside of the IT industry.
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In my industry, there's a saying along the lines of "Good, fast, cheap. Pick two."
I think the fast food industry version is "Good, fast, cheap? No, no. And believe it or not, also no."
I don't eat fast food very often, so this is entirely anecdotal. Of the fast food chains I've eaten at in recent history, Taco Bell is by far the worst. Against my better judgment, I even broke down and gave them a second chance at a different location thinking maybe my first terrible experience was a fluke. Didn't work out. Makes me think it's bad everywhere. Wendy's has held up the best of the places I've eaten. It's definitely not cheap anymore, fast depends on the location as well as other factors, and good is relative, but overall it hasn't gone down hill as bad as the others.
Yeah. Only thing is, the "affordable" American made stuff largely consists of crap quality. I made the mistake of insisting on American made stuff when I also didn't have the budget for premium furniture. I ended up with crappy seating that started breaking in less than a year. The stitching started coming apart in the second year. And by the third year the "genuine" leather was separating and flaking.
Top one is a Loaper.
Middle one is an Armored Mugfish.
Bottom one is a Badabong.
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They have nothing better to do than store a decade's worth of password hashes so that every 90 days I have to come up with a completely new password that's somehow magically different enough from every other password I've come up with in the past 10 years and is at least 10 characters from each of the 4 holy categories.
I was vising a family over the weekend. I mentioned that the only reason I had time to make it over to their house to help them with some work this weekend was because I was off on Monday for MLK day.
Their response was to scoff and roll their eyes while sarcastically saying "mLk daY".
It's stereotypical yet anecdotal, but they stopped working in their 50s and moved around the country shopping for states that would grant them disability. Other than a short-term odd job here and there, they haven't had a job since. But yes, they are exactly the same folks that complain how nobody wants to work anymore and it's everyone else who is lazy.
A Killer Klowns from Outer Space game was released somewhat recently. I sort of wanted to give it a try but I suck at that general style of game. The movie is absolutely terrible, but definitely one of those "so good it's bad" type cult movies that I adore. Probably helps that I watched it dozens of times as a kid, so there's a bit of nostalgia factor going on there.
Speaking of which, why do the brown eggs cost more than the white eggs? I would like to see more equity in the egg offerings. Especially when I'm paying over a quarter per egg.
I can understand why that bugs you.
Is the cute little monster thing eating powdered sugar with his whole face?
You can teach his kid(s) how to catch a fish in return. And then he can teach your kid(s) how to start a fire. And then you can teach his kids a valuable lesson on how the legal system works.
I have a small number of games in my collection that I know for a fact that I have not played them at all. To be fair, 2 of the games are demos, the other is free-to-play IIRC but that's completely irrelevant.
My actual point is, none of the games in my Steam library that I for sure have never played show "PLAY TIME 0 minutes" nor "LAST PLAYED Never."
Is this an old UI thing, is that a made up playtime summary, or is the UI different on different platforms?
Turn around, bright eyes.
EGFR and AFATINIB
And I need you now tonight.
And I need you more than ever.
I'll have the grape or blueberry, please. No Cherry. No Lemon. But if I have to have one of those two I'll take the lemon over the cherry. Also, I had alligator bites one time at a restaurant and while I don't recall them being anything extraordinary or worthy of the cost, they were pretty tasty. Just saying.