ChickenLadyLovesLife

TBF roofing companies also rely heavily on ex-felons, so they're well-positioned to survive mass deportations.

My college was desperate for students and couldn't afford to kick anybody out. There were people around that did worse shit than this guy and stayed.

Here in the US, undocumented immigrants form the backbone of food production (agriculture and meat processing) and restaurants, such that mass deportations would cause unimaginable inflation in food prices. I want to think that means the Republicans won't actually do it, but I thought they wouldn't actually overturn Roe v. Wade either.

Back in 2005 I fell into a great gig at a gulf coast shipyard programming eight huge steel-cutting robots. They had previously been controlled by PCs running DOS (in 2005!) and the company that provided the control software was demanding a $2 million fee to upgrade the computers and software. The shipyard brought me in as a consultant to see if there was a cheaper way to control them; I investigated and found that it was really quite easy and I prepared a bid for around $50K for two months effort (which was about as padded as I could possibly make it). We had agreed to this in principle and then the fucking hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) hit and buried the robots under ten feet of mud. Alas my dreams of getting all eight robots to dance to Blue Danube.

I tried to befriend a friendless dude in college. Found out he was friendless because he went around asking women what their "cunt diameter" was. Even women professors!

Wait, Tolkien was English. He didn't mean "Shire" to be pronounced like we Americans do it?

I just saw a sign this morning that said "Irish Wristwatch - now you know you can't pronounce it". The sign was right.

Our ancestors' brains went from chimpanzee-sized to modern-sized (actually slightly bigger than today) between two million and one million years ago, and more importantly the language-governing areas increased in size during that stretch. So human beings a million years ago were very much like us today, just without the advanced technology.

My favorite was "a sucking chest wound is Nature's Way of telling you you've been in a firefight".

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I always liked how archaeologists would dig up ancient statues of big-breasted and big-butted women and call them evidence of a "cult of fertility". I guess that sounds better than "porn".

Which can only be applied to Goya products.