jalefkowit

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

I will never understand why colleges sic cops on students who are protesting. Kids only go to college to do three things: have sex, take drugs and protest things. And if you try to stop them from doing any of them, they are just going to do it harder

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

If you work in a team or organization of any size, there is probably at least one person who is responsible for making sure your domains get renewed on time.

DO NOT ASSUME THAT THEY ACTUALLY KNOW WHEN THAT IS

DO NOT ASSUME THAT THEY ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO DO IT

DO NOT ASSUME THAT THEY HAVE THE EXPENSE ALREADY APPROVED

DO NOT ASSUME THAT THEY EVEN KNOW THEY HAVE THIS RESPONSIBILITY

ASSUME NOTHING
ASSUME NOTHING
ASSUME NOTHING

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

OK I know you NASA folks think you’re hot shit now just because you reprogrammed a 46-year-old satellite from 15 billion miles away, but I once kept a Windows server up for a whole week without having to reboot it so

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

Noping out so hard my mouse clicking finger breaks

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

Perfect headline, no notes

https://jalopnik.com/ford-bronco-sport-oj-simpson-recalled-on-same-day-1851403905

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

“This month Tesla switched Full Self Driving (FSD) on… as far as I can tell, every single car. It’s normally a five figure software-only upgrade. But usage of the feature has been low, perhaps in part because if you’ve spent $40-90,000 on a car, spending another five figure sum is annoying, and perhaps in part because people generally value their own lives and the lives of the people they love. So now, for this month only, it’s free, and Tesla can juice their numbers.

And, yes, I tried it.

And let me be clear: nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.

I’ve rarely been so frightened behind the wheel of my own car.”

https://werd.io/2024/i-tried-tesla-fsd

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

Doing my taxes as a self-employed person

jalefkowit , 2 months ago to random

There is an interesting essay to be written comparing P.T. Anderson’s MAGNOLIA and Kevin Smith’s DOGMA, which both came out in the incredible film year of 1999, as examples of young auteurs finally reaching the limit of where their original inspirations could take them, and the different ways those two men responded to hitting that wall — Anderson by becoming a chilly formalist, Smith by basically giving up.

jalefkowit , 3 months ago to random

The sequels will continue till morale improves

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/disney-dates-mandalorian-grogu-toy-story-5-tron-ares-bumps-moana-live-action-remake-1234971568

jalefkowit , 3 months ago to random

The thing about being middle-aged in the 2020s is that you have spent your entire adult life watching serious, obvious problems get worse and worse because nobody is willing to sacrifice even a little bit to address them

jalefkowit , 3 months ago to random

I used to work in an office where one guy carried his own personal French press with him all day no matter where he was going or why, so I have absolutely no trouble believing that there are offices out there across the fruited plain that are rent in twain by endless guerrilla wars over coffee machine protocol

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/03/office-keurig-coffee-shop-maker-machine.html

jalefkowit , 3 months ago to random

The other DC airport has already been renamed for an infamous Republican villain, so this would at least have the virtue of consistency

https://reschenthaler.house.gov/media/press-releases/reschenthaler-introduces-bill-to-rename-the-washington-dulles-international-airport-as-the-donald-j-trump-international-airport

#uspol

jalefkowit , 3 months ago to random

Gen X Problems: Whenever a kid tells you their dream is to grow up to be an influencer, you have to physically restrain yourself from saying "so your dream is to lie to people for money"

jalefkowit , 3 months ago to random

If you ever wondered how to put an 80-year-old, 60,000 ton vehicle up on blocks, it turns out the answer is: extremely carefully

https://youtu.be/FaC7ubb6E1k?si=efQnzB0QEga4LTTs

jalefkowit , 3 months ago to random

Country music is popular across the United States because a quack doctor in Kansas in the 1920s who treated impotent men by surgically implanting goat testicles into their scrotum lost his medical license, so he ran for Governor of Kansas because that job would let him assign new members to the state medical board who would reinstate his license, and he only lost because the Republican and Democratic parties changed the election rules to throw out any votes for him that didn't write in his full name in a single approved way, so he moved to Texas and set up a million-watt radio station across the Mexican border that let him blast quack medical advice and sales pitches for patent medicines across the entire continent, and he needed something to fill airtime when he wasn't on selling joy juice, so he filled it with country music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley