My employer sends out a sheet every year that itemizes our entire comp package.

The single most expensive is my insurance, a family EPO with a $750/1500 deductible.

I pay $8200/yr. My employer pays nearly $33,000.

Forty. Thousand. Dollars. For one family.

Plus another $10k or so for Medicare and Dental and Vision.

$50k, per year, all told.

That is equal to roughly half of the median household income in my town.

And then deductibles, co-pays, etc.

And then…the fuckers…you put money in your FSA but can’t locate the receipt for reimbursement? Fuck off man, that money is for your employer now.

Our President is fucking children with zero consequence, and I need to show a fucking receipt to reimburse a fucking $3 prescription, with my own money that I put there.

After myself and my employer already paid $50k combined into the system?

Fuck this country man.

Fallout Boy (or, specifically, Patrick Stump) also does the theme song for “Spidey and His Amazing Friends” and “Hot Wheels: Let’s Race!”

I tend to buy T-series laptops once they are about 5 years old, and still have tons of life left in them.

I’ll probably be looking for a T14 Gen 2 this year. Nothing wrong with my T495 'cept that my kid spilled water on it but fortunately only killed the hall sensor.

In fact, I thought the laptop was dead but I. Noticed a little corrosion on the hall sensor board, unplugged it, laptop started right up.

And it’s still got plenty of life in it to hand down to my kid for Minecraft and such.

Not nearly as big of a story but you should hear about BER - The Night Begins to Shine..

• Written in 2005 as an assignment to "create an 80s-style song for a music library’s
• In 2014, appeared in an episode of Teen Titans Go for fewer than 10s as a throwaway joke.
• Immediately Hit #23 in Billboard charts
• Inspired TTG to make followup miniseries with covers by bands like Fallout Boy and Ceelo Green

Genies out of the bottle now man.

Look forward to an arms race and eventually a cold war. This is our generations nuke.

It says “Trump” underneath.

Always has been.

Epitome of “shoot first, as questions later”.

$8 (I’m assuming Dollarydoos). At least according to the article (it’s hidden in the caption of a photo). And it cites Reddit…

Do you want 9/11-2?

Because this is how you get 9/11-2.

We’re up to 787 civilian casualties in Iran so far. We’re almost to a third of the number Bin Laden did to us. In case anyone wants to feel like we are better than them.

I suppose you’re right.

It just feels so…I dunno. Anticlimactic?

Like, I’m an older Millennial who has spent his entire life as a white boy in a small blue corner of the country.

I grew up knowing we had a shitty past but thinking that we’ve advanced past all that. We’re more accepting now. We still have a few bad apples, yeah. I never thought racism or bigotry were dead. I just had no idea how alive they are.

It’s like…you ever watch Avatar: The Last Airbender? The cartoon. Not the Netflix reboot (which is alright in its own way), certainly not the movie…no, the original cartoon.

Early on in the series, you meet a frail old man, hunched over, rickety, looks crazy. He challenges the main character with a series of puzzles that have easy, but non-obvious solutions.

Eventually, he has the main character duel “anyone in this room” and presents three very strong and rough champions. Thinking he’s clever, he challenges the crazy old man.

The crazy old man rips off his robe to expose a chiseled physique. He turns out to be one of the most powerful earth benders alive, despite also being one of (if not the) oldest.

I knew racism was alive, I just thought it was a crochety old man that we’re all just waiting to die. Nah man. It’s an old man that can and will whoop my ass because he’s in such peak shape he’ll probably end up outliving me.

Like that.

Whose age do they want on the server? The admins? Whoever staged it? Lol. Sure. Jan 1 1970.

Do I need to put my birthdate onto my firewalls?

Ooh are all enterprise firewalls going to start coming with CISA filters pre-enabled? Gotta protect those kids!

Glock is a type of gun.

A Glock, on its own, is not illegal.

Lots of aftermarket Glock accessories exist, all of which are legal.

However, certain combinations of Glock and accessories are not.

That’s not Glocks problem.

No I meant Usha.

That dog has an uncanny resemblance to JD Vance. Maybe it’s the beard?

This isn’t your typical American hostile takeover of a sovereign nation though.

Like, usually we drag it out, there’s some cat + mouse, the president doesn’t say the quiet part out loud. We might drone strike a couple of kids, but we won’t bomb a whole damn school. Let alone take out the leader.

And then have practically no plan following it? Trump’s first announcement after the attack made it seem like creating a power vacuum was the whole intent. Subsequent announcements make it seem more like “beatings will continue until morale improves”, or rather “we’ll just keep bombing you till you make the government we want”.

It’s like constantly hitting “next” while you’re on shuffle trying to get Macarena by Los del Rio, and you’ve got like 20,000 songs to go through. And even when Man in the Mirror comes on and you can see Macarena right there you’re like, “not good enough” and keep shuffling. Don’t even pause for a minute to appreciate how good of a song Man in the Mirror is. Nope. Gotta shuffle. Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena.

Our president is fucking children, and you’re telling me I gotta verify my date of birth to run Linux, in the name of “Protecting the Children”?

Get the fuck outta here.

“This salad tastes like pussy” vibes.

Years ago I would try to hide my pot smoking from my parents.

Now I am hiding my pot smoking from my kids.

Someday my kids will be hiding their pot smoking from me.

And my dad ended up getting into hydroponic gardening shortly after I moved out.

The circle of life, man.