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I'm the only person I ever met who does it, so … it's probably not common?

I grilled 'em on the stove.

Otherwise the same thing.

I can see that working. Swiss has a nutty taste already, after all.

Hot chocolate with chili powder.

I'm with you here on everything except the Marmite. 😛

Yeah, I'm with you here. That sounds like a great combo.

I don't find it physically exhausting but definitely mentally and spiritually draining. ("Hurry up and wait" in particular is a rage-triggering thing for me.) I learned to adapt by always carrying a book with me that I can pull out and start reading while others around me dither and force waiting periods.

The covid lockdowns showed me just how vulnerable the automation industry is to disruptions.

It also showed how valuable the automation industry was to cutting COVID-19 off at its knees if a bunch of pansy right-wingers hadn't started to screech they couldn't breath because of a few grams of paper on their face. (Weird how they can wear masks now when it involves being cruel to non-whites...)

When COVID-19 hit there was a shortage of surgical and N95 masks world-wide. Then a guy invented a machine that could "print" obscene numbers of surgical masks per day, each machine costing only about $50,000. Within weeks surgical masks were available to the point that they cost almost nothing. Then someone else figured out how to make KN95 masks easier to mass produce on the same kind of "printing" machine and now KN95 masks are also cheap like borscht and universally available.

Without automation there'd have been a whole lot more deaths to COVID-19 around the world, not just in snowflake countries.

What beans? I already spilled them: Entrust had "Tiger Team" that consisted entirely of people who'd found flaws in the security of the product; it existed entirely to NDA-bind the "team members" to squelch talk about the security failures.

You want me to spill the beans on the flaws? Can't. I do marketing, not techie stuff. I just know about the "team", not about the things people found to get into it.

I didn't sign an NDA, the guy I was dating did. And the company is long zombified (Entrust).

I went to NYC on business (trade show, working the booth). I was glad I was there only for the closing weekend. Some of my colleagues had to work the booth the whole week and be in NYC the whole time.

I really did not like New York, and I didn't even go to the rougher areas. Just too noisy for me, too expensive, and it smelled bad.

And this was in the early '90s.

I have to agree here. I decided after a job interview in Houston I wouldn't go to the USA ever again. This was in the mid-late '90s. It hasn't improved in that time.