Art of the Deal, folks!

Huh. I have some VHS tapes I wouldn’t mind ripping. I have a vcr but I don’t think I have a way to capture the output. I’d better look into it sooner rather than later…

Half these “trends” that get articles are really just two people doing something stupid.

How many people were actually eating Tide pods? I seriously doubt more than a handful.

I thought the use of “dubious” was hilarious. It’s quite an understatement, like, “Yeah, that may not have happened,” avoiding calling him a liar directly, but conveying that it’s extremely unlikely.

This sounds more like a run. I haven’t seen Strava record or report GPS data for just steps taken throughout the day. But runs, walks, bike rides, and other sports will often record GPS.

But the op is right - if the ship is moving, the athlete will get “credit” for additional distance traveled, or they’ll lose distance, depending on which way they are running compared to the ship’s direction of travel, possibly balancing out if one of the other reverses direction at the appropriate time.

I use Arch, by the way.

(I don’t, I used Debian. It just fit.)

Oh he can break the deadlock all right, no question there. The question is what happens after it’s broken. It’s probably not going to be good for South Korea. Remember how much he likes Kim Jong Un.

Guarantee an hour or more of his day is spent in front of a mirror, every day.

Not surprising, considering his previous job was a talking head on Fox or something like that. Which, in what’s left of Trump’s mind, makes him totally qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.

They’re aware, I’m sure, but there isn’t much they can do about it if they need to park there. Even Home Depot and Lowe’s have this issue.

I do, but I know you’re just trying to gatekeep.

Well, not a boat, a 30’ Airstream. And I haul a ton of pellets several times each year. I also find myself moving heavy or large items throughout the year with it. No, you can’t really rent one to do those things like everyone claims - or the rentals would cost as much as owning the pickup would.

I read a while back that many of them were shocked the cyber truck didn’t fit in regular parking spaces. In other words, these are people that, for the most part, have never owned a large pickup before. The obvious conclusion is that they bought it for cred or because they think it looks cool, not because they actually need a vehicle that size.

They go so far to avoid the dreaded, “I don’t know.”

Oh no my pension isn’t enough, I still need to work.

What’s really fascinating to me is that I hated our 35-40 minute commute, but now I drive even more and don’t mind it.

I took the early retirement and am now working as a real estate photographer. Yesterday I drove 120+ miles for a job. No problem. I’ve had several days with over 100 miles, no problem. Monday I’ll drive 50 miles for one job, then another 50 miles to another job, then 25 miles back home.

The differences are that it’s not rush hour, and it’s to different locations. It’s more like exploring the area. There will be jobs I’m not looking forward to, I’m sure, but so far I really enjoy it. I even enjoy the drive, which is something I haven’t done in many years.

My only concern is that my car is approaching it’s 30th birthday, but I haven’t had a single problem as a result of pressing it back into daily driver duties this way.

My nemesis at my previous job was a major bullshitter and everyone knew it, except some management. Woe be to those who actually listened to him - it never ended well for them. Other managers knew better, or at least were warned.

Nice guy, but a complete moron professionally.

I recall one time he was telling a group of us about a test he and management wanted to do. “No changes to the software,” he said, repeatedly. Looking around the room, I knew no one believed him (well, he believed it, I’m sure, but no one else), but we all knew it was pointless to point out that he would be proven wrong. And he was, of course. (He wasn’t a liar, just an idiot.)

This dude would do everything he could to make me look bad, sometimes in front of external groups, other times in front of management. I never complained, but others complained to his supervisor on my behalf, and he’d apologize, then do it again a few months later. Again, it wasn’t malice, he’s just an idiot and doesn’t think.

One time I got him. He asked if we had planned for a workload that was higher than some people expected, and I was able to say, “Actually we budgeted for even more than this.” A woman that worked for me, when she saw I was having a bad day, would ask, “Hey remember when you showed up Bob in that meeting in front of management?” It always improved my mood. Some coworkers are gold.

One time, he was set to become my supervisor, and I was like, yeah, I’m gone if that happens. Fortunately, it didn’t.

Oh yes. The rest of you, get to work on thinking of a name. Like Poochie, but not proactive.

Or this:

You can walk into any Waffle House and literally start punching employees and never get banned.

How does he know that?!

He’s a shoo in!

Oh that’s amazing. I have to watch that video.

It shut down after they exposed it? That’s great, but I’m shocked the site owners cared about the exposure. (I haven’t watched the video yet.)