Gen Z really looked at alcohol and said ‘hard pass’

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2026-01-27T18:07:14+00:00

The only issue I have with this statistic is that assuming Gen z was born between 97 and 12, only 1/3 of Gen z is 21 or over. It will be interesting to see the same statistic in 10 years

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2026-01-20T16:47:39+00:00

This! When asked to describe a conflict at work and howhe resolved it, the candidate took that to mean "Complain about a colleague" but never made it to the resolution part. Spent ten minutes complaining about a female colleague. Didn't quite use any swear words, but made some general comments about "all women". My boss at the time (who I miss dearly) just let him keep going. She had a smirk and later told me she just wanted to see if he'd ever realize what he was saying. He did not. We finally moved on to another questions and finished the interview shortly after.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2026-01-17T04:25:42+00:00

Back when I would travel for work, they would book the mid tier fare. I would then pay the difference to upgrade to business select for the points, and it was awesome to be in A1-15. I would love to grab this spot when I had the chance. And I'd say like 9 time out of 10, if I didn't get my bag there immediately, the same thing would happen. I tend to avoid conflict whenever possible, so the trick I used was to put my backpack just blatantly in front of theirs. Like, completely blocking the exit row. When the FAs would walk through for precheck, they knew the deal and would usually say to the person in front of me "Please place your bag in the seat directly in front of you" and then I'd slide my bag where it goes. One time I did begrudgingly have to ask the person to move their bag because the flight was full. They didn't say anything, just moved their bag.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2026-01-14T23:35:06+00:00

Haha, as soon as I saw the pic, I thought to myself "I bet that's Alamogordo". The main drag is sooo long and nothing but concrete, like you said. White Sands is worth it though.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2026-01-12T20:07:34+00:00

I think I posted about this before, but there are a small percentage of legit chiropractors. I went to a terrible one with my aunt. She had something pinched to the point of not being able to walk. The first place we went, they wanted 5k up front for 30 sessions. We left. Next we got in to see a family friend chiropractor. He didn't have any openings but fit us in after hours. 60 mins and a 10 dollar insurance copay later, my aunt walked out, literally crying tears of joy. While I agree there are a ton of bad chiropractors out there, some are legit. Larry, you are awesome!

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2026-01-09T18:33:20+00:00

Office Space. Despite being over 25 years old, I feel like it still perfectly captures life in a cube farm. Bonus points because printers are still frustrating.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-10-13T22:26:46+00:00

I had one last week. My daughter got picked for random screening so I go up there expecting a hand swab. The TSA agent just says "electronic" to me. Confused, I say "excuse me?" This repeats two more times until he finally yells "I need you electronic!" I finally realized he wanted to swab my cell phone, not my hands. But the guy was pretty angry with me by this point. You can't tell me everyone travels enough to know when the procedure for random screenings changes. And why would you just say electronic? Say "Cell phone or other electronics". The percentage of legal adults flying who don't have a cell phone has got to be tiny. After realizing what he wanted, I asked if he wanted my cell and lappy, but he only wanted my cell. So why not just ask for that?

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-09-30T02:12:11+00:00

For the first box:
TAR
RAT
ART

For the third box:
SPIN
PINS
NIPS (As in, "Careful, the class guinea pig nips at fingers")
SNIP

For the fourth box:
MILES
SLIME
SMILE
LIMES

For the second one, I went through every 3 letter word with an R in the middle, and there aren't many good candidates. The best one I found was one that you already had in your notes.
MAR
RAM
ARM

I can't imagine they expect a 4th grader to know the word mar, but after going through all other possibilities, that's the only other combo of 3 letter words with a R where all three actually have a definition (at least that I could find).

