In the far future someone will get their doctorate in meme studies with a paper linking these phenomena.

Dukes of Hazzard hated cops, too

But I still prefer Smokey and the Bandit

Needs a sequel where they’re defeated by a cooperative riding war bikes

A plumbus

My fiancé works at a vet clinic that uses it and she says the doctors love it. The customers, however, don’t like that there’s an AI that listens to their visit so they just say it’s “software”

I’m assuming every ska band is so far off the left edge we can’t see them.

In that case none of them work

“This is a collect call from ‘mompracticeisoverpickmeup’ do you accept the charges?”

I was briefly employed at a firm that maintained the sales commission software for a large telecom firm.

It was 1.5 million lines of VB6, though VB8 was already three years old. Nobody knew all of it, so they couldn’t possibly rewrite it to handle all the edge cases and special incentives we kept having to add.

Except maybe the lone QA person, who would frequently begin sobbing at her desk. And we could all hear it because it was an open plan office and we weren’t allowed to wear headphones.

That job was so bad I quit and began freelancing.

Functional, yes. But rarely are these sorts of things efficient. They’re covered in decades of cruft and workarounds.

Which just makes them that much harder to port to a different language. Especially by some 19 year old who goes by “Big Balls”

There’s a universe where the Christmas Truce of 1914 has held to this day and I wish I was in it.

Because if we make cities better less countryside will be plowed under for something we both hate: Suburbs.

Just like how despite liking cars I want more mass transit because that means fewer people on the roads, making driving better for me.

Yeah but in the countryside there’s far fewer things that are designed for humans at all, which makes me fit better there.

And scale is just one reason I’m not a city guy.

Cities are not really designed for people more than two standard deviations from the mean in height

As usual, he’s rigbt. Cars hate being in cities. City driving is the worst for them. They’re too big and they’re barely faster than walking.

Cars don’t belong in cities just like I don’t belong in cities.

That’s what sharpies are for

Plus a good ol Dixon Ticonderoga can write on stuff other than paper. About the only time I use a pencil is when doing carpentry and mechanical ones just snap.

They shouldn’t do it because it will make them more relatable to all the other morons.

Back in the late 20th century, Alton Brown mentioned how it might be hard to find things like soy sauce or ginger at grocery stores.

Tastykake’s Butterscotch Krimpets changed overnight when they got bought. They’re mealy and don’t have enough butterscotch flavor.