The setup based on the first image+caption would lead you to believe the second image will relay how boys feel if a girl walks into the locker room. The second half instead subverts that expectation by having a too-accurate caption of a strange image, unrelated to locker rooms.

The fact that a stranger/acquaintance thought that was an appropriate conversation in a park with kids around says a lot more about her than it does about you. I’d feel more comfortable around someone who secretly likes it than someone who openly talks about hating it.

It could be from today. I’ve worked at several manufacturing facilities where something like this is hooked up to a huge ancient device with a serial cable because the drivers only exist for Windows XP and the Italian business who made the machine went out of business decades ago.

I suspect this was taken in the early 2000s, though, since the fan isn’t caked in an inch of dust and grime yet.

My grandma would only eat pancakes with light corn syrup. She didn’t like maple syrup. She did live in Iowa, which is basically just corn.

Wisconsin. 90 lbs per day is a kid’s ration there.

Nice! I could tell instantly it was a Prius. I am never thrilled to replace the battery in mine. If you don’t get that black tubing back there reseated and bolted in properly it gets incredibly loud and annoying.

On the other hand, the dealership charges almost $200 in labor to change it, so I am learning to love the process.

If this is in the US I would guess the city put a giant flashing “Share the Road” sign there for a while and everybody had to go around.

I read this in the “Watch those wrist rockets!” way and completely lost it.

My mom said it to me frequently before I cut her out, which is a pretty good indication it’s not normal. A therapist would tell you that’s a reflection of her issues; if she had a different kid instead of you she would have said the same thing to them. You, as a person, don’t really factor into why she feels that way.

As for your feelings, let me know what you come up with. I’m in the same boat emotionally and I don’t see a way out either.

I wish! It’s more of a loose collection of random business softwares in various states of abandonment. D365 CE is a platform for Sales teams to organize and track leads, quotes, contracts, etc. D365 BC is an ERP platform born out of the ashes of NAV, the core of which Microsoft bought decades ago. D365 F&O, D365 S&M, and others are various flavors of AX, another ERP platform Microsoft bought over a decade ago. They are direct competitors to D365 BC for some reason. None of these softwares can communicate directly with each other, and none allow direct access to the Azure SQL. Occasionally Microsoft will throw a bone towards integration stuff like DualWrite or Synapse or Fabric, but they can never seem to commit and eventually abandon those too.

I would actually be much happier if it was just crummy databases instead of an archipelago of rotting digital islands.

Against every developer’s advice, management has moved our entire stack to Microsoft Dynamics 365. It took over a year of prep, millions in ISV consulting charges, and it performs like trash. Now management is constantly complaining about outages, Microsoft nickles and dimes us for tens of thousands more than the estimates, and they are constantly jerking us around to half-baked tech by removing support for anything that actually works. “Want data out of F&O? We’re killing everything except Synapse Link. You spent months migrating yet it drops data? That’s not surprising since we fired everyone working on it. You should be on Fabric! No, that’s not finished either, but we need to test it on someone!”

I’m very bitter.