> you weren't in a short car, you were in a normal car

What's normal can change. Today, 37% of used registrations in the US are sedans and about 18% of new registrations.

yes, what is "normal" has been redefined to align with what is more profitable for the US auto companies. There is no real reason why most US drivers suddenly switched from sedans to large SUVs and bloody pickup trucks in the past 40 years. Except for profit.

Have a truck with a light bar. But it's for offroad use only. I'd never drive with it on regular roads with traffic around me.

I just got done with a trip. Unfortunately there's a number of numb-nuts who don't see the problem with driving on regular roads with their lightbars on.

> It's a deceptive way to sell people less game.

That's a dumb take. The buying phase is an integral part of the game mode. And the game is free.

Would be interested in hearing more about (and maybe joining) the manager peer group if that's a possibility.

Is there a way to dig up old GeoCities pages? My only thought is to remember the URL and get it from internet archive but I can't remember my 4 digit number. I think I was in the "Baja" area.

There definitely is!!! There's a few GeoCities archives projects out there, but these ones specifically let's you search through the areas:

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Baja/ https://www.oocities.org/baja/

If you can find your site here (you may not be able to because I'm sure these sites don't have every single site archived), then you could try to find it through the Internet Archive, or through geocities.ws!

Smart glasses will have the potential to cover more use cases than a smart phone ever did due to the potential of AR-enabled viewing display.

Everyone: "Other people are so bad at what they do. Not me though"

Being/staying motivated is like half the battle. Once more than half of the team has stopped caring the project is essentially dead. You should get away as soon as possible. In my experience as long as you care about the stuff are doing you are better than the bottom half of developers.

Lol record high stock price, fiercest competitor banned, and cutting 5% of under performers. They're thriving from a business vitality perspective.

It's been a hot minute since I saw the "real" logo and RAM files.

Most large tech companies require the manager to write some sort of a promo packet to be reviewed by a relevant committee. But it's not a mystery and ultimately it falls on the manager to put together a strong packet that makes it clear why the candidate should be promoted. The promotion attempt itself is the manager's vote. Beyond that it comes down to how strongly they champion for the candidate's promotion. It's the only way to ensure some consistency between promotions, IMO.