If you have anger issues, this one is a great tool (h/t mindyourbusiness)
Disclaimer: I’m not your Supervisor. These are my opinions after reading through these books a few times.
July 9
“For I believe a good king is from the outset and by necessity a philosopher, and the philosopher is from the outset a kingly person.”
—MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 8.33.32–34
If you are going to be a leader, it’s important to be a good one. I was a squad leader in combat and an artillery section chief in peacetime. I always tried to help my subordinates but never coddled them. It works the same way being a father and husband. Even before I learned about Stoicism, I try to be a fair leader and follow guiding principles to do this.
July 10
“Love the humble art you have learned, and take rest in it. Pass through the remainder of your days as one who whole-heartedly entrusts all possessions to the gods, making yourself neither a tyrant nor a slave to any person.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.31
I try to be good at my job, it’s easy to be an inspector using my 13 years of experience in communications. I am also a good carpenter and mechanic, and can usually figure out electric or plumbing problems in the house. I figure with this base of skills, if I lose my job, even if the economy really crashes, I will survive. It also gives me a level of freedom not feeling like my job is my only option to make a living. It might be the easiest and most lucrative way, but not the only one.
July 11
“But what does Socrates say? ‘Just as one person delights in improving his farm, and another his horse, so I delight in attending to my own improvement day by day.’”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.5.14
I enjoy working on my truck. I also enjoy working out, even though it’s harder to get in shape than stay in shape and at 50, recovery is much slower than I remember. I am learning to enjoy challenging myself without getting angry. My tappet cover was leaking after I fixed it last year and reinstalling it was very frustrating. It was 90 degrees and humid, the o-ring kept moving and I could not get it to line up without sliding, which would move the o-ring again. Unbeknownst to me, my wife was watching as I struggled with it and had to climb off the topside creeper to collect my thoughts. She told me later she could tell I was frustrated, and she was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t yell or throw anything. Progress!
July 12
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.51
I struggle with procrastination. Especially when I work from home. I am good at not confusing people with conversations, but sometimes it is good to let your thoughts wander, and there are situations where aggression is called for. The key is to know when and realize it’s not as often as I think.
July 13
“One person, on doing well by others, immediately accounts the expected favor in return. Another is not so quick, but still considers the person a debtor and knows the favor. A third kind of person acts as if not conscious of the deed, rather like a vine producing a cluster of grapes without making further demands,
like a horse after its race, or a dog after its walk, or a bee after making its honey. Such a person, having done a good deed, won’t go shouting from rooftops but simply moves on to the next deed just like the vine produces another bunch of grapes in the right season.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.6
I always try to be the third person. I have helped out quite a few people and don’t expect repayment. Many of the people I’ve helped were strangers having car trouble. Hopefully that encouraged them to be more helpful, but if not, I did my job in that particular circumstance.
July 14
“Every great power is dangerous for the beginner. You must therefore wield them as you are able, but in harmony with nature.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.13.20
A little knowledge can be dangerous. If I overextend myself on any wiring or plumbing jobs using my scant experience, a big disaster could follow. The same with philosophy, if I think I know more than I really do and handle a situation with my wife badly, telling her to calm down might not work.
July 15
When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top—credit for the good deed or a favor in return?”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.73
This ties in with July 13th’s lesson. I have been on the other side of this, a friend of my wife helped us out and never let her forget it. It soon felt as though the favor she did for us was not worth the constant reminders and asking us for favors that well out paced what she did for us. I will never be that person. If I can help, I am happy to do so and I don’t care about repayment or being owed a favor in return. My kids know this. One night a friend of my son called him and said his battery was dead. Without asking me, my son volunteered me to go and jump his car. After I got the car running, the kid offered $20 for our time. My son said, “Don’t worry about it, use the money to fix your car, so you won’t call us for this again”.
Damn I am old, 30 years ago on July 7th Dream Theater released Images and Words.
When I first heard Pull Me Under I was blown away.
Under a Glass Moon is a rockin’ tune.
Something a little softer, Wait for Sleep
They are one of my favorite bands, although their last couple albums don’t do it for me.
