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Atlas Shrugged changed my political beliefs entirely when I read it as a teenager. Real life experience and empathy changed it back again a few years later, thankfully. It's tough when you're young, recognizing that the world is flawed and searching for something that might be an answer.

It's not quite the same because I was never any kind of ardent "pro-nuke" activist, but the movie Threads took me from a position of resigned ambivalence regarding the existence of nuclear weapons to a strong believer in global disarmament. If anyone is neutral on the topic of nuclear weapons, I'd suggest they give it a watch.

There is a social cost to abandoning your shopping cart; it's just not borne by the abandoner. Carts left in the parking lot can block parking spots or damage cars if moved by wind or gravity. Additionally, if no one returns their cart, there will be none available at the storefront for use by the next customer. That's part of the "test" as I understand it - there's no one grading you individually on whether you fulfill your communal responsibility to return the cart, but that doesn't mean there's no impact from your failure to do so.

Feels like we might be talking past each other or conceptualizing the shopping cart theory differently?

I like a cover letter. Not to get my ass kissed, but so I can see you draw the lines between your work experience and the job posting. My field is niche enough that there are few applicants with directly related experience, but there are many ways to gain the basic skills required. I can make all sorts of inferences based on a resume, but I don't want to guess when choosing who to interview. Just tell me how you match up and what you think you'll bring to the table. This helps me separate people who are applying for any job they can vs those who know (at least kind of) what they're getting into.

This assumes that a hiring manager would choose not to call a favored candidate just because they didn't get a thank you. That would be insane to me. None of my top performers sent me thank yous, and if I passed on them for that reason alone, I would deserve the dregs who would take their place.

If someone gets an offer that meets their needs better (pay, interest, whatever), I just go to the next viable candidate from my pool. That's hardly an imposition or a personal slight, and the potential for this to occur doesn't change any of my behavior when hiring (other than, perhaps, trying to make a quicker offer for highly-talented candidates so I don't lose them to a different opportunity).

It's not a shopping cart test. There's no social cost to not getting a thank you email, and the candidate likely already provided thanks verbally. It's redundancy, and as a hiring manager I do not care for it.

For shopping carts, I even take back those that are not mine if they are nearby.

I've hired (low) dozens of people in public sector environments, and neither myself nor anyone on my hiring panels has ever cared if we receive a post-interview thank you. Maybe private sector is different, but I'd just as soon not have you clog up my inbox with thanks or make a post-interview pitch about your skills/excitement.

If you say thanks in the room, we're square. Likewise, I always thank people for their interest and time in the role.

Being calm doesn't make you correct any more than being angry makes someone else wrong.

Look, everyone, this guy labelled himself as logical and reasonable, and his opponent as ignorant!

If you currently work for ICE and you haven't quit, you've demonstrated you're okay with going along with illegal and immoral actions. That makes you a bad person.

There might be an argument to say that not everyone who has ever worked for ICE is a bad person, but that argument holds little water in 2025.

Due process is required for legal judgements, not moral ones, FYI.

Leaked pictures / more confirmation. It's "real" now, or at least a more solid rumor than before.

It's hypocrisy in the name of saving a buck. Should we not want intellectual consistency from religious affiliates that seek to dictate the terms of our laws and our lives?

You're absolutely right - the article did this no justice. The text is quite cringey on its own, but this is... Even more yikes.

I've been enjoying it, although it is still unpolished. I think ultimately whether you like the new direction (changes to the age system/picking new civs mid game) is going to be a matter of personal taste. To me, I now feel like my unique civ bonuses are always relevant, instead of just in whatever specific era. I also find myself more engaged in mid to late game.

But I've also read a number of comments where people prioritize other aspects of the Civ experience, and those folks do NOT like the changes to game flow. Your mileage may vary.

I couldn't take the suspense and I had to look it up.

Musk also told the crowd that he didn’t like the ideas he was presented with early in the week. “I was a bit worried at the beginning there,” he said, “because frankly nothing was funny.”

He then went on to reveal his idea of funny, describing one pitch in particular that did not go over well.

“One of the things that everyone’s been wondering this whole time is: Is Saturday Night Live actually live… or do they have a delay just in case there’s a wardrobe malfunction or something like that?,” Musk said to set up the pitch. “But there’s a way to test this.” (SNL does, in fact, air without a tape delay.)

In Musk’s vision, he’d tell the audience he was going to put this to the test by taking “his cock out.”

“So I’m going to reach down into my pants… and then I pull out a baby rooster,” Musk explained. “Like, ‘This is my tiny cock.’”

Unfortunately, the joke didn’t end there.

“And then Kate McKinnon walks out,” added Jason Calacanis, co-host of the All-In Podcast, who was also present in the pitch meeting. “And she says, ‘Elon, I expected you would have a bigger cock.’”

McKinnon, meanwhile, would have been holding a cat.

“You can see where this is going,” Musk told the crowd

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I like a bubble bath with extra suds.

Wait hold up on the first one. Doesn't everyone do a quick rinse with the shower after a bath? You've been sitting in soapy skin soup!

I enjoyed the first book! I've got the second tucked away somewhere, too.

The Battle of Chile is a three part documentary about the military coup against Salvador Allende in the 1970s. Patricio Guzman and his associates recognized that crazy things were about to happen and took to the streets to capture as much footage as they could, knowing that a record needed to be kept. One of the cameramen was disappeared, tortured, and presumably killed, while the others smuggled the footage out to Cuba.

It may feel too prescient for American audiences now. Gods, it was plenty powerful to me as an American watching in 2012. It is well worth your time.