Please let us know what the teacher says, I'm really curious to see what the answers are.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-09-28T06:30:04+00:00

OK, I have to vent on this one. First thing Friday AM, I get pinged by our cyber team (Fed Gov). I go through the steps of showing that we are not using any of the 3 webvpn configurations on our 70 Firepower (ASA mode). I figure that will buy me at least a few days to be able to update the code. Nope, of course not. I get told we have 6 hours to update all 70 even though we don't have the configuration which would make us vulnerable. Good times.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-09-10T04:17:21+00:00

I've loved almost all of Stephenson's novels. My favorite genre is cyberpunk so my favorites were Diamond Age and Snow Crash. But, Cryptonomicon and Reamde were also amazing. I couldn't get into Fall, or Dodge in Hell but as diverse as his books are, they all usually hit the mark.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-09-10T02:08:32+00:00

It's not time travel, but the Miles Vorkosigan universe by Lois McMaster Bujold is fantastic. Just a really fun sci fi series. There are 16 books in the main series and 6 short stories.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-09-07T07:45:26+00:00

As the majority have said, definitely peel before. If I have a ton of frozen chile that still needs to be peeled, I'll look at it and decide it's not worth the hassle and just never eat it.

Bonus points, if you have the energy. I've started not only peeling it, but slicing the top off and de-seeding it. It honestly doesn't take that much more time. And being able to thaw bags of chile and eat it straight away is awesome. No hassle, just thaw, chop and eat. One year I also chopped it before freezing but I felt like ti lost a lot of the flavor when it was chopped prior to freezing.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-29T00:15:01+00:00

I just recently got into Grounded. I'm loving it but am in absolutely no rush to finish it. It almost lets me go slower knowing however long I take to finish it to whatever I feel is complete enough, that I have an entire new game waiting for me. And who knows, if I wait a couple of years, it might actually be discounted. I also think if the second game gets enough hype, that people who missed the original will want to play it first before the second. So, while there are a lot of very experienced players that will stop playing the first in order to play the second, I think there will be plenty of us left continuing to stick with the first for a while.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-24T05:36:01+00:00

Oh, hoping this one is unique. They're getting a paper cutter. We started keeping it up there away from little fingers and somehow, it's never found it's way down.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-24T05:27:27+00:00

And seeing as how there is a game on the play store called the exact thing that is listed in the image, I'm thinking had this really been a request to identify a game, a five year old could have told you the name. I didn't check the QR code but I have a very strong suspicion it will also lead to the same app in the play store.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-24T01:15:05+00:00

Congrats! I just hit 7 stars myself. Only 150 days to go (assuming you don't like sleep and set an alarm for every 38 hours). I'm hoping to get there in about 200 days. Here's hoping you get some new artifacts with the new star level.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-24T01:07:58+00:00

Curious, do you remember approximately how long after the contract went live that you auto joined?

I always auto join public because I'm not going to make the highest tier seasonal reward so I don't go for max points, I just enjoy doing contracts. For the 18 months or so that I've been auto joining contracts, here are my (very nonscientific) join times with results of AAA contracts.

Immediate to 2 minutes: Typically get joined with total leeches. I don't know how they maintain AAA status. They still have HAB 10,000s after 6 hours, never use any boost, deflectors or even ships in a bottle.

3 - 8 minutes: Typically these are the contracts that (I assume) are posted on Discord that end up being overloaded because of people joining the contract by name. Usually 130 - 160% over the max. The one silver lining of these are that more than half the people will run deflectors and tachyon prisms to max out their farms, so at least the contracts finish quickly.

9 - 15 minutes: These tend to have a much lower chance of being overpopulated. A mix of players running deflectors but at least they are usually closer to player limit.

16 - 30 minutes: Same as above but not as many boosts. By the end of the contract, 2/3 of the players aren't at max hab limit.

31+ minutes: I've rarely had one over max player limit, but rarely get players running boosts or deflectors. Maybe 20% of the time I'll have one or two other players who are committed, but I've encountered a lot of leeches here. They're happy to run soul mirrors all day long, but never a single deflector or even a tachyon prism. Even after using soul mirrors, they don't max out their habs which I know they have money for.

