Today I learned...
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Whoops. I could open a restaurant on Titan, though. They're all the same.
And then there's the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Do I say CONGRATULATIONS! or fuck those ingrates for not giving you more notice?
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I'm cool with it. Honestly, I'm shocked I wasn't shown the door a month ago. They're hemorrhaging cash like you wouldn't believe. All the shit I've been warning them about for years. Whatevs... ain't my bitch.
Sorry to hear about it. I had started transitioning over 3 months and was planning to leave in two weeks. Fine by me to call it early. I'm fairly certain my position would have been axed by the end of the year anyway. As the guy who monitored the finances and business models, I would have capped my ass too.
I sensed it coming, two high level fellow employees were forced retired at last year's end. I knew my number was up, but I'm 73 years old and really wasn't ready to retire but I won't miss the commute to work.
I'm 47 and more than ready to retire. Ain't happening just yet, but I'm taking as much of 2026 as I can.
BTW ads to pay the server fees are dropping tomorrow.
Kidding.
One of the things that I like best about retirement from A Real Job is not having to be somewhere at a particular time. Unfortunately, as my own boss, I am stuck with this insubordinate employee who talks back and spends too much time reading on the job. Bitch.
Today (well actually, several days ago), I learned that despite all my (and other people's in my department) bitchin' about the job, I'm nowhere near ready for retirement.
But they're not retiring us yet. Our boss is fighting for us.
And good on him too. There's only 5 of us and we're constantly working our arses off. One of us gets let go, the rest of us might as well go too for all the good we might do by ourselves.
But they're not retiring us yet. Our boss is fighting for us.
And good on him too. There's only 5 of us and we're constantly working our arses off. One of us gets let go, the rest of us might as well go too for all the good we might do by ourselves.
Today, I learned there is a reddit thread entirely dedicated to cats demanding pets. It's cute and a good de-stressor.
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Today I learned that you should never eat rice more than 24 hours after it has been cooked. Rice is the fastest-growing mold food - and the mold and toxins it grows can't be seen.
That's true if it's been left unrefrigerated for hours. However, (most) fried rice is usually made from day-old, cold rice that's been refrigerated soon after cooking. That video massively overstates and simplifies the issue, like most video shorts do. And really? Asians don't make a batch of rice and eat it over several days. They just make a batch of new rice for each meal. A rice cooker makes that trivial.
The problem comes when you eat improperly handled rice.
Not if you refrigerate it. Like Nao said, all fried rice is made from old cold rice. And there are no Health Codes regarding anything rice related, other than the HCAAP procedures for Ph levels in sushi rice so you can leave it at room temperature beyond the 4 hour mark.
Telling folks something they've been doing for fifty years is dangerous and they've only escaped death and destruction by sheer luck garners more viewers than a simple discussion of proper food handling techniques.
Today I learned that intergalactic means only the space between the galaxies, and does not include the galaxies themselves.
So I have been using it incorrectly when referring to an intergalactic council, thinking it could mean a council that rules many galaxies.
To use the correct form I either have to use extragalactic, which means galaxies outside of our own, or multi-galactic to refer to many galaxies.
So I have been using it incorrectly when referring to an intergalactic council, thinking it could mean a council that rules many galaxies.
To use the correct form I either have to use extragalactic, which means galaxies outside of our own, or multi-galactic to refer to many galaxies.
Which is counterintuitive when you compare that to the word international. But then you realize there are no physical interstitial spaces between nations, aside from bodies of water. The space between galaxies however is frigging huge!