I’ve been in similar situations, but I’ve always tried to frame it as “so you won’t have to call us for this again,” in essence trying to get the other person to see the value in thinking ahead so as to be less potentially dependent on others. Even if I am annoyed by others, I try not to show it or imply it most times.
That’s how he meant it.
My musical tastes go back and forth and around and around, but I’ll never kick Dream Theater out of bed.
They have a lot of good stuff.
I did not like The Astonishing.
The self titled one before that was excellent.
What I told my wife when she said my steel Baby Eagle .45 was heavy, “Heavy is good, heavy is reliable, if it doesn’t work you could always hit him with it.”-Boris the Blade MOLON LABE
i have a S&W 9mm semi-auto like that. As I recall, they came out with them right before Glock came along and blew them right out of the service weapon water. Stainless steel, weighs a ton. Doesn’t try to jump out of your hand when you pull the trigger, that’s for sure. You wouldn’t want to lug it around all day, but it would make a good nightstand gun.
The .45 Baby Eagle works good for open carry.
It has about the same recoil as an M9 Beretta.
The trend with practical competition guns, over the last two decades, has been towards lighter slides and heavier frames. It does indeed work.
Just like a car suspension, the less reciprocating (“unsprung”) mass, the better.
The coolest thing that ever happened to me when I was shooting a lot of competition was when I started being able to actually observe the slide cycle after each shot and follow the front sight throughout.
I have trouble with the first three. I think I am generally in the middle on the passive/aggressive scale, but do occasionally wander either way depending on the situation. I’m definitely not all about business in my life, often due to my procrastination.
Meh. I’ll think about that tomorrow.
Why so hurried?
Sometimes it pays to procrastinate…a little, and for the right reasons. If you don’t have all the information you need to make a decision and you don’t have to decide this directly minute, it’s worth taking a little more time to gain more knowledge, Putting things off out of fear or laziness, not so much.
Very good point. Procrastination is good at times, the tricky part is knowing when you’ve reached the point of diminishing returns and it’s now time to do your best and act. It’s easy to fall into “analysis paralysis”.
Just In Time decision making is not procrastination. Procrastination is deciding too late.
True. Waiting and procrastination aren’t the same thing.
Ill get to responding to this later
I blame this website for my procrastination!
I am a procrastinator par excellence.
I should be doing something else, right now.
Don’t you people work?
Not when we’re procrastinating.
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.51
Fail, fail, fail, sorta fail, succeed.
I’ve got some work to do! Thanks, Ron!
Is it going better than last week?
Yep, thanks. Still have a shit-ton of manufacturing challenges, but I’m less homicidal!
Ultra-stoic!
Less homicidal is good.
Don’t you people work?
Only as a last resort. Buying this property was like getting a job.
What was I thinking?
Oh, FFS!
He’s just gone.
Nobody gets stabbed or beaten to death there.
The left really does love a body to climb on and politicize.
It’s disgusting. Even for that piece of shit administration.
Here’s another.
Gone.
End of quote, repeat the line. Who is he? Anchorman?
“I, state your name, …”
“…do pledge allegiance, to Hedy Lamarr…”
“Work, work, work. Work, work, work. Work, work work.”
-Orc Peon, Warcraft
That’s Hedley!
They lost their pile of fetuses to stand on. Gotta find some other bodies to exploit.
They’ll have that again now that the EO has been signed. If the SC doesn’t stand up for themselves they’re, and we’re, going to be screwed.
It looks like EO is quite limited in scope.
Its just to keep it in the news cycle it seems and to generate campaign ads.
Or burned.
And ignore the gun control so serious that they track down .22LR bullets found in a trash can.
Sorry about Whatshisname getting capped. Let’s talk about one of my favorite political hobby horses.
He was an idiot, a fantasist, and an asshole before senility set in. He’s gone from gone to really gone now.
So rather than a solemn address it’s make it about the US. That’s world leadership right there!
Just like whining about domestic court decisions while abroad.
Contrast that with Trump’s statement and tell me again who was supposed to be the more dignified one?
Ready for the spin?
Never mind he also said “end of quote”. Who speaks like that?
