Instead of incrementing, assign numbers with no real meaning.

Remember BP86 last year? Remember BP165 the year before?

Efficient.

By the time we finish, pretty much. We're trying to keep everything at least relatively close to the original and fix before we replace.

Oh yeah, everyone has said we should tear it down and rebuild. But it's a big piece of history, were keeping it alive.

My brother in law works at a pretty big dealership in the area. He said the markets so stupid right now that they're buying new cars from wholesalers and holding them for 30 days so they can sell them as used. Somehow this has been incredibly profitable for them. I don't really understand how but it apparently works out that the customer gets a hefty discount on an essentially new car without the manufacturer warranties and the volume is big enough to where the dealership is hitting record numbers.

None of it makes sense.

I'm 6 years sober this month

Granted I'm not a gamer, but I don't think I've ever even heard of prime gaming. I've heard of steam though.

I got 3 months paid paternity leave through a state program. A coworker who had a kid that same month chose to not use the state program and take 2 PTO days instead. I talked to him before hand and told him about the program but he said something like "I wouldn't be much help, she's done it twice already so she has it handled". It was very evident how his wife felt about him at the Christmas party that year.

She sought out my wife, who she knew had a kid recently too and my wife brought up how nice it was to have me home for those first few months and somehow the state program came up in the conversation. She then booked it over to me and asked me about it, not knowing what was going on or thinking much about it, I told her about it and that I can't believe coworker didn't do it. Then all hell broke loose. This tiny little lady dragged out my 6 foot heavy set coworker by the ear, calling him every name in the book. She made him use all his PTO days and went to spend new years somewhere warm. He bitched about how hard it was taking care of 3 kids on his own for weeks.

'Funny' enough all the guys in the office thought she was being ridiculous but all the women were praising her.

I had a pretty fucked up childhood and hadn't spoken to most of my family since 12-13 aside from funerals. My wife got an invite to the family Christmas party of Facebook and decided it would be good to go. The night before my mom called and told me that one of my uncles was trying find my other uncle so he could kill him, which is pretty par for the course.

We go to this Christmas party, I'm nervous and playing out all the ways it could go horribly wrong. What do you know, no one is drunk, there's games for the kids, almost everyone there got gifts for my son and we even got gifts for our second on the way. Not a single altercation that I saw, not even a casual "fuck you". All of the alcoholic, mentally ill, rage filled relatives that I remember are now old, properly medicated and mostly sober.

I felt like I was in the twilight zone. My wife came up to me at one point and said everyone's so nice especially that guy and I had to tell her he once beat the shit out of me with a bat, breaking my leg and cut my shoes up with a knife all because I left them in the middle of the floor and he tripped over them.

It was absolutely wild but not in the way I thought it would be.

Holy shit I just watched a 7 minute clip. That was a hard watch. What a couple of clowns.

I wild chicken would've been less disrespectful and a better conversation.

I hate fireworks and always have. I get people like them, but I wish they didn't go all night from every direction. If each area had a central park/spot where they did a big firework show for everyone for a little bit I wouldn't mind it as much, but now every street has they're own fireworks that go off randomly through the night.

Also something I don't think a lot of people think about. In my old neighborhood a lot of us had varying forms on PTSD and couldn't deal with the loud bangs. Holidays where fireworks were heavy were treated as a ceasefire/peace day for the most part since basically everyone who had been involved in a shooting was a mess, which was almost everyone. Others took the chance to disrespect that and use the fireworks as cover, they weren't treated well.

I'm sure most veterans feel the same or worse.

It's not just dogs who lose it at fireworks.

I've seen my neihborhood slowly shifting in the few years I've been here.

I got everyone on my small street to start gardening and they got other blocks to start, we all share our extra crops for the most part. No one is very good quite yet aside from a few houses who've been doing it for years and have been trying to help us non green thumbers.

There's a plumber 2 streets over who's lived there for a decade, I used him for a job and now he's the go to guys for most of my direct neighbors.

I make my own oat milk so I buy oats in bulk. A few people in the neighborhood buy a bunch from me for much cheaper than the grocery store and some have even started making their own oatmilk with me.

