My computer has been torn down for a while due to a move and renovations, but as soon as I set it up again, the first order of business is to migrate it to mint.

I’m thinking that’s exactly the strategy.

“See? The boat was full of cocaine! We were right and protecting our nation!”

Then ignoring that the penalty for selling drugs isn’t execution.

I’m the bad guy here, I’m aware. No one is doing as good of a job as they think. Everything is falling apart and everyone is getting dumber and every service and product is gettting worse, and everyone responsible for the decline seems to think imposter syndrome applies to them. I am a licensed proper professional, with a constant urge to learn more and better myself. It’s so rare to meet someone in my industry who isn’t faking it or going through the motions that I’ve made a point to stay in contact with anyone I meet who actually knows what the fuck they’re talking about.

That’s four people. In 11 years.

Companies send reps to my offices that can’t answer basic questions. Customer service for any company can’t help with anything. Websites for multibillion dollar companies have broken and missing links, and their tech support has no idea what the words I say to them even mean. Companies will try to set up meetings with me to buy their 100k machines or bring their new tech into my offices, and they can’t even tell me what it fucking does outside of promontory buzzwords that have no real meaning.

Classes I have to take to get CE credits every year are full of braindead dipshits with no hope of ever advancing their accreditation who don’t realize this isn’t high school and you’re not going to be given a multiple choice exam you can bluff your way through when you’re actively defending your right to have the title to the fucking board.

I rip these people apart when they try to do business with me. If you want to be seen as a professional, be a fucking professional.

Imposter syndrome is real, but the majority claiming they have it aren’t good enough to be an imposter. Someone in this world needs to know what the fuck they’re talking about, and i guess I have to be the one to expose anyone who doesn’t. So I’m the bad guy, the person the imposters are afraid of meeting.

Being polite would be a disservice to anyone who has to deal with the problems their incompetence will cause.

Sounds like you should be sober from weed too.

If your default state is high, you’re never sober. You’re just experiencing the hangover state between highs. Think of it as the weed version of delerium to an alchoholic. It’s not a physical hangover, so it’s not as obvious.

Stay sober for a few weeks. It’ll drag at first, but it’ll go away after a bit. You’ll even out your neurotransmitters and feel like yourself again. Then getting high on occasion will be an event, not a medication.

Anecdotally, people I’ve known who smoke everyday tend to be okay with things they shouldn’t be. The chemical joy seems to make them content with having a kind of shitty life and never actually doing anything. High activities just became their only activities when weed changed from weekends to everyday. I’m not saying this is true of everyone, but I’ve seen it happen more often than not to daily smokers.

Drugs and alcohol should be occasional modifiers to your life, not the default state. Give your chemistry a rest.

Dionysus in hades. Dude amps me up so well I pick him over boons I like better.

Like I know legality has no meaning anymore, but isn’t that like, really a lot more illegal in a way that there are standards that can’t be ignored? Retaliation against a whistleblower?

That makes sense. It didn’t come with the other part, but there’s a bunch at a thrift store nearby, which must have been where I’ve seen it before.

Anyone in Texas know how to etch brass?

Since ice is made up of molon labe guys, they should be fully supportive.

Yes. Your father, a man with one ear pierced (the gay one), went to the gay mom store and asked to meet the owner.

We used to be a proper country

Does pussy riot have time to play shows between arrests?

It says 2019 to trick the viewer into commenting “no 2012” or 2016, since no real human thinks everything was great until 2019. It’s bait for interactions.

This is an ad for McDonald’s

Piefedophiles

Honestly, I wouldn’t want it updated constantly. AI and red hats are about to fuck it right to fuck town.

The individual was infected in el Salvador and then flew to the US. Inflammatory title makes it seem like they’re already moving into the country, which is the media’s favorite shit to do.

It’s not good either way, but Jesus Christ I’m burnt on constant fear mongering.

I appreciate the consistency of the PA controller, but I can not for the life of me remember which side is square and circle. Been fuckin me up since 2002

The Xbox layaout should be the standard. Nintendo changes their controllers drastically every generation, so they have no standard, and even on the GameCube, A was the “default” button. The Xbox controller hasn’t changed the four main buttons in 24 years, and PC followed suit. It’s already the standard, and anyone who would be bothered by a set standard only hurts unification, and will get over it eventually.

There’s a few points to note

-there are 1500 different progressive lenses, and a lot of stire are still selling 35 yeae old lenses. You get what you pay for, and avoid chains.

-the eyeglass industry is full of reps who think they’re professionals, but don’t actually know fuck all about how they work. What the other person said about measurements is way more obvious with a progressive. Because of this, online progressives are dogshit.

-if you’re a hyperope, it takes more time to get used to the lenses. Plus prescriptions add more distortion, so it takes longer to adapt.

-the age you got the first progressive makes a huge difference. If you get one at 42, you’ll have a much easier time than if you wait until 60, because the reading addition keeps getting stronger and causes more distortion. Side note, if you’re over 42, you should be wearing a progressive. Stop lying to me and yourself.

-it takes about two weeks to feel natural, but you have to wear the glasses, and not switch back to an older pair. If you don’t put in the effort, you’ll be the old person with lines. If you wear them for two weeks and don’t get used to them, theres something wrong with the lens.

• get a premium, dual sided antireflective. Plus power lenses have more space between the surfaces, and double the effects of glare on the lens.

-don’t take advice from anyone you know, youtube, or especially reddit. Nobody knows any of the actual science behind optics, they just keep parroting things that sound legit. Even supposed professionals in my industry are goddamn idiots, including most licensed opticians i know. The only sources of info that can be trusted are lifelong lab managers, and the people designing the products and systems of manufacture. Everyone else spouts buzzwords like they know what they’re saying, or they saw a video once.

I’m an advanced optician running three offices and a lab, working towards my masters designation, and i’m infuriated to be one of the last professionals in this industry.

ER used proper medical science most of the time, Greys anatomy was just saying medical terms and making shit up.