My favorite quote from this movie was “first rule of leadership, princess: everything is your fault!”

I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler

The exact opposite is true.

I prefer his “jeweled self-dribbling basketballs” to “elves”.

I was riding on a two-lane road a couple of years ago. I heard a car approaching from behind, and he went really wide into the opposite lane to pass me. This was thoughtful of him except that there was a white van coming the opposite way which had to get almost all the way over to their curb to avoid hitting the car passing me head on. The driver of the white van stuck his head out of his window and yelled at me “YOU’RE GONNA GET SOMEBODY KILLED!”

There was a movie called Inside Job or Inside Man or something like that, where the lead organizes a bank robbery where he ends up secreting himself in a hidden room inside the bank itself, and then emerging with the cash a week later and strolling out. It would be pretty hilarious if this guy hid himself in Manhattan in similar fashion and then emerged into this lookalike contest to make his escape.

Brian Thompson looked pretty well-marbled for a CEO, to be fair. Cook 'im low, cook 'im slow.

That’s crazy talk. Your teeth aren’t part of your body or anything!

I actually really like short-format videos for recipes so you don’t have to watch somebody chopping onions for ten minutes. Also, Ronaldo highlights set to Brazilian phonk are kinda cool. Other than that, the format seems pretty worthless.

arcing in the walls

Yeah, when I rebuilt the kitchen/living room wall, I found the stud that had held one of the original outlets and it was scorched black where the box had been. Kind of amazing the house was still standing.

I did reuse the scorched stud. 2x4s are fucking expensive and these ones from the 1940s were perfectly straight and completely knot-free.

Like, I actually had emails from the bosses talking about this shit. I really should have saved them for blackmail - no worse ethically than what I did do.

I bought a fridge from Lowe’s and one of the delivery guys asked to use my bathroom. When I went in there later, he had basically managed to pee on the floor instead of in the toilet. I’m a bit of a “tinkler sprinkler” myself but this was next level.

I bought a house last year and one of the switch boxes was filled with caulk to hold the switches in place. I’ve seen a lot of caulk abuse over the years but never anything like that.

Speaking as a 57yo, I sure wish there was some sport where age wasn’t a disadvantage. Is getting your knees to make weird noises when you stand up a “sport”?

I bought a house last year and I was somewhat mystified by why the two light switches next to the door were horizontal instead of the normal vertical arrangement. Turns out they had tried to turn a single box into a double by basically just gouging a bigger hole in the cinderblock wall and filling it with a softball-sized lump of caulk into which they stuffed the two switches; somehow they could only get this whole mess to stay in place by putting the switches horizontally. For bonus points, one of the switches did nothing except producing a distant humming noise and then tripping one of the breakers after a few seconds.

I worked on one project that was essentially one main app and then a plugin architecture where other companies could write modules that would be run inside the main app. My explicit instructions were to make it very difficult to actually write one of these modules (so that our competitors could not actually be competitive) and boy did I deliver! If my company had really wanted to deliver something like this that actually worked (in the sense of other companies being able to make real contributions) it would have been trivial to make everything HTML-based web apps.

I had to endure a roasting session where some junior developers laid into “grampa” for his absurdly bad design decisions. I suppose I deserved it, though, for my poor ethical choices.

I have to object to your use of the term “defenders”

Might as well use the same sleight of hand that we use in the US: they’re not “defending Israel”, they’re “defending Israeli interests”.

I would want “lump of star shit” in my obit.

It’s a lot harder to murder somebody when you actually have to stab them or beat their head in with something.

Life expectancy from birth is easily the most misleading statistic in the history of the social sciences because it is a measure of central tendency (aka an average, specifically, a median) of a property (age at death) that not only has no central tendency but actually has the opposite of a central tendency, with values concentrated at the low end (infant and child mortality) and the high end (old age deaths). In almost all societies ever measured, the life expectancy from birth age is usually the age at which a person is least likely to die.

To add to its misleading nature: demographers usually use the value to express the life chances of the just-born cohort (up to age 5). Since they obviously can’t wait 70 or 80 years until half of that cohort has actually died, they instead use curve-fitting to estimate life expectancy based on infant and child mortality actually experienced by the cohort. People often say that life expectancy from birth is misleading because it’s heavily impacted by infant and child mortality, but this is not quite correct - it’s actually entirely determined by infant and child mortality.

Imagine being proudly offed by Pluto and then they make it not a planet any more.