This one has always struck me as spot on for IT. I’m between neutral and chaotic good.

Any Molly Ringwald character, but Pretty in Pink was the GOAT role.

That’s how I got it. I’m always stunned at how scared people around here are of getting in the creeks, lakes and rivers. Yeah, we got gators, but they run from you. Try to spot one, dare ya.

I’ve spent 100 hours on the local swamp and barely saw one running away. Same goes for cottonmouths. You’d have to literally trip on one to get bitten, and they get pretty fuckin’ vocal long before that happens. Now imagine less dangerous waters, people still scared.

YMMV if you jump in a lake full of 'em after dark. And that’s on you.

LOL, I heard that gif. Timed it in my mind, on the money OP.

Even in Florida, even in tiny lakes and swamps, the water is plenty cool under the top 2’.

Lies! That gif is sped up 2000%!

Florida mandates windshield replacement from any insurance coverage, and they can’t raise your rates for that repair. We sorely need more of that kinda thing.

Not understanding the alternator bit. I’m not aware of any shop of any stripe that will replace only the regulator.

EDIT: Leaving the above. Seems like back in the day you couldn’t replace the regulator alone. Looked at pics and it seems easy now days.

Higher interest rates allow creditors to take on riskier customers. Having said that, the US sorely needs regulation in all financial matters.

Hah! Terry Pratchett could have run with that.

Granny Weatherwax: “What’s wrong with your ball thingie? Looks leaky.”

Magrat: “Oh! I got it from Boffo Novelty and Joke Shop (No. 4, Tenth Egg Street, Ankh-Morpork). It’s supposed to be a top-of-the-line scrying ball!”

Weatherwax: “You got swindled you wet hen. That’s a crying ball if I ever sees one.”

Nanny Oog: “Now Granny, give young Magrat a break. Here honey, have a shot of this. Always puts me right on top of the world! And sometimes on the bottom, which is just as well.”

Weatherwax: “I can’t be havin’ with you two. Goats need fed.” (jump starts her crappy broom)

“The enemy’s gate is down.”

The side with the seam is down.

Been that guy. Didn’t get word until the last second as my head was on the chopping block as well.

A 99-1 vote to drop the anti AI regulation is hardly the government voting against. The Senate smashed that shit hard and fast.

ChatGPT is astonishingly good at answering questions, but if you continue to drill into a given conversation, 3-4, sometimes only 2 levels deep, and it’s off the rails.

That’s what I was thinking. My wife would be benevolent but politically clueless, making me the real dictator.

I did worse, resurrected a 1999 industrial 486SX on Win98B. It was fun as hell trying to figure it all out again, and most references are gone from the early web. Which reminds me, time to get that 10-BaseT NIC working!

That’s a pre-exercise thing. I think OP’s talking about stretching in your chair or bed.

And you could knock a motherfucker out with one! Like in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis beats a pimp to death.

27% of all PIN numbers

I feel personally attacked.

This shit happened to me. Long story but I had just been electrocuted on a telephone pole, screaming my lungs out, hands locked on the wire. My legs still worked so I pushed off the pole and hit the ground. After my supervisor and best friend rolled up to check on me, I decided to man up and finish the job.

Hanging on the pole, customer comes out his back door, “Hey man! Are you going to set up my email before you leave.”

“Yeah. I will.”