The way he so quickly racked that slide is a huge tell that this isn’t his first rodeo. If you brandish on someone with a sticker or magnet, you know you’re not in any real danger. Dude is just a psycho nutbag who has never lost an argument because his retaliation is always gun.

This is the kind of guy to shoot at kids for knocking on his front door while his family tells the media he’s a good person.

I’d love to learn SQL. I’m going back to school later this year because I have a bachelor’s degree with 127 credit hours. I’m 23 hours shy of being eligible to hold a CPA license in my state. So I found a local community college that offers a computer science program with a focus on database management, and there’s a whole class on SQL that I’m kinda looking forward to. And because I already have a degree, all of my gen eds are out of the way. Taking the core classes for the two year degree at this community college sits right at the intersection of 151 hours. All I have to do after that is pass the CPA Exam lol It’s that easy.

So I had tried using the data import wizard or whatever it was that’s built in to pull an entire folder into the workbook, but I had roughly 70 workbooks, all with 40 columns and anywhere from 3,000 to 20,000 rows. At the end of it all, I probably had over 20 million cells. The built-in tool was being finicky. I think it was that the sheer amount of data I was working with was too much for it to handle. But it kept giving me errors about formatting.

So I gave up on it, and I spent several hours of my life reading manuals and forum posts on how best to achieve one step and testing code on backups. It was truly an all-day thing. But when you’re dealing with dozens of files, this macro takes maybe 45 seconds to do its thing whereas the manual process could waste an hour of your day. And I plan to share it with the team once I get it a bit more polished because it’s not exactly where I want it. But I think the rest of my colleagues will love it.

I know a little VBA. I spent a whole weekend writing a macro because I did my personal budgets in Excel, and I wanted to automate some stuff because I could conceptualize how it could be done. I don’t use Windows at home anymore so I want to figure out how to bring it over to LibreOffice Basic. Still, since the business world uses Microsoft products, knowing VBA is a much more marketable skill so it is useful to practice in VBA whenever I can.

This is why I keep mix CDs in my cars. Turn it on and it’s already playing the CD I was last spinning. And you know what? I think I’ve got pretty good music taste so I’m gonna let that shit play lol.

I just burned the Chappell Roan album and left it in my wife’s car lol We’ve been bonding over that one. One day, I think I’m gonna get us tickets to see her live.

I wrote an Excel macro in VBA that opens a file select window, imports the selected files as new worksheets, copies the data from each worksheet recursively into a master table, prompts the user to delete the imported tables, then prompts the user to save the workbook as a new file.

Excel does have functions that achieve basically the same thing, but it was being too finicky with how it wanted the source tables formatted.

I barely know VBA and idek wtf a Boolean variable is, but I fucking did it and it’s going to make mine and my team’s life so much easier at work. That was my whole Friday lmao

I frequently have to dump a bunch of data from our accounting system, and the process afterward involves a ton of manual cutting and pasting. When I have to do it 70 times, it’s physically and mentally exhausting. I’m not the only one who has complained about this process, and nobody has done anything to make it better. So I’m fixing that shit. I’m not a programmer. I’m an accountant. But I’m also so lazy that I’ll to learn how to program a little to save myself a lot of work over the long run.

1. Install Debian
2. Experience stability.
3. No, really. It’s very stable.
4. Spend years growing old with the same packages.
5. Accept your fate.

My monitors only have DVI and VGA inputs. I’ve had to get adapters to use them with more modern equipment.

I’ve got no reason to replace them. They’re perfectly fine monitors. I’ve had them for over a decade, and I still like them a lot.

If you’re an ebook type, get a library card and download Libby!

Nope. I was at the drive thru in the front of the line waiting on my food with the engine switched off. I never touch my phone in the car unless I’m off the road and stationary.

I’m not gonna make a post saying this guy’s a moron for driving with an icy windshield while I’m taking a picture of it doing 40 miles an hour and uploading it. That’d make me kind of a major hypocrite, wouldn’t it?

