Corporate media will be ever more obsequious to get access. Military presence for “safety” in certain cities labeled “dangerous” which all happen to be progressive. Then the self-censorship starts. Then people stop being able speak freely, let alone thinking a rule of law exists. Then it’s “underground” to have an honest conversation about politics. We’ll be in Putin’s Russia level of legal system and political speech within a few years.

Making friends mostly at work anywhere causes issues of selection bias, but it doesn’t matter if it’s work, school, church, your local pub, whatever. Balance in most things, as usual.

You and your son are the problem, everyone knows the free market will fix all inefficiencies, such as almost every global center lacking affordable housing because developers only want to build high margin homes. The free market just works or something.

The problem could be easily solved by you and your son just becoming wealthy, either that or decades of planning and government initiatives to mandate minimum supply and affordability if not outright building by governments–but how much work would that be !?! Probably easiest just to pretend it’s complex market forces and not greed.

The only consolation is that he probably can’t get the (mostly lovely) sounds out of his head either.

“Two small pair…8s and 8s” is still a staple at family card games.

😂 that’s great

I’m in HR and think about this a lot; it’s (mostly) a marker of poorly run companies when they say experience in software X is required. Mostly these orgs are using one of several software solutions and by saying a candidate must have experience in a specific software means the company is brittle; can’t train, wants to hire non-thinkers and learners, and also likely isn’t looking ahead at what will change in the future.

Software change will only accelerate likely, so hire learners.

Haven’t heard “gay” as a pejorative in real life since high school in the late 90s.

At this point it’s like the Onion article that they release after every school shooting about how nothing can be done to prevent it in the only country where it occurs regularly; the data raping and pillaging that goes on in the US despite other countries having passed basic common sense privacy and control laws…well too bad you can’t afford the lobbyists to pass it, Poor.

Lol legally mandated vacation? Try living in America

That’s no boilerplate, that’s “AI”™!

Someone finally eclipsed LeBron James’ attempt to copyright Taco Tuesday

The size of the text box on the “complaint” form tells you all you need to know. Barely visible on a page, limited to 1,000 characters, odd character restrictions with no instructions, no attachments—they aren’t trying to facilitate resolution, they’re trying to minimize contact. Also, this is after I signed into my account, so this is their “member only portal” where they nice explain they don’t accept e-mail for HIPAA reasons…but their substitute is a deliberate farce.

Photo taken from a good Engel

The music in the original is fantastic.

Bless you, must have hit “+” somehow, “-” fixed it and turned back on the autoframerate skip. Been a rough summer and losing my “zone out” retro gaming time was going to crush me. Thanks for the extra 1UP

Ah, my bad, that would have been a better community. TBF I was pondering this in the shower.

Oh look, all the stupid Africans. Jesus, how could anyone not question this?

I mashed the down arrow because it’s probably more strongly correlated with GDPPPP or access to free, high quality education than an inherent measure of intelligence. Crappy correlations to pseudomeasurements and concepts with racist results? What is this, the SATs?

You’re saying he’s a synthetic fiber and not the traditional cotton plain weave? The textile industry will be shocked!

Tim walz–level confession