That’s an assistant press secretary.
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate”
My lesson for today. Wife has had COVID since she got back from an Alaskan cruise, two weeks ago. So now for three weeks I’ve been running the whole house. Doing my regular day job, doing dishes, cleaning, setting up daughter for tutoring, paying bills, etc… I am naturally just wanting to sit on the couch or type long comments on posts. But I cannot. Any procrastination means the house will turn to shit right now.
“Every great power is dangerous for the beginner. You must therefore wield them as you are able, but in harmony with nature.”
Got the second-hand Raspberry Pi set up to run Ubuntu! I can use it like a normal PC now. I am using it to comment on, right now! Lots to learn. I need to know my limits and not get frustrated like I did last time. Trying to be patient and learn some new skills instead of charging ahead and botching everything.
You are always timely Ron, thank you!
I wanted to thank you for Corona Zombies., that was HILARIOUS!
Forbidden Zone was different, but very entertaining.
Either one would probably make my wife stroke out.
Glad you liked it. I realized I have a one year anniversary coming up for GlibFlick. How long have you been doing Daily Stoic? Gotta celebrate the things we stick with.
If you check the top, it says this is week 28.
Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?
Got the second-hand Raspberry Pi set up to run Ubuntu! I can use it like a normal PC now.
Wow. I did not know you could do that.
I’m pretty sure if it has a processor, someone has made it run a breed of linux.
Haven’t they ported linux to the TI-82?
It’s working great. I have LibreOffice on there, and it came with FireFox. I may write about it. I spent $115 for a use Pi4B in a case with power supply, etc… and had the thing up and running in a day (after doing some research). The actual process of putting Ubuntu on there was about 10 minutes with an SD card. The thing even hooked up to my wifi printer! So now I have an open source PC, not beholden to Microsoft or Apple.
What type of video output does the Pi4B come with?
I am using the mini HDMI out (which it came with). It is connected to an old pre-smart 1080P TV I have used as a monitor for quite some time. The auction I won came with a freaky mini-HDMI to SVGA connector, which I am keeping and adding to my Museum of Unusual Adaptors.
More Voter Suppression.
Wisconsin voters casting absentee ballots will no longer be able to drop them in boxes located anywhere except the offices of election clerks, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Sanity
On our foray last week, my husband had the impression to fill the gas can of a stranded family. Okay, no problem. Our church teaches service and my dad was generous to our family’s detriment (which made me not want to be generous or serve at all), but in the end, I still can’t help wanting to do good things for people sometimes.
ANYWAY, I’m not going to say it’s karma, but that came back to us almost immediately with a church member fixing our car 2 days later on a holiday. Or, is it by design in the culture of service I grew up in? Probably both, but I was never taught to take money for something (also a bad teaching when taken to extremes like my dad did).
So I get to BYU to karate and am taught that I sweated blood and tears for my knowledge and paid good money. Why should I give it away? It made sense and it was attractive to me, but it was at the same time abhorrent.
I have spent a lifetime trying to figure out when to serve and when to charge, and I’m still not very good at it.
I have spent a lifetime trying to figure out when to serve and when to charge, and I’m still not very good at it.
Thankfully, I don’t have many people who would benefit from receiving my professional services gratis. It makes it much easier to draw the line. I can think of 3 situations where I’d give without expecting compensation in return.
1) I have the ability to help somebody in dire need. Traditional charity.
2) I have a friend who could benefit from a one-off gift.
3) I expect that the complementary first will act as a loss leader and increase my business.
For me it was always professional/personal. I always charge for anything related to how I make my living. However, I often help people with things that I’m decent at (carpentry, etc.) and I never take a dime for that.
I draw a line at repeated help. Teach a man to fish…
Also I purposely now do not have a pickup as I was very tired of people asking me to move stuff (also I prefer keeping my car in a garage). I consider that particular example an egregious violation of the unwritten charity law.
Oh, goodness. In my church, if you have a pickup, you’ll always be called upon. That said, that is a cultural expectation. If you get a pickup, you already know you’re going to get called upon.
