…why not just use the CC on Amazon?

I think it’s because people think giving pure cash is thoughtless and basic.

This idea needs to die. I’d rather have $10 cash that I can stash away to save up for something that I actually want than a $25 gift card that locks me in to a single store.

I’m at a stage in my life where I can generally buy little things when I want to. But my wife and I don’t make enough to regularly drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on non-essentials, and my other family members can’t do more than $25 or maybe $50 for birthdays or Christmas.

It took me years to convince my parents and wife to just give me cash. When I finally did, it enabled me to save up for a $1k guitar over several years.

I’d much rather have one awesome gift every 5 years than a steady stream of $35 gift certificates to various stores and restaurants.

Not giving someone what they’re actually asking for is far less thoughtful than cash.

I got a Dunkin Donuts card a few years ago too. The nearest location to me is about 600 miles away. Awesome.

A single strand would be a delight. I seem to always get a full face full of web.

I see you’re prepared to take a whole bus load of people to Morganville. Nice

Yep, that’s exactly what happened when I was on escort duty for recently recruited Iraqi police. And my god the result looked exactly like second stick figure image in the OP. I’m glad cleaning it up wasn’t part of my job.

I also watched a guy reach into a urinal and use the urinal cake as hand soap. I feel kinda bad that I didn’t stop him, but he did it with such speed and confidence that it was the right thing to do, it was too late by the time I realized what was happening.

I sometimes name booleans after the action that will be taken rather than the condition they represent For example, I might have booleans called “doQuickInit” or “invertResult”. I find this very useful when the value of a boolean is determined by a complex series of conditions that are not actually true or false.

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Embedded software developer here.

Oh damn, I thought I was going to be the only one here!

I don’t know how you get by with only one. Between source code, simulators/emulators, datasheets, requirement specs, log files, e-mails from senior devs with tribal knowledge not written down anywhere else, and a bunch of other bullshit, I sometimes find 3 24" monitors to be lacking.

Distractions aren’t a problem because I can easily use up all that screen real estate for a single task.

If you read the fine print, many “lifetime” warranties are like this too. They mean the “lifetime of the product” which is usually defined in the same fine print as like, 5 years or some other bullshit timespan.

Thanks, Dave Chappelle.

The difference between fault and responsibilty is definitely something I plan to teach my kids from an early age.

If someone rear ends me when I’m driving safely and following all the rules of the road, it’s not my fault. But it’s still my responsibility to get insurance information, arrange for car repair and transportation, reschedule appointments, etc. I don’t get to just walk away and hope everything takes care of itself.

It’s just one of those unfortunate facts of life. Everyone has to handle things that aren’t their fault sometimes.

That image is clearly Sean Connery.

True, but it’s not chlorine bleach. Which is what I want my toilet brush to go through.

That’s better, thanks.

But are you going to add bleach to your dishwasher when you run the toilet brush, then do dishes normally on the next cycle?

Seems like you’re opening a whole new can of health-hazardous worms with that plan.

This is far too reasonable of a comment for shitposting. I’m going to need someone to shit this up a bit, please.

hit back

Complaining on twitter isn’t hitting anyone. A financial impact is the only thing that will drive change.

Alternate ending:

A small, innocuous looking bat takes the form of DRACULA behind CHARACTER 1 and CHARACTER 2

DRACULA: Why the fuck would I need a jetpack? How did you morons forget about the bat thing? It’s been part of my image for like, a hundred years.