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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disas

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I just retired after 40 years at over company, plus some college jobs. I'm 62, and social security was one of the things in my plan that made me decide I could retire My company was laying people off; I was secure, but my leaving allowed one more person to keep their job.

Now Trump is tanking my 401k and Elon is taking about cutting SS. I've never been more stressed about money.

No, a NASA and DOD contractor. Worked on some neat stuff over the years, including the electrical power system for the space station. I ended up managing the software engineering group, and really liked that - very smart people.

Probably so

Funny, that word was used in a book I was reading over the weekend and I looked it up.

Old guy checking in. I was a computer science major, graduating in 1985. My goal at the time was to go into computer animation (note that Toy story, the first full length computer animated movie, wasn't released until ten years later). But there was a big computer animated project that was canceled or tabled just before my last semester, so the market was flooded with out of work animators and I decided I'd better do something different. I was getting married, and I needed a job.

I had good grades, but I didn't think there was much that made my resume stand out from my classmates, each of whom was making 100+ copies of theirs and applying to every software job they could find. So instead, I asked everyone I knew if they knew anyone who worked at a place that hired software people, and asked if they could get me a name of a hiring manager. I got seven or eight of those, and I sent each of them a letter with my resume, mentioning who pointed me their direction. Out of that I got three interviews and two job offers. My first job ended up being writing control software for the space shuttle main engines, and I stayed at the company almost 40 years. I just retired in January.

You didn't need to stand up a whole instance to create a community.

Didn't they just elect a fairly liberal president?

I've thought for many years that the first true cybernetics will be artificial eyes. If they can get self contained optic systems that fit into the eyeball space, it should be trivial to allow them to see a much wider spectrum, plus macro and telephoto. That would be cool. A computer interface for them would be awesome, but I'd have trust issues with that as well.

Pretty sure Canada could do as good of a job as anyone though.

They could also make their own play store and apple store, and could charge the developers much lower fees, for the same apps that would work anywhere. It would cost them very little and be nothing but profit.

They wouldn't do the MRI because they'd be ripped through your body

Yes Putin sought NATO membership, but NATO was formed as a check on Soviet aggression, so that's a nonstarter. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, and they thought they'd cakewalk into Ukraine as well. There's no slant where Russia is the good guy in this. You sound like a propaganda machine.

Russia sent people to talk about peace

You mean the country that started the war by invading another country wants to discuss a peace they could have by simply getting out of that country? Russia, who has violated more than one ceasefire? What a bunch of crap.

It's hard for me to ignore the fact that what you said is 100% something Putin wants. Trump could not be doing a better job of tearing apart the United States and its standing in the world.

So dumb. A lot of people like to add just a little water to their whiskey. Does that mean they don't like whiskey, just water?

Different people add different things to coffee in differing amounts. Some people add just a little salt to take away the bitterness. Some add high amounts of different things so that the coffee flavor is more in the background. It's a huge spectrum. All of these people are drinking some coffee, so they like it at least somewhat. You're trying to make it a binary, and even at that you're saying that if they don't like pure coffee then they don't like the flavor of coffee at all, which is ridiculous.

Like many things here, it's an unpopular opinion because it's a moronic opinion.

Trump's body looks about 50 years too young in this.

I'm an American and I'm upvoting this. After 2016, I thought that there were some misguided people who didn't realize what they were doing, but that the first Trump term would push the pendulum hard the other direction. I felt a little validated when Biden won in 2020, but it wasn't as one sided as I'd hoped. But Trump winning decisively in 2024 tells me that everyone knew and did it anyway. People are getting what they want: rampant racism, sexism, and global bullying.

So yes, we suck, and no one should trust us as a country, regardless of the fact that there are many of us who knew how catastrophic another Trump term would be.

Honestly, broccoli is wonderful microwaved. Put it in a covered dish with just a little water. For a couple servings, I do on high like 2.5 minutes. Easy to adjust the time to get it just the way you want it. You can't get it crispy that way, but it's basically like perfectly steamed.

It wasn't sanitized at all - the link is literally a rickroll.

No argument, it's a surprise to the morons who were manipulated into voting for the guy, but most everyone else saw what was happening.