“What’s the deal with the watermelon?”

“Umm…I’ll tell you later.”

Nginx/openresty/kong. Redis/valkey.

How did you get a job there?

Host_ed_, right? They did drop them at some point, I thought.

I always took that joke as: cheap products that don’t care will put any bullshit on their label. In my head, “Vitamin R” was just an empty lie by Big Malk.

Wasn’t there lead found in other spices, too? Like tumeric or something?

Yep!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5415259/

They have an update: https://decoded.legal/blog/2024/09/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2024-edition/

Definitely got a haircut at some point since I last saw him, too.

Probably Andre Gregory.

It’s obviously “Crash”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film)

Edit: Fuck! I always confuse this movie with the movie where people are having sex during car crashes. “Crash” was over wrought, but it wasn’t trash.

Add in redlining and you’ve got yourself a good ol’ American suburb!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Edit: Lots of other replies mention this, so I’m just repeating things…

“At-will” employment is actually a state-level law, and at least one state (Montana) isn’t an at-will state. That doesn’t invalidate your general points, just think it’s an interesting tidbit.