Triple-check that our mortage is paid off in the event of my death, so that my wife and children will have a place to live after I (sole breadwinner) am gone.

They'll start with the union leaders, and work their way down until the organization is broken enough that everybody goes back to work.

I can't connect to my car's audio with Bluetooth, and can't afford to replace the car stereo with one that supports Bluetooth - it's just not a priority. When I upgrade my phone, I'll stay with an earphone jack.

Doom - we upgraded to 16MB of RAM so we could play it through Windows 95.

Win95 wanted 4MB and Doom wanted all 8 that we had, so we had to exit, reboot, and go to DOS then run it manually.

My therapist, provided I reach the breaking point at a convenient time when we have a session scheduled.

I was using chatGPT to design up a human/computer interface to allow stoners to control a lightshow. The goal was to collect data to train an AI to make the light show "trippier".

It started complaining about using untested technology to alter people's mental state, and how experimentation on people wasn't ethical.

The Democrats are playing politics, the Republicans are fighting a war of extermination.

I am burning down private schools in the dead of night.

Be the change you want to see in the world, don't let your dreams stay dreams.

For now.

It just feels wrong to me to take the paycheck and not put my heart into the work.

I felt the same way, until after the second corporate buyout. The company I started with my career with is gone, the company that bought them is gone, and the company that bought them is gone as well. The product I worked on for six years is gone and the company website only exists in the internet archive and a few archived press releases.

I put my heart into it and it's just.. gone entirely.

It's one of the last times I put my heart into my work, because all that happened in the long run is the board of directors got more wealthy.

The subsequent buyouts (and layoffs) I've been through have gone much better for me, personally, because I wasn't as emotionally involved in the company/product.

I'm at the point now where I'm in a more senior role, doing consulting, and I dgaf about the client's business or project beyond getting my work done on time and to the required quality. I start at 9, log off at 5pm, get my work done by noon, and enjoy spending more time with my kids in the summer.

A government willing to go into debt with public spending? Cut off corporate subsidies and allocate the increased revenue to new technology businesses to reduce the risk involved in trying something different?

Learned the default account password and figured out which teachers had not changed their password from the default. Learned that all teachers had access to a share drive with all student records. Read through a lot of information.

Did not look at porn on school computers, because wtf?

At grad event, in front of elderly relatives, was called out for looking at porn on the school computers, other student was credited for breaking into all systems. More pissed about the latter.