But they got to the drive thru with their windshield like this. Which is kinda terrifying.

Yup. Completely iced over.

USCSB is a great channel btw.

In all seriousness, periods of marked deflation are generally not economically prosperous times. The economy deflated more than 20% between 1929 and 1936. But we don’t call that period in time “The Really Cool American Price Drop.” It goes by another name I can’t think of right now, and it’s making me feel greatly depressed.

We shouldn’t be fighting for lower prices. We should be fighting for better wages that track with prices over time.

Oh, for sure, but for a moment, there was certainly a lot of trouble deciding who Northern Ireland belonged to.

I’d wager there are still plenty of people there who’d secretly still love to see a united Ireland. Is that opinion popular? I dunno. I don’t live there.

But hey, Kinky Boots is a fun song.

The vast majority of American imported steel comes from Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and South Korea. As for aluminum, Canada is the only one worth mentioning. Source.

Canada and Mexico weren’t even considered adversarial until Trump pissed and moaned about how NAFTA is soooooo bad.

For starters, the United States, according to the Reuters article, imported some 508,000 tons of Chinese steel in 2024. By comparison, we imported 6.6 million tons of steel from Canada. According to the American Steel and Iron Institute, American steel production was 1.6 million tons in one week in November alone, and the nation produced over 74 million tons by November 2 of last year. You can annualize that to about 88.4 million tons last year. You can dig as far down to that number to calculate that we produce more steel domestically in two and a half days than we import from China in a year.

They’re really bitching and whining about maybe a dime flowing out of the country when the other 90 cents stays in it.

The American steel industry isn’t what it was in, say, the Carnegie days, and if you think that’s what it should look like, get in a time machine and go back to the gilded age. Please. While your eight year old daughter works from sunup to sundown with your wife at the coat factory, you’ll spend sixteen hours a day seven days a week mining iron ore with your ten year old son. You’ll live in a company town where you’re paid peanuts in what are essentially coupons that aren’t accepted anywhere in the world except that specific company town. Meanwhile, Andrew Carnegie gets to make real money selling the steel you break your back mining for over a hundred hours a week. And he gets a fuck ton of it, too. Just consider yourself lucky your wife didn’t die from a postpartum infection because the doctors didn’t wash their hands.

Yes, it is not what it was in those days, and it should never be that way again. American-made steel is still, by and large, a pretty healthy industry. They’re doing fine. The real whiners are the filthy rich owners who want to squeeze every nickel and dime out of everything. So they’re happy to act in protectionist ways that maybe prop up the industry in the short run, but makes everything more expensive in the long run. They don’t care. They know we need these metals for basic shit in our lives. We’ll buy them no matter what they cost.

Finally, the rights you have as a worker today are written in blood. And now, the government we the dopes have elected is working hard to bleach and torch them. People - lots of em - died fighting for what little we have today. And if you think we’re whiners for clinging onto those rights so the richest people in the world get to sleep on a mattress stuffed with a couple fewer hundred dollar bills, maybe it’s time to learn your fucking history.

The leopards are eating everyone’s faces, including mine. While this is usually deadly to others, I’ll be fine. I’m willing to take the gamble for everyone as a whole that if enough of their faces are eaten, things will be better long-term. The whiners need to grow a spine and let the leopards eat because the payoff will be worth it.

Ireland disliked that.

Bud, my car is older than you and has driven enough to circle the globe ten times. You’re really stretching the definition of “extended” here.

But, you know, if y’all wanna pay to repaint it, I won’t say no lmao

They got 92% of his tariff money. By the way, if China doesn’t buy our exported food, they’ll get it from somewhere else. And once you lose a buyer, it’s hard to lure them back. They have deals and negotiations and contracts with other nations. They’re not going to just break those.

Maybe instead of jacking up the price because you’re a racist prick, maybe consider not losing your biggest repeat customers.

Was it exploding heads?

If you go to that instance, it’s gone. Once everyone defederated from them, I guess it was over. Good. They can keep that shit elsewhere.