GrindingGears

Old ladies just have absolutely zero filter, especially grandmas. They can be the sweetest old ladies, yet they ain't having any of your shit.

Accounts Payable. The department that pays the bills.

I mean on one hand every bit counts, and it's about the movement towards actions, and building upon that, rather than just miraculously expecting sudden and wholesale change of behaviors from the most stubborn species this planet has ever saw.

But yeah, I mean macro scale we still have so much, where plastic straws and plastic bag bans just become comical when you think about the effect, grand scheme.

I dunno, I wasn't against it. Sure as shit hate paper straws though, that much I will admit right out the gates. But there was some progress and product development on that issue too. It's a toughie, I hate going backwards, but we almost have an immediate existence issue on our hands, let alone a future one.

Just do it outside then.

Or just do it in the garage. Not to devalue your point (because you aren't wrong either, the dust isn't probably healthy), but honestly thinking back over all the shady things that have gone down in my garage over the years, sanding a bit of PLA wouldn't even nick the surface.

There's always been something shady about them. To start, they taste like burning rubber.

It's been 1D thinking all along! Anyone who works in a modern day corporation, has tales of wanton firing without any sort of consideration for who or what was going to carry on doing the work that the people let go were doing.

I don't want to dox myself, but I remember one time someone got the bright idea to fire the entire AP team and replace them with one of those damn portals that we all know never works right (shock and awe, your vendors aren't going to do your work for you, and automation really means you need six people in the background fixing all the automated fuck ups). Whole idea looked great on paper, allegedly, but the actual execution was, of course, a dumpster fire. Fast forward a few months where the org went through quite a public spectacle locally, where there was some sort of an event with lots of eyes and suddenly no equipment on hand because no one had paid the vendor. I vividly remember the president absolutely screaming in my face and me doing everything in my power to not burst out laughing because (a) I didn't work in AP and (b) the person screaming was the very same person who six months earlier had rubber stamped this jabroni fest of an idea.

I mean death to the streaming companies, but yeah I don't really miss optical media at all. My truck in high school you'd literally open up the door and CDs would be spilling out all over the damn pavement. They talk about distracted driving with the screens in modern day cars, but let's actually talk about you flipping through pages and pages in those darn pouch books trying to find the CD you were after, back in the day. Now that was OG distracted driving.

Probably like 2010, 2011 was my last time? It would have been movies for our dvd player in our bedroom when my (now) wife and I were in University.

I got an iPod Nano for my birthday in the fall of 2005, which brought the burning cd factory that was my computer to a screeching halt. I'd still back up files and stuff using CDs, but it went from like going through a carousel of blanks a month to going through a carousel of blanks in like 3 years, within a very short period of time.

For example, Servus CEO - 1.63 million on 2023 financial statements

https://usaskstudies.coop/documents/research-reports/2025-co-ops-and-credit-unions-report-from-the-board-room.pdf -

this is a report about board directors, but you can see it on page 18, the average board director comp is $211k, and one of the directors was at $2M - because they are also the CEO (it could be for one of the coops too, maybe not necessarily a credit union).

There are small ones obviously, like super community focused ones that aren't maybe the big bloat fests the bigger ones are. But there's also a tremendous amount of consolidation at the credit union levels going on, and they ain't going to be doing that for cookies and kumbyas like the reddit crowd thinks they will be.

I've worked in treasury and finance long enough to know the credit unions can be pretty big troughs too. Again not all of them, but do your research. It ain't S&L like the yanks, but it also isn't a layer of innocence.

The credit unions are just as greedy. They are all consolidating into big bloated entities too, and then just marketing themselves as "the good guys."

I mean credit unions are often coop owned, but the coop gets 1 cent for every thousand the execs get.

Epic has been a dud this year. I hope whatever drops tomorrow is at least something of substance.

I remember a few nights at around -45, which is absolutely nothing for Yukoners. Couldn't keep that damn woodstove full enough those nights.