One of the best teachers I have ever seen was one of my kids teachers during COVID.

All the other, mostly younger, teachers were just “herp derping” their way through doing school remotely. And this one lady, who was like two years from retirement, just points a camera at a blank piece of paper and writes out the math lessons by hand while talking you through each step.

I’m just watching this like, “where the hell was this lady when I was in 6th grade??”

My parents: “You just need to focus and finish your math homework.”

My undiagnosed ADHD brain: “No can-dos-ville babydoll.”

When you’re such a mess that not even Republic Sanitation is gonna come deal with you.

Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn’t need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.

You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.

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By all accounts, the logic in this method shouldn't work. And yet it does. We do not know why. It makes no sense whatsoever. It took three weeks and numerous offerings to the programming gods, including using one of the junior devs as a human sacrifice, to unlock this knowledge. DO NOT LET HIS VIOLENT AND UNTIMELY DEATH BE IN VAIN! Touch this at your own peril.
--jubilationtcornpone 12/17/25
*/
public async Task<IResult> CalculateResultAsync()
{
     // Some ass backwards yet miraculously functional logic.
}

Battleships were an interesting chapter in naval history. They were first developed around 60 years before aircraft carriers, increasingly designed with the idea that they would be able to hit enemy targets while remaining out of range of returned fire. That ended up being an unrealistic expectation. Those 16 inch guns can lob a 1 ton shell nearly 24 miles but not very accurately at that range.

Battleships probably outlived their tactical usefulness. They were definitely good for projecting force. Few things say “I’m going to obliterate you” like a large, fast ship armed with 9 giant-ass canons.

You just need a reminder to check your reminders.

In fairness, the consequences of his actions would almost certainly have had a noose at the end and that still would have been too merciful.

“I’m going to set this right here. That way I will definitely remember where I put it.”

Narrator: “He did not remember.”

Its also incredibly fast.

All the function parameter and returns types are going to be “any”.

It really used to piss me off when the older techs would make me crawl around in nasty crawlspaces while they stood around and smoked cigarettes.

I get not wanting to be there but I’m not not about to leave some poor kid who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing fumbling around in the dark by himself for half the day.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed in the trades. Then I remember having to tear hundreds of HVAC smoke dampers out of a new building and replace them with fire and smoke dampers because the boss decided he was just going to whatever instead of what the blueprints called for.

Then I’m good for a while.

I’ve seen plenty of back ends that needed to be destroyed.

Fair point.

Back when Zoom recalled all their employees to the office a couple years ago, that should have been the end for them.

Their product is designed to facilitate remote work and communication and they basically advertised to the entire world that, in their minds, it’s ineffective. That was a blunder of epic proportions.

When I forget the name of someone that I have known for ages. Especially frustrating when I see them somewhere and I’m scrambling through my phone contacts to see if it jogs my memory.

Then, all of a sudden POOF it comes back to me. So annoying.

Apparently it had been real popular for people to throw empty bottles over the fence, and hear them smash into the empty pools.

It’s not the focus of your story but this right here make me angry. I HATE litering. I don’t enjoy confrontation but I have given complete strangers ass chewings in the middle of the street for it. I can think of few things more selfish and entitled than treating the world like it’s your own personal trashcan.

Have you tried focusing and applying yourself?

/S