It's a mirror to the death of the weekend car. Something purpose built for cruising or offroading. Everything in every aspect of daily life is becoming general purpose.
It's a blast, I named one of our internal tools 'heathcliff' so now management has to talk about utilizing the heathcliff tool to its full potential in meetings lmao
I started putting up random Heathcliff comics in my office and it made everyone irrationally angry for a week until they came around and now everything that happens gets a Heathcliff meme edit
The fact that they made a special code for it means it's common enough that someone manually made it.
Wouldn't be surprised if they're running on either their own servers or are using a backend service that's constantly down and wanted a special code so they could have all 513s send an email to the IT guys to go reboot something.
Would be funny if they just numbered the boxes and the XX part of the code is the number written on the server.
That or they just have a fixed hosting budget for AWS and don't want to auto scale without someone approving it directly.
This is just carte blanche to allow any law enforcement group or goonsquad to beat up protestors and arrest political opponents. Unions, protestors, reading groups, and college kids, etc.
Bosses will use this against employees that agitate 100%
It's a haptic mouse, they're usually used for 3d modeling. This is a good use for one though, since you want to be able to feel how much pressure you're putting on the parts.
She was originally charging $100 which is kinda fair for what's essentially a few hours of couples therapy/consulting. Seems like she found her bag though
Where I'm at, about half the businesses on Main Street are some form of "boutique" store that re-sells Etsy/Amazon tat for a 400% markup. Never see anyone actually buying anything, and they all lose money according to tax records, but the amount differs and they all have husbands that run sketchy real estate companies based out of Florida.
There's a doll shop on a $2M storefront that sells exactly 3 dolls/month.
So yeah, I'm convinced all this sort of stuff is just a form of money laundering or low grade white collar tax fraud.
The management team at a pizza joint I used to work at was super into it lol. I used to go over to the regional managers house to drink his homebrew and play Cosmic Encounter
It's a mirror to the death of the weekend car. Something purpose built for cruising or offroading. Everything in every aspect of daily life is becoming general purpose.