I’m kind of the opposite, lol.

I miss my overnight shift.

I’d wake up, the world was quiet, there were no harsh lights to contend with, very few coworkers to deal with, even less management…

Just go in, put in my earbuds between calls, and do my shit. Then, when everyone is grumpy and trying to get coffee, I’m going home.

That being said, when the time changed it could be a blessing and a curse.

On one hand, sweet, short(ish) day… well, 11 hours. Then it swings the other way, and 13 hour shifts suck even more than 12 hours.

Watching the time roll back an hour feels very unfair when you’re on the clock and just want to go home, lol.

As someone who used to be skinny, and now, decidedly, isn’t…

I’d take metabolism any day. That being said, I do have a friend who struggles to keep weight up due to a medical issue. Taking that dude to an all you can eat buffet is almost traumatizing, lol.

Did it?

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

With a much heavier focus on policing and arresting people of color, as well as passing laws to target specific groups of people, expanding probable cause, and all that jazz.

So sure, you aren’t born into slavery per se, but being forced to mop prison floors because a cop didn’t like your face, no chance to go home or have any other real autonomy?

Its just slavery with extra steps.

Honestly, igniting it is the hard part.

Well, and putting it out…

Making though? Pretty simple.

Yeah, I didn’t mean this bill would pass but… the sentiment makes it more dangerous for some people I care about.

The politicians push this shit because they think they have the support of the people, at least in the form of votes.

I’m not so worried about the government. Not much most of us can do if the military turns against the people. I’m worried about bigoted neighbors feeling empowered.

Pffft. I write everything as a one liner in notepad and just copy and paste into a compiler.

Note: Sarcasm. I’m not a dev, I just script shit for my own convenience at work. I’m the guy the idiots talk to first. After 12 years I’m pretty good at filtering out the bullshit and giving a concise ticket to escalate in the event I don’t have permissions to fix something.

I have fixed code before, but its been very rare, and was most certainly a case of the actual dev not seeing the forest due to the trees. It just happened I had the cube next to him and he wanted any other set of eyes, lol. I just happened to have some education in various languages that I opted not to pursue further.

Grew up in Texas. Moved recently, to another state.

The bible, or lack thereof, isn’t the issue in Texas schooling. Nor the countrywide issue of gun violence.

This is clear governmental overreach and defies separation of church and state.

Fuck these clowns. Sideways, with a two foot dildo covered in shark skin. Twice, so they don’t forget the lesson.

PS: As an anecdote, up to fourth grade I was enrolled at a christian private school. Parents had money at the time, and they were touted to have the best education. I learned more about the dark, nasty, terrible side of life there than I did any other time in school - and I watched a kid get dragged down the hall by his ear by a former marine for smoking crack in the bathroom when I was in public school. I also would have never learned how to play poker or blackjack in a public school, lol.

Don’t forget to spin around three times.

Not that way, widdershins! Widdershins!

We (The US) don’t have the gestapo. Our fascists wear uniforms and badges.

Well shit, one of my relatives, and a few friends may be in trouble soon…

It was suppose to be a cautionary tale, not a fucking guide book.

Oh shit, you just made me realize when I get my first pay check I should really invest in a decent UPS. I had to sell my old one before moving state lines to condense space.

I’ve been a fly on the world in the corporate world for many industries.

No one watches their mouth around the IT guy.

On so many levels, in so many jobs, it doesn’t matter what happened - it matters what can be proven.

Eh, task ChatGPT with it.

I lived around sea level for most of my life.

Then, I went to Bozeman, MT for a night before going down to Gardiner, MT to work in Yellowstone.

I was a metal head, heavy drinker, hop in the mosh pit, feel no pain until two days later type at the time.

3 fucking beers tanked me. 3 raspberry heffeveizens at the Montana Aleworks had me stumbling back to my hotel bed hoping I heard my alarm so I could keep this YS job.

I literally drank with metal rock stars before this point in time. Alexi Leiho fucking poured straight liquor into my mouth off the edge of the tour bus (Children of Bodom front man, Lead guitar, died of complications of alcoholism in his 30s). Not endorsing the behavior (in fact, no, alcohol long term fucking sucks) but it happened. Dime and Vinny of Pantera? More than a few times. I wasn’t an alcoholic, but I could drink. Youth and stupidity, eh?

So 3 beers? Damn.

I also smoked at the time. Climbed Bunsen peak in Yellowstone with some coworkers. I lit a cigarette, and got about halfway through it before I had to put it out and stop to breathe.

Like, this was your first bong hit and it was a filled 6 foot bong that you took in coughing. You might puke from coughing so hard.

What I’m saying is, altitude is no joke. You can handle your shit? Not coming from sea level of basically nothing, to roughly 1300 feet.

Though, if you’re “training” for some sort of drinking contest or something, yeah, drink at a high altitude. I came back from YS, from being a “good drinker” to drinking hardened alcoholics under the table and feeling only the slightest bit tipsy. Altitude training, bitches.

Note: I can not speak for how altitude training would affect tolerance when it comes to health complications. I have no math, studies, or anecdotal evidence to suggest that alcohol poisoning (or death thereof) would be positively changed by high altitude training.

I mean, I can think of a few ways to turn a person off…

Turning back on, well… I heard about one guy. Took about three days. That being said, the author(s) aren’t very reliable.

In some cases, yes.

I’ve run into probably half a dozen applications that request a reboot before installation, even if you just rebooted and the launcher was the first thing you ran.

Usually older and very niche software. Business shit from the AS400 era, medical applications (including modern), not generally your standard stuff most people are installing.

No service animal, but I was in the “down town” area of a college town, and donated plasma cause I was broke broke.

I’m epileptic, I don’t think the plasma donation contributed, but as I was walking back to my car, and waiting to cross a street… well, seizure.

No one helped me, but someone took my phone, wallet, and some meds I needed to keep on me at the time, probably other stuff I don’t recall.

The meds had no recreational value. They were seizure meds, and no, nothing like ativan that has any sort of redeeming quality outside of treating epilepsy.

Some people just suck.

Yep.

I work in IT, if I’m on a call or actively working a ticket that I can finish and just ran out of time? I’ll stay, happily, and finish it.

I’ll help cover vacations, and if I like the company, other people calling in to an extent.

The longest stretch I worked was when I was much younger (and dumber). Retail, before the holidays. There were a variety of contributing factors at work, but in the end I worked 22 days in a row, most often 12+ hours a day. The OT pay was nice, don’t get me wrong, but I quickly learned that my time and well being are worth more than most employers can offer, even with OT adjustments.

I slept over 24 hours straight, and my body hurt ALL over for two weeks. That was with a wonderful girlfriend at the time who knew her way around a massage, and was happy to do so when asked - and I needed it then, lol.

Ahh, that makes sense. I figured it was something I was just unaware of, even when I was in the shop I didn’t do much more than basic maintenance type tasks for the most part.