I lost my job because I crochet?
I know this isn’t about RTO, but one of the big reasons for RTO is so that extroverts can get back to their social bullying and oppression against introverts. Extroverts like to have work be a social club with them at the top. In a WFH environment, that is much harder to pull off. Introverts flourish in a more WFH world.
A big part of RTO is just about extroverts again wishing to and being allowed to harm others with impunity.
Now that’s a well-deserved fleecing. If you do a high-value real estate transaction in flaky-ass cryptocurrency, you deserve what you get. Clowns getting clowned on.
People really overestimate the amount of power a Vice President has (nearly none most of the time) and underestimate the amount of power a President has. At least, in the US system.
Well, that was a massive lie that KN95 masks were more comfortable and easier to breathe through than regular masks. Because I was spraying pesticide, today I wore a 3M KN95 mask. It felt like an alien facehugger was attached to my face. The metal parts were extremely poky and it didn’t even seal all that well despite my best efforts. It was also much harder to breathe than even a double cloth mask. I felt like I’d run a 10K after some very mild physical activity — and I’m in good shape.
So yeah…that was another Covidian lie.
Yellow cups that were included in dog food.
Oh shit, my family had these too. There were also bowls and plates that came in the dog food bags. It’s what we used as we didn’t have anything fancier. North Florida poor will do that.
They were not microwave safe and were ugly as all hell. But they were better than nothing.
Trump Camp Says State Menstrual Surveillance Programs are A-OK.
How to design a US data privacy law.
Some baby boomers are burning through their retirement savings to pay for cancer treatments. Then they have to go back to work. Greatest health care on earth, right here!
Genetic drift in structured populations.
A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse. I hate this timeline.
The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself. The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away. I might need to become an assassin and go around eliminating anyone who has anything to do with this.
If Trump wins the election, US parks and wildlife will face a new age of mining.
‘This Is a Disaster’: Western North Carolina Reels From Helene.
It’s totally fucked how Putin pud polishers will maintain that legitimate use of legal military weapons on uniformed soldiers is a war crime while the bombing of hospitals by Russia is totally fine and not a war crime.
Hospital shouldn’t have tried to join NATO…twice.
Russian artillery fires at a group of Russian infantrymen who were about to to surrender to the 33rd Brigade of Ukraine. Some of the surrendering Russians were able to reach Ukrainian positions, others were not.https://t.co/CH73IFxfyq pic.twitter.com/NSyl9fqD7C
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) September 28, 2024
This is why you’re morally a monster if you support Russia in the war. Note for the very, very dense: This is Russia’s own forces firing on Russian soldiers because they are attempting surrender.
Ian Welsh, get yo’ dumb ass over there and get you some of this.
But the “experts” told me that the 2016 and 2020 polls were eleventy billion percent correct and anyone who doubts this is a horrible, terrible, no-good conspiracy theorist. You mean they were just protecting their own self-interest? Why, that never happens!
I’ve been able to do that on Mac for years.
Other places on Reddit as well as other sites and people (like Noah Smith) said this would never, ever happen and was impossible. But of course it’ll happen. The very second that any MBA anywhere thinks that AI might be able to allow them to fire people, they will.
Trust.
What’s your comfort horror movie?
Trick ‘r Treat. It’s just such a goddamn good film. It’s underrated as horror always is. Also, because it feels like an 80s movie, which throws a lot of younger millennials and Gen Z off. It’s not prudish, in other words.
Such a gem that went unrecognized for years. And so funny too, in a macabre way.
It could always be a mistake when you buy a house. It’s an expensive purchase you can’t inspect all that well with unknown neighbors who might turn out to be insane or Alex Van Halen. For us, we were constrained even harder than most because we required these things:
So that was a lot of constraints! That means of the houses for sale in our area, roughly 90% of them were eliminated by those stipulations alone. Many others were removed from consideration because they were fucking ugly eyesores or otherwise had features we didn’t care for.
That said, we did not actually look at a lot of houses as of the ones that met our checklist and weren’t otherwise ghastly, only one or two a month remained that we’d even want to go visit in person. The second one we actually did go to look at we liked, so we bought it. The house was built in 1975, but for a house built in 1975 it has been pretty well-maintained and was a quality build at the time so it has had fewer actual problems than I expected. It was also renovated a good bit, though a lot of original features remain (such as some of the 1970s-vintage interior wood that cannot by bought for any price now). We also got it fairly thoroughly inspected beforehand.
So, by a combination of decent luck and adequate due diligence, we wound up with a place that suits us pretty well and has low carrying costs. Don’t get me wrong, it does have problems. It’s a house built in 1975, after all. For instance, there is way too much carpet, though luckily not that worn. The roof will need replacing in 5-7 years and that will be very expensive because the place is big and it has solar panels that will have to be professionally removed and then re-installed. The hot water heater needs flushing and likely will need replacing soon. The kitchen is slightly too small which we will change when we renovate. Etc.
We are happy with the place and could have done so much worse, especially considering how few houses we had available given our list of requirements.
And you can also keep the trucks running to cause the collective IQ of humanity to go up.
