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I know, but it’s not really a misspelling though, Milquetoast was named after milktoast.

My first intro to it was Milquetoast the Cockroach from Bloom County. It all makes perfect sense :)

It’s an excellent word, means a timid, meek, or unassertive person. I love it since it sounds like exactly what it is “”milktoast” sounds boring, unappealing, and bland, just like milquetoast people… it’s an effective synonym regardless if intended or not :)

After this morning, I’m convinced it’s a way to control us.

I was waiting in a line this AM for bagels. Place was going to open in 30 minutes and always had a line. This morning, the entire time I waited in line there was a very expensive AMG with its car alarm going off over and over, 6 or 7 times while we waited. People were pissed and complaining every time.

Eventually the dude came out of another coffee shop and I told him he needs to get his car alarm checked. He says “fuck off, it’s just my kids dude, who pissed in your coffee”. So this fucker had left his kids in the car while he got himself coffee, let the alarm blare 3 feet from a line of people, including kids.

I walked up to his window, looked him in the eye and told him he was being a dick, and should be more considerate to people in line, and maybe disable the alarm if he’s leaving his kids in the car. He just peeled out of there with a middle finger up.

The only people who said anything to me was “that was such cringe bro” and “lighten up man”.

So, despite people being pissed, and despite someone calmly trying to ask someone for grace, the only people who cared were the ones who thought I was unreasonable. So, it’s more acceptable to be a dick than it is to call someone out for it.

Don’t worry I’m constantly assured that there is no danger to democracy and it will all be fine after the next election.

Never forget.

if only, it’s like america’s superpower.

I’m m an Infrastructure architect and engineer, this is the same problem in enterprise. Cloud, SaaS, proprietary vendors, they all want to lock you. Time and place for all of it, but you’ve gotta know what you are getting yourself into.

What chance does the average, non-30 year veteran of industry have? It’s bad out there.

Nah, wasn’t “we” , it was “them” who sold us on a promise, but was really a leash, or muzzle. The “them” is the oligarchs, the billionaires, the epstein class…

Oh, I know, ai was trying to point out the insanity in a few words as possible. All the solutions and conveniences we are being sold are bullshit. They are sold as helpful but just make you hate the world.

I had an Apple Watch, the simplicity of not having to take out my phone was the draw, I could see my notifications quickly and easily. All it did though was create more distraction, more digital cruft to wade through and dismiss. I get more value out of the rubber band that I have on my wrist right now than I did the Apple Watch.

Goddamn, I am so tired of modern convenience. My god we have made shit complicated in the name of simplicity.

Obviously the best part.

I know I’m the worst, but I kinda loved those commercials. Quiznos is garbage food, but I appreciated them taking a risk on something so crazy and polarizing. I guess I just have a soft spot for anyone or anything that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Right-o, LMDE for my desktop machines, Debian for all my servers. How nature intended it.

Thank you. I live for comments like these. I feel this sentiment is lost on most these days.

I sat next to a lady on an international flight, who took off her shoes and clipped her toenails mid-flight. Dude on the other side of me was too drunk to notice.

As an infrastructure engineer and architect, that graph really causes the stress levels to rise. That is incompetence visualized for the world to see. Holy shit, if anything I produced had results like that, I’d be fired, maybe prosecuted.

ha, gotta give you that one :)

(obligatory - same here)

It’s 2026, open a window.

Right, he might be a little further down, but he’s absolutely still on the list. There are no good billionaires.

I renewed mine online the day before they announced this shit. I better not get one of these fucking abominations.