Billionaires don’t have countries, they have money. Nothing for them to even cheat on.

Yeah, my parents’ obsession with politics made it hard to relax around them (they despised trump with a passion but could not stop talking about him). But at least they weren’t conservatives – that shit would have broken me.

My mom pays $255 a month for cable TV just so she can watch MS Now. I’ve tried to change her account so she can pay less, but no package other than the “every fucking channel there is” package has MS Now.

If the “news” agency successfully argues in court that it’s an entertainment channel and that no rational person would consider it to be actual news, is it even news?

I worked for one company that had a CEO like this except he was also a heavy cocaine user. One time we had a client visit our offices for a meeting; we had written software for this client for more than ten years at that point. In the middle of the meeting the CEO wanders in randomly and starts just talking incessantly for 45 fucking minutes straight. Finally he slaps his thighs and says “so, do you think you want to do business with us?” We damn near lost the client over this.

I feel like the main attribute of a CEO or any type of leadership position is having no need or desire for naps. This is why heavy cocaine use is so common among that species. I could never be a CEO, naps are just too important a part of my life.

Just looked up Canada’s minimum wage. That is fucking terrible and yet still nearly twice the US minimum wage. Paying that for someone with a CDL is nuts. Even if it doesn’t require a CDL in Canada it’s still fucking nuts. Did you at least get 8 hours a day?

She wasn’t even suspended, although after this the director instituted a policy of a week’s suspension if the accident is your fault and you have to undergo mandatory re-training. Pretty amazing that we had no such policy prior to this.

The company

I think that’s your problem. Private school bus companies don’t give a fuck about anything, including (especially) their employees and whatever bullshit they get up to. Working for a school district that operates its own buses is the only way the job can be decent, although that’s a crap shoot. My district pays great (nearly $35 an hour) and provides excellent health insurance and even a pension if you survive ten years. Other districts in the area pay less than $25 per hour and provide no benefits.

AFAIK they’ve never vaped on the bus with kids aboard, they do it when it’s empty or parked. I have seen them many times using their phones with kids aboard, though. There’s one driver that I never saw without her phone in one hand when I passed her; she was friends with the old transportation director so she was able to get away with anything, although the new director I think is trying to get rid of her. This driver hit two cars in one day and somehow still has her job.

I’m a school bus driver. Some of my coworkers recently tried putting tape over the on-bus cameras so they could get away with vaping and smoking and using their phones while driving. The stupidity required to think they could get away with this is mind-boggling. 1) They thought it would actually work in the sense that our bosses would not notice that the camera was not recording anything, and 2) they thought if it was detected that our bosses wouldn’t know it was them that put the tape up. Turns out the cameras are recording even when the buses are turned off and the little red light isn’t on.

I’m naturally opposed to the surveillance state, but I wouldn’t want to be taking action on this principle just so I could fucking smoke and use my phone while driving a school bus. Amazingly, my coworkers got nothing but a warning for this, and then we all got a sternly-worded letter telling us not to fuck with the cameras.

Thank god we still have thin blue line punisher bumper stickers.

I’m a school bus driver. The only cars that elementary school kids get excited about are the ones that piss me off: cybertrucks, teslas in general, corvettes, lamborghinis. No other cars exist for kids.

Do the Tates next!

we are leaving Texas in far better shape than it’s ever been

Yes, that’s always why an incumbent loses 60-40. Because they just did too great a job running the place.

It’s just insanity that Anthropic can openly say “we won’t ever make money and our product will destroy humanity” and they can still raise a trillion dollars in an IPO.

I quit smoking pot five years ago. Altman’s not wrong re: me.

I can’t even watch Ali G’s interview with trump any more. And that shit was funny.

Hire to create the illusion of growth, fire to create the illusion of competence. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.