I’m looking for some direction and recommendations from the Brits on this thread. I will be in the UK early in June and would like to visit automotive and motorsports venues of interest. I wanted to tour one of the F1 team facilities, but McLaren only does tours for club contest winners, and Williams doesn’t appear to do anything of the sort. There’s no fucking way I’m spending the next two months playing contests in the hopes that I’ll win a tour that fits in my travel schedule!
The Silverstone Museum looks somewhat interesting and I might rent a car and drive out from London, so if anyone has visited this site I would love to hear your critique of the museum.
What am I missing? Looking for recommendations on any intriguing racing or car stuff within a couple of hours travel time from London.
Brooklands is my recommendation. An easy day trip from London by local train, with a bit of a walk. It includes cars, remnants of the banked track, airplanes (including a Concorde), and buses. Next door is a Mercedes-Benz World which has a big showroom and test track where you can buy a driving experience.
Rent a car, and if you've driven on the wrong side before skip the rest of this reply.
If you've never driven on the right side you'll get acclimated to driving on the wrong side within 30 minutes. Once I started shifting with my left hand instead of trying to open the door I was good to go. I drove 2347 miles and I had two problem areas, parking lots & roundabouts. Out on the road with traffic around is easy.
Stopped at a grocery store, looked the wrong way pulling out of my parking spot and drove on the 'wrong' side/lane of the lot. Pulled out of a McDonald's and pulled up to the light in the wrong lane. Fortunately it was early Sunday morning and no one saw me break 4 laws turning right on red. Street view link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Af1uJkjD7trUmejYA
Roundabouts are easy but needed to look for the 'little' ones. Was driving thru a town and the car in front of my stopped, couldn't figure out why. Then he moved and I saw the 3' painted circle. So watch for blue roundabout signs when driving thru a town/village. Street view link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AfGo1BtxYCtYYWC76
I first drove a right hand drive car in Barbados on our honeymoon a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. We rented a mini moke or whatever they’re called, which had a three speed manual, no doors, a canvas top, and a gutless little motor. It took some getting used to and especially because I was also adapting to the local driving methods in Barbados. I would enter a village and a truck or a car would be stopped facing me in the other lane while doing a delivery or dropping somebody off. This left only a narrow lane for me to get past the stopped vehicle, and inevitably another vehicle would come at me head on in my lane and honking angrily. this happened several times before I realized that the honking meant that car had assumed the right of way and that the name of the game was to honk first to get your way. I tried it and magically the seas parted for me every time!
This was also the first time that I encountered roundabouts. So now I was in the left lane approaching a roundabout the wrong way downshifting with my wrong hand and attempting to navigate the rest of the way through the roundabout. A bit of a nightmare, but I eventually figured it out…..
My first experience with driving on the wrong side of the road was in Great Britain, in a rental Triumph Spitfire, on a trip with my college girlfriend. Put 1300 miles on the Triumph. Other than a couple of times slapping my hand into the door when I intended a downshift, not too bad, even when that resulted in taking a corner too fast with one hand on the wheel. What was difficult was not getting killed stepping off the street while looking the wrong way for oncoming traffic.
I spent a week in Agile training taught by the company that doesn't even practice what it teaches. I wish I could go a day without seeing the word sprint or point, but that's not happening anytime soon.
Although a former employer used Waterfall for big projects. When SHTF during testing, everything got derailed. Management would come up with a fix at the 14th hour and then they would all get promoted. It’s almost like they planned it that way.
Agile is one of the best scams I've ever seen perpetrated in tech. The people who force you to use it don't know a damn thing about computers, programming, development, or quality. When it first came out we all laughed at how shitty it was. But sadly, the people in charge are fucking morons now.
Con artists everywhere speak in hushed tones when they talk of the big one, the one that no one ever thought could be pulled off. A long con that has brought in billions, nay TRILLIONS! of dollars. A scam so big that it has conmen on conman, grifters on grifters, fleas on bigger fleas, all draining the same dog.
(I once wrote a story where one of the bad guys was a SAP expert! And that was how they knew he was evil!)
The worst period of my working life was the (fortunately brief) period when I was involved in the introduction of SAP in a business. If you think modern cars are needlessly complicated, try SAP!
I have a good friend who is Swedish, that I know from engineering school, who works for SAP. He’s a super good dude but after hearing all the bad things about SAP it seems it would make it worth a trip to Sweden just to ask him “what the fuck is going on here???”
Well, that is a week of your life wasted. And now your brain is ruined, likely permanently. But I prescribe a 6 week off the grid vacation which might reset things after which you will have no memory of that evil indoctrination. Then start looking for a new job if you can’t avoid that anti-productivity system.
What surprises me is that there’s no mention of that 💩 in the CompSci or MIS catalogs at my alma mater. So assuming an American grad can actually get a tech job, this indoctrination happens on the job.
Why isn’t systems analysis as taught in college no longer any good? It’s the only thing that makes sense!
I haven't seen Brenda mentioning the Cuba tours anywhere for quite a few years now so I don't think she's doing them anymore. I wouldn't mistake her for being a high-end hooker either.
I made some $$ back in the good old days selling spy photos to her. Fellow Arizonian - she would come to my place of employment and pick up my film. Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days. When I was a kid, it was Jim Dunne in Popular Mechanics (he bought a piece of property next to the Chrysler Proving Grounds here in AZ which helped his cause for a short while). As an adult, it was usually Brenda's photos and then later Brian Williams' stuff - I think he's out of the business now too.
"Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days."
Because the general public interest in seeing the new cars of the future is roughly equivalent to the general public interest in new all-nude photos from Lizzo. And when you look at the new cars of the past decade, can you blame them?
I think the last ones I saw went away 5-6 years ago? I used to get a weekly SEMA e-newsletter that had them - I think they were by Brian Williams, whose business name I forget at the moment. I think I sold my last one to Brenda in maybe '04-'05?
My best one was probably in '98 or '99. I was at an off-road race in Primm, NV, with some buddies and saw an interesting rig in the parking lot behind our hotel one night. I didn't have a camera with me so my buddies and I walked over to a convenience store and stood in line to buy a disposable 35mm camera (happy snappy as we called them). My buddies were bitching about it the whole time because I think we had to stand in line at the checkout for awhile. I took some photos the next morning and later sent them to Brenda. I think I got $400 for those (a lot of $$ for me in those days). I think they appeared in "Truckin" magazine.
I doubt the Glassdoor reviews are really anonymous. If I reviewed my company they would have a pretty good idea who it is being there’s only three of us on my team.
I never complete 'anonymous' online workplace surveys for this reason. Spouting goodthink just to get them out of my inbox is something I can't stomach.
A long time ago, I wrote an email from my work email, because external emails were all blocked by the firewall, to a friend about how half our team had quit in the last six months and made the joke "Working hard or hardly working" and HR pulled me in for "Negative views on management" A young me asked my manager what I'd been flagged for and my manager not being a prick showed me. I drafted my resignation letter about 5 minutes later. Fuck those guys.
what is this reflexive principle referenced, isn't it Wittgenstein's ruler, in the Taleb books? It would be virtually impossible to leave an informative review without revealing who you are and what your role is/was. No point in worsening already bad blood or trashing what may have been a "mostly peaceful" relationship.
