Loved the idea of this game from the hype I had seen but this “lose everything if you don’t play as often as the devs think you should” shit is a deal breaker. I already have a job.

It took me a second viewing to realize that’s like 50% of the joke. Well played

My roommate asked for time off to vote; her employer literally laughed at her. Now, there is legal recourse there, and she would have likely won and even gotten awarded a money judgment.

But she needed that job without interruption. This was in Canada, by the way.

Ha ha so glad such abrupt regime changes are solidly in the past and that the current situation in no way resembles this

Getting rid of heat in space is actually a serious challenge. You can only radiate it away, since there is no gas to allow convection.

You other bakers can’t deny

I revealed my organ at work and science didn’t care; just got fired

I wish them success, but I’d rather see a new game!

DevOps on the resume, Sysadmin in my heart forever.

The argument for Buddhism in a nutshell

Exactly!

One time I was deleting a user from our MySQL-backed RADIUS database.

DELETE * FROM PASSWORDS;

And yeah, if you don’t have a WHERE clause? It just deletes everything. About 60,000 records for a decent-sized ISP.

That afternoon really, really sucked. We had only ad-hoc backups. It was not a well-run business.

Now when I interview sysadmins (or these days devops), I always ask about their worst cock-up. It tells you a lot about a candidate.

Worked at a Borders in the 90s. We joked constantly about just sorting everything by size and colour.

The word is bootlicker. There are of course bad union leaders, and the cure is the same: organizing.

Anyone initially read this as “orphan crushing”?

Yeah that’s some bad mojo

If you have civil and criminal causes of action, it’s often expedient to pursue the criminal one first, as it’s admissible as evidence in the civil case—the reverse isn’t usually true. I would be very surprised if there were not a settlement very soon, which unfortunately we will probably never hear about.

With the facts of the criminal case, I don’t think they would have any difficulty at all getting a legal team to go after EBay. It’s a risk/reward thing for them and the pockets they’d be going after are very deep.

Yup. In the car world “ricers” are specifically upgrading cars with purely cosmetic add-ons. They are stereotyped as using Asian cars and/or being Asian. The term should be strangled in the crib.