Oof, yeah, ouch. Reminds me of the time Mazda used the Lorax to promote an SUV they were selling. Totally would’ve answered with that, had I not remembered the GE thing.

I remember General Electric got a lot of flak for a commercial of theirs, meant to “celebrate America’s hard workers” or whatever.

They used the song Sixteen Tons.

If a “live” consciousness transfer isn’t possible, I’d only go for it if I was told I’d fall asleep and wake up in a new body. I wouldn’t want to know if this was how it actually worked.

It’s all over the Old Man’s War book series too

I’ve got Windows 10 on a few machines at home, strictly out of inertia. LTSC packages too, so no plans to change over yet.

Everything I’ve acquired since then gets some flavor of Linux, though.

Project Zomboid has a tutorial, but it’s strictly optional to play. You can absolutely just dive straight in to it.

Knox County, Kentucky, 1993. The zombie apocalypse hits. As far as you know, you’re the last person alive on earth. It’s all up to you, and you alone, to keep going.

The game’s default settings are plenty brutal, but you can tweak them to an insane degree, and anything the settings don’t cover, someone’s probably made a mod for that. I highly recommend the Bandits mod, which adds hostile human NPCs in to the mix of all the things that will kill you.

I drive an 18-wheeler for work. The industry’s been pretty good to me, although it’s taken me several years and plenty of companies for me to find a place where I comfortably fit.

There’s money to be made here, though, especially if you’re willing to specialize. By which I mean, pull a more complicated trailer than a standard “dry van”. Flatbeds, tankers, stepdecks, automotive haulers. Removable goosenecks for oversize freight. The list goes on.

If you want to also go home every night, there’s foodservice, beer/soda distributors, or less-than-truckload companies like ABF or Old Dominion. Some of these companies are even unionized.

Should you decide to go this route, don’t get your CDL through a trucking company, and dear fucking god, don’t lease a truck through them either. Go to a standalone school. Companies will try to recruit you there before you even come close to graduating.

Pilot/Flying J truck stops have this thing called the “Big Dog”, a sausage roll that’s over a foot long. Garlic butter on the crust of the roll. It’s delicious. I end up buying one every time I go inside… and since I drive a truck for work, that’s a near-daily occurence.

Well, it wasn’t quite legal since I was paid in cash under the table, but my first job was washing dishes at a restaurant when I was 16. First job I actually paid taxes for, didn’t get one of those until I was 20.

Give me their lungs for haggis then.

A second billionaire’s heart

edit: didn’t read the first response all the way - let me at the liver first

Polarized lenses, but with a yellow tint instead of black. They work nicely in my experience.

I’ve seen them for sale at truck stops, some with extra-large frames so they’d fit over your prescription lenses.

You can’t outrun a radio.

If the police are chasing you for whatever reason, raw speed is not enough to make a getaway. They’ll just call for reinforcements to block the road ahead of you, or try to funnel you towards a spike strip/dead-end/etc.

Or if they’re smart, they let you think you’ve gotten away, tail you from afar, then swoop in to make their arrest once it’s safe.

At the very least, they radio your description to dispatch, so now every cop in the area is on the lookout for you.

Oh, I go back to the beginning every now and again, usually for fitting background noise when I’m on a Project Zomboid kick.

I forget exactly when I’d stopped watching the first time, probably when the show made Negan’s introduction into a cliffhanger. Or whenever Carl was killed off, but I forget exactly when.

Tried to push through to the Whisperers arc once though, but I made the mistake of getting invested in a new character after the time skip, someone I thought had a lot of interesting potential… and they were killed off to make the villains’ introduction more “serious”. I thought it was a huge waste. I don’t have interest in finishing the show anymore, nor any of the spinoffs aside from Rick’s miniseries.

While I’m driving for/at work, I know it’s break time when I want to sing along with the radio, but just can’t. Whether it’s from fatigue or frustration, doesn’t really matter either way.

Quickest way to set me off is to interrupt my performance. If I try to power through a song while, say, getting brake-checked, I usually just replace the lyrics with swearing.

For something… I dunno, wider in scope, I guess(?), I tend to find myself needing to make a change when I catch myself scrolling through real estate listings. The further away the city, the worse I find myself feeling.

What are you still doing here?

Jericho only lasted 29 episodes, and while I enjoyed them all (plus the graphic novels that continued the story), I will admit it had a shaky start.

It was a mid-2000s CBS show, so it had to appeal to a wide audience, the kind who’d tune in to CBS of all networks during primetime. The show’s overall premise had me hooked, but some of the side plots and characters are… distracting, early on.

Most people agree that the show picks up steam partway through the first season, though I haven’t seen a consensus about a particular episode. My pick though, episode 7, “Long Live the Mayor”.

I wish I’d stopped watching The Walking Dead partway through season 5, whenever Rick and friends arrive at Alexandria, but before they go inside.

Sure, there’s plenty of good episodes/moments afterward, but without spoiling anything, that’s also when a lot of the show’s bullshit really ramps up.

Usually no, I generally wish I was taller. Or at least my legs were longer; I’m 5’9, but my legs are unusually short, due to a bunch of surgeries I had as a kid. If my legs were ‘normal’ I’d be over 6 feet tall.

The only time I’ve wished I was shorter, was to fit in to smaller cars. Recently, I tried to drive a kei car called an Autozam, tiny little sports car, and I had to take my shoes off to comfortably use the pedals. My head hitting the ceiling is slightly problematic in a car that has gullwing doors.

I like the flexibility trucking offers me. Dispatch doesn’t care when or how far I drive, as long as I pick up and deliver on time. But this is highly carrier-dependent; most of the companies I’ve worked for would see my legal drive times as targets, rather than the limits they’re supposed to be.

I like that I get paid to cruise down the highway and listen to the radio all day. But I don’t like that it often takes all day. I often work sunrise to sunset. Literally.

I like that my boss physically cannot look over my shoulder at work, since he’s usually at least two time zones away. But so are my friends and family, most of the time. Phone calls just aren’t the same. Even if I’m just an hour’s drive from home, I may as well be on the moon.

I get to see a lot of amazing sights, but seeing them, in passing, is all I’m usually able to do.