If this worsens with self-doxxing via the merging of two firms whose missions are inherently adversarial, that is just even more absurd and 2026ish.
For anyone who needs to know salary information, they do make it somewhat difficult but you can always create a Glassdoor account by basically making shit up about Company XYZ. I assume they leave this as a possibility because it jukes their numbers in a positive way ("Glassdoor has 10 million active users!")
I would kill to leave reviews of several firms from my past, but there's no incentive that benefits the review-leaver and even potential blowback. Like facebook, Glassdoor makes its money by failing to compensate people who submit valuable original content. They should pay people who leave company reviews MONEY per review 🤣🤣.
What 110 EUR Cohiba were you smoking - a Siglo VI? Honestly, recent Cuban production, particularly after the rather Capitalistic Communists at Habanos “harmonized” global pricing higher, is a very poor value proposition.
I learned about LPSG from you, and CalcSD.Info from my nemesis, Harelip.
Harelip, who often volunteers information he should not have, went on a rare second date with a woman who said “I don’t fuck with micropenises” on the first. He assured her that this was no issue for him. When he unsheathed his dagger after the second encounter, she was disappointed. To no avail, he pulled up CalcSD.Info to PROVE to her that he was in the middle of the bellend curve, at a whopping 4.9 inches. She was not persuaded and left.
We could dispense with a lot of bravado and braggadocio on ACF by maintaining an endowment leaderboard.
One of my (less)finer moments in corporate America was asking a particularly angry Engineering director who was informing me how much smarter he was than I that if someone in the room had a tape measure we could get through the debate significantly quicker than regaling each other with our CVs. I didn't get fired, he STFU for the rest of the meeting, and was walked out 2 weeks later...I should have played the lotto that day.
What is fairly widely available that I smoke regularly / daily at the moment:
-Davidoff Aniversario No. 1 (2023 Limited Edition); there are still plenty of boxes of these around from 2023. $64 / stick before taxes. Superb, the best widely available white label Davidoff at the moment.
-Plasencia Alma Fuerte (Green) - Toro or the shortest size (NOT the Hexagon) - About $25 / stick
-Plasencia Alma Fuerte (Black) - Stronger than above; Toro size only (NO Hexagon, again) - About $25 / stick
Online and more like the latter Plascencia's - something you would get for a person who did you a moderate sized favor suggestive of a $100-$300 gift that isn't just a bottle of wine and can be ordered in a neat, shippable box. (For local in-the-know people I can buy at a local, well-respected brick and mortar run by an expert who commissions the production, aging and rolling of his own cigars.)
do they still have a man rolling cigars in the corner of the 'cuba' restaurant in n.y.c.? free, with a tip of course! wonderful smokes. rumor had it the leaves were snuck in behind suitcase linings on the owners' trip to cuba.
I don’t make the attestation that I possess the sophistication to tell. But people who smoke many more cigars than I do (100+ py) seem to trust the guy. The cigars I’ve bought online (skill issue: yes) have been hit or miss while this guys bathtub hoochstix have been remarkably consistent.
Thought experiment: how different is extremely artisanal, single-still, single-barrel bourbon/scotch from bathtub hooch? We must admit there should be a difference in the sophistication level of the producer, but the production process itself looks awfully similar.
To be honest all I really know is Red Green, Letterkenny, and by extension, Shorsey. Haven't watched trailer park boys, though I think I would enjoy it.
A fabulous weekend for the wee Kimi Antonelli who out-qualified and outraced Princess George in China. He’s putting it together and I look forward to seeing great things from him.
I was encouraged by Sir Lewis’ performance this weekend. He’s in a much better place and appears to be much stronger mentally than last season. Unfortunately, the gap from third to first place was even greater than it was in Melbourne at 25+ seconds, so pretty concerned about that. The Ferraris appear to be fast at times, but the Mercedes is a rocket ship.
Ollie B rocked a top 5, and Carlos picked up a couple of points.
Next up is Suzuka in a week and a half. It’s one of my all time favourite tracks that I look forward to every year
Amazon received 10,044 H-1B approvals in 2025, the most of any company in America, while laying off 14,000 American employees. They are the single largest H-1B sponsor in the country.
Google received 4,181 H-1B approvals in 2025 - 71% for Indian nationals, while conducting multiple rounds of layoffs cutting thousands of American employees.
If there were no other requirements for H-1B approvals, it definitely should be illegal for a company employing them to fire any American for something short of a felony.
"Antonelli had been given a “rocketship” and that there was no reason to get excited about his win"
same as it ever was
"Lewis called on Africans to “take the continent back,”"
bro from who? he trying to start fights with whites again?
"I don’t even know how it could be resolved"
and they even have newey there so they could very well be hopelessly cooked
"They should have an interim race somewhere with no public participation"
BURGERKINGRING TIME
"To my immense dismay, the cigar was very good"
cigars seem like alcohol in the sense that you have to suffer through them tasting like poison before youre allowed to enjoy them
"Guess I don’t need that pension after all, lol!"
the bad news is that i have nothing to live for but the good news is that i have nothing to lose. anyway your home addresses are public
"He was like a father to me. In the evenings we would stroll through the favelas and help random street children do their homework"
literal lol. i will be using this irl as soon as the opportunity presents itself
"Find a provider that lets you have multiple emails"
i genuinely hate how many different accounts and passwords i need nowadays and how nothing is secure and all your data is bought and sold all the time to anyone
"85-90% of the H1-Bs I’ve met were somewhere between subpar and abysmal"
does that mean the other 15% were mid
"“AI” was just a pretext to fire more on-shore skilled people and bump up the headcount with foreign labor"
everything ive heard basically paints them as being hopelessly incompetent and not just useless but genuinely draining on resources which makes me wonder how much you have to hate americans to want any h1bs at all ever
Do people not remember luigi wacked a ceo and almost everyone cheered. We all got it. Do these fools want to run around with 24/7 security? Bezos can afford it, the dude making 500k can barely afford his mortgae
The conservative op-ed media decried the cheering of Mangione, but these are the same people who think corporations have every right to hollow out the American economy.
On a recent TST podcast, Matt Farah mentioned that the CEO of Rivian uses private security. He contrasted this with Jim Farley who does not. I would bet that a lot of the tech startup CEOs are more like the Rivian guy.
I got into a youtube comments section argument last year with a bunch of idiots when I dared to suggest that Rivian and Lucid wouldn't exist in 10 years.
Grew up in Ohio but doesn't appear to have lived here in 20 years. He's also a grifter. How do you make a billion dollars from a company that has never made a profit?
It’s always been a mystery to me with cigars and cigarettes as to why anybody struggles to enjoy them. On the other hand, as a toddler I was notorious for eating my father’s cigarettes if given the chance. I’ve never actually inhaled either.
Even more of a mystery was when a large group of us young corporate accountants used to go out on Friday night to terrorize Rush Street in Chicago. A couple of the women would pull out a cigarette and smoke it while we were charging up in the downstairs bar before. They never smoked otherwise.
