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And the death. Don’t forget the animal and human cost of everyone having a car.

All islands are close to the sea

Trick question, nothing in that picture makes me think of dignity.

Cut in half by himself

And you can wear a funny tie on Fridays! What fun!!!!

My first solo Blender project! (Encoded by a potato!)

Owning a ghost gun is a crime, right?

Nearly 500 were recovered last year. https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/public-safety/2023/09/20/nypd-unit-combatting-the-growing-problem-of-ghost-guns

If the truck and trailer are included, maybe.

BotW was better, imo. But that doesn't make as pleasing a headline.

FYI to you or anyone who doesn't know: If you are browsing the internet on an iOS or iPadOS device you are forced to use the Webkit rendering engine. Chrome, Safari, Brave, Firefox. All of them use Webkit to display web pages because you won't get an app on the App store if you use anything else. The EU is forcing Apple to allow other browsing tech through the app submission process, so we will see alternatives in the future.

See, that's a fair point. I don't like it, but it's a fair point.

I have the Samsung Odyssey G8 curved oled ultra wide. It’s incredible for content and gaming, but it has almost like chromatic aberration for text due to the pixel layout. I can deal with that, but my partner hates it. See if you can view one in stores if you’re thinking of spending goofy money.

I'd be willing to pay to stop hearing about twitter at this stage.

Wait, isn't being alone the reason you WANT to pick up chicks?

Based is right

Holy moly that takes me back.

Learning to draw. I'd like to be happy with something I do before the year is out. But it's ok if not.

However, I will share my worst interview experience.

It was for a company that was working on an app to move stock from one car dealership to another. Dealers would sell cars to each other, essentially.

I show up 15 mins early, as is tradition. I check in and wait until the scheduled time. Then 5 mins past, then 10 mins past. At this point I've written off this company and call my partner asking if I should just bail out or not. She says even bad interviews are good practice and I should stay the course even if I think this one is a lost cause.

Her wisdom is sound, so I stick around. About 15 mins after the agreed time I am finally asked to meet with the manager. He guides me through what is to this day, the drabbest, driest office I have ever been in. The only colour in the place is a bunting of world flags around the tops of the walls. I get to meet 2 lovely people who both seemed very capable and competent. We have a great time going through some team-fit and technical questions. Then I get to the code challenge. I am provided with a laptop and it is fucking GROSS. Like imagine a keyboard you haven't cleaned in 5 years kind of gross. The ask was pretty straight forward, download images and display them in a list, the classic 'keep-shit-off-the-main-thread' challenge. I'm working away while the EM is paying me no mind whatsoever. He is working away on his computer while I'm doing this. About halfway through I tell him; "I don't think I'll have enough time to complete the project". I'm trying to display a proactive mindset and I expected we'd then talk about paring the project down to an MVP. All classic interview gotchas. His response though was: "Deal with it." I knew I wasn't taking any offer they made me when they left me 15 mins late, but God fucking damn did I not expect that level of disrespect. Anyhow, I hauled ass out of there and called up the recruiter who organised it and told him straight up I would rather be unemployed than take a position there, with details as to why. Hoping to save any unfortunate candidate a similar experience.

I still feel bad for the 2 engineers I spoke to, they seemed really cool and undeserving of working under a stone-cold prick of a manager.

It's got that LOLRANDOM vibe that I detest. Arc4Random was King.

This is an unpopular opinion, because you are incorrect.