AThing4String @ AThing4String @sh.itjust.works

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What if I am too stupid to understand? Can you explain it to my dumb ass?

In the spirit of anarchy chess, I MAY need to find out. For science.

I can think of 1½ ways to do that that wouldn't involve VBA.

They WOULD be a nightmare though.

I was reading the wiki for Tollund man yesterday, and I believe they actually took a fingerprint from him.

That's pretty identifiable, I think

Rand Paul's neighbor punched him in the face and apparently that was okay, too.

Unfortunately, not quite....

Rene Boucher, 58, was charged on Friday with assaulting a member of Congress, a felony, months after his sneak attack on Sen. Rand Paul in November, according to officials.

"Assaulting a member of Congress is an offense we take very seriously," said Josh Minkler, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. "Those who choose to commit such an act will be held accountable."

Officials said Boucher signed a plea agreement, but no date or sentencing has been set. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000.

This article is such a treasure trove. Thank you!

Bro new headcannon just dropped

You know when you get called out so hard you have to laugh your ass off? Like, give em the W, they earned it?

Mind you these are companies making billions a year in profits, while reddit reported a loss of 91 million in 2023

So Reddit made a respectable profit in 2023 of 102 million, but Spez felt he was worth twice the entire margin and 2-4 times what even established tech CEOs typically make. If he was happy with the paltry CEO pay that poor companies like Microsoft offer /s, Reddit would have posted ~ 50 mil in profit?

Listen, I'm not a financial expert, but how is that not some form of fraud?? My company posted a MUCH smaller loss (in one region!) than that and we had auditors crawling through our assholes looking for the why. Every transaction was looked at, every expense had to be justified, people lost their jobs, one is under federal investigation!!, and key leadership got busted back down to frycook - and rightfully so.

You're telling me the board (or ownership??) hired someone at arguably quadruple market rates and double their expected yearly margin to make them profitable and then posted basically a 9 figure loss that could be entirely contained in that one transaction....and that somehow isn't some sort of Trump-NY-Esque business valuation defrauding of their existing investors/tax fraud?

"Oops we made zero money for you guys last year because we actually made sure to pay all of it and more to this one guy, more money pls" right before an IPO?

I bought timer lid containers for my pills, ADHD and otherwise (believe you me, you do NOT want to accidentally take a second dose of migraine preventatives!). Now the cap shows exactly how long since I last opened the bottle, and I don't have to go through the trouble of [not remembering to] refill pill organizers.

If I'm not sure in the morning I can just look at the cap and know for sure!

And then forget if I checked, and check again, etc. as one does.

Shirtposting

Pho!

Peak orphan crushing machine

In another life, I attended a large geology conference and went to a session with talks about this. They had two speakers back to back, one boiled down to "it was the asteroid" and the other "it wasn't the asteroid".

Not only did the speakers get heated in each other's question sections, the whole ROOM felt like it was about to get into a fistfight - everyone basically taking over each other to the person to their left, right, front, back. Extremely hostile!

I can't remember the evidence but I do distinctly remember thinking that it wasn't my subject matter and I should probably avoid forming an opinion on it for my physical safety in my career.

Now I'm free to offend paleontologists both professionally and unprofessionally and I can't remember how to :'(

Sent a relatively new and somewhat nervous co-worker a "grandpasimpsonleave.gif" responding to the 8 billionth mutual emergency of the day followed immediately by "I kid, I kid, we'll fix it! 😉 [Relevant follow up question]?"

Guess which of those two messages was the last one unaffected by the outage? Yep. I got to watch her devolve into a panic as her messages reached me and my responses didn't get sent to her, and THEN delivered in the worst order/selection possible. Felt like the more critical the message, the less likely to send.

And! She's on the other side of the continent and all her location's phones are through teams also! And it was time sensitive.

Rough Friday.

I never considered this might be why I'm good at our system design and maintenance - I do a little bit of everything and every day is different!

Yeah those fines were a joke. $140k over two years for a place that likely charges that much per year for each of its 170 residents? They don't care.

There's a lot of "these allegations will be proven false in court" going on in this article.

My dude, there's DNA evidence. What allegations are there to disprove??

And why does it matter that it was before he worked at your clinic?? Like if someone had been found to be groping patients or stealing at their last identical job, there's no reason to be concerned they might have continued to do so while they worked for you?? No 'we'll look into this and be sure nothing untoward happened'??

"This was before he worked with us, and now we have safeguards in place, by which we mean we're aware he's a pervert and we watch him like a hawk, or whatever legal equivalent will absolve us of any wrongdoing for providing him with a target rich environment in exchange for the prestige."

Also they were HORRIFICALLY unreliable, to the point where my mechanic's actual quote was "Folks, I'm not in the habit of talking myself out of a $10,000 paycheck, but this car is not worth it." 30 minutes before we walked in his door it was working fine, by the time he went to drive it to the bay it wouldn't start, and never did again.

It wasn't even paid off yet.

To say nothing of the fact that one had to drop the engine to get to the alternator, the electrical blew itself out twice in the 4 years we owned it, very few of the features worked with any competence, and we just got our 3rd or 4th safety recall for it (or whatever is left of the parts at the scrapyard).

Consumer Reports rated its reliability as a six - not out of ten, but out of ONE HUNDRED.

Absolute lemons.