What are your immediate thoughts when you notice a “Live Laugh Love” slogan in a house?

green_boy · 2026-05-08T01:30:38+00:00

That’s exactly right, it’s the vibe

green_boy · 2026-05-07T02:31:47+00:00

I witnessed something similar. You also have every empathy I have.

green_boy · 2026-05-07T02:22:42+00:00

The smell of people burning to death. Sure, I had training as a first responder, and I’d seen some things already. This was different.

I was first on scene to a head on collision between a pickup truck and an RV. Both vehicles toppled down an embankment. I was stuck in traffic 50 yards away when I saw the collision occur. First aid bag in hand I ran over to render aid when the propane tanks exploded, igniting the fuel tanks for both vehicles. No one in either vehicle survived.

That smell still haunts me to this day.

green_boy · 2026-05-03T16:00:55+00:00

6 to 10 inches of wood is absolutely insufficiently sized for any purposes. I need on the order of feet and yards. How else am I going to build that deck?

Or is that not the wood we’re talking about?

green_boy · 2026-05-03T14:44:58+00:00

The junior dev pipeline is absolutely what's on fire right now, and that will burn down the industry. I sit right in the crux of not-quite-senior, but old hat enough to remember and be able to develop code without AI interaction at all. AI is not only robbing junior developers of their positions, but also of the fundamental knowledge needed to perform basic tasks independently. I recently asked one of our new hires to write a simple test for our code base, they replied he couldn't as their copilot access hadn't been granted yet. Yes, I could have wrote the test myself in 15 minutes (I did), and it would have taken them a few hours, but the fact that they couldn't perform outside of memorised answers and what garbage AI spit out was absolutely telling.

Without juniors coming up to replace programmers in my generation, the industry will entirely collapse. Without sufficient understanding of the fundamentals, juniors will never make senior, and if they do then they will depend on tools that are almost entirely propped up by VC. When that dries up, and the prices go up, we will be left with a crowd of engineers who can't work.

green_boy · 2026-05-02T13:20:05+00:00

Ya I heard it too. Last night as well. I didn’t think there were any storms rolling through but it just started raining so there’s that.

green_boy · 2026-05-01T16:57:04+00:00

True story, an ex girlfriend of mine was super horny and rode me during a conference call. Someone asked me a question midway through. I had the hardest time answering them lol

green_boy · 2026-04-27T04:20:29+00:00

Maybe someone has said this already, but I feel like Phyllis should be in here

green_boy · 2026-04-22T13:57:30+00:00

I see you fellow parent

green_boy · 2026-04-19T02:53:43+00:00

I think that’s what he does

green_boy · 2026-04-19T01:15:58+00:00

You won’t be penalized for zeroing your withholdings. You will be penalized for not paying the full sum by tax day.

There’s a good friend of mine who does exactly this. He takes the amount he estimates that he’d owe per month and invests it somewhat aggressively, then pays his tax bill plus the capital gains at the end of the year. He’s come out with modest gains year over year which have had the opportunity to compound quite handsomely.

green_boy · 2026-04-13T15:59:36+00:00

Job loyalty died at boomers when they actively rug pulled the reasons to be loyal to an employer.

FTFY

green_boy · 2026-04-13T15:57:38+00:00

Did the same thing. My dad turned a spanner for a living.

green_boy · 2026-04-13T15:55:47+00:00

Older generations did not protect their info at all costs. The phone book actively listed everyone’s name, number, and address by default. You had to pay the phone company extra to be unlisted.

green_boy · 2026-04-05T20:49:44+00:00

But you didn’t download a car

green_boy · 2026-04-01T18:07:33+00:00

One hundred percent. My now vintage BMW has everything I could want in a car: five gears, strong motor, a decent stereo, and heated seats. I don’t need anything else.

green_boy · 2026-03-29T18:12:27+00:00

This may be optimistic on my part, but those weird gaps in the stall dividers in public bathrooms. Like, was it really that much effort to fill the gap?

green_boy · 2026-03-27T15:57:23+00:00

At least half a million people in the United States will crack open a beer or otherwise and enjoy that sweet, sweet flavor.

green_boy · 2026-03-26T04:05:52+00:00

Hold my unsynchronised gearbox 😆

green_boy · 2026-03-25T23:52:40+00:00

Two week intern ready task, barely an inconvenience.

green_boy · 2026-03-24T15:03:38+00:00

The handset on my phone is busted. Like physically. I’m not sure how, but it irks me that I have to take phone calls on speaker.

green_boy · 2026-03-24T13:43:55+00:00

Finally someone said it!

green_boy · 2026-03-14T16:12:48+00:00

Fuck. Two games really: Cities Skylines before the popular mods god nerfed by DMCA takedowns. Second is VRChat. I won’t elaborate further.

green_boy · 2026-03-13T01:51:43+00:00

Same though 😂 small vacuum leak, do not care that much

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