Thanks, but it was so long ago that it doesn’t matter to me anymore.

You’re fucked you should give up. That was sarcasm.

You’re fine, friend. I know the feeling. I dropped out of high school when some credits weren’t gonna transfer and I was gonna graduate late. I got my GED and started college classes during the second semester of my senior year. Guess what? I didn’t finish that either. I work in tech, where you can be self-taught and make a nice living; that isn’t true for most industries, I’m just saying there’s no requirement that we approach education as a cookie cutter absolute.

You know who else is graduating late? People your age who took a year off to travel abroad. People who had tuition struggles. People who fell on hard times and had to take time off. People who had a family member get sick and they had to care for them. Literally tons of people.

You’re frustrated and that’s valid. But it’s really a very small issue in the grand scheme of your life. You’re also at an age where things like that feel more important than they really are. Keep your head down. Study. Use the extra time this summer to try to get some experience at an internship or work on some way of furthering your knowledge in your field so you can be first out of the gate when you graduate. Get a tutor if you think that will help. You got this.

My gf was finishing a semester before she was to move out to California with me. I awoke to a butt-dial voicemail of her dry-humping a guy. She tried to say it wasn’t what it was. I transferred the audio to my computer and sent it to her (online, but in 2002, so I think it still applies to the question cause we didn’t have voip and such). She couldn’t defend it. I never spoke to her again.

Meh, I can’t dunk on this one. Despite paying for a password manager, I still use the same password for things I don’t care about / that can’t be used to exploit me. The other day I had to register for something stupid and that’s what I used, yet again. Granted, I’m not logging into game-changing accounts with it, but I get it. I’ll dunk on her for policy.

I’m a unix nerd. They built their OS on unix. It’s not unix anymore, but I don’t think they’re intentionally making it difficult. I had more trouble going from unix/linux to windows understanding where files were.

iphone to external drive on a mac is a nightmare.

Yes, it should be better. But you know how you mass-produce a product at a competitive price (though premium) and sell a shitload of them? By optimizing for the average user. They should be awesome in every area. But when you choose what you focus on, it’s not the tiny number of users with niche needs. This is similar to arguing that they should have higher than 10Gbps transfer speeds. It’s not useful for enough people to justify the cost. And software is a cost, just as is hardware. Source: worked in software.

TIL.

Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.

Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million

For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That’s when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.

Finally.

Oxford Comma.

I can’t repeat it because it was racist af but surprisingly clever (I know, racism isn’t clever, it’s ignorant).

Every day, at some point, I think of three things for which I’m grateful.

The Catholic Church.

Possibly Clarence Darrow?

Work to develop emotional stability and security in being oneself. For me, that was many years of therapy learning to love myself. I got there in 2019, but the work continues. I’m the healthiest, mentally and emotionally, that I’ve ever been in my life. I truly did not believe I could ever make it as far as I have on this journey.

Partner and kitties. When they (kitties) aren’t screaming at me while I’m on the phone for work while wfh. So fucking rude. That’s sarcasm. No one seems able to infer it anymore.

Planet from the Daft Punk video with the blue aliens was going through an apocalypse. I woke up crying.

Not quite one and a half megabytes. Otherwise, one point three two.

Seek help from a trusted adult. Teacher, parent of a friend that you trust, wherever you can.