Tempting to try this and diff it. My most complex PowerShell scripts aren’t testable as they were company/task specific. Plus, I killed my X account long ago. :(

Y’all should employ my “Hawkeye Pierce Theory of Work”. You bust your ass right off the bat, get really good and knowledgeable, get recognized as such. At worst, you get a lateral promotion doing something you would rather be doing, or gain the juice to do what you want to do and leave the lazy people to do the crappy parts of the job. In any case, they dare not get rid of you.

If that doesn’t work you a) are not the top employee you think you are or b) need to get another job. I turned down a job that’s considered pretty good around here by our biggest employer. They made it damned clear I wasn’t going anywhere or doing anything else for at least a year. Nope.

The scale is throwing me. Differences of:

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“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.”

Florida’s one example.

How is this a big (heh) deal? I wear an 8.5 shoe and my feet are 10". If I measured my boots, they would be close enough to having 12" soles.

And y’all wonder why I’m always armed in the woods.

That’s what I was thinking. My wife would be benevolent but politically clueless, making me the real dictator.

That last question is the most interesting to me. I guess it doesn’t take much intuition to realize that rubbing things together makes them hot. Rub your arm really fast.

Still, watching experienced woodsmen starting a fire from scratch is an education. Even the best struggle.

I did worse, resurrected a 1999 industrial 486SX on Win98B. It was fun as hell trying to figure it all out again, and most references are gone from the early web. Which reminds me, time to get that 10-BaseT NIC working!

Pulled that shit on my daughter with an RC shark fin at our camp. LOL, she was tripping.

I don’t get this at all. Are they hoping monkey pox kill most of the humans?

Are you seriously asking for a list of every economic downturn in history?

When prices drop, unemployment goes up, people can’t buy shit, rinse and repeat.

That’s a pre-exercise thing. I think OP’s talking about stretching in your chair or bed.

And you could knock a motherfucker out with one! Like in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis beats a pimp to death.

Hadn’t thought of that, but just checked and NYC is 42% of the state’s population. I would think state politicians crossing a popular mayor a highly risky proposition.

27% of all PIN numbers

I feel personally attacked.

This shit happened to me. Long story but I had just been electrocuted on a telephone pole, screaming my lungs out, hands locked on the wire. My legs still worked so I pushed off the pole and hit the ground. After my supervisor and best friend rolled up to check on me, I decided to man up and finish the job.

Hanging on the pole, customer comes out his back door, “Hey man! Are you going to set up my email before you leave.”

“Yeah. I will.”

Those items are all real things, real things that are either lies or misused.

Empower employees - Will you really cut the crap and let employees manage themselves and their solutions? LOL, no.

Leverage core competencies - Always a solid plan to play to your strengths, but instead the company turns “core competencies” into competencies the wish they had.

Scalable solutions - From an IT perspective, this can get ludicrous. At my last gig we were heavy Amazon users. It’s scalable! Guys, we didn’t need scale. Our customer base was extremely limited, really niche market, and we already had 94% of it on lock down. There was zero chance of explosive growth.

Many human families are led by a matriarch whose word is law.