I had a friend in college whose parents were big into world government and had founded an organization to promote that. Talking to them was a weird experience because 1) they felt every problem facing the world could be solved by a one-world government, and 2) they actually felt achieving that world government was a realistic possibility. And it wasn’t like they thought the solution was just the USA taking over everything; they were very critical of everything about this country.

I don’t know if this is irony or not, but that friend is now worth $34 million after her parents’ company went public. She doesn’t say anything about world government any more.

No, they all have Masters degrees in Anthropology.

I notice they always have their shoelaces tied, too.

Eh, the store brand canned soups are barely half the cost of Campbell’s and they’re often, uh, okay. Or at least no worse than Campbell’s.

Soupist pieces of shit, too.

Companies that process food are always looking for ways to increase profit.

I was amazed when Campbell’s came out with their line of low-salt soups. The can was slightly smaller, the soup wasn’t condensed (so you didn’t add a can of water to it), and it cost twice as much. You’re paying over four times as much as normal just for them to not put as much salt in the soup in the first place.

I started my career with Visual Basic (3!) and I appreciated the loose typing because it meant I could get going and actually have something running quickly as a newbie. A few years later I switched to C# and saw how an entire class of errors disappeared because of the strong typing. Both have their place, depending on the skill level of the coder and the needs of the application.

My body is a machine that transforms absurd requests from technically illiterate managers into overpriced bloatware.