Today I received my first salary ever. It ain’t much but it feels good.
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uuuuuuuh boy do I remember my first salary. feels wonderful doesn’t it. here’s a tip I wish someone had told me. save at least 20% of it each month.
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As I recall, the first actual paycheck I ever got was for about 30 hours of work and I took home less than a hundred bucks for it. That was a long time ago though.
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Makes total sense. And in this case, I have kept a bit from the past to live with rn, so I’ll be saving all of it.
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Ah, Jill, how little you know of what’s ahead. Soon to encounter your… arch-enemy. 
IYKYK
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Is someone planning on going to Oktoberfest 2025 in Munich? I want to go, but no one wants to go with me. I’ll go by myself, but it would be nice to have company.
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Took the time to fix some issues with the roadmap museum particularly with broken categories that may or may not have been my fault.
also uhh rebranded it to something more unified and to widen the scope of the thread and its purpose. Starting with the implementation of The Overachievers.
so now it’s the World Of Assassination Museum.
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It’s never a good idea to be living in the middle east but right now I’m freaking the shit out for my life as It’d become impossible to leave and obligatory to be sent to war.
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Rooting for you Mano! Hopefully cooler heads prevail and peace comes without a full blown conflict coming first.
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Dunno what I like better about leaving the dentist, having nice clean teeth or a perfectly clean retainer after they put it in the sonic blaster thing 
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Hah, probably am one of the few weirdos out there that was never bothered about that thing and actually liked the feel.
The dentist working close to a nerve without giving me enough anesthesia because he had to work around it and wanted to be sure when he’s very close to it was the unpleasant part 
. I actually grabbed his arm when he “tickled” the nerve 
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The new iPhone IOS has the ability to record phone conversations and it will also transcribe them for you. It plays an audio warning to the other person when you hit the button and another if you turn the recording off.
I very much hate that.
Edit: to be clear it’s the ability to record that I hate, not the warning message.
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But imagine all the incriminating things people can have against you when in reality it’s just a very out of context recount of your experience at a restaurant.
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Finally bought the parts of my new PC after 12 years of the current PC (only got a GPU upgrade to run Hitman 3), after months of picking parts and a week of successfully hoping that the GPU goes down in price again. The much larger display is already waiting in a corner here.
Wow I can finally play recent games again. Only have to assemble it when it arrives and decide which Linux distro to pick. Arch-based ones seem to play along with gaming the best. 
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Go with Linux Mint if you never used Linux before or just go straight for Linux Nobara, it’s the best Linux distro for games 
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After one of the couple of Febreeze Evolution plug-in air fresheners I have dotted around the house started to annoyingly blink its LED lights indicating that it was time for a mandatory refill, I was puzzled because all three of the inserted scent bottles looked almost full. Presumably in this Late Capitalist age, where companies all drive towards recurring revenue streams, the unit keeps track of when the removable cartridge was last changed and blinks its lights at you after a certain time regardless of how full/empty the scent bottles actually are.
I took the removable cartridge with the bottles out, and realised - for the first time since I bought and installed the units in late July - that you’re supposed to unscrew these plastic cap tops:
and insert them into the unit without the caps on so the scent can actually get out. I was wondering why the house never actually seemed to have that Clean Linen fragrance in the air, and just assumed that the air fresheners were a bit shit.
I have a Masters degree in Chemistry from Oxford University. And I think I might just be the dumbest person you know.
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Clearly you lack the Engineers degree on top of it.
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Reminds me of a couple years ago I was flying Chicago to Baltimore and the guy next to me couldn’t figure out how to put his tray table away. It was a standard first class seat where the tray table hides inside the armrest. He just couldn’t figure out you have to slide this one part over. He asks the flight attendant who does it in like 1 second flat. He blushes and thanks her. She smiles at him and says “so you’re an attorney then right? Not a mechanical engineer?” He pulls out his wallet and produces a business card and guess what? He is an engineer. He designed giant industrial sized fans for warehouses, factories, and tunnels
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