The squirrels have been trying and failing for decades to attain superpowers the high voltage way.

this is a joke I am actually locked in a staring match with the hopefully no longer dripping ceiling of my still to be repaired bathroom

I never figured out why they don’t sell travel size versions of these

This is true though! People learn writing informally from their mentors. Or, if a program is really on it, there might be a scientific writing class with someone who everyone thinks is a pretty good writer - but that doesn't mean they know about how to *teach* writing.

my undiagnosed till last year astigmatism says hello

Would this be the same boomers who spent the last two years calling Gen Z college students "Hamas" for protesting a genocide and telling them they deserved to get their heads cracked by cops?

there is no home for documents, the budget was shared as a word doc, no one knows how one of the parking gates works, we don’t know when anyone’s terms end.

this genuinely makes the most disorganized open source project you’ve even been in look like the smoothest operation you’ve ever seen

someone has replied that they are out of country and will not be attending the board meeting (this is the second of two meetings they’ve skipped in my time on the board), we’ve mixed up net 10 and “due on the 10th”, the meeting is tomorrow and I only just received a calendar invite

I’ve always found software interesting for this reason

it’s a broad technical field similar to plumbing or electrical where you can be an electrician that is more of a high voltage electrical engineer or an electrician in the “wire nuts and light fixtures” sense

this is probably where I have the most distance between from many people who share a lot of my other views both about the tech at hand and ✨things in general✨

it’s similar to where I am on myopic anti-meat activism that attacks meat eating wholesale vs all the things that actually make it an issue