Everyone gangsta until you realize everything has been deeply compromised
All good my friend! Was more just interesting given the context- my bets are on elites these days believing they can reign in any unrest, rather than being as interested in reining it in. Hubris and such.
Made a lot out of a very common error, just thought it was neat. :)
New Simpsons is fine for what it is. I find if you accept that it's changed over the years, borrowed concepts and writers from other animated series, etc., and the four-quadrant audience it tries to appeal to is vastly different than it was in it's heyday, it's watchable (though admittedly with a much different clunker:classic ratio).
Still though:
I disagree, but this may say more about me than other people. Unless you're a gardener or botonist, sage = sage and salvia = salvia divinorum.
Reading the article, it's either a poor choice of words on the part of the AP journalist, or a deliberate choice of words to muddy the situation when this inevitably gets compressed into a short reference memory as the news cycle moves on.
What's described is very much the outrage expressed against insurance practices re: medical care, part of the celebration of this guy's death.
Physicians are a highly-regarded professional class, and rightfully so in the vast majority of cases. But any role with that kind of social cache, you're bound to have some complete asshats aim for that position.
What's the joke again? What do you call the person who graduated medical school at the bottom of their class? Doctor.
(Also not to discount those folks going into medicine for the right reasons who burn out and become deeply cynical, bringing out their worst traits. As you obviously know, it's not an easy job - I sure as hell couldn't do it, unless I specialized in Pathology. Maybe.)
I know exactly one person who plays SS13, and nothing they have ever said about it makes it sound appealing.
That said, it's usually because they're complaining about getting banned for some mean spirited thing they did. And I have been very impressed with how deep those mean spirited things can go.
I don't even play GTA V for the main game anymore. I just get high and go for long walks in first person mode.
Orbitz and Bawls were my childhood - well, pre-teenhood I guess.
Technically Bawls still exists but I haven't seen it in years.
I've been reading coroner inquest results and recommendations recently, which are mandatory for workplace deaths in my province.
The only thing I can think of looking at this is a coroner and five other people all drafting a document with the simple recommendation "Maybe fucking don't?"
It's "rein in any unrest". I'm not pointing this out to be a grammar nazi, but because "reign in" is an interesting slip in the context of your post.
The biggest career mistake I've ever made is opening an Excel macro and changing two characters to make it count a thing again.
I was then permanently labelled Cracks the Technomancer, master of all things technology. It fucking sucks.
TBF, it looks like they were at least in the lobby of Confed, rather than just outside the building. They were removed and protested outside, and 14 arrests were made (all unconditionally released).
Agreed the way it's phrased is a little disingenuous. But Confed is where a bunch of MP offices are, so it makes sense over trying to occupy the House of Commons or something.
I've seen people say this, but haven't actually seen it outside of one asshat who picked a fight with Beehaw a year+ ago.
As a user I've had a pretty great experience personally.
There's lots of stuff about what I do that doesn't make much sense :)
It works in this scenario because the stacks are reliably sorted by customer and date, and each form has a running tally of what cookies are on offer as things get added to the list.
Assume customer x's forms are taken out, and you make two stacks of them without shuffling the forms. The very first form on the first stack from 2022-01-01 does not include cookie y. The first form on the second stack, from 2023-02-01, also does not contain cookie y. Based on this information and the conditions above, you can infer that the form you want is in the second stack.
Now, if the forms were not reliably sorted, or did not contain a running record, you'd need to approach this differently. Strategies would probably involve inferences or straight getting the info you need from other sources - custumer correspondence around "We want cookie y, how much?" (if it occurred when you were in a position to get such correspondence); knowledge of big changes to cookie offerings to the customer (contract renewals); bugging accounting at a regular, annoying cadence with progressive escalation until they answer/complain about you bugging them, etc.
It's a crummy job, but someone's gotta do it.
Imagine you work at a company that sells cookies. The company signs a contract offering a customer a set variety of cookies at various prices, with a clause stating that if the customer wants another type of cookie the company makes later on, it will be priced and added to their list. This should be in the form of regular contract amendments/addendums, but it isn't.
Several years go by, and in the course of that several different varieties of cookies have been added by the customer. The price given to them at the time may not account for the cost of materials and labor today, or how many of those cookies not mentioned in the contract are being ordered v. how many were expected, the fact that you outsourced some of those cookies, or brought some of those cookies in-house, etc. The cookie executive asks you "When did we offer customer x cookie y at price point z?"
Now, the company has a perfectly good database of cookies and price points for customers, but it's very old tech and requires certain access privileges, which are very hard to give people outside of the accounting department. Accounting is never able to help with this, and the cookie executives try poorly and fail to get people like you access. But you do have years and years of cookie addition request forms, which are kept in chronological order by customer and contain a list of all types of cookies requested up to that point in time.This is where binary search helps - you can pretty quickly find the one where the cookie y was added even though there are hundreds of these forms.
It's not a situation that should exist - we have a god damn cookie database where you can just pop in customer x and cookie y to get price z, with an effective date - but in my crazy cookie factory it helps a ton.
There's other examples but they're all pretty much variants of this thinly veiled analogy.
Viva la sneakernet
Honestly, this was the comment that exposed me (regular office rube) to binary search as a concept and it is so. fucking. helpful.
I will leave it at people can, if they have the means and want to. You're never obligated, even if someone is using aggressive panhandling tactics.
I play pinball, so I'm one of the disappearing folks that often has a little bit of pocket change left over. If I see someone panhandling and I am feeling generous, I'll share some. If I don't have any, am still feeling generous, and they're outside of somewhere serving food, I'll ask if they want something. Usually people say yes, sometimes they say no. Never buy something with the specific intent to give it to a panhandler without asking them first - it's rude to presume. If you legit have something extra that you didn't expect that is fair game to offer - in those circumstances I always add "If you don't want it, that's cool" to make it clear I'm not forcing it on them/I won't think they're rude for not taking it.
If I'm not feeling generous, I don't give anything.
Whatever anyone does with anything I gift them is their business. It's fucking rough out there.
Do you have a link to the report?