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  • Australian Air Traffic Controller Found Sleeping On Duty After 10 Night Shifts In 12 Days

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  • This guy did the research

  • Wells Fargo worker found dead at her desk four days after clocking in

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  • Those ghost accounts aren't going to open themselves. That cube is already staffed.

  • What was "the incident" at your work place?

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  • Worked at a place where our CIO was completely unqualified to be a leader, much less a leader in IT. She was a micromanager who took the position of "telling stakeholders" instead of "working with stakeholders" so any project she was on was really her pushing through whatever agenda she had at the time. Meanwhile her deputy CIO was stealing computer equipment from the server room but I digress....

    April fools one year and I decide to prank it up. I moved the hinges (not the door handles) of the freezer/fridge in the breakroom so that the handle and hinges were on the same side. It's a fifteen minute job to move everything so I did it the night before the 1st.

    The next morning our hungover CIO stumbles into the breakroom and cannot get the fridge to open. After a few seconds of futile tugging on the handle, she gave up and took her lunch to her office.

    Others in the office figured it out pretty quickly and had a good chuckle.

    Later on that day CIO sends out a nastygram about pranks being unprofessional, property damage, someone was going to be in huge trouble, yadda yadda....

    But she's not the director. The director tells her to basically fuck off, it was a funny prank, and perhaps she needed to lighten up.

    She never found out it was me.

  • John Wayne Bobbitt's Toes Amputated Decades After Penis-Severing Incident

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  • Your opinion is duly noted! And you're banned for violation of the Be Nice rule. Bye!

  • John Wayne Bobbitt's Toes Amputated Decades After Penis-Severing Incident

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  • Weird news: our sole purpose is to share the weird headlines.

  • Man who faked own death by hacking into death registry to avoid paying child support sentenced to over 6 years in prison

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  • I couldn't come up with anything wittier....

  • Man who pulled gun after worker at Colorado Burger King wouldn't take drugs for payment gets 143 years in prison

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  • You're talking about Brock Turner, the coward rapist?

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    What are some good ways to alleviate hiccups?

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  • Here's a method that's always worked for me and others.

    Get a glass of water, cool is preferred but any reasonable temperature is ok.

    Take small, tiny, repeated sips from the rim of the glass, like an infant on a nipple, drinking and swallowing the water.

    Do this for ten-twenty seconds and you'll be rid of them.

  • Local man arrested while still eating sandwich

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  • The people demand closure!

  • Moving truck Bet win rule

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  • You're forgetting wear and tear. When the Yaris is moving, the gas is not the only being used, but so are the tires. And the brake pads and rotors. You're putting mileage on the odometer, spinning those wheel bearings, blasting the A/C, and maybe loosening up that CV joint more and more every time you turn left. Was that an exhaust leak I'm starting to hear?

    With the moving truck, you don't care about that stuff, as it's baked into the rental cost. Even when the cost of the trailer is factored in you've saved money from wear. You still win.

  • What has been the worst church service you have ever attended?

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  • maybe The Youths would sit up and pay attention.

  • What has been the worst church service you have ever attended?

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  • Wow. A tornado needs to find its way there.

  • What has been the worst church service you have ever attended?

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  • Nowadays? Depends on a whole set of indeterminate variables.

    But odds point to tazing. arrest, something on that end of the spectrum.

  • What has been the worst church service you have ever attended?

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  • A Catholic Christmas Eve Vigil (not Midnight - different kind of Mass).

    The scene was thus: A strange-to-me Catholic church off of something and Capital in Milwaukee, near where my mom, not a religious person but a nice person, took me and my sis when Christmas happened to fall on our regular visitation weekend one particular year.

    The priest spoke on and on, as fathers and Father tend to do. The readings familiar, unre(M)arkable, (L)ukewarm, Psalm verse, same as the first.

    The Homily was delivered in the patented priestly monotonic nasally drone, the incense and insensitivity flowing too freely. The easily-employed white, gray-haired, "middle class rich", Kohl's-suited, stoic husbands stood, sat, knelt, genuflected, stood, knelt, stood, sat, stood, knelt, genuflected, prayed, sang-chanted, with their wives, who were fully guilt-jeweled for common marital slights, whether real or imagined, or who benefited from rich parents who left their ill-gotten legacies to their ill-raised, now boomer kids who have become reluctantly over-sexed wives. The department store credit cards tucked safely in their expensive clutch purses, these women were fully-prepared to wage full-out Karen-esque, post-Christmas sale consumerist war in the following post-holiday sales season.

    Retail workers never stood a chance.

    In short: The church was overheated, like hell hot, probably good prep for some of these people, and my not-Catholic mother was next to me trying to morally fix or better herself, or maybe she was trying to impress my sister and I, or, more than likely on reflection, trying to placate my very-Catholic dad and stepmom, but mostly I had been standing for what seemed like FOREVER, and my knees alternately locked and unlocked, and my youth-fitting suit that was too small but too expensive to replace at Kohls just yet sweltered me under imagined and real guilt, and the incense, and the droning, and the HEAT...

    I was about 4 seconds from passing out when some stranger approached me and said "Hey, you don't look OK. Let's go outside now before you faint." and I swear it's the best religious experience I've ever had: A human being a human and taking pity on a young kid dealing with physical and emotional distress. I went outside and cooled off in the Midwestern December air. Soon after, my mom and sis came outside and we left in the beater car that smelt like gas if the heater was fully turned on, so we had to leave the freash air selector on and the slider control at no more than 3/4 quarters, but that's OK because the A/C, which hadn't functioned in many presidential election cycles, was fully-replaced by the December air, the religious experiment over.

    I'm not at all religious but I hope that guy knows just what he did for us that night. We were faking faith, just trying to be good people, and the droning, heat, guilt, and THAT FUCKING CHRISTMAS INCENSE just did us in.

    Lesson learned.

  • What has been the worst church service you have ever attended?

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  • Pew or pew not - there is no die.

  • Installed GrapheneOS for the first time

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  • Same issues here. I love GOS but I need basic things like SMS/MMS/RCS to work, and right now they just don't.

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    The gods must be angry: Mexico 'cancels' statue of Greek god Poseidon after dispute with local deity

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  • Locking this post. Comments are getting off-topic.

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  • Still true though. I'm distro-agnostic, running the best whatever for the job at hand.

    When I give a presentation at a conference about something technical, the question always comes up: "Why are you running that on so-and-so? $Distro is so much better..." and their whole train of thought deviates from the subject at hand.

    Point is, the tool is the tool. If Fedora is the best option given our licenses and use scenario, I don't need to hear about how much better xyz is and how we're wasting money.

    I just want xyz to work. I don't need the distro wars to be a thing when I've got 6 other more important things to attend to.

  • Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

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