I have to lean sideways anyway because my shoulders are too broad and the side of the plane is round.

There’s so much about flying that sucks as a big person.

My knees are folded up to my chest. I’m leaning to the right to stay off the fuselage. I can’t be in an aisle seat because I’m in the way of the crew, and I have to lean forward the whole time because someone is in the seat next to me. And that person hates me.

My dread of the flying experience is why I never go on vacations.

Honestly, that may actually be more comfortable for me than trying to fold my legs into the tiny rows they have now.

I’ve done that when I need to send something quickly from an airgapped system.

I had a roommate in college royally fuckup huge batch of very expensive ribs we’d bought for a party because the online recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic abbreviated as “garlic - 2c” and he put in 2 cups of garlic powder.

Because the restrictions is technically on the city, not the organizations we aren’t allowed to hire.

It’s bullshit.

In Texas, government organizations not only can’t divest from Israel, but also can’t award contracts to anyone who divest from Israel or speaks ill of it.

It’s insane. When analyzing bids for janitorial services for City Hall a few weeks back, I was required to vett them for their stance on Israel.

Paul. He wasn’t a member of the group, then showed up and changed everything and killed the whole vibe.

Nobody ever remembers to ask for the ZIP code.

We use a third-party IT department for my City, and they just give up and tell us we need to buy a new laptop if it’s more complicated than “check for updates.”

And since they’re the ones who have the contract to sell us equipment, it works great for them.

It was also 100% legal to kill someone trying to be a king.

We’ve learned enough about Germans in the last few days on Lemmy.

If you ever want to see if you’re on the right side of history, just look at your words:

“Illegal people” is a vile concept.

With my old brother inkjet, it would say it was out of ink in like 2 weeks because it used an optical sensor on the printer looking through a window on the ink cartridge at aimed at a floating piece of black plastic in the tank that would drop when the ink level went down.

The thing is, the sponge in the cartridge would soak up the ink and cause the floater to drop when there was still like 90% of the ink left.

So the key was to just put some black electrical tape over the window on the cartridge and keep using it until it actually stopped printing that color.

Christmas as a child: “Oh man… socks.”

Christmas as an adult: “Oh man! Socks!”

I’ll be the one storming it.

One of my University students asked me the other day if I was doing anything special for the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith.

I told him he needs to remember I control his grade.

I got the 2024 moto razr+ flr my work phone when ATT had it on sale for almost nothing since nobody was buying them

I’d forgotten how satisfying it was to hang up by snapping the phone shut.

I’ve recently really gotten into 3d printing, and I’ve bought the bullet and purchased a pretty nice 3D scanner (Crealty Raptor Pro).

There’s no such thing as too much enough RAM for these scans.

There is a super famous, incredibly mediocre destination BBQ restaurant in Central Texas that is famous for an all-you-can-eat family-style meal. For decades, they only accepted cash. Way, way longer than made sense. Like into the 2020s I think.

Their main menu item was all-you-can eat (hard to quantify number of sales), only members of the family that ran the place were allowed to count the take and the receipts at the end of each shift, and they only took cash.

I fully believe they were either laundering money or evading taxes by under-reporting. But then they opened a few satellite branches, including one at the airport, and started having to be more careful as they expanded.

I want to see the answers on the right.