When I was a kin in the 70s, we had an exchange student from a little town in Sonora Mexico stay with us. His english wasn’t great (though much better than my spanish), but he had this really strange accent. It turned out that he loved old hollywood gangster movies, so he was talking like Edward G Robinson, but with a thick spanish accent over the top.

Oh, that’s a little better. I live in California, where small earthquakes aren’t uncommon, so not something that looks okay to me, but better than just propped up on the edge.

Good man

How did they get you into it?

Haven’t seen one in many years, but used to find them on the car in the 70s and 80s.

Made for it in what way? I’m not seeing a slot for it to sit in or anything to hold it in place. Regardless of whether it’s the intended place or not, a flat panel TV just resting on its edge with nothing holding it in place is asking for trouble.

Oh! Was it the Liberian guy that Trump complimented on his good English when that’s an English speaking country? Okay, I’m slow. Funny!

What does Liberia have against Trump?

That probably would have been a good design feature because it turns out potatoes grow well in space, but we opted to go with solar power.

Our Aussie for comparison

We actually had a very cool laser program for many years. One of the times that the company changed hands, the parent company kept the lasers part.

But we did a lot of very neat electrical power systems, including the whole electrical power management system for the space station.

Looks like a dachshund/Australian shepherd mix. Or is it some particular breed?

I worked for 40 years at a company that made most of NASA’s rocket engines, and a host of other impressive technology. There were many, many geniuses there - lots of literal rocket scientists, and leaders in fields like materials science and chemical engineering. One thing I learned early on was that most of the true geniuses looked down on people who mentioned being members of Mensa. It was like a red flag that the person cares too much about being perceived as smart. People who care so much about that put more energy into fostering the image than actually contributing.

I was a manager at an aerospace company for a bunch of years, just recently retired. One of my takeaways was that, like so many facets of managing people, there’s no single right way to do WFH. I had employees who could WFH 100% of the time, with increased productivity and increased morale. I had employees that fit OP’s description and were super lonely during the pandemic because their whole social life revolved around work. I had employees who preferred WFH, but were much more productive when they could collaborate in person.

I was frustrated that my company insisted on implementing one-size-fits-all solutions, which eventually became 100% RTO. I thought it would have been most effective to let managers decide what worked best for individuals and teams. For many of my employees, I would have asked for a hybrid arrangement, where they came into the office two days a week, with one of those days being common to the team and one being flexible, and the ability for anyone to come in more than that if desired. But I also had employees who either didn’t have a collaborative job, or they collaborated with people at different sites (so had to do virtual meetings anyway), and those people I would have said could 100% WFH.

Summary: Mostly because droughts in the places that raise beef have forced ranchers to sell off their herds (so supply is less than demand), but also because of grain prices and tariffs. Cattle are slow-growing so prices are expected to stay high for a few years.

Sounds stressful for you and for the folks around you.

I think you’re going to find that most people don’t have great advice for how to do it because it’s not something they’ve struggled to overcome. There might be people here who have that issue or one similar enough, and overcome it, so they can tell you how they did. But your better bet is going to be to look into some kind of anger management techniques.

First, don’t tell me that the answer is just to “not bottle things up”, because that’s objectively incorrect too.

Well, no, it’s not objectively incorrect. I get the sense that the main problem you have is communicating negative emotions without being overly confrontational or acerbic about it. My experience is that it’s very possible to tell someone you’re unhappy about something without making a major deal out of it.

Also, I’m curious about how often you find yourself in the situation we’re taking about. Everybody had occasions where they have to vent frustrating, but if that’s a super frequency occurrence, there might be something else going on. Sometimes it should be enough to take a deep breath, recognize that the issue is minor, and let it go.

That is both sad and likely accurate.

Maybe he’s a vibe journalist.

That quote really is the problematic part. The part about switches is fine - it’s an attempt to explain tech to a “normie.” But for a tech writer to ever say it’s not clear why they settled on 256 is worse than embarrassing. They had to be corrected by tweets.

Anyone whose ever had an intro to computers class has had a computing professional explain computers using simple language and analogies. That’s the way this kind of thing should work. It sounds like this author has no more clue about computing than the target audience, which isn’t going to work out well for the reader.