I’ve always compensated for the “can you help us move this” asks. Usually a meal, beer, and $20 in gas money. Nothing’s worse than helping somebody drag a couch halfway across town and up 2 flights of stairs and getting an “okay, see you later!” before you even get a chance to mop your brow.
When I was single and moving into my apartment on January 1, a bunch of dudes from church helped me. It was on the 3rd floor. I made chili and we watched some football game they were excited about watching. Now, I didn’t have much. The biggest thing I had was a queen-size bed and a club chair. No sofa. But I wasn’t going to be all, “Thanks!”
I have a pickup, but I really don’t get asked all that often. In MN and CO almost everyone has one anyway!
Same here. In my “neighborhood” far more people do own a pickup than don’t. In fact, I’ve been the one asking a couple times because mine is only a half-ton and I needed a bigger one!
A pickup truck is pretty much the unofficial vehicle of Alberta.
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
https://youtu.be/Mr_uHJPUlO8
For the Pi’s, they run a x64 architecture, so running a standard OS isn’t all that hard.
For the TI calculators… (mute is a good idea for this vid)
Oops, Brooksed it.
Indeed you did. Still found you. Once I have more time I will be exploring robotics, etc… Might even try something sadistic like loading RetroArch. I need to wait until I have more self-hate for that one.
RPi is ARM, not x86/x64. The earlier ones (e.g. Pi 2) are 32-bit, while the newer ones (Pi 3, 4) are 64-bit.
And that makes all kinds of problems, as most 64 bit is AMD64, as opposed to ARM. Can’t load Brave, for example. Need to load Zoom via website only, to overcome architecture issues. I’ll write about it. Seems like people are interested in what it’s like to free yourself from the embrace of the Big Three tech giants.
That’s surprising. I’m running Brave on arm64 right now, though it’s macOS not Linux.
It just won’t go on this Pi system. I saw lots of comments about it. I am researching, as that is my preferred browser.
Still an open issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11836
The ARM Macs do have a translation layer to run x86-64. So either Brave is using that or it’s been compiled to ARM by now.
As far as I can tell, it’s native. Internally it says
and the file type of the main executable is
Supposedly (according to the conversation in that issue you liked above), there may be some library support issues (among other things) that keep MacOS ARM64 from being compatible with other ARM64 builds.
Shoot, that’s right. I got AMD and ARM switched in my head.
Your basic point is still correct though, ARM is not an obscure architecture. Support is very good from all major operating systems and programming languages (though apparently not all web browsers).
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I’ve been meaning to ask this, but it keeps slipping my mind.
Because my actual phone is optimized for battery life, I’ve ripped out programs and apps that are prereqs for other applications. (Perma-killing the battery hoggin ‘google play services’ being one of the big ones). So I’ve been debating getting a wifi-only* tablet to run specific programs that are not available on PC (stupidly, my CC company will let you spawn virtual numbers from their app, but not in a browser session.) Any recommendations?
*as long as any cellular antenna can be disabled, it being there is not a disqualifier. I just need to be able to run it without a data plan.
Apple, Android, or either?
Not Apple.
It’s probably going to be stuck with Android because of the limited support of the ‘Other’ category by the companies forcing my hand.
The only thing worth buying that’s not Apple is Samsung but I haven’t picked one up in a while, so I’m probably not the best to recommend one.
Same here on not being the best to recommend, but here’s a relatively cheap refurb:
Samsung 10.1″ Galaxy Tablet A (2019) 32GB – $189.99 – Free shipping for Prime members https://computers.woot.com/offers/samsung-10-1-galaxy-tablet-a-2019-32gb-10?utm_medium=share&utm_source=app
Hrmm… Though if there’s enough cheap options, I might skip the process of trying to jailbreak the old Fire.
Options, options.
Does it need to be android to run the apps?
I’m afraid so.
I’ll bet Amazon will have a deal next week on their Fire 10s. I love mine, but mine is stock. It’s the only thing I use at home.
