I almost never call and I don’t use SMS so its mostly a last ditch effort thing. The hotspot+cyberdeck will be my main means of communication.

I’m staying for the same reason. I have jumped around a bit but I found a position that doesn’t pay as well but there really isn’t stress, no real fear of losing my job, etc. Still at the far low end for my position and years in the industry. But with less stress I guess it is worth it. Still can’t retire, still can’t afford to go on vacations. But at least I don’t want to die anymore.

In the words of Radiohead

You do it to yourself, you do And that’s what really hurts

He did have a brain worm. Was it on accident? I don’t know.

Antitheism is not about knowledge or belief. Its literally in the name, to be against theism. One can be a believer and still be against a religion for all the harm it causes.

Where this breaks down is where the AI tech is in this decade/century. Between running out of RAM and the fact these agents barely get marginally difficult tasks (programming wise) done, they won’t be outputting the slop AAA games are today. When you have people making games and most players are pissed at how bad they are and how expensive, we all know that AI built games will be way, way worse and stild as expensive.

I might be a brain in a vat, but I know how to make a woman cry out to God with just my fingers…and then they deconvert.

Oddly, the two super churchy women I’ve “been with” ended up leaving the church afterwards. Maybe OP should do a little 🫰🤌🤏 to her 🍑 and see what happens.

The difference is you are buying into a system with a specific setup. PS5 has a disc drive so you want physical media for whatever reason. Now the drive and the system for purchasing games is changing mid life of the console.

Some people might not have bought the system had this been told at the the release.

It depends on the game (or system).

I never understand people. I have a list of businesses I no longer use no matter what. It really isn’t difficult.

Just think of how much the C-levels at Xbox would shit themselves if game players actually stuck together and didn’t buy the product.

Sometimes I say silly things.

At this point all consoles are dead to me. We only but physical carts for the kids switch one and they are offline as much as possible. I only play indie and retro games because i want to give money to people who deserve it and on systems that can never have these issues. There is enough of both to keep me entertained my entire life.

Again this isn’t true in most places outside the US. Many places I’ve traveled the only way a server would get a tip is if they did MORE than their job required which necessitated some sort of need for it. If your job is to greet, take an order, deliver said order and refill drinks there isn’t much opprotunity to go beyond.

Massive groups, staying late, resolving a problem the establishment created, those are times when a tip might occur but even then it really is just an extension of your job. And this is coming from someone who has worked in many high profile service jobs.

That is the big issue, and I get it. I never felt weird, age wasn’t an issue. But I can also see where others could be taken advantage of.

We ended up dating for 2 years and things ended due to life logistics. Was oddly the least crazy person I ever dated and we ended up friends after. Still bump into each other once in a while when I go back home to visit family.

“She is just giving me a ride to/from work" was often the excuse if people saw ust together but honestly no one cared. The fact she WASN’T a teacher made it no big deal.

Summer job coworker

Sort of. Unless you go to a private university taxes go to the public schools to fun facilities and wages for the educators. While you may pay tuition, the overall cost of that education and the services needed for one to do research doesn’t come wholely out of your pocket.

Now I agree you should be compensated more, as someone who tried to get published academically and has filed patents I can see why there is a split of compensation.

Had a girlfriend when I was in highschool who was too old for me, had an old Chevy Blazer and loved the Cake song Stickshifts and Safetybelts. Everything about her was fun on a bench seat.

We live in the timeline where The Onion is real.