Replace parrot with ChatGPT and it stops being funny and starts being relatable.

Had a director one who would start meetings with “Let’s get the worst news done first”.

On the occasion when there was no good news he’d say “Good news is we get to try again”

I miss that guy sometimes.

No. Everyone who doesn’t have money for him to grab is fucked.

That’s just eating at McDonald’s with … less steps.

Sure, but a change in behavior can make the latter half of those years a lot more enjoyable. I used to work with nurses and the stories they’d tell of 30/40 somethings living like invalids visiting dialysis clinics three to five times a week is heartbreaking.

even just a heap of “Italian seasoning” thrown in there makes a passable sauce. A can of crushed tomatoes and a can of tomato paste and a handful of Italian seasoning (with salt to taste) and you’ve got a decent college-kid budget sauce.

The same thing, from the Silmarillion:

The love of Finwë and Míriel was great and glad, for it began in the Blessed Realm in the Days of Bliss. But in the bearing of her son Míriel was consumed in spirit and body; and after his birth she yearned for release from the labour of living. And when she had named him, she said to Finwë: ‘Never again shall I bear child; for strength that would have nourished the life of many has gone forth into Fëanor.’

[They try to heal her and even the gods fail at it]

‘It is indeed unhappy,’ said Míriel, ‘and I would weep, if I were not so weary. But hold me blameless in this, and in all that may come after.’

She went then to the gardens of Lórien and lay down to sleep; but though she seemed to sleep, her spirit indeed departed from her body, and passed in silence to the halls of Mandos.

Translation: This little shit has sucked the life from my soul, peace out.

Followup:

DM ME THE DOUBTS AND FEARS OR DOUBTS AND FEARS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO YOU.

Start at 100% and work down from there?

Just gotta figure out how to turn their proboscis inside out with gene editing, make that an oral med, put it in a “supplement”, and get marketing to sell it to them as a dick enhancer.

Make sure to label it “HOMEOPATHIC” and the government will leave you alone.

1. Tax them enough that they don’t have the cash to just up and build their own personal-use nuclear powered, nation spanning infrastructure.

2. Use those taxes to build a nation spanning nuclear infrastructure that everyone can use.

Could be a turd wizard, in which case it’s both!

Because then the fraudsters end up with all the money, buy an e-news paper, or get a game show, and end up running for president. It’s not an excellent idea to let fraud run rampant on your society.

Technically it’s a centrist, since it’s in between a left and right wing.

I can’t find the source, but at some point there were reports of a fridge with a WiFi module that would overheat and die if you blocked it at the router.

Prompt Engineer Certifiers

You think circuits are your friend? By the time I was old enough to convince my parents to buy me a soldering iron I was already a man.

Chargebacks are a huge pain in the ass and everyone involved hates doing them. The chargeback fees are supposed to be a disincentive to curb the behavior. It’s mostly automated now, but there’s a whole “accusation/response/appeal” process that businesses need to actively participate in or risk just getting money clawed back Everytime a chargeback happens, regardless of reason. This causes friction between merchants and payment processors that sometimes leads to one dropping the other. Being in a business where chargebacks happen a lot requires a commensurate amount of work. They suck. (Yes, I’ve worked in this realm. Even when it’s all automated and works well, it still sucks).