I like it. I would not go back.

But I have a nice home office, don’t live alone, and found office culture and colleagues to be disruptive.
I have ADHD. My job tends to be wide but not necessarily deep. A “quick question” can cause me to lose my train of thought, cause me to get disordered while trying to figure what the hell I was doing, get shut down by the frustration, and lose hours in ‘wait mode’ for the next interruption because it took me so long to enter a flow state that I’m fearful I’ll get interrupted again.

Being able to shut my office door, silence notifications, and focus with music playing in the background has been incredible for me.

As we saw with his first two impeachments, impeachment is not removal. So long as the cult of personality continues to support him, so too will the Republican Party.

I cannot!

For legal purposes, they’ve trademarked the tap water filling spout and have all signed contracts forbidding them from revealing its name.
Ol’ Squirty George enjoys a life of privacy, although not one free of controversy, as people constantly ask “but that’s just tap water, isn’t it?” and then they have to sign an NDA before being told that’s not a tap, that’s Ol’ Squirty George.

When the lawyers come for me, tell my wife I wish I’d planned better.

I can’t smell ants, and cilantro tastes soapy. However, I do have dry earwax and my armpits don’t smell. (Which is just spurious information to your hypothesis.)

I didn’t know who was playing nor have I cared much about either team, but this is now a Seahawks family until Kolanaki gets their pizza.

He also skipped touring the U.S. in 2025, due to concerns that his concerts / fans would be targeted by ICE.

They don’t have to argue. We pretty much all agree.

Unless they like arguing – I won’t judge.

The problem with Gavin Newsom is they could swap him with Billy Crudup doing a bit and I wouldn’t notice.

The 4 boxes of liberty: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the ammo box (preferably in that order).

I read your comment, then went to make a joke response to someone else about placing a vacuum chamber inside the case to reduce its buoyancy.
This set off a several minute long internet hunt where I learned about Archimedes Principle, which you clearly describe. It turns out the only vacuum here is the one in my head.

To wit: If placed inside the case, my empty head would reduce the buoyancy, but only by its own weight.
A Pyrrhic victory.

…. Huh.
Every person at my work has simply picked a new first name with the same letter, so that their LastNameFirstInitial(SometimesNumbers) user ID has not needed to be updated. Only their display names have changed.
(Such as Tom > Theresa, Sandra > Steve, etc - not the actual names of my colleagues, but you get the idea.)

Ironically, people changing last name due to marriage have traditionally required more effort.

I never grant apps access to my contacts. I no longer trust any app to know my contacts or associates unless the stated purpose of that app is to manage my contacts.

Not that it helps, mind you. People with me in their contacts likely do not practice such discipline. I’m probably just an isolated old weirdo because of it, but it’s my hill to die on. It’s a small, pointless hill, but goddamn it, Snapchat is never going to know the name of my furnace guy.

I have (had?) an arms length friend that is prone to making bad choices.
He aspires to be a decent guy, but struggles with making the right choices. He made some pretty bad choices last year.

Cheated on his wife with a coworker that was, er, not someone I’d trust. Got caught. Coworker then got pregnant. A few months later he called me to ask if he could crash in our guest bedroom for ‘no more than three days’ while he cut things off with the coworker and worked on reconciling with the wife. While he was still that coworker’s supervisor and baby daddy, unbeknownst to his supervisors.
Seeing nothing but red flags there, I offered to pay for a hotel room for him for a week, and he never took me up on the offer. My wife’s eyebrows were almost at the ceiling when we got off the phone. She very much appreciated not inviting that mess into our lives. I haven’t heard from him since.

Since Thursday, I’ve born witness to the following:

Running errands with a friend: her work-provided insurance changed and a medicine that used to be covered was just no longer covered under the new insurance. She had to pay $80 to not have constant stomach issues. She justified it because with insurance, it was still $50.

A colleague found out that in 2024 his with had gone to the ‘wrong’ hospital for a series of procedures. Despite being told at the time that the treatment was covered, he received a call saying that on review, the insurer had decided the procedures were not covered, and they now owe the hospital $170,000 - that they are a year and a half late on paying.

I, myself, have a different plan offered through our employer, and pay $200 a pay period for insurance for just myself. A few years ago, it was less than half that.

Insurance in the U.S. is a means to force people to remain stuck with employers, and employers who don’t value their employees don’t even offer plans that pay well enough for folks to be trapped in gilded cages. It’s a giant fucking scam.

The house numbers on my block always skip one.

For example, if my block number was the 10th block, on the odd side of the street, the house numbers are 101, 105, 109, 1013, 1017. And on the even side, they’re 100, 104, 108, 1012, 1016. (Sub dividing houses is common here, maybe they wanted extra addressing space?)

Sometime last year, I caught an Amazon driver stalking through the back yard, as he tried to find one of those in-between addresses. Sadly he didn’t just leave the boxes at the map pin.

Unimpressed. It’s not 7:20.

All that engineering and they didn’t get the time right.

I’m in IT, but not that kind of IT.

Last week I afflicted myself with the Location Services are turned off bug by installing the 23H2 update to duplicate an issue a user in my work area was having.

When I called desktop support, we could not replicate the issue after he remoted in.
He closed the Remote Desktop connection, and the issue reoccurred.
He remoted in. The popup vanished as soon as he connected. We couldn’t replicate the issue. He seemed dubious now. He disconnected. It occurred. I got a screenshot. He reconnected. We looked at the remote connection settings. Remote connections were set to override location. Disabled that. Issue presented. We both had a good laugh.

It indicates other things, too!