TheAsianDonKnots

Turn the side of your tub into a cruise ship. Add some mood lighting, a theater (projector), aroma therapy smoke stacks, and a slide that rolls grapes into your mouth.

Oh yeah? The agents were just “following orders”? Where have I heard that before? 🤔

I was really young when I got chicken pox, maybe 5 years old? The thing I remember most is getting winter mittens taped to my hands so I couldn’t scratch my butthole until it bled. It was TORTURE. No one should have to suffer like that if they don’t have to.

I miss The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series that played on a Sunday evening. I want to see one with Wojtek, Sgt. Reckless, and Cher Ami. That would make me so happy.

Part of my job is to to scare finance into saying “yes”. Recent news headlines over the last two years have made my job a lot easier.

Such a grift but I will give it to them, charging $47.45 is pretty clever marketing.

…and that shaggy MF wants $40,000,000 for next years hardware refresh and 8yr support licensing.

Source: I am that shaggy MF.

How does a Fuentes lead a white nationalist movement? Giving off big Clayton Bigsby vibes.

CA lawmakers saw the writing on Texas’ glory hole wall and removed the “if Texas does” verbiage from prop 50 before it was put to vote. As it stands now, before appeals, CA gets to draw new lines, and TX can get fucked.

I was trying to figure out if they still made Plasma TVs. I’m an idiot.

Yeah. Their man-o-sphere morning routine starts at 3am. Gotta get your 8 hours in.

Retail and warehouse applications. When everything was in-house application teams were used to getting 60-70ms coast to coast so their monitoring systems were built around that. Someone sold them on some bullshit cloud metrics and they want what they were sold, they don’t want to simply adjust their threshold for latency.

What they REALLY want is room on my 100G private links for free.

The most frustrating part is when application developers move their “critical system” to the cloud but don’t budget for private redundant links to the cloud. Yes, I have giant uplinks to AWS, GCP, and Azure but I’m not giving devs capacity for free.

Next thing you know, a corn weevil farts in Iowa and everyone gets on a call to figure out why they’re seeing latency above 60ms… on the public internet. SMH.

…that was more the intent of my last sentence.

I’m Asian from the US South. You learn real quick that pressing a black person for information isn’t always great for race relations. Where I grew up if you pressed MeMaw (our daycare teacher) for an answer, all you were getting back was extreme sarcasm or anger. I grew up knowing when not to “press it”. Go too far and MeMaw would slap the shit out of you and you knew you deserved it. With my friends, there’s just some aspects of black culture that aren’t for us, and that’s ok.

To expand on Testfactors statement, the banks help remove damaged currency but there’s no real plan to reclaim currency that’s already been circulated. It’s always been that way and creates scarcity in the collectors market over time. I’m not sure why this is a headline.

The only time I can think of where the US Mint had a plan to reclaim currency was during WWII when the US war machine needed the copper found in the Lincoln cent. The mint pressed steel pennies and banks were instructed to reclaim as many copper pennies as they could.

I know shea butter skin care products are part of it, but outside of that, every time I ask they either laugh it off or accept my question as a compliment and say “awww stop, you’re too kind”. It almost feels like a form of “bless your heart” or “I ain’t seen shit”, but I never get a straight answer.

Never discount luck. The only advice I’m qualified to give is to put yourself out there and be ok with “faking it till you make it.” I worked Retail back in the early 00’s. We had a group of regulars that found out I liked PC gaming and offered me a call center job that was double my pay. Cool, I could answer a phone for a tech company.

The luck part was when the dot(com) bubble burst and the industry was wiped clean. I don’t know how but I survived and started filling expensive positions with my cheap labor (at first). I had to fake it at every step, though later I would realize they were willing to train me (OJT) as opposed to hiring an expensive, more qualified tech. Rinse and repeat at each level.

With the names that have already been released, the ringleader dead under mysterious circumstances, and lack of whistleblower protections… I’m assuming no one is stupid enough to leak/hack the files when there are legal paths to release the information (ie FOIA). Groups you cited like Anonymous act when no one else can or will.

I’m at the top of my pay range for what I do as an engineer. I know the next steps would be to go into middle management, but I’ve seen so many middle managers get fired, I just can’t do that to my family right now (but honestly I hate managing people). The only other option would be to move to a low income city and work from home, but that also comes with a huge set of problems like poor schools, higher crime, and racism of all sorts. As far as another country… I’m not sure, I’ve never looked into it. I’ve spent the last 25 years in Fortune10 companies and most of those are in the US.