I got as far as Calculus III and Linear Algebra in college. Nowadays I’m sure I could not do a derivation or an integration to save my fucking life and when I see a matrix my brain thinks “wow, numbers in a grid!”

Mandel Bro

If you’re dumb enough to have been dumb, keep being dumb.

I love children … in 15 minute doses. That’s why being a childless school bus driver is so great.

Yeah, that was only discovered in the 1990s.

My grandmother had her first child out of wedlock at the age of 14, her second child (my mom) out of wedlock with a different father at the age of 16, and her third child out of wedlock with yet another different father at the age of 17. And this was all in the 1930s. I strongly suspect grandma really enjoyed the sex – otherwise, why go through all the social approbation and abandonment by her family that went along with it?

“Fascistic” means like fascism. This isn’t like fascism, it is fascism.

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!

Well, the organization was kind of like Habitat for Humanity, just smaller. They mainly existed on charity donations. Looking back on it (forty years later), I suspect that the guy running it was embezzling a lot of the money.