I technically drowned when I was 12 and being an idiot 'riding' waterfalls. I got sucked into a big crack in a rock and when my friends finally got me out I was clinically dead, and all of my fingernails were ripped in half from trying to claw my way out. All I can remember is abject fear, and then the burning as my lungs gave up.

I would rather die by almost any other means.

Everything is always beyond repair to this fuckstick. I think he may just be horrible at everything.

Pretty damn good these days.

And since then - We have found ways to make all travel worse for comfort, more expensive, and more necessary.

Why do the most voracious Xtian monsters always look like how you'd expect a demon in a skinsuit to look if demons were real?

This is literally me. We've been out here three years - One more year of putting up with the tech world during the day, and building our solace nights and weekends and this place will be close enough to self-sufficient that I can check out of the workday forever.

Don't get me wrong - building a place in the forest yourself, from nothing, is a lot of work. But it is the kind of work that leaves your body tired and your brain energized. Not the soul sucking every day of dealing with 'business' types.

And every year life gets a bit easier here, while it gets harder every day in the tech industry.

All of you writing cogent arguments and being philosophical should step back and realize this whole thread is an unpaid advertisement for amazon subscription groceries written by someone who thinks they were saved by a job there.

My CV looks something like:

• Jr Support agent > Sr Support agent > Lead Support agent
• Tech engineer
• DevOps engineer
• DevOps lead
• Sysadmin > Sr SA > lead SA
• Technical Architect> Solution Architect > Sr Arch > Enterprise Arch
• Director of IT
• Raising chickens

Chickens might shit everywhere, scream constantly, and flap their wings just to get attention, much like managers. But they can't make you polish that shit into a product to sell. And if one gets out of line you can just eat them.

I bet his friend is never worried about stupid shit.

I'm workin' on it!

We do what I call a shotgun standup twice a week. But it is done async 99% of the time.

Every Tuesday and Thursday we have 30 minutes that conveniently coincides with opening of the coffee shop in the office (two of us are onsite, six remote) prior to which the team is intended to write three bullets in the meeting chat:

• Prio one yesterday - and outcome
• Prio one today
• Any blockers discovered for either of those

If nobody posts a blocker, then we get 30 minutes on the calendar where nobody from outside our team can schedule anything. And the onsite folks get the freshest coffee before everyone else gets down there.

If there is a blocker; the person who called it out and the most experienced person in dealing with that type of blocker will join the call, as will anyone interested in the outcome. Once the blocker is resolved, the solution is put into the same meeting chat.

Thanks! I had thought the same.

It all felt so forced and scummy. I am going to go back and demand all the information (politely)

Elated to be wrong. You see, that is how being an adult works. Sometimes you are wrong, and when you are wrong about something with a positive outcome, you are happy that you were wrong.

I would argue they are. My reasoning for this argument would be pointing at the history of the working class.

What is your reasoning for saying they are not?

Just a reminder. What private companies do has nothing to do with your first amendment rights.

Grow up or shut up.

And here in Quebec we are paying 6CAD(4.50)usd for a dozen... While not being embroiled in a war of our own design.

Correction: The 6CAD was for 18. That is what I get for checking grocery websites before coffee - It is more like 4CAD per dozen.

If I ever get terminal cancer I will be infiltrating these groups and leaving a trail of eyeless psychopaths in my wake.

Why do you gun humping morons slide this stupid shit into every fucking conversation?

Was this woman supposed to have whipped out her ar and start blasting the cop car racing towards her?

Alberta - I love me some mennonites, but they are really into 'keeping it in the family'.

-Source: Married a mennonite and absconded out of province with her.

Some eye bleach to help you recover from this atrocity.