there would be nothing to prevent the 99% from rightfully rising up against the 1%

Except for the other 1% who are trained and equipped to violently suppress the 98%. And if for whatever reason they fail to do the job, the killer robots will do it instead.

I’m a school bus driver, and one of my weirder experiences is listening to a middle-school boy ripping on some middle-school girl for having “only” ten thousand followers.

Fun fact: there was apparently no such thing as “walking the plank”. And when you think about it, it would be pretty stupid to have the ship’s carpenter rig up a platform when you could just have the victim jump off the side and accomplish the same thing. There was a punishment known as “walking the yard” where the recipient was forced to climb a mast and then walk out on one of the yardarms (the cross-pieces that held the sails) into the sea. It wasn’t automatically fatal, although the chance of that depended on which yardarm they made you walk - the topmost ones were pretty damn high up.

I solved this dilemma by quitting and becoming a school bus driver. Now I only have to worry about middle-schoolers threatening to shoot me.

Yay! Finally a Youtuber in this thread that I’ve actually heard of and watched.

Makes sense. Human beings don’t actually need proteins or fats.

“So, how many polygons can we use to render this car in the game?”
“Uh … four?”

I feel the same sense of embarrassment for the driver that I would if I saw some guy masturbating in public.

covered in rust

The best thing about these “trucks” is that they all will be, eventually.

What shocked me the most was how much stupider it looked when surrounded by normal vehicles. It looks like a cheap prop from an early '70s sci-fi movie - I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Sean Connery climb out of one wearing a codpiece while shouting “renew!”

I saw my first cybertruck in person the other day. It looks incredibly dumb in promotional photos, but it’s astonishing how much stupider it looks in traffic surrounded by normal vehicles.

The majority of puppy-coders I’ve encountered (including myself) actually want to refactor rather than just add onto. They are fundamentally correct in this, but they don’t grasp that 1) few companies want to acknowledge that the code base which is their greatest tangible “asset” is actually complete shit, and 2) that due to their inexperience, their refactored replacement is probably going to end up as bad as or worse than the original.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about WebOS but I never got the chance to try it out.

I’m a mobile developer and back around 2011 I was hoping like hell that Windows Phone would make it big. When you look at Xcode (for iOS), Eclipse (for Android and Blackberry) and MS Visual Studio (for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone) for mobile development, there was absolutely no comparison - it was Visual Studio all the fucking way. But Microsoft just decided to completely shit the bed and give up on mobile altogether. I still don’t get it.

Shit, they’re hard to start when it’s + 20°F outside. I’m a school bus driver and that was the exact temperature this morning when one third of our fleet wouldn’t start up.

FWIW diesel-powered vehicles are much cleaner now than they were in the '80s. Diesel fuel is now sulfur-free, and since 2004 progressively stiffer EPA regulations have reduced the NOx and particulate matter output of diesel engines by orders of magnitude. Unfortunately, though, “cleaner” in this case does not include a reduction in greenhouse gases - in fact, school bus engines of today spit out more greenhouse gases per mile than did buses of the 1980s. This is because the EPA diesel regulations limit permitted emissions based on horsepower-miles, so an engine with twice the horsepower (like today’s bus engines compared with older engines) is permitted to emit twice as much junk. And since modern bus engines have much more horsepower, they emit much more greenhouse gases.

I loved acid but I would never do it again at my age (50s). Even back in my youth I thought the experience lasted way too long - I was always ready to come back down and sleep and contemplate my experiences long before the drug started to wear off.

Gimme drugs, gimme drugs, gimme drugs.

John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back, Kotter

the amount of cash that the Pentagon misplaces every year

They don’t misplace a penny - every dollar they “waste” is money that goes into somebody’s pocket.

I pay something like $5 per 10,000 gallons, so for me a bottle of water definitely rounds down to $0.00.