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It's similar with the ASVAB (multisection test for determing qualification for military service). I scored the highest score available, a 99, because it seemed in each section they moved on once they established competence.

The few people who saw my score (I don't go around telling people) have asked if I was super smart or something (the recruiter called me "professor" and asked if I had a Masters), and I said no, I am just competent at anything I could do in the military. I'm honestly not excellent at any particular thing, and in any given task I'm unlikely to be the best one there for it. But I'm capable of doing any task adequately. As my old trombone instructor used to say, I'm a "jack of all trades, master of none."

But the test doesn't care if you're amazing at anything. It just wants to see if you're capable of doing anything.

Why those quotes though? Why do you want to hurt us?

Tank is the best.

Okay, 3... 2... 1... let's jam.

I've had this discussion quite a bit, and it's tough to break the 77 cents on the dollar and whatnot rhetoric, because those people are convinced that a man and a woman doing the same job with equal experience, the woman just automatically makes on average 23% less than a man. And it's easy to prove that wrong, and entirely misses the point.

Two of the biggest factors in fixing the "gender pay gap" is longer maternity leave, similar lengths of paternity leave, and low-cost or free daycare. And then obviously, a cultural change for stay-at-home dads (though not exactly something you can legislate). I also read a study (I believe from Farleigh Dickinson University, in 2002, though I have had trouble finding it since) that the vast majority of men, after having a child, wanted to go back to full time work, and the majority (though not as large) if women wanted to either work part-time or stay at home. Now, I imagine a lot has changed in 23 years, so maybe that mentality has changed, but if all else is fixed and there is a "pay gap" based on choice like that... that's not a problem that needs to be solved.

So to recap, we need to stop talking about cents on the dollar and start talking about making rejoining the workforce more available and appealing after having babies, and giving dads more time with their kids to let their wives work.

ETA: To be clear, there is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed regarding women in the workforce, it's just not the "gender pay gap" as people try to describe it.

Just read through that whole thing and it made my blood boil. I don't even know what it included, and it doesn't matter. Drawings, especially those pointing out issues in society, should not be jailable. Fucking ridiculous.

And the judge that claimed that even if they were commentary on society, he should use a better vehicle? Who the fuck is he to say what art is? If he acknowledges it is commentary on society, it shouldn't fucking matter to a court how the drawings portrayed it.

I had to self-teach myself that once I hit adulthood. Things like "if left to pay a bill at some specified time (not immediately), I will fail. So all bills go on autopay." It's burned me a few times, but not nearly as often as constantly being burned with late fees and such.

Also, when my wife met me, she met someone who led a Spartan existence, with all my no-furniture belongings fitting in a piece of luggage. She thought it was preference, and completely blew off me constantly complaining about clutter and mess in the house. Once I explained (ten years in) that I can't have many things without it becoming a huge unmitigated mess (like having "pathways" through the clutter), so having a whole lot of stuff is shitting on my coping mechanisms and stressing me out, making me constantly uncomfortable in my own home. She understood, and stopped giving me shit for it... not that it changed the clutter, but at least when i complain I don't get hand-waved, I get an apology. Which is something, I guess (until I snap and the dumpster and donation center get a ton of bags).

I've had almost exclusively military doctors for nearly two decades, and I can tell you they aren't trying to respect your feelings (not that they're dicks). If your tests come back with high cholesterol, they aren't jumping to Lipitor or some shit, they'll refer you to a nutritionist and tell you to exercise more. They have no problems telling you that your health troubles come from that weight crushing your organs and joints.

And that's as a person in the military, who has to maintain a certain level if fitness to keep my job.

Show some respect.

It's a convenience store/deli/sometimes gas station, and it has the best Thanksgiving sandwich you can order, pay for, and pick up without a single word to a human (and usually in less than 5 minutes).

Teaching might have the most reported pedophiles. (Might because there's no citations)

This comment below the post about how the Catholic Church will excommunicate those who report pedophiles may be... not as supportive for your argument as you might think.

Also "let's take this offline" which just means let's have a different meeting about it, it'll still be online because we're all remote.

