Ulvain @ Ulvain @sh.itjust.works

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Hey wait a minute, something doesn't smell right here!

Contrary to my lovely wife's Chanel's New Eau De Parfum™, which smells diving - almost as good as her Calvin Klein deep euphoria™.

Anyways, color me impressed, Oscar Nominated Producer Margot Robbie!

Which is easy with my wife's new Splat™, 100% vegan hair dye, made with baobab extract and formulated with quinoa!

Ok that's all the Margot Robbie sponsored products a 10 second google search shows me ;)

They have no problems getting votes from people with problems

Note they just say record, not record high...

That's a sad statement... Are there no possible changes that could give you a longer life expectancy? I'm in my early forties and I'm starting to have a different fear: my dad's got advanced Parkinson's and it's a terrifying battle...

Watched the Netflix documentary on "blue zones" recently - not perfect, but a pretty compelling case for (at least for me) at least some dietary changes, and increasing substantially my daily walks... :-/

These are great tricks!! I'd add one that's always worked for me: if you can't get your mind to go still in pt#3 above, think back of the story in a book or show you like, and let your mind wander about the characters, the story, the background, the intrigue etc. Focusing on fiction and story helps me drift back, vs focusing on real life things...

If it'd fill you with confidence, he'd charge you for the confidence

Idk, I feel like Republican attack ads on Bernie would have done what Democratic attack ads on Trump did: electrify his base. "HE WANTS EVERYONE TO HAVE EDUCATION FOR FREE!!!" damn, well, sign me up!

I know there would have been calls of "communist" ad nauseam, but idk that it has the horrible effect it once had - if anything it might have energized youth vote..

Idk

I wonder..

By his own legal admission, he's not a journalist but an entertainer.

Thus what he's doing with Putin is entertainment.

So he's dealing with Russia (literally) and Russian companies to produce a profit making entertainment content.

Russia is under sanctions.

Isn't he breaking the law?

"like that" is probably the best position to see shit

You're right that they're off-center from a first "symmetry line" you have to draw.

So: you place them on your cutting board. Trace an imaginary vertical bird's eye view that passes by the center of both. Now based on that imaginary line, move both apples so they're offset 2/3-1/3 from that line in each direction.

Align the two apples so they're off center to one another. One has 2/3 on the outside to the left, 1/3 to the right, the other 2/3 to the outside to the right, 1/3 to the left.

Bird's eye view, the single line cutting both apples will leave us with the left 2/3 of the first apple and the right 2/3 of the second, and a third portions made of 2 thirds, or another 2/3 of an apple.

One cut, 2 apples, 3 equal portions.

Still better than blue waffle flavor

One mushroom pizza, coming up

Canadian here - sorry if I don't know exactly how it works on your side of the pond.. but isn't your national post serving an important competitive function, keeping other (fully private) mailing and courrier services in the pricing ballpark?

If it reduces the quality of service, it won't suddenly reduce the need to receive stuff by mail (particularly in this new Amazon world), and private companies would fill the void - at the consumer's expense, no?

Yes.

Task succeeded horrendously

Dear United States,

I hope this email finds you well. I couldn't help but notice some unsettling developments in your life recently, and as your upstairs neighbor and friend, I felt the need to reach out.

It's been hard to ignore the noise from your past relationship with that abusive ex-boyfriend. You were so brave to leave him four years ago, especially after that terrifying January 6 incident. But now, I've heard whispers that you might be considering getting back together with him. Is that true?

I remember how hard it was for you, and for all of us who care about you, when he was around. His actions and the chaos he brought into your life were not only harmful to you but also affected those around you, including us upstairs. We thought we had lost the warm, friendly neighbor we knew.

Please think carefully about this decision. We all want what's best for you, and it's painful to see you possibly walking back into a situation that caused so much hurt and turmoil. If you need someone to talk to, I'm always here.

Take care and stay safe.

Sincerely,

Canada

I get your point, but just playing Devil's advocate here: don't work in real estate because it's fraud and landlords are thieves, don't work for McDonald's because your work make people fat and unhealthy, don't work retail or manufacturing because your work encourages capitalism and all its evils...? I mean.. don't like 90% of all jobs require you to do shitty things?

Most people in HR went in the field with pretty decent intentions. They have debts and families to feed and the job they landed is sometimes for a shitty employer.

If you want to hate someone, don't hate the HR person who's dealing with their own shitty problems, blame the uber rich, that maintain everyone else in a constant state of infighting while they lobby or buy lawmakers to ensure the poor get poorer so they get richer. There the ones maintaining a hyper capitalistic society and making sure executives are ordering the cuts (often ending with cutting the HR folks after they finish the layoffs)

Please allow me to offer a nuance on the topic of HR. I see a lot of hate about HR on this thread and quite a bit is founded... But on the other hand, two things:

1. the HR folks themselves are not to blame for the fact that the company overhired, are cutting people, or even to some extent some shitty strategies like pretending people are fire for cause instead of laid off. It's decided by executives ans the CEO, and HR operationalizes. I'll fully grant though that they sometimes (often) operationalize shittily.
2. and more importantly, HR is shitty in a shitty company, and pretty decent in a (quite rare) decent company. Fundamentally HR's job is to help manage humans as a resource, and among other tasks it means to protect the company against human-related risks. There are different fundamental beliefs and philosophies companies can have around how to avoid that risk - and their HR strategy is set accordingly.

Some decent (rare) employers believe that to avoid risks like being sued or unionizing, the best strategy is to provide employees with a healthy work environment, competitive pay and to remove toxic managers and executives quickly. In these companies HR plays a very strong policing role ensuring that managers don't cause human related risk by abusing workers. I know it sounds idealistic and I'll 100% grant that it applies unfortunately to a very small sample of employers, but it's true.

Of course way more common are companies with the philosophy that to avoid these risks you need to squash people, back your managers at all cost, never admit a fault, etc - and that's the shitty strategy operationalized by shitty a HR department.

Lastly the governmental labour laws framework of a country plays a big role too - in some countries where those laws are super weak like the US, particularly if your employer is your only way to access half decent healthcare, you can't afford to change employer - and the shitty strategy becomes a much lower cost than the decent one (found a bit more often in Canada, way more in Europe and even more in Scandinavian countries)

Sorry for the walltext rambling

100% on the recording, fair pt.

On the letter: that'd be good - go ahead and give me written evidence...