Trains are a romantic thing for a lot of the left. But in much of the US, long-distance rail makes no sense. Air travel is cheaper and far, far more flexible. Building all that rail is fantastically expensive and then you have to maintain it (also expensive). And even after all that, it only goes 1-2 places.
We need more airports and more connections, mostly. And more rail where it has some practical use (which maybe covers 1/20th of the US, but 50% of the population).
CEO told me yesterday that I should prepare myself to be laid off on Monday.
It’s always dangerous to accept the counteroffer. In a lot of places, that puts a target on your back and means you’ll be the first out the door when there are layoffs or when they just hire someone cheaper to replace you out of spite.
You were a marked man (woman?) the moment you did that.
Not a real music video, but good song.
Don’t (Specifically) Date Ugly Women.
A lot of guys do try to date women considered ugly because they assume they’ll be easier to deal with and less entitled. Alexander is right, though. That’s a bad strategy. Don’t do it. Women are individuals, first, of course. You can’t judge how someone will behave and what they’ll be like solely (nor even mostly) based on her appearance.
However, in general, more attractive women will have higher self-esteem. They also tend to have superior social skills and are used to being approached so often handle it better and more playfully 1.
Also, no one wants to feel that you’re dating them or are with them as a favor or that they are your second or third choice. It’s horrible. It only breeds resentment and then, likely, contempt. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
I really dislike the numerical categorization of people by attractiveness, but I guess I’ll do it too as it’s easy at least. I’ve dated women most people would call 10s and I’ve dated 3s. Since in all cases I dated them mostly for their personality and compatibility 2, I think my experiences might not be representative. However, all that said, what he concludes with about self-esteem is correct: no matter if absurdly beautiful or plain, that self-esteem portion is what matters.
Just like choosing a beautiful woman only because she’s beautiful is a bad way to do it, picking an ugly woman just because she’s unattractive is also (unsurprisingly) an atrocious strategy.
You know you’re doing something right with your life when at least five things you do commonly and easily many people have told you are “impossible.”
Now that’s living.
Those who think NATO expansion had anything at all with Putin’s revanchism, annexation and planned genocide in Ukraine: What the fuck is wrong with you?
Way to buy into the Russian propaganda operation, I guess. Please engage brain if it is still capable of functioning (probably is not).
So, Covidians really do believe that Covid destroys your immune system?
LOL.
(All viruses that cause illness have temporary immunosuppresive effects, including SARS-CoV-2. Only those like HIV destroy or permanently weaken your immune system in 99.99% of humans. I don’t believe there is any coronavirus that has any significant long-term immunosuppresive effect as that is simply not their modus operandi.)
When you threaten the wrong woman.
When the accused Kitchener-based hacker known online as “Waifu” threatened a woman on the messaging app Telegram, it was the beginning of his downfall.
‘Waifu” had been bragging about his criminal exploits in open groups on Telegram. But when he threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at the U.S. cybersecurity firm Unit221B, his days were numbered.
If that’s not a case of “fuck around and find out,” I don’t know what is. I mean, how dumb can you be?
Why housing shortages cause homelessness.
Democrats need to wake up and build real solutions to California’s affordability crisis.
A company that turned homeowners into renters abruptly shuts down. We can still assassinate that ex-CEO too.
Election confidence among Republicans surges after Trump’s win, a new poll finds. Dumbasses.
This little electric car made history. 25 years ago, GM stopped making it.
UnitedHealth Backlash Signals Possible Shift in Washington and on Wall Street.
Never Before Have So Many Sailors Been Abandoned at Sea.
Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect.
A Sex Trafficking Law Made My Job as a Sex Worker More Dangerous.
Who’s got the Medica CEO? Looks like they are next up.