Walk into class

Pull laptop out of bag, put it on the desk

Whip out mechanical keyboard

Mouse, small set of stereo speakers

Pull out a large object wrapped in a blanket

Everyone else watches confusedly

Take off blanket, unveiling a 28in monitor

Whip out power strip

Put power strip on the adjacent desk, no one is sitting there anyway

20ft extension cord

The outlet is on the far wall, run the extension cord between the desks

Apologize to everyone bumped into a long the way

Play World of Warcraft the entire time

Shhh, don’t tell them. It’s easier when they tell on themselves

I don’t think the word “master” is indicating quality though, just that it’s the “source” or “basis”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_recordings

I was once spelunking a file that hadn’t been touched in like 7 years, and there was a weird line where it was adding 2 to the index for seemingly no reason. The comment was like // Sam: not sure why this is off by 2 here. See ticket #12345 for discussion

Whatever issue tracking software it was referencing was no longer used, so that ticket was gone, and who TF is Sam?

Oopsie! Thanks for looking into it

It gets easier. The first 3 months are absolutely terrible.

What wizardry is this

Type of dinosaur I believe

So all of a sudden

Maybe something happened that caused the shift? Hmm, what could it be?

Holy shit

The Good Place should be higher

Eternal Card Game

Good thing the Senate just voted to give ICE 200 billion dollars

They’re not even trying to claim that angle this time. I occasionally peek in on Facebook to see what my hyper-MAGA family members are posting about, and the spin for this one is that all of the millions of people who will lose medical coverage are illegals. Only illegals will be affected, and so it’s actually a good thing.

Not even kidding.

Every Democrat in the Senate voted against it.

What kind of backwater hospital/healthcare company uses chromebook

I was at a specialist’s office and noticed they were using Windows XP. This was 3 years ago.

You raise a lot of good points. But for me, it was better in that there was still a lot of hope to go around. Things generally seems on the up and up. Technology was getting better. This new Internet thing was getting better and faster. The economy was getting better. The government still enforced anti-trust laws. We (the US) weren’t at war. Climate change still seemed very fixable. We were dealing with the hole in the ozone and acid rain, we’ll deal with everything else! The scientists will figure it out.

Now it just feels like the world is going to shit and there’s nothing we can do. Even when “good” things happen, it feels more like we’ve only “slowed down” a bit as we continue careening toward the cliff.

We’re past, like, all the points of no return for the climate. Corporate power feels unstoppable. Open corruption is rampant and normalized throughout the world’s governments. The major powers are arming themselves and not cooperating. World War 3 is scheduled for 2027 if it doesn’t happen before then. And the response to COVID showed that our systems and infrastructure are balanced like a house of cards.

So maybe the y-value was lower in the 90s, but the curve definitely felt like it was sloping upward. Now we’re past the peak.