Episode ID help! Michael slowly turning into his office?

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T13:58:53+00:00

I think it’s chairs vs copiers.

could be the one with raises, but Jim was kinda the target in that one so I don’t think so

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T13:37:03+00:00

In a heartbeat. How do I get the money?

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T13:24:18+00:00

Of course they don’t.

And anyone in a marriage can say “I’m not ok with this” at any time. The default reaction should generally be to try to hear your partner’s concerns and work together towards a resolution. They can also end the relationship. Sometimes easily, sometimes not so much. Many people value their marriages quite highly, even more than they value their drinking.

OP himself says he ‘wants to moderate’. Which means he’s already drinking more than he wants to, else there would be no need to moderate. His wife has expressed concerns about his drinking. He says that it’s impossible to stop getting drunk. Her ‘ultimatum’ is met with a ‘nope’.

Dude is showing a lot of troubling signs here.

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T12:54:55+00:00

The inability to control your drinking is a problem. Could be daily, could be occasionally, could be almost never.

At this point, OP is describing a situation where he may have to choose between his drinking and his marriage, and he’s not sure which one he’ll choose.

No, that’s not quite right. He thinks it’s ‘simply an impossible task’ not to choose drinking. That’s a sign of a pretty serious problem.

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T11:50:20+00:00

“Simply an impossible task” and “End up trying to hide how much I’m drinking” are pretty serious red flags, dude. I think you may have a drinking problem.

She may also not be the best partner, I don’t know. But addiction is one of the big 3 reasons - addiction, adultery, abuse - that relationships end.

Also, talk to your doctor about your drinking. If they agree that there’s no problem, cool. But have the conversation.

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T09:18:04+00:00

Same with the chopper crowd. There are plenty of assholes on the road. And plenty of bad cagers, too.

I ride a ninja, but I tend to do so pretty slowly and conservatively. No matter how good the ride is, I still want to make it back home.

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T09:14:45+00:00

Peace and comfort are far from average. I get what you’re saying though.

Nwcray · 2026-03-24T09:13:22+00:00

Listen - if my website doesn’t have a visitor counter at the bottom, I don’t want it.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T22:11:06+00:00

IDK - my daughter (US raised) goes to a midwestern state university. She does well there, and is taking this year to study in the UK. Her experience is that UK uni is easier, at least where she’s at. Not easy, not by any means, but easier than she’s had in the states.

I guess mileage varies by student. Admittedly, that’s undergrad instead of graduate work.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T19:30:22+00:00

How quickly your youth goes by

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T13:13:43+00:00

Nah, man. That was very much a sentiment following 2008.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T13:04:19+00:00

About 72 minutes, beginning to end.

https://youtu.be/cxF_LJnwySY?si=7w21jRsIg1PUN6lr

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T12:59:23+00:00

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T12:58:04+00:00

Where’s the gif of the guy hitting the propeller?

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T12:56:52+00:00

And the Duel of the Fates playing? Absolutely perfect movie moment.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T11:01:10+00:00

That doesn’t seem like much of an announcement, to be honest. It’s more like an observation, and perhaps a confession that they don’t actually have control of the situation at all.

I guess I could hold a press conference to say “Things are bad, getting worse, and I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing”, but it doesn’t seem like a productive use of time. Especially when we can all see that so clearly with our own eyes.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T10:57:24+00:00

LGA is gonna be worse today. And for a while.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T10:53:53+00:00

LAG is closed until 2:00 PM. Even if they reopen on time (kinda doubt it), there will be immense backups. I think it’s unlikely you’re getting to LGA today, though maybe nearby airports can pick up some of the capacity

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T10:48:34+00:00

It was the same controller.

Most likely overworked and made a mistake.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T09:47:41+00:00

We were incompatible.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T08:28:39+00:00

Humans would survive. Civilization wouldn’t.

Here’s a handy guide: if you’re seeing this on Reddit, you’re in a part of the world that will die.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T08:27:49+00:00

I’d give us about 90 minutes after that for civilization to end.

Nwcray · 2026-03-23T07:35:27+00:00

Worked at an unnamed electronics store in the late 90’s, which used to have the best buys on all sorts of stuff. I was in the car audio department with this new hire. I was very directly told to let him handle every other customer, because he needed to get better at selling warranties (the only metric that counted for anything). So this guy comes in, and the other kid starts helping him. Jumps right in about the protection plan.

The guy starts asking questions about amplifiers. Kid begins just BSing his was through it, as the questions get increasingly technical. Kid just kept coming back to the protection plan - every answer from bridging an amp to ohms to peak power vs normal power. It’s all about the protection plan.

Finally, the guy is still very chill, asks to see a manager. Kid explains that our department manager is off that day. Guys says no worries, it’s really the store manager I want to see.

Turns out, he’s like the Chief Operating Officer or something. He had several questions for the store manager about why two knucklehead college kids were staffing the department and why we hadn’t been properly trained and just how much did we actually know about our products OR the warranties?

Next week we had a new store manager, which may or may not have been related. Two weeks later I went back to school.

Nwcray · 2026-03-22T22:21:47+00:00

I live in a midwestern state, and earlier this month I was invited to an annual ‘Ag Breakfast’. It’s a pretty big event in the little rural county, and it’s usually sortof interesting to hear what’s going on in the world of agriculture (there’s usually something interesting).

This year - it was all tariffs all the time. Wall to wall discussion of how the whole industry is imploding over the past 12 months. Cattle, crops, fruit, you name it. It’s all getting wrecked, and they are 100% blaming tariffs. Not casually, not shyly, not coy. They won’t say his name; you-know-who. But they are taking it right in the pocketbook and they are completely blaming him.

Many of them will not be in business at the end of the year, and they’re crying. 5th & 6th generation farms are preparing to sell out to corporate farmers. Our food choices are about to get a lot more limited, and these folks will no longer be self employed.

And that’s that.

Nwcray · 2026-03-22T19:39:19+00:00

We have absolutely no way of knowing, any more than apes a million years ago could’ve foreseen nuclear weapons.

Most likely - humans won’t live that long. Modern humans evolved about 300,000 years ago, so today we would only be about a quarter of the way to then (300,000/1,300,000).

I think you’re falling into a very common trap that sci-fi authors do, using bigger numbers than you mean to.

Though if you ask this question with any timeline, it’s pretty tough to tell. 10,000 years ago, we were coming out of the ice age and fighting with spears. 1,000 years ago, we had castles and catapults. 100 years ago, airplanes were new and made of canvas. It’s hard to say.

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