ChickenLadyLovesLife

The Dune soundtrack was done by the soft rock band Toto, which was something incomprehensibly weird to me at the time, but makes some sense when you realize that one of the band's members was the son of composer John Williams. It's actually good, standard orchestral music with the exception of the guitar power chord moment you linked to, which actually made me laugh out loud when I saw/heard it in the theater for the first time. Personally, I would have preferred this as the soundtrack; it was created by the band Jade Warrior as an attempt to get the gig for Lynch's movie.

The only part of the movie which made me laugh harder than the guitar was Sting's appearance. Just wildly out of place in a movie that was at least a visual masterpiece. And you can't go wrong with Joergen Prochnow.

That’s not how things work here though, i’m sure they will be bailed out on taxpayer money or something…

Insurance companies are typically reinsured themselves, so it's entities like Lloyd's of London that will ultimately be paying for this.

I think he was a Salamanca.

He was also the exact opposite of the other stereotype of the "lazy Mexican" - which, for anyone who's ever worked construction with actual Mexicans, is comically inaccurate.

I'm a school bus driver. Apparently, there is a big shortage of school bus drivers nationwide. But (and it's a big butt): in many of the school districts in my area, this driver shortage has been used as a rationale for privatizing bus services. Somehow, schools can't find people with CDLs willing to work for $30+ an hour with benefits like health insurance, dental and vision plans, retirement contributions and even a pension, plus vacations and PTO - yet private bus service companies have no trouble finding plenty of drivers willing to work for $22 an hour with no benefits at all.

Breakfast in real life: "why did I toast both poptarts?"

True. The most effective means of governing is by executive orders, issued weeks before leaving office, that can be immediately overturned by the incoming president.

Unfortunately, I couldn't stand the sight of my coworkers any better than the sound of them.

I retired from programming because of that "open floor plan" shit, with the added bonus of no permanent desks. It's so insane to inflict that bullshit on programmers in particular, because our productivity (or mine at least) requires a quiet, distraction-free environment.

Also: the USSR only initially got beaten by the Finns. They then threw a much larger chunk of their military into the fray, forcing Finland to capitulate and yield up even more territory than what the USSR had initially demanded, which demands started the war in the first place. Hitler famously took that war as evidence of Russia's weakness, when he should have taken it as evidence that Russia would keep throwing in its vast reserves of manpower despite horrific initial losses.

"This OS Kills Fascists"

I grew up in Ohio in the '70s. The first snowfall was usually in late September and the ground would be completely covered with snow sometime in October. The mounds of snow thrown up by the plow trucks would be 6-8 feet high and we built elaborate tunnel networks in them. We didn't see hints of grass until late April and the snow wasn't completely gone until May or sometimes even early June. Ohio still gets hit with winter these days, but nothing like that.