My local Shop-Rite still has cheap-ass chicken, at least. They’ve always had these packs of chicken (breast, legs or thighs) of about 6 or 7 pounds that cost $10 total. Thank god I like hot dogs, too – stores still damn near give those away.
there doesnt seem to be that many using ACA marketplace.
I went two years after I got laid off in 2019 having to pay for private health insurance. I got one of those ridiculous catastrophe-only policies with like a $7000 annual deductible and was still paying about $400 a month. I priced policies on the ACA marketplace, with the same shitty deductibles but three times the premium as what I was paying. I just don’t get why anyone would buy insurance there. Maybe the ACA policies are more likely to actually pay out in case of illness, I dunno.
One difference I know is the fact is that my private insurance did not allow me to get out of the mandated fine you supposedly had to pay if you didn’t have coverage, whereas the ACA policies do get you out of the fine. But for whatever reason, I never had to pay that fine.
beef products very rarely (because it’s fucking expensive now)
I was in Acme a few days ago looking through the steak section. There was a porterhouse close to expiration on sale for … $54 fucking dollars. It was a little over one pound. I’d be astonished to pay that much for a steak at a fucking steakhouse, cooked and brought to my table with sides and drinks.
If I want the taste of steak these days, I buy bottom round and flatten the shit out of it with a tenderizing mallet.
She’s me but in reverse. Benjamin Bussin’.
Any day I learn some Dutch is a good day.
I’m a school bus driver now and it’s great. I get to drive a big Tonka truck around and gaslight children. Sure, I make about 1/6 of what I used to make as a mobile apps programmer, but at least I get good subsidized health insurance and I only work 5 hours a day.
bevolking
Ok, I see that these letters are next to each other on the keyboard, but … damn.
Freedom in the US means the right to ride your Harley Davidson fart noise machine wherever you want.
You guys get shock collars? We get the kind that explodes your head.
No Country for Old Muppets
It’s the second-best version of A Christmas Carol, after the Blackadder version.
Stop suggesting good uses for AI!
I had a coworker on one project that took input as short integer values between 0 and 32767. The values conceptually represented min and max values between 0.0 and 1.0, so one day he changed all the parameters to Float, like in hundreds of places. Since the application then wouldn’t compile, he wrapped all the calls via search-and-replace so that the integer parameters were cast to Float and then clamped between 0.0 and 1.0.
Viola! the application then compiled. Unfortunately, this application controlled a baseball-throwing machine capable of 125 mph and he decided to test his new version (for the very first time) on an actual baseball field with Little Leaguers on it. The machine’s first throw was supposed to be a soft ground ball to the shortstop, but was instead a 125 mph knuckleball a foot above the kid’s head. This lead to the only time in my programming career when I had to physically intervene to prevent a fistfight (between the client and my manager).
It’s funny, I know exactly zero programmers (and this includes myself) who didn’t initially encounter SQL and decide it was clunky and stupid and try writing their own classes to write the SQL for them. I want to think it only took me a few weeks until I understand its actual value and purpose but I’m probably misremembering my past. The worst I ever saw, though, was a coworker who tried writing his own ORM. He had one project with classes named “AND.cs” and “OR.cs”. All they did was take an input string by reference and append " AND " or " OR " to it respectively. I’m sure I never before or since encountered a class that did less work.
Circa 2005 I created a mobile app (for the honest-to-god-that’s-what-MS-named-it “WinCE” OS that later became Windows Mobile) that allowed workers to survey power line networks in the field and indicate all the trees that needed to be trimmed or removed. The app used a local SqlCE database and the workers would upload their recorded data at the end of the day back in their hotel rooms using Remote Data Access, an MS technology which allowed SqlCE databases to “sync” with a master Sql Server database.
It almost always worked flawlessly (100% during development, natch), except for once in a while when synced data would somehow end up in a weirdly corrupted, mangled state on the central server. Like, records that were lacking a primary key value (!), something that is basically impossible to achieve. I opened a ticket with MS support and we went back and forth on this for a few weeks until they basically said “yeah that’s fucked” and recommended that I modify my app to sync the same data multiple times to ensure it made it to the server correctly.
I actually had substantial faith in MS products up to that point (facepalm).
I want to say it would have been better if he’d driven through it while there was water in it, but it’s nowhere near deep enough for that to be true.
trump full on drove his full motorcade into the reflecting pool
I assumed this was some kind of typo or something. They drove into the pool?
It’s weird how Richard Linklater either makes movies that I love (like Slacker and Dazed and Confused) or movies that make me want to find him and hit him in the head with a brick. Waking Life was probably his worst movie ever (only Blue Moon is a contender) and it’s just bonus points that it also happened to introduce the world to Alex Jones.
I’m not a billionaire … I’m THE billionaire.
“Fascistic” means like fascism. This isn’t like fascism, it is fascism.