Truth: if you're struggling to enjoy them, you shouldn't, or you didn't have a good one. A good cigar is unreal. But shitty ones, or even dried out formerly good ones, can taste like crap. I'm the last person to suggest a cigar hobby but when they're good they're great.
unrelated bitch session: today, driving home from work, an out of stater became particularly enraged that i was only going 5 over the speed limit on residential roads and coming almost to full stops at stop signs. after passing on a double yellow at triple the speed limit and kicking up rocks that sure enough chipped up some of the paint on my bumper, and then immediately getting stopped by ANOTHER local driving as i drive, i got a few pictures of the plate, called the non-emergency local PD number to inform them of a woman driving like a lunatic. reader, as a 6'2, 250 pound man with a 3 leading off my flat bench number, i know exactly who the law would side with should i have decided escalate further. annoyed, perhaps even enraged, but perpetually late to my husbandly and fatherly duties, i went home.
upon seeing some damage to the paint i said what the hell, lemme go down to the local PD (very, very small town) and see whats what. i have a plate, i have a video of them driving recklessly, i have damage to my car that is visibly fresh, but still no can do. sorry chief. life aint fair. best i can do is record the complaint and the damage so you can point your insurance company to something should you decide to file a claim. no thanks boss, i already pay enough.
i know we are fallen beings in an unjust and cruel world, and i know this is a first world problem. what could i have done? what should i have done? what can i still do?
The upside to carrying a portable hole puncher is your ability to punch holes at a distance. The downside to carrying a portable hole puncher is that every violent felony is now a violent felony done while in possession of a portable hole puncher even when lawfully in possession of said hole puncher.
This is all hypothetically applicable to someone who isn’t me. I’m a good boy.
I have spent much too much time watching On Patrol Live. I can tell you the most frustrating thing is watching any cop, especially women, fail at pitting some criminal on a totally straight road while going 50 mph.
It's literally the only reason I don't go next door and cut down the godforsaken wind chime that's near my oldest child's bedroom that rings CONSTANTLY.
My story is that there were several vehicles following a truck and horse trailer going at or slightly below the 40 limit on a country road. Double yellow lines for miles with plenty curves and slight hills. I was the second car. After a couple miles the first vehicle (Range Rover) guns it and goes around. The vehicle behind me happened to be a sheriff’s deputy who hit his lights about 2 seconds after she crossed the double yellow. That was sweet.
Depending on how curvy the road really was, I'd have check my mirrors first but would've punched around him. We don't really have "curves" in IL though.
Couple months back I had a situation with an on-ramp to the interstate. Long, straight ramp and the ramp ends into a new lane, no merge required. I was car #3. Car #1 was not going to achieve anything approaching the posted speed by the time the ramp ends. Annoying, dangerous, yes and yes. Car #2 was an all black dodge ram with some stupid stickers on the back window and a lift. Guy takes the first opportunity to drive over the chevrons to overtake and immediately kicks something up and chips my windshield.
My fault for existing, I guess? I was on the way home to see my kid, so not really looking to engage with someone whose day (life?) was going that poorly. I'm just glad it was a fillable chip.
they're human berings, for pete's sake! i'm learning to pretend that they're my close friends who made a sudden mistake causing me to take evasive action. forgiving everybody is fun!
In Northwest Ohio, that’d be just about every day!
Like the idiot in the Honda Odyssey yesterday who came over two lanes of three-lane I-75 into the left lane and proceeded to park themselves in front of me and a couple cars behind me; they were doing 69 in a 65, but they weren’t passing, which is why the PASSING lane exists! I held my brights on to try and get their attention, as there was no traffic in front of them and several gaps on the right side. Finally, I was able to use one of those gaps to undertake and get around the van on the right, using the now clear right lane with slower traffic in the center.
A few minutes later, the idiot was back behind me, caught in a clump in the left lane, unable to go anywhere, and they held on their brights! 🙄
I usually end up in the left lane because there’s too many slower drivers in the center. But my goal is to use the center lane when I can. Basic lane discipline.
When I hear that lane discipline is out the window on the Autobahn, I think we are in the middle of the fall of humanity! 😢
I don't really understand the point of LinkedIn. I don't like most of the people I meet in real life, why on earth would I want to connect with people online that I don't care anything about? Add the fact that I am going to assume everything they say is some level of a lie or straight bullshit, what's the point?
I’ve found it useful in networking. Last week I was shown a post by some guy from our company in the EU because a mutual commented on it. I went to that guy’s page and his side project is deploying a sensor suite similar to what I was trying (and failing) to deploy at work. He was eager to show the value of his project to the company and I was eager to knock off another project.
When I was getting fired in 2022 due to the COVID mandate, I was able to use my connections to job hunt. Some leads some from recruiters unsolicited. The job I ended up with was shown to me by LinkedIn.
It’s also good at feeding you relevant job listings on a weekly basis, most of which have pay scales listed.
All of this is without paying them a dime for premium OR giving myself the #OpenToWork mark of death. All I do is keep my “resume” somewhat up to date and occasionally like a person’s post. For less than 30 minutes per month, I’m happy with what it’s provided.
As a guy who has been self-employed in a service trade for 29 years this fall (let's just round up to 30), I'm as disconnected from this nonsense as anybody I know and certainly than anybody here. I haven't applied for a job in 40 years, so I don't know squat about what it takes to get one.
I signed up for it almost 20 years ago and keep it active “just in case” but the only thing ive updated on their is my role from maager to member and now i get emails about prospective jobs like member of staff at potbelly
One of the great joys of my life is that I’ve only ever applied for a job one time in my life, and therefore have zero need or interest in LinkedIn, etc.
I have a profile, because I was told I should back when I (sorta’) cared about what I “should” do. The entire thing is a humblebragfest of buzzwords and nonsense to me, and I came across this and laughed. You may or may not find it funny depending on your perspective and your thoughts regarding the utility of “networking”, but I think the various links to LinkedIn lampoons are hilarious.
The biggest, or possibly the only thing, stopping me from finding a new career is my reflexive unwillingness to be wrenched through exhaustive job searches, redundant application processes and the subsequent endless rounds of interviews seemingly every job from entry level on up requires these days.
My son is 36 and employed in a local Fortune 500 company. The nonsense he endures to move within the company is mind-numbing. He forwarded me a job description this morning for a placement he was being encouraged to take -- it was 2 full paragraphs of buzzwords and double-speak.
I like to tell myself I'm a reasonably intelligent man, but I had no idea what any of it even meant. I asked my son what the job entailed, he told me, "No one knows. An excuse to pay somebody over $150K annually, plus benefits, plus a nice bonus".
What is it, 20% of people do all the work at any company?
It's part of why I've stuck to founder-led, private businesses - there's less tolerance for BS and buzzwords when the guy who built it is still driving the ship and watching where the cash goes. Like any big organization though, it can go downhill fast, so you have to watch if the good long tenured folks stick around.
it's so the recruiters can see if you actually know anybody. i freelance in a tech niche where there are only about 1500 highly experienced people in my metro area. when a recruiter pulls up my profile, they immediately see that i'm linked to several of the freelancers and management people in their company.
About those cars in Cuba, they have been kept on the road by shear determination, with engines from the USSR, with hand fabricated mounts and brackets, and quite possibly a level of craftsmanship that many mechanics here would have a hard time matching, I don’t think they would want new cars from America or even Europe with all of the electronics in them that make them almost un repairable, it would be interesting to see new cars taken back to an analog state of operation though, I think it would be interesting to work with those Cuban mechanics.
