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  Got pulled off all of my R&D projects and told by the CEO in a meeting with all of the team leaders (who enthusiastically agreed) to focus entirely on this one project as it was critically important and mandatory whether we liked it or not before we could go to market with our product. Said OK, got it ready in record time, none of the managers wanted to approve testing. Got told a generic “We need more info.” Fleshed out everything I could. Did all sorts of bench top testing with full repor...

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  I went for a short walk recently in new shoes and rubbed the back of my ankle slightly raw. It’s been _two weeks_ waiting for this minor abrasion to heal. I’ve got shit to do! This is biking weather, damnit.

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  Once I was in the bathroom of this upscale theater following a Shakespeare play, when a very sharply dressed older man who exuded an aura of intelligence came in and approached a urinal. He dropped his pants and underwear all the way to the floor, raised his shirts with both of his hands and held them above his exposed nipples, then pushed his hips as far as he could into the urinal to piss hands-free. The incongruity of what I was seeing left me stunned, and made me forget to pee until he had c...

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  The exact moment I read this, I hit the lyric “When it is hopeless” in the song “still feel.” by half-alive.

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  Kinda related: At some point I realized inflation is actually kinda good when you have no assets and large debt, because it effectively shrinks your debt. The problem is, I only thought about it well after paying off my debts and gaining some assets, so now I feel like the guys in the pic if I talk about it.