Except for the surgeon who performed a self-appendectomy, they probably go to a different hospital to avoid gossip.

Thank you Ada and mods. It’s too easy to manipulate discussion and voting, which is why safe spaces were created.

Looking through music and budget software CDs at a computer store or a college vendor table, there would be one with a penguin or BSD mascot. It wasn’t like the other discs that had DOS shareware games or utilities. The CD rom drives were 1x speed, attached to a card on the ISA bus, without plug and play, so it needed an interrupt number that didn’t collide with other cards. The install process was curses based, with no mouse. There would be much time spent figuring out how to partition the drive, usually after buying a book. Back then, computer book sections were huge. The software install dialog had one line description per package, and it wasn’t easy to tell what they did. Then there was setting up X Server and choosing a window manager. Not all video modes were supported, so it took a lot of trial and error with editing config files and resolutions before the the window environment would work. This was before home internet so it would take a weekend or all week to figure out. The only accessible communities in many parts were dialup bulletin boards, unless there was access to a college computer lab with a mosaic or netscape browser. At this point it was realized that I lived in a tech desert, quit my retail job, and moved.

It’s an unhealthy environment, and they are subconsciously saying they don’t want to be there either. It’s just one job in one building in one company in one country. There’s many other opportunities out there that are not like Glengarry Glen Ross.

T-Rex, because none end up in a hole devoured alive by wasp larvae

That can’t be right, the red car has a service manual and too many functioning assemblies for it to be VS.

The Perl and Raku Foundation have seen a big drop in funding over the last decade

Understanding the Financials of The Perl and Raku Foundation

When I was a child I thought everything was run by grown ups, who had the answer to everything. Then I grew up and saw everything as run by children, who made everything up as they go. Now I see everything as run by animals with insatiable appetites.

Thor in a store?

The Last Emperor - end scene

Bicentennial Man - end scene

Avalon 1990 - end scene

The Notebook - end scene

The Danish Girl - end scene

Dancer in the Dark - end scene

An invitation for a free lunch that turned out to be a multi level marketing presentation for timeshares.

Less dependence on a US dollar weakened by faster inflation. Fewer foreign investments in the US. Nations less willing to host US bases, building up their own military instead. Less of a coordinated effort to fight contagious diseases or provide aid during disasters. The internet fragments, com domains become less popular for exchanging ideas and commerce.