Skilled trades would likely be the last kind of employment to be touched by AI, for obvious reasons of human anatomy. Many Americans would love to work for what they are paying H1b’s if they are indeed making 130 a year…it seems like the corporations and government are just trying to screw Americans, I am glad I retired, my old position remains unfilled, and it costs the company more to get my old job description done. I envision a future where someone skilled with their hands and mind will be worth a small fortune, just not yet.
On the other hand, a few years back I watched an interesting documentary on those old cuban cars, towards the end vin diesel drove a mangled '49 Chevy two door _SO_ fast the 265C.I.D. V8 briefly glowed bright red before it flew through the air and won a race .
Those wacky 3rd world Mechanics seem to be able to do a lot with very little .
I was in Cuba 10 years ago and hired a gal with a restored 55 Chevy coupe to drive me around. I sat shotgun and noticed the floor shifter had a strange to me shift pattern. I pointed to it and said that’s not a Chevy. Her answer, Toyota swap!
AI is only good for creating never-were 1975 Escalades and 1970 DeSotos, or writing humorous fiction about a T-Rex busting into a GM board meeting and eating...er, certain obvious incompetent execs. Then burping.
Never watched Friends. Never plan to now, or in the future. But still use Seinfeld memes frequently.
New Telluride very insectile and undesirable. I didn't love the original but was 235% more appealing than the new potato shaped projectile. Even their wheels are ugly.
If it's still around at some point ~10-20 years from now, I look forward to making a post on LinkedIn or whatever, similar to Scarface in the movie Half-Baked giving everyone a spicy farewell at his former place of employ. Getting on there is like the worst part of the day (it's still a resource) reading a bunch of drivel that morons like to call 'insight'.
I never watched a minute of Friends. Being descended from a pack of Brooklynites, Seinfeld at least got pretty close to portraying that whole culture except when it didn't - I suspect when that happened it was brought on by Hollywood douchebag meddling.
I’m looking for some direction and recommendations from the Brits on this thread. I will be in the UK early in June and would like to visit automotive and motorsports venues of interest. I wanted to tour one of the F1 team facilities, but McLaren only does tours for club contest winners, and Williams doesn’t appear to do anything of the sort. There’s no fucking way I’m spending the next two months playing contests in the hopes that I’ll win a tour that fits in my travel schedule!
The Silverstone Museum looks somewhat interesting and I might rent a car and drive out from London, so if anyone has visited this site I would love to hear your critique of the museum.
What am I missing? Looking for recommendations on any intriguing racing or car stuff within a couple of hours travel time from London.
Goodwood Circuit?
Bicester Heritage?
Royal Automobile Club?
Excellent, thanks Sherman. I completely forgot about Goodwood, much appreciated. I’ll look into the other two as well.
Brooklands is my recommendation. An easy day trip from London by local train, with a bit of a walk. It includes cars, remnants of the banked track, airplanes (including a Concorde), and buses. Next door is a Mercedes-Benz World which has a big showroom and test track where you can buy a driving experience.
Nice! Brooklands is an excellent suggestion. I’ll check it out.
If you like WWII areoplanes Duxford has a D-Day Flying Day on the 6th, Tickets on sale 4/6
https://www.iwm.org.uk/airshows/events/june-flying-day-one
Rent a car, and if you've driven on the wrong side before skip the rest of this reply.
If you've never driven on the right side you'll get acclimated to driving on the wrong side within 30 minutes. Once I started shifting with my left hand instead of trying to open the door I was good to go. I drove 2347 miles and I had two problem areas, parking lots & roundabouts. Out on the road with traffic around is easy.
Stopped at a grocery store, looked the wrong way pulling out of my parking spot and drove on the 'wrong' side/lane of the lot. Pulled out of a McDonald's and pulled up to the light in the wrong lane. Fortunately it was early Sunday morning and no one saw me break 4 laws turning right on red. Street view link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Af1uJkjD7trUmejYA
Roundabouts are easy but needed to look for the 'little' ones. Was driving thru a town and the car in front of my stopped, couldn't figure out why. Then he moved and I saw the 3' painted circle. So watch for blue roundabout signs when driving thru a town/village. Street view link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AfGo1BtxYCtYYWC76
Excellent, thank you!
I first drove a right hand drive car in Barbados on our honeymoon a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. We rented a mini moke or whatever they’re called, which had a three speed manual, no doors, a canvas top, and a gutless little motor. It took some getting used to and especially because I was also adapting to the local driving methods in Barbados. I would enter a village and a truck or a car would be stopped facing me in the other lane while doing a delivery or dropping somebody off. This left only a narrow lane for me to get past the stopped vehicle, and inevitably another vehicle would come at me head on in my lane and honking angrily. this happened several times before I realized that the honking meant that car had assumed the right of way and that the name of the game was to honk first to get your way. I tried it and magically the seas parted for me every time!
This was also the first time that I encountered roundabouts. So now I was in the left lane approaching a roundabout the wrong way downshifting with my wrong hand and attempting to navigate the rest of the way through the roundabout. A bit of a nightmare, but I eventually figured it out…..
if you want to experience real roundabout insanity, there is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_%28Swindon%29
or this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Colchester)
WTF? That’s seriously messed up
My first experience with driving on the wrong side of the road was in Great Britain, in a rental Triumph Spitfire, on a trip with my college girlfriend. Put 1300 miles on the Triumph. Other than a couple of times slapping my hand into the door when I intended a downshift, not too bad, even when that resulted in taking a corner too fast with one hand on the wheel. What was difficult was not getting killed stepping off the street while looking the wrong way for oncoming traffic.
"Great Britain, in a rental Triumph Spitfire, on a trip with my college girlfriend"
Quoted for awesomeness.
I spent a week in Agile training taught by the company that doesn't even practice what it teaches. I wish I could go a day without seeing the word sprint or point, but that's not happening anytime soon.
All aboard the release train.
I'd rather derail it lol!
Prior was spiral process. It worked just fine.
Probably the best way to go.
Although a former employer used Waterfall for big projects. When SHTF during testing, everything got derailed. Management would come up with a fix at the 14th hour and then they would all get promoted. It’s almost like they planned it that way.
Yep, that was exactly the plan.
Agile is one of the best scams I've ever seen perpetrated in tech. The people who force you to use it don't know a damn thing about computers, programming, development, or quality. When it first came out we all laughed at how shitty it was. But sadly, the people in charge are fucking morons now.
Oh really? You've heard about SAP, right?
SAP is THE best scam!
Con artists everywhere speak in hushed tones when they talk of the big one, the one that no one ever thought could be pulled off. A long con that has brought in billions, nay TRILLIONS! of dollars. A scam so big that it has conmen on conman, grifters on grifters, fleas on bigger fleas, all draining the same dog.
(I once wrote a story where one of the bad guys was a SAP expert! And that was how they knew he was evil!)
The worst period of my working life was the (fortunately brief) period when I was involved in the introduction of SAP in a business. If you think modern cars are needlessly complicated, try SAP!
Its really hard to believe that SAP scam has continued for so long.
I have a good friend who is Swedish, that I know from engineering school, who works for SAP. He’s a super good dude but after hearing all the bad things about SAP it seems it would make it worth a trip to Sweden just to ask him “what the fuck is going on here???”