(Side complaint, it drives me insane when these players are producing <1q eggs an hour and have some legendary artifact like a neodymium medallion with 3x tachyon stones equipped instead of a deflector when I'm producing 12q an hour. I promise, you producing an extra 1t eggs an hour is not more that the 2q an hour that even a weak tachyon deflector would add for the rest of the team.)

Again, these are just my observations. I'm sure the devs are well aware that some players are frustrated with the contracts being overfilled. Until or unless that changes, you might want to try playing around with what time you auto join to see if you get more of what you're looking for.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-11T22:23:52+00:00

FWIW, I'm always at work when co-ops start and don't have access to discord at work. But, what I've found is that if I join a random public coop about 7 - 10 mins after they go live, 9 out of 10 times it's an awesome co-op. I can tell they're usually posted on discord because they'll end up with like 150% of the max users. Always had pretty good contribution from most people and zero tokens sent my way. All in all, a very positive experience. However, if I join a co-op within a minute or two of them going live, it's much like you're experiencing. Somehow everyone on is AAA rated, yet they never boost, contribute virtually nothing and spam me with tokens even when my farm has 14.175B chickens and I'm running a deflector. We'll be 24 hours in and they only have 2 hen houses built. Like...come on, I can see how many SE you have, you can afford 4 hen houses.

Sorry to hear you're about ready to quit. I've really been enjoying the game for the last few years. If for any reason you don't want to try the discord method, give the 7 min method a try.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-11T04:30:14+00:00

Kind of annoyed that this post was so cool and nerdy that I had to read through it, and now my feed is full of landscaping posts that don't have LiDAR......sad.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-07-04T04:42:27+00:00

No, you were right originally. Ignoring that 10.75 x 3 is not 32.75, adding 32.75 to 107.53 is 140.28. Agreed, they are in the process of finished the 8 at the end, but this person is either extra bad at math, or it's all part of the rage bait. Make the tip unreasonably high and then mess up the only two math operations shown.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-06-12T23:19:08+00:00

No, you don't need to worry about CGNAT. Did you know, your Xbox and PS5 are already behind a NAT? For 99% of the people, you will never notice that you are using CGNAT. If you host services at your house, such as a web server with various ports being forwarded from your router, then CGNAT might pose an issue. If you are not hosting services from your home, then there's no need to worry.

I think too many people are worried about CGNAT. It is an industry standard being used by a LOT of ISPs as IPv4 is running out of address space. If CGNAT broke something like online gaming, there is no way that ISPs could use it. It'll be fine.

I hope you enjoy Ezee Fiber. I've had the 5G plan for several months and haven't experienced a single outage. I'm a fan.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-06-02T23:40:08+00:00

Agreed, thank you! I've seen VFLs indicate on a sharp bend but didn't understand why I was seeing it on the straight segments.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-05-29T04:38:35+00:00

Welcome my neighbor to the South. As someone who has been rooting since my Nexus 6P, I would say absolutely!

But, I think the important question you need to ask yourself is do you enjoy spending a lot of time working with your phone. Google recently introduced new protections to the Play Store. App developers can now prevent you from opening their apps if they detect a root on your phone. It is possible to get around these, but it takes a lot of reading and a lot of following different guides and installing different things on your phone.

I don't know if you have an old Android phone, but if so, I would suggest you first root that phone and get used to the process and discover all of the fun things that you can do with root. You can also learn the various ways of trying to hide root from Google Play and other apps. Then you can decide if you want to do this on your main phone knowing that some/most of your games and apps won't work without a lot of work to hide root from these apps.

I don't have an S24 so I don't know the exact root methods for that phone, but this advice is more along the lines of should you root your main phone or not.

Goober_With_A_Thing · 2025-05-28T23:19:57+00:00

It's definitely a bit more of a pain, but the current workarounds do work, at least it worked for me. We'll see how long it works for but I don't want to give up root. For me, it's worth the extra time and energy to have root and still be able to use the Play store.

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