“he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked”

Yup, it exists.

Same here. I get ready to work in the same way as I would step into my car to go to the office.

We are social, and being close to other people you know while being told to shut up and work is a bit grating. Bonus points if they also say it’s because we’re family and building community.

Then he gets a text: “There was an accident”

No elaboration. Nobody picks up their phone. Texts go unread.

“Nuke the entire site from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure” ~your immune system

They changed the rules in my country. You can buy a truck but I’ll be taxed like a personal car instead of light cargo, unless you have a business and it’s a company car. That seriously curbed the eagerness to buy one.

For the big wars he uses his combine harvester.

Because small creators are basically forced to take chances and be creative to survive with limited budgets while big corpo can take the boring safe bet and the big money attracts people that have a lot of talent for personal marketing and not much else while the number of people involved makes everything a design by committee.

And when the car is drivable you do a demo for the customer to show what it’ll look like, somebody in the room will ask what the flight ceiling is and things first go very quiet and then very loud. After much discussion it turns out they actually need a flying car. Of course there is no additional budget for that.

In think nature is warming up a big dish of karma.

The imperial system makes you a worse shot. Everybody in American stories misses by inches. In European stories, they miss by millimeters. It’s quite the difference: 25 times worse.

Where I went, they also completely recreated the living space around it for the different era. The wallpaper, the furniture, even a soldering iron for the electronics enthousiast, it all matched perfectly. That was a nostalgia trip.

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See if this triggers your nostalgia: A, B and C from here

Those were gimmicks from that boom time, when wages were generally high and sooner folks switched jobs within weeks. Perks mattered in that period. Then wages dropped but the mindset that these perks mattered remained.

For now. Cars keep getting wider year over year until they hit legal limits.

They tell the masses it’s 1950 but what they actually want us 1850, the period of the robber barons.

By now it’s a sloperating system full of slopvertisement and slopware

For me it’s usually the Bitcoin guy from the “If Google was a guy” sketches

Because the majority of the population always tries to copy the rich. Eating lavish meals with lots of meat was the norm in high society so now it’s what everybody wants for dinner. A large manicured lawn was a show of wealth and thus everybody now wants their patch of well maintained grass, even in a desert. Flying and vacations on the other side of the planet was for the jet set so now everybody gets in economy class for holiday. Trickle down is also for habits, life style and consumption. They are the example to follow and should behave like it. It’s the old concept of noblesse oblige.