How about CMMI?
Well, companies think they can somehow assign points as days of work or some other working measurement.
when he said sprint and point i thought he was talking about the gp
Yeah, 3 points great. Now tell me when you will be done coding it and will be checking it in.
that's not very Six Sigma of you!
sigma balls lmao
Well, that is a week of your life wasted. And now your brain is ruined, likely permanently. But I prescribe a 6 week off the grid vacation which might reset things after which you will have no memory of that evil indoctrination. Then start looking for a new job if you can’t avoid that anti-productivity system.
What surprises me is that there’s no mention of that 💩 in the CompSci or MIS catalogs at my alma mater. So assuming an American grad can actually get a tech job, this indoctrination happens on the job.
Why isn’t systems analysis as taught in college no longer any good? It’s the only thing that makes sense!
I haven't seen Brenda mentioning the Cuba tours anywhere for quite a few years now so I don't think she's doing them anymore. I wouldn't mistake her for being a high-end hooker either.
I made some $$ back in the good old days selling spy photos to her. Fellow Arizonian - she would come to my place of employment and pick up my film. Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days. When I was a kid, it was Jim Dunne in Popular Mechanics (he bought a piece of property next to the Chrysler Proving Grounds here in AZ which helped his cause for a short while). As an adult, it was usually Brenda's photos and then later Brian Williams' stuff - I think he's out of the business now too.
"Appears that "spy photos" are definitely a thing of the past these days."
Because the general public interest in seeing the new cars of the future is roughly equivalent to the general public interest in new all-nude photos from Lizzo. And when you look at the new cars of the past decade, can you blame them?
Good point.
Photos of new cars are about the equivalent artistically of nude photos of Lizzo
Both can be vomit inducing.
I wouldn't mistake her for being a high-end hooker either
If someone offers to pay you for sex, that doesn't actually mean you're high end
https://makeagif.com/gif/buzz-your-girlfriend-woof-S7NFLj
When did the interest in spy shots drop? It’s almost like I didn’t realize it happened!
I think the last ones I saw went away 5-6 years ago? I used to get a weekly SEMA e-newsletter that had them - I think they were by Brian Williams, whose business name I forget at the moment. I think I sold my last one to Brenda in maybe '04-'05?
My best one was probably in '98 or '99. I was at an off-road race in Primm, NV, with some buddies and saw an interesting rig in the parking lot behind our hotel one night. I didn't have a camera with me so my buddies and I walked over to a convenience store and stood in line to buy a disposable 35mm camera (happy snappy as we called them). My buddies were bitching about it the whole time because I think we had to stand in line at the checkout for awhile. I took some photos the next morning and later sent them to Brenda. I think I got $400 for those (a lot of $$ for me in those days). I think they appeared in "Truckin" magazine.
I doubt the Glassdoor reviews are really anonymous. If I reviewed my company they would have a pretty good idea who it is being there’s only three of us on my team.
I never complete 'anonymous' online workplace surveys for this reason. Spouting goodthink just to get them out of my inbox is something I can't stomach.
Yeah we have a yearly one. Any negative response can lead to a meeting with HR.
A long time ago, I wrote an email from my work email, because external emails were all blocked by the firewall, to a friend about how half our team had quit in the last six months and made the joke "Working hard or hardly working" and HR pulled me in for "Negative views on management" A young me asked my manager what I'd been flagged for and my manager not being a prick showed me. I drafted my resignation letter about 5 minutes later. Fuck those guys.
Wittgensteins ruler hurts when you get smacked with it.
Every comment you make is something that a smart person would know the origin of.
what is this reflexive principle referenced, isn't it Wittgenstein's ruler, in the Taleb books? It would be virtually impossible to leave an informative review without revealing who you are and what your role is/was. No point in worsening already bad blood or trashing what may have been a "mostly peaceful" relationship.
If this worsens with self-doxxing via the merging of two firms whose missions are inherently adversarial, that is just even more absurd and 2026ish.
For anyone who needs to know salary information, they do make it somewhat difficult but you can always create a Glassdoor account by basically making shit up about Company XYZ. I assume they leave this as a possibility because it jukes their numbers in a positive way ("Glassdoor has 10 million active users!")
I would kill to leave reviews of several firms from my past, but there's no incentive that benefits the review-leaver and even potential blowback. Like facebook, Glassdoor makes its money by failing to compensate people who submit valuable original content. They should pay people who leave company reviews MONEY per review 🤣🤣.
What 110 EUR Cohiba were you smoking - a Siglo VI? Honestly, recent Cuban production, particularly after the rather Capitalistic Communists at Habanos “harmonized” global pricing higher, is a very poor value proposition.
Jack is slowly merging his “sherman” persona the real Jack baruth. We’ve got cigar posts two weeks in a row
gonna watch jack very closely on how he describes trucks from now on
From now on? He's on record as being a lifted truck hater already.
It's communism, I tell you.
It’s stolen valor.
Just wait until the “personality” merge so much you get laid
He's gonna gain five inches and three inches.
I learned about LPSG from you, and CalcSD.Info from my nemesis, Harelip.
Harelip, who often volunteers information he should not have, went on a rare second date with a woman who said “I don’t fuck with micropenises” on the first. He assured her that this was no issue for him. When he unsheathed his dagger after the second encounter, she was disappointed. To no avail, he pulled up CalcSD.Info to PROVE to her that he was in the middle of the bellend curve, at a whopping 4.9 inches. She was not persuaded and left.
We could dispense with a lot of bravado and braggadocio on ACF by maintaining an endowment leaderboard.
gayest shit ive ever heard
we do not need a dick chart here
One of my (less)finer moments in corporate America was asking a particularly angry Engineering director who was informing me how much smarter he was than I that if someone in the room had a tape measure we could get through the debate significantly quicker than regaling each other with our CVs. I didn't get fired, he STFU for the rest of the meeting, and was walked out 2 weeks later...I should have played the lotto that day.
You’re gonna need a big rolling pin to do this
As Jack loses weight, Sherman gains it. They are a mass that cannot be destroyed.
Literally LOLed. Thanks
To take this seriously, we could use a “what to buy (producer, model line, location of production) in cigars in 2026.
On-line or in-person at a brick & mortar store?
What is fairly widely available that I smoke regularly / daily at the moment:
-Davidoff Aniversario No. 1 (2023 Limited Edition); there are still plenty of boxes of these around from 2023. $64 / stick before taxes. Superb, the best widely available white label Davidoff at the moment.
-Plasencia Alma Fuerte (Green) - Toro or the shortest size (NOT the Hexagon) - About $25 / stick
-Plasencia Alma Fuerte (Black) - Stronger than above; Toro size only (NO Hexagon, again) - About $25 / stick
Online and more like the latter Plascencia's - something you would get for a person who did you a moderate sized favor suggestive of a $100-$300 gift that isn't just a bottle of wine and can be ordered in a neat, shippable box. (For local in-the-know people I can buy at a local, well-respected brick and mortar run by an expert who commissions the production, aging and rolling of his own cigars.)
