Wrench

joined 2 years ago
[–] Wrench 2 points 1 week ago

Eh. The Gen Xers I know all admit they'd be fucked in today's housing market if they didn't already have theirs. The are generally very sympathetic and appreciate how lucky they are.

To modify this comic, they sit down for a show and are quickly horrified at the brutality of the spectacle.

[–] Wrench 27 points 2 weeks ago

Former smart TV app developer. I'm going to drive my old dumb lcd TV into the ground before I'm forced to use a "smart" TV.

I prefer casting, but for convenience for my wife, we have a fire tv stick.

I want my panels rendering, not thinking / reporting.

[–] Wrench 3 points 2 weeks ago

Stop. My penis can only get so erect.

[–] Wrench 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Still the only movie I left the theater mad that I spent money on it.

Aliens capable of interstellar travel, coordinating a planetary invasion, that spent decades doing recon ahead of time, and all they do is run around naked. Ohh, and they chose a planet covered 70% with acid (to them) that literally falls from the sky.

So. Fucking. Stupid. And not in a fun way.

[–] Wrench 1 points 2 weeks ago

Best to just call it in. Even for pick up, all these online providers take a huge cut, eating the profit margin from the people actually making the food you like.

I try to only use online orders for restaurants that have their own website cart. I do sometimes resort to the big ones when I'm busy / lazy, but I make a point to try to make sure the actual restaurant gets my money, because I want them to survive and keep making me tasty food.

[–] Wrench 2 points 2 weeks ago

They do. A friend in a fire prone area is unable to get fire coverage through his former provider. He was trying to find an alternative last time we spoke, but the estimate from the state was $500/mo. Just for fire insurance.

[–] Wrench 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

At my first job it if college, we had one QA guy at a small company. He did everything. He worked 12+ hours a day and weekends to support a team of ~8 devs iirc.

He was an H-1B. He didn't have a choice but to work his butt off and do anything they asked.

At one point while I was there, they honored him at some company party, thanking him for his hard work over the last 2 years. The gift was a $100 restaurant gift card.

And management had the nerve to be "shocked" when he quit immediately after getting his green card.

[–] Wrench -4 points 4 weeks ago

Eh. He could have intended to use it again, or didn't find an opportune time to ditch/destroy it. Or maybe he's not the master People's assassin that everyone wants him to be.

[–] Wrench 1 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

The whole gun planting take seems like conspiratory nonsense to me. And I'll trust the forensic science on the striations.

[–] Wrench 11 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Didn't he have the burner gun still on him? Honestly asking, I know a lot of disinformation tends to go out early, and I haven't followed up on verified facts.

[–] Wrench -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To manipulate a murdered person's sons to reevaluate their perception of their own father because of some public lynching?

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