I took Pascal in high school and it satisfied my foreign language requirement. I still LOL at that, but it shows how much educators knew about computers back then.

I also miss traditional forums. It seems like now they've rolled up all the worst attributes of every form of communication and came up with Discord. And Slack. I wish my company would institute a $1 charge for every new post so people would use "Reply in thread" the way God intended.

I've never had an account. I wish Google would stop indexing it altogether. Whenever I click a reddit link in search results, it's just pages of people arguing over wrong answers.

I have never worked anywhere in my entire career where Windows wasn't the standard, dictated OS. Linux at home, Linux on the server, but there has always been a Windows PC on my work desk. Unfortunately.

My small town planning commission voted for a data center, despite public outcry. Afterwards, one of the member's wife took a job with Amazon corporate and he resigned. They don't even hide it.

I recently got a letter from the water authority that I'm supposed to turn off the sink while I'm brushing my teeth and I'll get fined if I wash my car.

Right or wrong, I don't see where the federal government has the power to do this. But that doesn't seem to matter anymore. Under any administration.

Before Obamacare, it cost me $25 to see a doctor. After, I've had a $9000 deductible ($12,000 family) on every plan I've had. My post ACA insurance has not paid a penny of my health care in 16 years.

I built my current desktop PC 12 years ago and it still does everything I need.

Of course, the only game I run on it is the original Unreal, and that's 28 years old. (Yikes)

I work in a big city and I'm always amazed how the people that live there walk straight out into a crosswalk without even looking. Stopping for pedestrians is the law, but these people just assume that every vehicle is going to stop. Until one doesn't.

Itâ(TM)s like they think every person they have ever responded to is actually the same person, and so all those disparate conversations were one conversation with a single individual whoâ(TM)s refusing to listen.

there was a professor I knew who worked like that. He always seemed to jump into the middle of an ongoing conversation when he started talking with you. A conversation YOU might not have been part of previously, but it was the only conversation he ever had.

I always just chalked it up to him being autistic AF.

Exactly. The reason they do it this ways is it is that it keeps the power in private hands. They can decide to change funding, change priorities, use their position as leverage against municipalities wanting the funding, or simply as a corrupt bribery fund masquerading as charity.

Seriously, I am sick of these vanity charity projects. Just pay your fair share of taxes, and let us, collectively, decide on our priorities. Because this shit will not be evenly applied, and considering the popularity of a antivax beliefs, and the level of international travel, it his will simply not work without a global commitment. And as bad as the cold and flu can be, there are kids who are going into debt with their school over getting breakfast.

I have a low digit UID account from '99 or '00 but it had my real name. As the environment on Slashdot changed over the years, it became clear I shouldn't post with it anymore.

Eating wild or unidentified mushrooms seems like one of those things where the reward doesn't come anywhere near the risk. Like Fugu.

I'm not much into drugs, but I have always wanted to try psychedelics. Sounds so interesting! But I wouldn't know where to get any or how to safely take one.