This is what you want:
https://www.smallbatchcigar.com/davidoff-gift-selection-box-of-12
“Production, aging, and rolling of his own cigars” is the equivalent of bathtub hooch imo.
do they still have a man rolling cigars in the corner of the 'cuba' restaurant in n.y.c.? free, with a tip of course! wonderful smokes. rumor had it the leaves were snuck in behind suitcase linings on the owners' trip to cuba.
I don’t make the attestation that I possess the sophistication to tell. But people who smoke many more cigars than I do (100+ py) seem to trust the guy. The cigars I’ve bought online (skill issue: yes) have been hit or miss while this guys bathtub hoochstix have been remarkably consistent.
Thought experiment: how different is extremely artisanal, single-still, single-barrel bourbon/scotch from bathtub hooch? We must admit there should be a difference in the sophistication level of the producer, but the production process itself looks awfully similar.
Don’t disparage GRWM videos. They were the precursor peak 2020s internet: The Honey Birdette Try On Haul.
speaking of try on hauls: (this show just kills me, Jared Keeso and Terry Ryan are so damn funny)
https://youtu.be/z5lXjc8C3DQ?si=IvKeEATXibaSbioy
fuckin lmao
i worked with a newfie and they do sound like that
never gets old
He definitely plays it up for that character, but yeah it's quite amusing
You have excellent taste in CanCon.
To be honest all I really know is Red Green, Letterkenny, and by extension, Shorsey. Haven't watched trailer park boys, though I think I would enjoy it.
i think youve consumed more canadian content than i have
A fabulous weekend for the wee Kimi Antonelli who out-qualified and outraced Princess George in China. He’s putting it together and I look forward to seeing great things from him.
I was encouraged by Sir Lewis’ performance this weekend. He’s in a much better place and appears to be much stronger mentally than last season. Unfortunately, the gap from third to first place was even greater than it was in Melbourne at 25+ seconds, so pretty concerned about that. The Ferraris appear to be fast at times, but the Mercedes is a rocket ship.
Ollie B rocked a top 5, and Carlos picked up a couple of points.
Next up is Suzuka in a week and a half. It’s one of my all time favourite tracks that I look forward to every year
Amazon received 10,044 H-1B approvals in 2025, the most of any company in America, while laying off 14,000 American employees. They are the single largest H-1B sponsor in the country.
Google received 4,181 H-1B approvals in 2025 - 71% for Indian nationals, while conducting multiple rounds of layoffs cutting thousands of American employees.
No company is entitled to either endless cheap labor or employee loyalty.
If there were no other requirements for H-1B approvals, it definitely should be illegal for a company employing them to fire any American for something short of a felony.
We're both 6'2"...
I feel like you are taller. It might just be that you are less depressed.
It could just be the shoes.
You'd think a guy with so many custom shoes would have thought of that.
"MidJourney, produce a photoreal image of Jack Baruth wearing Ron DeSantis style exotic leather cowboy boots with 6 inch heel lifters in them"
ron deshortass
"but you knew that would happen, right?"
well yeah he doesnt have enough melanin obvs
"Antonelli had been given a “rocketship” and that there was no reason to get excited about his win"
same as it ever was
"Lewis called on Africans to “take the continent back,”"
bro from who? he trying to start fights with whites again?
"I don’t even know how it could be resolved"
and they even have newey there so they could very well be hopelessly cooked
"They should have an interim race somewhere with no public participation"
BURGERKINGRING TIME
"To my immense dismay, the cigar was very good"
cigars seem like alcohol in the sense that you have to suffer through them tasting like poison before youre allowed to enjoy them
"Guess I don’t need that pension after all, lol!"
the bad news is that i have nothing to live for but the good news is that i have nothing to lose. anyway your home addresses are public
"He was like a father to me. In the evenings we would stroll through the favelas and help random street children do their homework"
literal lol. i will be using this irl as soon as the opportunity presents itself
"Find a provider that lets you have multiple emails"
i genuinely hate how many different accounts and passwords i need nowadays and how nothing is secure and all your data is bought and sold all the time to anyone
"85-90% of the H1-Bs I’ve met were somewhere between subpar and abysmal"
does that mean the other 15% were mid
"“AI” was just a pretext to fire more on-shore skilled people and bump up the headcount with foreign labor"
everything ive heard basically paints them as being hopelessly incompetent and not just useless but genuinely draining on resources which makes me wonder how much you have to hate americans to want any h1bs at all ever
Do people not remember luigi wacked a ceo and almost everyone cheered. We all got it. Do these fools want to run around with 24/7 security? Bezos can afford it, the dude making 500k can barely afford his mortgae
some people are stupid and evil
not sure why they continue to tempt fate
Speed ;
Do you know the #1 instinct of Humans ? .
-Nate
The conservative op-ed media decried the cheering of Mangione, but these are the same people who think corporations have every right to hollow out the American economy.
Sir, you misspelled "cuckservative"
Damn!
Super spelling and lightning-fast mood swings are my only super powers, too.
On a recent TST podcast, Matt Farah mentioned that the CEO of Rivian uses private security. He contrasted this with Jim Farley who does not. I would bet that a lot of the tech startup CEOs are more like the Rivian guy.
A billionaire who runs a company that has never made a profit and I suspect never will probably should have private security
As an Ohioan, I can't wait to pay to provide that service for Vivek!
It's been a grift for 17 years! I guess they do technically make trucks.
-26,951,000 They have lost 27 billion dollars
I got into a youtube comments section argument last year with a bunch of idiots when I dared to suggest that Rivian and Lucid wouldn't exist in 10 years.
I'm going to campaign for Amy Crazybitch until I collapse.
I am tired of being ruled by foreigners. And yeah Vivek was born here. I don't care.
Grew up in Ohio but doesn't appear to have lived here in 20 years. He's also a grifter. How do you make a billion dollars from a company that has never made a profit?
If you're gonna flip the tables, flip the tables and go Casey. If you want a preview of Amy Crazybitch, look to Virginia. It's not pretty.
And yet, Rivian just made a deal with Uber for self-driving cars. There’s a bet that’ll take awhile to pay off, if ever.
I actually think rivians are sharp i just dont think theyre surviving
How about Matt’s daddy?
It’s always been a mystery to me with cigars and cigarettes as to why anybody struggles to enjoy them. On the other hand, as a toddler I was notorious for eating my father’s cigarettes if given the chance. I’ve never actually inhaled either.
I might have one cigarette a year but if they were good for you and didn't make you stink, I'd have a crippling addiction.
Even more of a mystery was when a large group of us young corporate accountants used to go out on Friday night to terrorize Rush Street in Chicago. A couple of the women would pull out a cigarette and smoke it while we were charging up in the downstairs bar before. They never smoked otherwise.
"I only smoke when I drink" been around forever!
for a brief time after ww2 ladies used cigarette holders in and around beverly hills--mom and sister too. delightfully fun!
Truth: if you're struggling to enjoy them, you shouldn't, or you didn't have a good one. A good cigar is unreal. But shitty ones, or even dried out formerly good ones, can taste like crap. I'm the last person to suggest a cigar hobby but when they're good they're great.
Smoke one of these (they are reasonably available) and you will change your mind:
https://halfwheel.com/davidoff-aniversario-no-1-limited-edition-collection/432712/
(Same cigar I linked elsewhere)
"BURGERKINGRING TIME"
Box box. Box box.