You can jailbreak them though: https://www.reddit.com/r/kindlefire/comments/hwtsh6/can_i_jailbreak_the_amazon_fire_10/
I have an older Fire tablet buried somewhere. I might try to jailbreak that one since I never use it. (Assuming it boots now)
A stock Amazon tablet is not exactly Android, for what it’s worth. You can’t run Google apps out of the box and have to tinker with it a bit to do so. If your goal is a seamless ordinary Android experience, I wouldn’t recommend an Amazon tablet.
That having been said, the hardware and price are decent, if you’re tech-savvy and want to tinker.
(clarification: you don’t have to tinker if you don’t care about Google apps or the Play Store, as Amazon has its own alternatives to them)
Megan Rapinoe netted herself a Presidential Medal of Freedom. So did John McCain.
https://kdvr.com/news/politics/washington-dc-bureau/17-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom/
“Including the 17 honored Thursday, only 631 Americans have ever received the award, including Biden himself. He said the new recipients reflect the country at its finest.”
I can’t wait for brains to re-fracture when President DeSantis awards Donald Trump the medal.
Demeaning the award even further, excellent.
Agreed. Its a silly award in a supposedly free society. She kicks a ball; what exactly has she done for freedom besides bitch and moan.
Bitching and moaning and demanding unwarranted levels of compensation is the highest form of patriotism.
It’s gotten way too freaking politicized and really should go to only relative unknowns who did good.
Nick Sandmann should have been given one just to watch heads explode.
How about the Kenosha Kid?
Good grief. Denzel Washington, an AFL-CIO president, Steve Jobs, Simone Biles…the people there that truly deserve it should say “No thanks, it’s meaningless.”
Steve Jobs contributed to society but he got his reward in voluntary trade. Simone Biles got sponsored all the way to gold medals. Denzel got his Oscar, etc…
These awards are more about the politicians giving them by attacking themselves to the coattails of the recipients.
All those people have already been rewarded 1000x over with fame and fortune. They don’t need a medal.
To be clear, the names I listed are in addition to Rapinoe as my reasons for declaring the medal meaningless.
Now Elon is dunking on Slow Joe!
What must this look like to our competitors?
Hey! He stole my line!
Haven’t we entertained the conceit of Elon lurking here before?
To be fair…that was the instant go-to line for it, so Ill let it slide.
Did not!
OMG further down…
🤣😂
It’s pretty much every day now.
I’m wondering if this is the strategy to get rid of him. They aren’t even running cover for him anymore. And with the revelation that we sold a shit ton of the strategic reserves to a Chinese company that Hunter has part of, it may be coming to an end.
I think the sudden admission by the feds that China is a really big threat with spies everywhere has significance, too. Everybody knew that years ago, so why pick this week to announce it? I’m betting they’re setting the table for something.
Yeah. And little bit of too-local news is a piece of it. This deal was nearly complete, and all a sudden, the Feds decide they better take a look.
TL;DR: The Chinese want to build a corn milling plant within view of a USAF base that is a command center for Global Hark UAV’s and has also been recently named as Space Development Agency’s first Operations and Integration Center. Some locals, and belatedly at least one of our congress critters, have been saying “just hold on a sec”. It looks like the Feds might finally be starting to get involved in making sure this is all on the up-and-up.
It’s not on the up and up by any stretch of the imagination.
I was just reading about that and apparently, a local group was visited by the FBI and police for posting a portion of the DOI
I KNEW it was the right thing to do to buy the Blu-ray of 1776 before it was declared subversive…
…as long as Best Buy doesn’t rat me out… 😳
Domestic surveillance
authorizationexpansion that will be used against purely domestic opponents so the Chinese agents continue to be unfettered.The problem with getting rid of Biden is that the VP isn’t any better. She may not be senile but she’s unlikeable even compared to him and her public speaking ability might actually be worse than Karine Jean-Pierre’s.
Hillary moistens up.
Is it Wednesday?
Throw back to Friday nut-punches.
Eeeeeew.
*hurk*
Russell Brand’s video yesterday was about Biden and Harris being incoherent. It was harsh but damn was it funny.
Russell Brand the Principled Lefty: I like Brand, we don’t agree on a lot but at least he isn’t a snake in the grass.
I think when people slow down and really think about what they say they end up like him or others. You realize its propaganda on both sides.