Anytime someone needs tech support they come over to me first, I used to see a geek squad van in the niehborhood weekly since there a lot of elderly. I hate doing it, but my god those tech support companies are slimy.

I've done a couple carpentry projects in the neighborhood and helped fix quite a few fences.

I feel like I moved here and said "why don't we help eachother out?" And it was a revolutionary idea that no one had thought about before.

When I was in the city it's just what you did. People survived with eachother but out here in a weird mix between the sticks/suburbs it seems like most people don't even know their neighbors names.

This might be fake, but I have a neighbor like this.

She's been freaking out about groceries, the price of her meds going up, now losing her insurance.

I've helped her out a lot more than any orange has the last few months, yet she still spouts about how great he is. Although now with much less enthusiasm, and if you don't put trumps name in the conversation she sort of comes back to reality a little and can realize that a bill gutting social safety nets to give the 1% a huge tax cut isn't a fair deal.

It's a cult.

"To better assist you please describe the nature of your emergency...... Let's try this again. To better assist..."

Meanwhile my 1 year old has a pretty routine surgery scheduled for next month that will cost me close to $30k after insurance.

I had a coworker over the other day because my wife loves his wife.

At one point he's telling me that they're coming out with AI sex robots that can do EVERYTHING and he's going into detail like he read the spec sheet and got excited. He's telling us how it will be the end of humanity because all men are going to divorce their wives, ditch their girlfriends and stop dating because they're just going to be fucking robots.

I said I don't see that happening on a large scale. I'm sure some guys will, but I doubt anyone who's going to give up women to fuck robots would have been procreating anyway and we probably wouldn't lose out on much in the gene pool. His wife started cracking up and agreeing with me, calling these guys freaks, and my coworker got real quiet and sulked into his chair.

So I know at least 1 person who would love to go to a robot strip club.

To a lot of people that's too much effort for "no reason".

People care, but not enough to put any effort in whatsoever.

I once worked at a place where I built out a bunch of internal tools that became pretty heavily integrated into the development workflow. Everything I built was the shittiest, most disgusting piece of garbage I've ever seen, but it worked. My job became solely managing these tools, as everyone else struggled to read and comprehend my filth.

I ended up switching jobs because they wouldn't give me the compensation I asked for and half of the development team quit before my 2 weeks was up to avoid dealing with my slop, a lot of them were already considering leaving for lack of compensation, but this was the nail in the coffin.

I found out a few months later that instead of just going back to life without these tools or finding someone to take them over they just shut down the development department. The people who were left either got fired or moved to a different department to pursue a new career path.

Not really a dumb reason, but back in the day I was stuck in the WordPress developer loop and tired of it. I was pretty familiar with a handful of languages, but wasn't doing much more than setting up themes and building out pages with builders.

One day I heard the CTO talking about a tool he would love to have but couldn't find anything that worked how he needed it to. The CTO was a big buzzword guy and recently shared an article with my manager at the time about how C++ was "the best language". So naturally I chimed in and told him I could build that tool easy peasy and I would use C++ obviously because it's the best language.

It was such a simple tool, basically just matching phrases and categories and spitting out a list of options. It took me months to make, but I learned a lot and it kind of worked for the most part and everyone was happy. I eventually got a de-facto department in the company where I would just build internal tools and handle some legacy codebases that they were previously outsourcing.

I later on got my current job because of that leap.

TLDR: I learned C++ because I was bored and lied that I already knew it.

I would love for robots to take over the boring jobs like making art, I think it's a great advancement that our overlords have engineered for us. Now we can get back to things we really enjoy like shoveling shit and suffocating in mines.

Thank god they didn't make robots more useful for everyday life tasks, freeing up a portion of the day. I have a hard enough time deciding what to do with my free 25 minutes every week as it is.

Got to go, my mining shift at the shit factor.... Never mind they made robots to mine shit now, guess I'll go starve to death in line waiting for free bread crumbs.

I'm so glad I paid for this with my taxes. I was worried my money might go to something silly like feeding children.