I replace a phone when it becomes intolerably difficult to use due to hardware failure.

My current phone was bought refurbished in July of 2020. Phone before that was purchased in 2018, and the phone before was purchased new in 2014.

The current one is a Samsung Galaxy S10, and I’m not seeing any reason to replace it yet.

The Whitehouse?

I’m not sure how complicated things can get, but here’s something I designed with OpenSCAD that I thought was fairly complex:

If you sing along, the lyrics are, “A dream is a wish your heart makes.”

I think you’re suggesting that this is somehow generally true in human behavior, but the examples you give are fictional and a result of torture.

Can you give a real-life example that doesn’t involve someone being mentally damaged from torture?

Could you explain specifically what thing in 1984, and could you also identify the episode of STTNG so I could look it up and perhaps read a synopsis?

Daisy and Rose prefer classical music.

Leo doesn’t care what music we play as long as we occasionally drop food.

I do not have the ability to take time from work without pay. However, I work for a non-profit University health system, and I get 7 set holidays, 20 vacation days, and 7 personal days. So, 34 paid days off work per year.

Now that my kids are grown, I find myself being forced to take time off because I’m hitting the limit (use it or lose it).

However, I don’t generally like to travel all that much.

Can you explain?

Once you go Klingon, you never go back.

less realistic

But the reason it’s in the movie is because it happened. It’s probably one of the most real things in the movie.

I think there are many reasons.

Some people are legitimately miserable in their marriage because they shouldn’t have gotten married. They married for the wrong reasons, or to the wrong person.

Some people complain about their spouses because they think they have to. They do it like a bonding ritual. If you don’t join in, you get excluded.

Finally, since you say every man you talk to says being single is better, I think it might have something to do with who you’re talking to.

If you were talking to me, I wouldn’t say being single is better. However, I married the right person for the right reasons. I’ve been with my wife for over 39 years and married for 32.

Relationships require a certain degree of maturity from both parties. I know some people who have been married multiple times, and I used to wonder how they had the energy for a second, third, fourth marriage. Then I realized it was because they aren’t putting any effort into the relationships. They weren’t looking for a spouse. They were looking for a substitute mommy or daddy.

I was a computer nerd from way back. Took summer school classes in programming when I was in middle school. I was the one nerd in the class who did not go expecting to be playing computer games.

I’m college I got a degree in computer science and graduated shortly after the term, “McJob”, was popularized. I sent out a hundred resumes, got two interviews, and one offer.

The offer I got was for a job as a DB admin for a university medical research center. Obviously, I accepted.

The university was a perfect place for me to start. When I asked when I should show up, the business admin of the center was obviously confused by the question. She ended up telling me that most people started around 9am, but it was clear it was up to me.

I continued working there for about five years. I found out from my boss that mine was one of hundreds of resumes they received, but I stood out because I had included a cover letter explaining why I was a good fit for the job. He thought that I wrote the cover letter just for that job, but it was just a quick and dirty mail-merge document that I generated for the hundred resumes I sent out, which actually kind of did show I was the right choice.

After about five years there, it was time to move on, but I stayed at the university. I ended up applying for a system administrator job in a research lab (robotics and computer vision systems) at the graduate computer science department. One day I decided to walk over and drop off a resume for that job. I figured there would be a receptionist desk where I could just leave the resume, so I just walked over in jeans and a T-shirt. However there was no receptionist desk, and the person I ended up handing my resume to had me sit down and he interviewed me right then.

After a couple years there, I changed jobs again. That time I technically left the university, taking a job in the university’s health system. I’ve been here now for more than a quarter century.

For the vast majority of my career, I’ve been free to work how I’d like, implementing solutions with very little interference from my management.

I happened to start at the health system when they still offered a defined-benefit pension, so I’ve got that to look forward to when I retire. There’s also no better health insurance than what I have from my employer. In the US, my wife and I had three kids, all born at the university hospital, with no fees charged beyond my employee contribution to the premiums.

When the pandemic hit, while other employers were desperate to get their employees back in the office, our CEO was asking why they should pay for expensive office space if the employees working there could do the same work from home. Consequently, I now work full time from home and only go in 2-3 times a month.

Also, when I joined the health system, they had just experienced an absolutely massive financial loss two years in a row. The university was considering selling the health system. However, they recovered, and the leadership has operated since with the same frugal care that you’d see in a grandparent who lived through the Great Depression. It’s like the entire organization has PTSD. They never wanted to have to have layoffs again. When the pandemic hit and other hospitals in the area stumbled or failed, ours was able to continue to grow, even paying out bonuses to the employees.

I have sufferef from bad insomnia my whole life. On a good night, I would lay in bed for a couple hours with my eyes closed trying to fall asleep. On a bad night, I’d lay like that until my alarm went off in the morning, and then I’d get up, shower, and go to work. That (not sleeping at all) would happen at least once a week for years.

I tried a lot of things. I tried prescription meds. They didn’t work. I tried booze. No luck.

On Reddit about 10 years ago I came across a post about a podcast. The Sleep With Me Poscast.

It doesn’t work for everyone, but it was like a miracle for me. The guy running the podcast is so incredibly boring and the episodes are so unbelievably meaningless that I could actually feel myself falling asleep while trying to follow his meandering stories.

When I first started listening, I’d play one episode, but then when the episode ended, I’d wake up. Then I started setting it to play all episodes without stopping, but then I’d sleep through my alarm. I finally had to set a sleep timer to stop the podcast a minute or two before my alarm.

Breathalyzers are for if you want to find out if someone is actually intoxicated.

Field sobriety tests are for when you want to arrest someone who isn’t intoxicated.

I don’t call my parents by their first names. Neither do my siblings.

My kids also use “mom” and “dad”, and we also use “mom” or “dad” when referring to each other parent to the kids.

My wife would call her dad by his first name, but only when she was calling him out for being goofy. In response to a dad joke, for example.

Personally, I don’t consider it a nickname. More like a title that I’ve earned. It’s like calling someone “doctor”. If my kids used my first name, I’d probably give them a raised eyebrow in response.

I’ve seen my rates decrease automatically when a driver on the insurance reaches a particular age. Usually there’s a notice sent.

All that to say, if the job you want exists, you won’t be able to get it because I’ll beat you to it!

I did it, but that was 32 years ago.

Edit: got the degree and started my career. I’ve had to deal with windows since then.

Your best bet might be working in university research centers. You will still have to work with windows, but most researchers are trying to save pennies and you can’t do that using Windows.

I was hired 25 years ago as a systems admin. At the time I was hired, the organization used Macs in offices. Servers were running Linux, Solaris, and OpenVMS, all of which I had been supporting since college. I was valued for most of the 25 years because I could solve problems no one else could, and I did that by writing code on Linux servers.

Now I’ve got a manager who doesn’t believe in writing code to support our users and thinks Linux is a bad word that we should never use because we might have to support it. Still, he’s gung-ho for us to support every new bullshit AI that comes down the pike.

I’ve got 25 years of code on a Linux server that made lives easier, but I have to eliminate it all because linux is bad. At the same time every AI project our group installs needs new Linux servers set up.

They have to. They’re driving.

Personally, I’ve never liked the taste of beer. It’s just not my thing.

I’ve always assumed I wouldn’t like the taste of piss either, although I never tried and I never imagined the flavors would be similar.

I’m left wondering how you determined that beer tastes like piss. Did you do a comparison? Did you do a peepsi challenge?