I don’t agree with him all the time either, but he does his homework and often explains things in a way that I hadn’t thought of before. And that can only improve my thought processes.
He usually identifies the problem, but like Jimmy Dore, has the wrong solutions.
Admitting there’s a problem is the most important step to recovery. We can hash out the particulars later.
Saw a great question the other day. Why are Planned Parenthood centers shutting down in states that had trigger laws on Roe? Thought their primary business was to provide family and pre/postnatal care?
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Yeah, that’s known as “a fucking lie.”
Their primary business is ancillary charges to the act of abortion (charging for every little side service, selling the baby parts, conning people into thinking they’re a charity) Without that keystone, the locations become nonviable.
Great question. And honestly, if they want to keep killing babies, the best thing they could do is stay open and facilitate travel to the closest legal state (in states where that isn’t made illegal).
Why bother when the abortion states are happy to provide an all-expense-paid trip for you.
Make hormonal contraception OTC and you’ve pretty much eliminated everything they really do.
In addition to what the others have said, I don’t think they make much money on the fee-for-service side of the house, so even if they really did a bunch of things other than abortion, closing the “clinics” might be more profitable as a fund-raising tactic.
Their original “business” was providing contraceptives because some states banned the pill. And of course they sold their idea that there would be fewer unwanted pregnancies if contaceptives were widely available. And time has shown that widely available contraception has not reduced the number of unwanted pregnancies. So to cover their stupid. lying asses, they had to expand their scope to cover abortion consulting until it became their primary business. They stopped providing family and pregnancy care over 30 years ago.
Not according to them as recent as 2017
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/fact-check-planned-parenthood-is-essential-care-for-rural-women
That’s pretty astonishing.
WTF, breeders?
God, this stupid bitch is infuriating.
They are gonna get someone killed.
Feature, not a bug
Who was it that said lynch mobs and gang rapes are examples of pure democracy in action.
I try to imagine the response from the left if conservative protesters heckled Ginsburg in a public restaurant.
Eh, technically she is correct, so long as it doesn’t rise to harassment.
I believe that rises to that level, regardless of who the person is and/or place of business.
No, that is not what democracy is. Not even close. Democracy is voting for politicians (and referenda). Protesting, speaking, writing, etc. are not democracy, they are forms of expression.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cx0p124d5xyo?at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=64&at_custom3=BBC+News+Pidgin&at_custom2=%5BService%5D&at_custom4=20FE5740-FE9D-11EC-B340-CCD096E8478F&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D
Pidgin reporting is always more fun.
I forgot about that Pidgin BBC news page. That is a wonderful way to read the news.
I know you all will be shocked to hear this, but the 10 year old that had to travel for an abortion to save her life, might not be a true story.
No Way!
I know, it surprised me too.
It would be the youngest pregnancy on record in recent times in the US…but lets focus on the abortion not the rape/crime/etc. Yeah too many strings pulled on this one.
But it’s out there with all the circular references to keep it out there.
Job done.
Like “Hands up, don’t shoot”?
Or “Trump tried to grab the steering wheel”
Metropolitan. Polly Perkins.
https://youtu.be/Dows1BmmA7g
I’m using the tried and true, “If it sounds too perfect, too on the nose, then it’s false.” If pro-choice writers got in a room to write a pro-choice story, it wouldn’t even be this perfect.
It would have been a baby sucked out during abortion but somehow still was alive and a random passerby adopted on the spot and the child is now 18 and is a valedictorian graduating.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/07/f-troop-actor-99-dies-heres-why-he-was-a-big-deal-in-nj.html
Larry Storch – RIP.
A Mechanical Engineer, a software engineer and a purchasing agent are on their way to an industry event when their rental car gets a flat tire. The purchasing agent says
“We need to buy a new tire”
the mechanical engineer says
“no, I think I can fix this one”
and the software engineer says,
“let’s drive on it for a while, maybe it’ll fix itself.”
Where does “check the thermostat” fit into this story?
Good one.
Shouldn’t there be a Microsoft engineer to tell them to close all the windows and then reopen them and see if that fixes it?