I think he was a Salamanca.

He was also the exact opposite of the other stereotype of the “lazy Mexican” - which, for anyone who’s ever worked construction with actual Mexicans, is comically inaccurate.

Breakfast in real life: “why did I toast both poptarts?”

True. The most effective means of governing is by executive orders, issued weeks before leaving office, that can be immediately overturned by the incoming president.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t stand the sight of my coworkers any better than the sound of them.

I retired from programming because of that “open floor plan” shit, with the added bonus of no permanent desks. It’s so insane to inflict that bullshit on programmers in particular, because our productivity (or mine at least) requires a quiet, distraction-free environment.

I grew up in Ohio in the '70s. The first snowfall was usually in late September and the ground would be completely covered with snow sometime in October. The mounds of snow thrown up by the plow trucks would be 6-8 feet high and we built elaborate tunnel networks in them. We didn’t see hints of grass until late April and the snow wasn’t completely gone until May or sometimes even early June. Ohio still gets hit with winter these days, but nothing like that.

The “hero” is an incompetent jerk who constantly screws up and relentlessly bullies his most loyal friend who is vastly more competent in every way.

It’s hilarious how much this was based on Bob Vila and Norm Abram from This Old House - although the contrast between Vila and Abram was much more severe.

I thought the first panel showed him with moobs until I realized those were his crossed arms.

convicted baby-eater

This is very misleading. Zuckerberg only makes broth out of babies, he does not eat them whole.

Presidents Musk & Trump

This is really insulting to the real President: Musk.

I used to work for a small software company in Louisiana. Part of our “business model” involved a $12 million per year bit of federal government pork that was granted to an organization that had a fancy-sounding name but was administered by one of our employees who operated out of a closet-sized office in a different building. For some reason our company was not able to just pocket this money (which I’m sure would have been our preference), so instead the money (which was ostensibly meant for improving industrial processes in the state) was given to a large defense industry corporation - not in Louisiana - and in return we were given lucrative consulting contracts by this corporation. Somewhat hilariously, my company was never on the list of this corporation’s approved contractors but we got the gigs anyway, which always prompted the people we worked with to question what the hell we were doing there in the first place.

Naturally enough, the owners of my company were conservatives (who prayed to Jesus to end company-wide meetings) who liked to rant about the “welfare queens” destroying this country.

The one thing keeping me going is that one day I’ll get to wake up to his obituary.

Sometimes I wonder if Trump actually died during his first term and was replaced by a (much younger) body double. I mean, is that something they wouldn’t be able to get away with?

Where can you take a $3 Uber? If I took an Uber to my next door neighbor’s house it would be more than $3.

Nine Inch Nails made Johnny Cash popular again when he covered “Hurt”. Now Trent Reznor is older than Johnny Cash was when he covered “Hurt”.

I’m so old I remember a time when sci-fi fans were offended by the term “sci-fi”, preferring “SF”.

When I was a kid I volunteered at the local recycling center. My hippie parents were so proud of my environmental consciousness lol.

I deal with one of the big companies that supplies these workers and the vast majority of their personnel are “bodies.”

InfoSys. My issue with these folks is that generally speaking they go into programming because it’s a lucrative career, not because they have even a mild interest in it as an activity. I’ve encountered a few exceptions to this in my career, but they’re extremely rare.

software removing options because it’ll confuse users

They remove (relatively) unused options because it takes time and money to maintain them and they’re always a source of potential bug reports. My least favorite example of this is all my music apps getting rid of list views (text-based rows where you can see 15-20 options on the screen at a time) in favor of thumbnail views where you only see a couple of options at a time.

“Oh, and the attachments have all been sleekified as well, so things like strain reliefs on the plugs have all been removed. Get ready to buy new attachments every ten months for no good reason.”