See, I would think that would mean for more individual discussion, as in "this isn't relevant to this meeting, why don't you and I talk about this after the meeting or at a later point."

I think everyone has those coworkers who see meetings as an opportunity to ask about things with no relevance to anyone else in the room and makes everybody sit through 10 minutes (per discussion) about an issue that only pertains to them, instead of just going to the manager/whatever's office in their own time to ask about their personal situation.

If it's just to table it until another meeting, though, that doesn't make any sense.

I mean, yeah, but actually streamlining things is something I like. I work on helicoptersn so example:

Aircraft is broken because of a faulty component. So the maintainer has to go and sign on to our grossly over-bloated computer (which can take anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes to start up), look up the relevant illustrated parts breakdown and download it (because they've moved everything to the cloud from our previous local servers) which runs through our exceptionally bottle-necked security system (seriously, usually ~50-100kbps download on a 100Mbps connection), find the part, log into a different system to get the national standard number and see what type it is to find what system to look in to see if we have it, look up the part location. Look up the maintenance procedure card (which is not classified) from the same place as the manual, download it at 100kbps, figure out the operational check for the replaced component is not in the card but in a separate maintenance manual, go back into that system and download that manual, find the ops check. Try to print out both the card and the ops check from whatever printer wants to work today. Fill out a requisition form, grab the part, and now you can start the job. Basically, add approximately an hour of work to any task for this nonsense.

Streamlined: Have a standalone computer that is not connected to the internet, is regularly updated via approved external hard drive with the latest Maintenance Procedure Cards and manuals, pre-filled requisition forms (with locations) for parts, lists of consumable components (like gaskets) for each repair, connected to a standalone printer hardwired to the standalone computer. Pull up card, manual, form, and ops check and print in 5 minutes.

Finding time wasters that only serve to frustrate workers and finding ways to cut those time wasters out makes the workers and the managers happy, assuming the people doing the job want to do the job well and quickly (we all want to be here, so that describes our hangar deck).

I'm a fan of streamlining.

Seriously, a really popular show out now is Bob's Burgers, about a family who owns a burger restaurant and he absolutely loves making great burgers. And they're white.

The idea is if it's a small, family run restaurant, there's a good chance those recipes are family recipes. So it's gonna be good.

Also, I understood the homework thing to be about his age , not about his race. I might be wrong, though.

Ahead of their time.

Oh, I had understood that to mean lay down facedown (with your back to it) since people usually have backpacks while hiking/hunting, and it provides some measure of protection.

Your lack of clarity was not their fault in reading. Your follow-up (10-20 min, if that) could have been your initial response and actually answered their question. There's no need to be rude to them for you answering a question they didn't ask.

That journalist was doing their very best to let him off the hook and move on. That wasn't even a gotcha situation, he even conceded that the tattoos could be interpretted as MS-13 bit that he was no expert, and tried to move on. But Trump wouldn't let it go, and kept trying to pull it back to "it wasn't photoshop, he actually had the MS13 tattooed in print on his knuckles" and openly said that the journalist should just say yes and accept it before he'd move on. Jesus.

Soldiers arresting people is martial law. It's law... enforced by the military...

The reason we react strongly to it is because soldiers should not be enforcing law within civilian spaces. And just naming an area a non-civilian space is just a loophole to have martial law.

I wonder if the director told that actor "have, just, the worst trigger discipline. Make it look like you have no business handling a firearm."

If you wouldn't strike up a conversation with a guy, don't strike up a conversation with a woman. Be comfortable with conversations with strangers of whatever gender with no ulterior motive, and you'll meet more people.

If you meet more people, your likelihood of finding dates will increase as a side effect.

If you are only approaching women, particularly women you find attractive, in places that are not generally for that purpose (bars, parties, swingers clubs), then you're being a creep.

But regardless, it's better to have interests, pursue those interests, and meet people with similar interests. Because when you have interests, you might become interesting, and someone might become interested.

It'd be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably.

My wife and I are buying a house, and one of the main things she's planning is The Unkindness Sanctuary, since there are a ton of ravens in our area.

She also named the raven that regularly came to our front door "Hugin," so I dig your crow bros name.