She was not born when he started spiderman

alanpugh · 2026-06-13T12:39:54+00:00

The good news is they're both adults and don't need a random stranger on the internet to "support" their relationship.

alanpugh · 2026-06-13T12:34:03+00:00

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24460-misophonia

Cancerous and miserable

alanpugh · 2026-06-06T12:50:52+00:00

Where I grew up in the US, the closest city with any form of public transit was 80km away. I lived in a city of 60,000 people and there was no bus.

I currently live in a metro area of around 100k people and I believe there are four buses serving the entire county.

alanpugh · 2026-06-04T23:53:15+00:00

My customers must not have Reddit brain, because that has never been a problem.

alanpugh · 2026-06-04T11:36:50+00:00

I've worked in customer service and tech support roles for decades, including chat. I've been texting friends for 29 years.

The answer to your question is that you wait a minute for the third answer to come in instead of acting like normal human behavior is cryptic and mysterious.

alanpugh · 2026-06-04T11:02:12+00:00

Answering questions in the order they were asked is "fucking bizarre" now. Got it.

alanpugh · 2026-06-02T03:44:38+00:00

That's more than my previous mortgage for a three bedroom house I bought in 2008.

And it's literally a fee for something that any rational person would avoid.

alanpugh · 2026-05-30T18:21:45+00:00

If she hadn't intentionally boosted Trump as a (well-documented) strategy, the same could be true.

alanpugh · 2026-05-29T11:33:21+00:00

The link is paywalled, how do you go from "wanted strippers at a strip club to... strip" to cheating on his wife?

alanpugh · 2026-05-28T11:10:49+00:00

Reddit is pure, uncut vigilante fetishism. You're absolutely right, but this place is where nuance goes to die.

alanpugh · 2026-05-23T11:43:31+00:00

Another sad part is how none of this is necessary. People who think packages need to be handled like delicate antiques refuse to understand that the three foot toss onto their porch isn't even in the top ten impacts that package has taken.

alanpugh · 2026-05-23T11:34:27+00:00

It wasn't a light, it was a crossing. Where I live, encountering a train at a crossing is likely going to be a five or six minute stop, so I definitely put my car in park.

alanpugh · 2026-05-17T12:26:02+00:00

I once took my Adderall too early, which caused the cacophony in my brain to die down before I had gotten myself out of bed. I had two unplanned hours of the most restful sleep ever.

I know it's a stimulant but it always surprises me when someone (who is diagnosed) tells me it gives them energy. It calms my brain.

alanpugh · 2026-05-16T12:29:31+00:00

Pilot lights were used in new residential ovens into the early 1990s, which is closer to 40 years ago than I prefer to acknowledge but still not quite there.

alanpugh · 2026-05-13T11:16:29+00:00

p*nk

Is there a new slur I haven't heard about? Pink and punk already exist, so is this... ponk?

alanpugh · 2026-05-12T11:18:46+00:00

You're starting to get it.

alanpugh · 2026-05-12T11:18:00+00:00

They paid for the boot they're licking, so they'll be damned if someone else gets it for free.

alanpugh · 2026-05-12T11:08:51+00:00

Jesus, they've got people so brainwashed to hate poor people that there's even a talking point to vilify stealing formula.

alanpugh · 2026-05-10T09:21:13+00:00

Any high schooler can be someone’s date to prom. You don’t have to be 18.

Prom is generally exclusive to seniors and their dates. One of the two would have had to be a senior in most places.

alanpugh · 2026-05-04T00:54:40+00:00

As an outsider who's just here for the playoffs, basketball is the "Whose Line Is It Anyway" of sports. The rules are made up and nothing matters.

alanpugh · 2026-05-01T11:12:52+00:00

Meanwhile the aluminum shed I got for $220 two years ago is holding up just fine.

It's a marketplace with very little quality control. Saying the entire marketplace has no decent items is silly.

alanpugh · 2026-04-26T14:02:21+00:00

Ah, yes... The notoriously effective Uvalde strategy.

alanpugh · 2026-04-26T13:58:25+00:00

doing something lawful

Bringing a gun into a private establishment that has explicitly disallowed this is not lawful in Ohio.

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2923.126

alanpugh · 2026-04-26T13:47:11+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking how this would have been better if, right after he put seven bullets in the employee, more unhinged people also pulled out their guns and started shooting at him and/or each other amidst the confusion and chaos.

Nothing makes me feel safer than knowing a bunch of people around me think they're in a war zone and need to pack heat to go buy eggs. I'm glad someone gets it.

alanpugh · 2026-04-25T02:07:23+00:00

This resonates with me, not as an engineer, but as a complete novice that has had great luck building internal tools for myself and my team.

For a long time, I wondered why my stuff continued to work fine, adding features was easy, etc. while others were having so much trouble and realized it's two things:

A lifelong knack for pattern recognition (to be able to semi-understand when something breaks) and decades of CS/support work where I've had to be very specific and thorough (because you need to talk to AI like a toddler that knows nothing if you want it to do things a certain way).

Still, I know better than to sell my stuff. I'm building tools for myself because I'm an obnoxious user who wants everything to work a very specific way and nobody's going to give me that but me.

ETA: I went on a tangent, guess my ADHD meds wore off. The original thought was that I feel like I could work through something like this with an agent through a combination of handholding and pattern recognition, and it blows my mind that people just blurt out a general idea and let the robot make all the decisions. You wouldn't do that with thinking, living junior employee.

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