Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Wainscotting #GoodBabyNames

Shit sucks out there, folks. Make sure to tell your friends that you love and support them, especially the ones who seem to be holding it together. They might need it the most.

You will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until one day it's you taking the video.

#climatechange

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

Given the impending govt shutdown, can I get some votes on a general strike? I'm serious. Boost this. Someone has to hold these ducks accountable beyond the polls

#GeneralStrike #politics #usa #shutdown

New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour, among nation's highest https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230930/p2g/00m/0in/005000c

I like this a lot. I have said for years that my judgment about people, mostly concerns where they started from and where they end up. I have always had a soft spot for people who were trying.

Our Xfinity bill shot up because of an expiring 12-month discount, just as it did a year ago. So I called.

me: I noticed our bill went up and I was wondering if we could repeat whatever pro-forma ritual we need to in order to secure a more reasonable charge again.

them: *laughing* thank you for understanding the situation, sir.

I always try to bear in mind that the customer service people I speak with are *way* more victimized by the shitty behavior of their employers than I will ever be.

We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator!

“We are unique among the world’s militaries,” Milley said. “We don’t take an oath to a country, we don’t take an oath to a tribe, we don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator.”

“And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” “We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.”

It’s a line General Milley has delivered before but he chose to use it Friday standing alongside President Biden during a national address – his last as the president’s top military adviser and the nation’s top general.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/politics/milley-trump-wannabe-dictator/index.html

Lifehack: If you don't have enough gender in your system, one solution is editing your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to include extended and expanded gender.

Things that Computer Games No Longer Have: The Boss Key (a.k.a. The Supervisor Key)

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, people wanted to play games on their computers. But computers were really expensive and a good portion of the time, you only had access to one at work. (Or at least your work computer was better than your home computer.) So people would put games on their work computer, but then ran into the problem of what to do if your boss caught you playing games on the job.

Enter the Boss Key. One of the keys on the keyboard, typically a function key, would open either a fake DOS prompt or a fake spreadsheet or presentation or something that looked job-like. If you suspected your boss was coming, you'd slam the Boss Key and look like you were actually doing work.

This is because your job doesn't let you slack off after you've done all your work in the queue. Managers expect you to always be working on something when you're on the clock.

Forget that.

Play games in the clock

Power to the Boss key.