Bro! I'm 7 miles out!
We are checking.
and if you miss the pit entrance you have to nurse your tires for the next 9 mins
My kids are 24 and 26 and absolutely love Seinfeld and probably can’t tell the difference between a Porsche and Corvette.
Mine are in their 30s, and can definitely tell the difference.
They (to a one) like the 'vette more.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I'd take a porsche over the C8 and that is not because I'm fond of porsches.
No interest in a C8, but a C7 GS or even a C6 ZO6 or GS is looking REALLY tasty.
I have no desire for any sporting conveyance with an automatic transmission.
I've wanted a C6 Z06 in yellow for awhile. At 50k pricing though, I'll continue to pass on it.
unrelated bitch session: today, driving home from work, an out of stater became particularly enraged that i was only going 5 over the speed limit on residential roads and coming almost to full stops at stop signs. after passing on a double yellow at triple the speed limit and kicking up rocks that sure enough chipped up some of the paint on my bumper, and then immediately getting stopped by ANOTHER local driving as i drive, i got a few pictures of the plate, called the non-emergency local PD number to inform them of a woman driving like a lunatic. reader, as a 6'2, 250 pound man with a 3 leading off my flat bench number, i know exactly who the law would side with should i have decided escalate further. annoyed, perhaps even enraged, but perpetually late to my husbandly and fatherly duties, i went home.
upon seeing some damage to the paint i said what the hell, lemme go down to the local PD (very, very small town) and see whats what. i have a plate, i have a video of them driving recklessly, i have damage to my car that is visibly fresh, but still no can do. sorry chief. life aint fair. best i can do is record the complaint and the damage so you can point your insurance company to something should you decide to file a claim. no thanks boss, i already pay enough.
i know we are fallen beings in an unjust and cruel world, and i know this is a first world problem. what could i have done? what should i have done? what can i still do?
"a 6'2, 250 pound man with a 3 leading off my flat bench number"
absolute fuckin unit
anyway my vote goes toward either a confrontation at her house or a pit maneuver
The upside to carrying a portable hole puncher is your ability to punch holes at a distance. The downside to carrying a portable hole puncher is that every violent felony is now a violent felony done while in possession of a portable hole puncher even when lawfully in possession of said hole puncher.
This is all hypothetically applicable to someone who isn’t me. I’m a good boy.
utterly nonsensical and unfair
everyone knows the commentors here are all faultlessly law abiding citizens to a man
Uh, yeah sure I am , _now_ .
-Nate
TO A MAN, I tell you!
What about April?
"I'm a good boy?"
Beirut over here will pop you for that.
After watching highway chase PIT maneuver videos, particularly from the Arkansas State Troopers, my vote is PIT. Glorious when executed well.
I have spent much too much time watching On Patrol Live. I can tell you the most frustrating thing is watching any cop, especially women, fail at pitting some criminal on a totally straight road while going 50 mph.
i like how georgia state patrol will pit anything even a box truck
they will pursue literally anyone anywhere
I saw a youtube video where they pitted a motorcycle
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1o2d2tj/biker_tries_to_flee_the_police_in_the_rain_gets/
I'd only click on that if it was a bicyclist.
Request approved
https://www.google.com/search?q=bicylce+running+into+a+fence&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:40494476,vid:sEE34Ar-3gQ,st:0
I need to get back to work...
Hood mounted rocket launcher.
In a perfect world it would be shoulder mounted!
Not in my car!
"Backblast area clear" isn't really possible if you're in a vehicle...a truck bed, maybe, but then you should be tripod mounting whatever you've got.
Pay a PI to get her home address.
Go to her home.
Plant fifty bamboo seeds in the dark of night.
If she comes outside, twist her neck off.
Just kidding about that last.
Alternatively stick bamboo seeds under her finger nails.
I laughed way, way too hard at this.
YIKES ~ this is pure evil Jack .
-Nate
Honestly, the need for an unpunishable form of revenge explains the boomer obsession with bamboo planting.
That, and some sort of stockholm syndrome relationship with Vietnam post-war.
What ever happened to the simple pleasures of a flaming bag of dog poo or perhaps a huge penis drawn on the lawn in weed killer?
Ring doorbells... that is what happened.
It's literally the only reason I don't go next door and cut down the godforsaken wind chime that's near my oldest child's bedroom that rings CONSTANTLY.
Tripod-mounted pellet gun. Dial it in over the course of a week.
Hmmm …. There must be a way to jam those Ring things. If not, the product needs to be developed.
Jamming wifi wouldn't be tough.
What I don't know is if the cameras are able to store pictures/video locally on the camera if wifi is down. If that's the case I got nothing.
They do. Most security cameras do.
My story is that there were several vehicles following a truck and horse trailer going at or slightly below the 40 limit on a country road. Double yellow lines for miles with plenty curves and slight hills. I was the second car. After a couple miles the first vehicle (Range Rover) guns it and goes around. The vehicle behind me happened to be a sheriff’s deputy who hit his lights about 2 seconds after she crossed the double yellow. That was sweet.
Jeez. There was no way to win in this situation.
Depending on how curvy the road really was, I'd have check my mirrors first but would've punched around him. We don't really have "curves" in IL though.
zugzwang!
Couple months back I had a situation with an on-ramp to the interstate. Long, straight ramp and the ramp ends into a new lane, no merge required. I was car #3. Car #1 was not going to achieve anything approaching the posted speed by the time the ramp ends. Annoying, dangerous, yes and yes. Car #2 was an all black dodge ram with some stupid stickers on the back window and a lift. Guy takes the first opportunity to drive over the chevrons to overtake and immediately kicks something up and chips my windshield.
My fault for existing, I guess? I was on the way home to see my kid, so not really looking to engage with someone whose day (life?) was going that poorly. I'm just glad it was a fillable chip.
I have long dreamed of trading all my vehicles, getting a pickup, permanently mounting a plow, and just bashing anyone who bothers me.
This is one of the things I miss most about driving an $800 piece of shit built in the body-on-frame days.
It is a huge advantage to look like you are someone who is dangerous and has nothing to lose.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/306037092773
That would be evidence of premeditation if I ever had to shoulder a Prius back into the road-head lane while trying to merge.
they're human berings, for pete's sake! i'm learning to pretend that they're my close friends who made a sudden mistake causing me to take evasive action. forgiving everybody is fun!
Leaving my house mostly makes me glad I never volunteered for the military to fight for these people. They deserve nothing.
In Northwest Ohio, that’d be just about every day!
Like the idiot in the Honda Odyssey yesterday who came over two lanes of three-lane I-75 into the left lane and proceeded to park themselves in front of me and a couple cars behind me; they were doing 69 in a 65, but they weren’t passing, which is why the PASSING lane exists! I held my brights on to try and get their attention, as there was no traffic in front of them and several gaps on the right side. Finally, I was able to use one of those gaps to undertake and get around the van on the right, using the now clear right lane with slower traffic in the center.
A few minutes later, the idiot was back behind me, caught in a clump in the left lane, unable to go anywhere, and they held on their brights! 🙄
I rarely drive in the left lane because there are too many people like that.
I usually end up in the left lane because there’s too many slower drivers in the center. But my goal is to use the center lane when I can. Basic lane discipline.
