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Wonderful. Sent the disco tent on to friends.

But what if you only include STEM degrees in your survey? What do the stats show then?

Darn. No place for me at the Babylon Bee!

All of these are superb. Thank you for the much-needed morning laugh.

Obviously, the fourth pic should be pronounced, "Twoth Street". Lots of dentists have offices there...

Pasted the IT one onto our Dev list...

"...your book reports are amazingly similar..."
That one opened my eyes wide and then I started laughing.

Happy Friday everyone.

My favorites were the Send bags to Mongolia, I cannot help - am a cookie, and, of course, the Dino scare spoof.

That last one should have the real asteroid in the sky behind the joker - but maybe that's too many levels.

I liked the first cartoon.

These are great. I passed on the "Jesus flipping over tables" to friends and work. (Bonus fact: Work has been working with AI.)
These are great. I passed "Jesus flipping over tables" on to friends and work. (Bonus fact - work has been working with AI.)

I am in agreement with mhub; I too have that experience in my background. I also do not intend to retire.

I am in medical software: sold a company I co-founded to a bigger guy during Covid. Work is not so fun any more.

Wm (ex-co-owner, also in Gulch) and I intend to start another company, with complexity added by the fact we now live 3K miles apart. Also by the fact that I intend to go back to school and get a PhD in Genetics (entry level quals) and seek work in that field.

I talked to a fellow Med Tech a couple of months ago and she is unable to get a job that is not management. She wants to go and do bench work part-time, but when they see her resume, they only offer her management positions. So that is happening in another field than engineering.

I am 71. The major input I can add to this conversation is that I reasonably expect to be able to work for another 20 years. (I can still do quasi-full-contact Medieval broadsword fighting against all types of opponents, which I did not expect I would be able to do at my current age, when I thought ahead, 40 years ago.)

I really like the feeling of 'stretching the universe' with the work that I do and do not want to consign myself to the rocking chair.

Jan

Nope. Using my loyal laptop, as per usual. I will reboot and try again. I just needed to know if the problem was "me" or "elsewhere".

Thanks.

I cannot link to any of the images this morning. Does anyone else have this problem?

Jan

The last one is actually true.

Jan

Good Dog! (NO Scream)

I have sent "Spaghetti will make you Dance" on to several other people.

Thank you for the fun!

These are all good! Many truths to laugh at.

The conspiracy theorists vs normal people flying saucer gave me a good Monday Morning Laugh.

There are a couple of really good ones there: neckpillow and burn a tire both got me laughing.

Jan

Love the T-road!

Drivers' licenses were not required - back in my father's time. When did they start being required?

On the other hand, there was a brief push in CA, back in the 1970s, to make people register their horses and get a 'rider license'. I recall pictures with a paper license plate tied to the top of a horse's tail. No one did it, and the attempt died quickly.

I think it is a rebuttable premise that there would be poorer driving and more accidents without licensing than there is with it. Does anyone have data on this?

Jan

The memes are the only interaction I have with the Gulch. Thank you for posting them - I often forget to Like, so my reading them is not part of your statistics. My apologies: your work is indeed appreciated.
The Gulch has gone from being a site dedicated to individualism, to being a pretty conventional, conservative venue that has little to do with Rand's philosophy but which is deep in conspiracy theories.
The memes are the element of lightness that gives me a reason to have not departed entirely.

Rand believed in the individual too, but most of the threads and comments thereon, for the last several years, have been anti-individual.

I too have been watching this happen.

Jan

Masks work. I have worn them intermittently in the hospital, either drawing blood from people who were contagious with 'stuff you really did not want to get' or when drawing blood from people who were very uncompromising and who would catch anything from you, were you not masked. Masks work. We have worn them in medical situations for a century, and they are effective. When you or a friend has surgery and it turns out well, one of the inanimate objects you should thank is the mask.

Jan

Actually, if a child dies of unknown causes up to 2 years after receiving a vaccination, the vaccination IS considered to be the default cause. There is not even any comparison to the death rate of similar age group in un-vaccinated populations. This has led to an inflation of the deaths attributed to vaccination.

Jan