Tempting to try this and diff it. My most complex PowerShell scripts aren’t testable as they were company/task specific. Plus, I killed my X account long ago. :(

kids these days

I got bullied for not having Nike, Polo, Izod and Vans. That was over 4 decades ago.

I got shit on for not having Nike shoes, *in the 70s *.

If there’s possible sex in the future, I’d hit the truck stop for a shower.

LOL! Thought about Home Depot, but the local store is clearly in worse shape and so are the employees.

And here’s the thing, they don’t have to care about employees. Worker’s comp insurance is a big fucking deal, I know, worked for payroll place. One ding sets them back far more than 1,000 cases of water.

Just did a stint at Lowe’s and we had all the cold, bottled water we could drink. The cost is a no-brainer vs. even one heat-related issue. Use the words “worker’s comp insurance” at that meeting!

Got a laugh! OP, it’s been like this since I was a teenager, in the 80s.

I know why they do this. The last guy’s core job was Ask Jeeves, but he was involved in and at least touched all those other technologies. HR looks at last guy’s resume, figures those are the skills needed, posts a mess.

SOURCE: Been the last guy, seen my replacement posting.

Always assumed this fiasco was started by high electric bills:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article293084614.html

AI can be a fine tool to get writing inspiration, as with programming. It’s not fine as used in this article’s example.

Yes! In some cases you could make a point strong enough to call in enforcement. What I had in mind was the random crap pictured in the post.

So, are you finding that it stays cleaner? I don’t want it to be my imagination, but I seem to be making an impact. And the rare people who see my crawl out of those woods always see me with trash bags.

It’s private property, but I think of my self as the unofficial park ranger. Hopefully if anyone bitches I can point to my work. Also, I don’t want to lose the privilege of wandering around out there, figure if we don’t fuck it up, and in fact improve it, no one will complain.

I don’t think it used to be worse, it was way worse. I just find it amusing when people get bent over seeing someone toss trash out the window when it was a daily sight in the day.

By all means, keep up the outrage! How do you think we got so much better? Shout out to the crying Indian ad. I cannot overstate how impactful that was. We only had 3 or 4 TV stations so it was up in everyone’s grill, whole country. Can’t get a message out like that today, too many outlets to cover. :(

The government won’t do shit, and shouldn’t. Let’s say you and I are neighbors and I hate your guts. Guess where I’m going with this. All I need to do is get a letter out your trash and stuff it in couch.

Without video evidence, there’s no evidence, not the kind local authorities are qualified to track, or have the time and money to track.

Meh. It’s got far better in my lifetime. (My anecdotes span 3 states and 40 years.) Used to be the residential trash guys were picky bastards, never knew what refuse they would refuse. Now they pop the lid, no car batteries, sulfuric acid or tires? Good to go.

Used to be everything that didn’t fit in the can had to be burned or hauled. My guys will pick up about anything that fits in a 4’x 8’ space if you give a call. And they’ll do it 4 times a month. No charge.

Not so environmentally great, but we have 2 trash haulers in competition. Company A piss you off? Company B will take over the next day.

You would fucking DIE if I took you back to 70s America. I truly love how offended people get by littering, I really do!

Trash was piled on the side of every road, especially highways. People just chunked their McDonald’s bag when they were done, no big deal.

I’ve hauled a couple hundred pounds of crap out the woods surrounding our hood. About gave me a stroke on the larger items. But I keep at it, and it seems to prevent the broken window effect. Hadn’t been out in 3-weeks, figured it would be awful. Nah. Only got a single grocery bag out, and half was my own beer cans! (I did drag an electric scooter out. Fuck me. Try that over 1/2 mile of deep sand.)

If I see a comparison matrix, I’m a happy camper. OTOH, you have to be extraordinarily careful with words or lose sales. Because people are stupid.

Case in point; Employee needed a new laptop and we leaned mostly towards Lenovos. Found a sweet deal on one labelled as a gaming rig. Boss wouldn’t sign off because, “A dev doesn’t need a gaming rig with a high-end video card.” Of course not, but still showed him the specs, compared against what we were currently purchasing and paying, no go. We ended up paying more for a laptop with lower specs because it didn’t have a “gaming” label.

What if you call a product line “prosumer”? It may be perfectly acceptable for a small business, but the owner might feel he needs “enterprise”. He looks at the enterprise line, flinches at the price, goes to another brand selling the same damned thing with a label that makes him happy.

Another one I had just posted; Shooting the shit with a customer who was unhappy he couldn’t buy straight grass seed and the label only showed the filler content in small print. What a ripoff! Another customer chimed in that filler is necessary for the seed spreader to work as expected. Oh.

X line prioritizes speed - Nah, not paying extra for speed, don’t need it.

Y line is backwards compatible with legacy gadgets - Sounds like it’ll be outdated soon.

R line is meant for business use - They just slap that on there to sucker people into paying more. (Yes they do!)

F line is experimental form factors - I need a tried and true product, sounds like a clusterfuck.

Having worked in various fields for 40 years, and now at my first retail job, I see that a lot of the fuckery we blame on capitalism is actually sellers trying to navigate ignorant and fickle consumers. Also, sometimes the weird shit we see, or don’t see where we expect it, is due to laws and regulations, but that’s another story.

Let’s call it an even 200 employees. That amounts to, rounded up, .003% of Meta’s staff of 74,067. Do with that info what you will

Meh. I turn it, pirate. Turn of off when I’m done. No issues unless I fuck up and leave the torrent running for 24-hours.

Is spinning up your own out of the question? I pay $6/mo. for a Digital Ocean droplet. Installed OpenVPN server on it and I’ve been good to go for years. Their step-by-step documentation is the best I’ve ever encountered, seriously. Only got hung up on one tiny bit.