When I hear that lane discipline is out the window on the Autobahn, I think we are in the middle of the fall of humanity! 😢
I don't really understand the point of LinkedIn. I don't like most of the people I meet in real life, why on earth would I want to connect with people online that I don't care anything about? Add the fact that I am going to assume everything they say is some level of a lie or straight bullshit, what's the point?
I’ve found it useful in networking. Last week I was shown a post by some guy from our company in the EU because a mutual commented on it. I went to that guy’s page and his side project is deploying a sensor suite similar to what I was trying (and failing) to deploy at work. He was eager to show the value of his project to the company and I was eager to knock off another project.
When I was getting fired in 2022 due to the COVID mandate, I was able to use my connections to job hunt. Some leads some from recruiters unsolicited. The job I ended up with was shown to me by LinkedIn.
It’s also good at feeding you relevant job listings on a weekly basis, most of which have pay scales listed.
All of this is without paying them a dime for premium OR giving myself the #OpenToWork mark of death. All I do is keep my “resume” somewhat up to date and occasionally like a person’s post. For less than 30 minutes per month, I’m happy with what it’s provided.
Ok, that I can see. I've had the same job for 20 years, so looking for work hasn't been a priority, nor will it be any time before I die.
I only use it as a placeholder to show all the projects I’ve done over the past several decades. Like an online resume. It’s a real shit show now.
It’s all virtue signalling to appear correct to the right people. Its awful
In the beginning linkedin was a place for 'professionals' to meet and discuss business etc. .
Then the headhunters found it and I stopped going there .
-Nate
Because people write posts that sound exactly like this piece of fiction that highly amused me this week: https://idiallo.com/blog/the-show-on-the-other-foot-linkedin-stories
Jesus wept.
We all wept.
As a guy who has been self-employed in a service trade for 29 years this fall (let's just round up to 30), I'm as disconnected from this nonsense as anybody I know and certainly than anybody here. I haven't applied for a job in 40 years, so I don't know squat about what it takes to get one.
That being said -- wow, that was bad.
I signed up for it almost 20 years ago and keep it active “just in case” but the only thing ive updated on their is my role from maager to member and now i get emails about prospective jobs like member of staff at potbelly
One of the great joys of my life is that I’ve only ever applied for a job one time in my life, and therefore have zero need or interest in LinkedIn, etc.
I have a profile, because I was told I should back when I (sorta’) cared about what I “should” do. The entire thing is a humblebragfest of buzzwords and nonsense to me, and I came across this and laughed. You may or may not find it funny depending on your perspective and your thoughts regarding the utility of “networking”, but I think the various links to LinkedIn lampoons are hilarious.
There are more sprinkled through this thread.
The biggest, or possibly the only thing, stopping me from finding a new career is my reflexive unwillingness to be wrenched through exhaustive job searches, redundant application processes and the subsequent endless rounds of interviews seemingly every job from entry level on up requires these days.
I hear you, and have nothing but pity.
My son is 36 and employed in a local Fortune 500 company. The nonsense he endures to move within the company is mind-numbing. He forwarded me a job description this morning for a placement he was being encouraged to take -- it was 2 full paragraphs of buzzwords and double-speak.
I like to tell myself I'm a reasonably intelligent man, but I had no idea what any of it even meant. I asked my son what the job entailed, he told me, "No one knows. An excuse to pay somebody over $150K annually, plus benefits, plus a nice bonus".
We're doomed.
We are doomed indeed.
Anyway, if he hears of another job like that in the near future I'd toss my hat in for it!
It is my understanding that the company is filthy with jobs like that, Wyatt. All you need to do is know how to play the game.
I can’t and never could
What is it, 20% of people do all the work at any company?
It's part of why I've stuck to founder-led, private businesses - there's less tolerance for BS and buzzwords when the guy who built it is still driving the ship and watching where the cash goes. Like any big organization though, it can go downhill fast, so you have to watch if the good long tenured folks stick around.
That story would be more believable if he got stabbed
it's so the recruiters can see if you actually know anybody. i freelance in a tech niche where there are only about 1500 highly experienced people in my metro area. when a recruiter pulls up my profile, they immediately see that i'm linked to several of the freelancers and management people in their company.
i never post on linkedin. it gets you nowhere.
About those cars in Cuba, they have been kept on the road by shear determination, with engines from the USSR, with hand fabricated mounts and brackets, and quite possibly a level of craftsmanship that many mechanics here would have a hard time matching, I don’t think they would want new cars from America or even Europe with all of the electronics in them that make them almost un repairable, it would be interesting to see new cars taken back to an analog state of operation though, I think it would be interesting to work with those Cuban mechanics.
Skilled trades would likely be the last kind of employment to be touched by AI, for obvious reasons of human anatomy. Many Americans would love to work for what they are paying H1b’s if they are indeed making 130 a year…it seems like the corporations and government are just trying to screw Americans, I am glad I retired, my old position remains unfilled, and it costs the company more to get my old job description done. I envision a future where someone skilled with their hands and mind will be worth a small fortune, just not yet.
On the other hand, a few years back I watched an interesting documentary on those old cuban cars, towards the end vin diesel drove a mangled '49 Chevy two door _SO_ fast the 265C.I.D. V8 briefly glowed bright red before it flew through the air and won a race .
Those wacky 3rd world Mechanics seem to be able to do a lot with very little .
=8-) .
-Nate
I was in Cuba 10 years ago and hired a gal with a restored 55 Chevy coupe to drive me around. I sat shotgun and noticed the floor shifter had a strange to me shift pattern. I pointed to it and said that’s not a Chevy. Her answer, Toyota swap!
Yep, whatever they have for parts is fair game.
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AI is only good for creating never-were 1975 Escalades and 1970 DeSotos, or writing humorous fiction about a T-Rex busting into a GM board meeting and eating...er, certain obvious incompetent execs. Then burping.
Never watched Friends. Never plan to now, or in the future. But still use Seinfeld memes frequently.
New Telluride very insectile and undesirable. I didn't love the original but was 235% more appealing than the new potato shaped projectile. Even their wheels are ugly.
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
Abimelec Arellano has you covered on the ‘75 Escalade!
Seeing the blocky designs that Hyundai and Kia are throwing out should honestly convince Ford to revive the Flex.
The new Palisade, the one that kills kids, is a Flex copy.
Immediately what I thought looking at it. First time seeing it? All the press about the child being killed. Of all the ways to die. :(
I'm glad that my CX-9 will not try to kill my kids.
What the hell do they have left, S/CUV-wise?
Bronco Sport with three-cylinder turbski. They’re dropping the Escape. Are they also dropping the Edge?
So the Expedition is next up?
They lost so much money on the glorified golf carts that they can’t afford to put other products out! Viscous cycle in Dearborn, I fear!
If it's still around at some point ~10-20 years from now, I look forward to making a post on LinkedIn or whatever, similar to Scarface in the movie Half-Baked giving everyone a spicy farewell at his former place of employ. Getting on there is like the worst part of the day (it's still a resource) reading a bunch of drivel that morons like to call 'insight'.
I never watched a minute of Friends. Being descended from a pack of Brooklynites, Seinfeld at least got pretty close to portraying that whole culture except when it didn't - I suspect when that happened it was brought on by Hollywood douchebag meddling.