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  • HR: This email is to inform you of concerns about your professionalism in the workplace.

    Me: 👍 🎉 😂

  • I wish there were more moderately paced e-scooters using bike lanes. I like to race them lol. Instead they're usually going against traffic and/or on sidewalks. Please avoid doing those things if you can.

  • I thought we fixed this

    inb4 this becomes the core argument for not doing anything to fix it again

  • What about the 19th century tycoons who paid to manufacture their own veneration through philanthropy fueled by the wealth they unjustly amassed?

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    search with search term in quotes with "Verbatim" mode enabled
    "search" "with" "each" "individual" "word" "of" "search" "term" "in" "quotes"
    double-check that "Verbatim" mode is still enabled (it is)
    click first link out of frustration, do a manual text search of the page for some keywords from your search term
    keywords from search term are not in top search result
    try to find a cached version of the page that that search engine appears to be referencing (waste 20 mins)
    cached version also doesn't contain any keywords from your search term

    iT's ThE aLgOrItHm

  • Cook on medium heat until bubbling/popcorning sounds are heard

  • HowToBasic vs HowToComplicated.

  • give each other brojobs

    I thought that was what you call it when you ask your old college bro Steve to put in a good word for you with his bro Jake the hiring manager at the company you're applying to.

  • school rule

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  • I mean if the schedule has a picture of an anthro bear carrying an apple the size of their whole body, I'm gonna assume that the lunch is "furry" whether they say so or not.

  • Let them cook

  • I'll throw one out for COVID, but not just the lockdowns or the immediate work changes. It was more about how the deaths kept happening. And happening. And happening. Yet people still failed to take it seriously, even to the point of rebelling against seemingly common-sense safeguards like vaccines, masking, and staying the fuck home.

    In the US, we lived through about 4 years of shenanigans and bullshit and lies from an incompetent federal government leading up to the pandemic. But surely that wouldn't fly for long. You can lie about the number of people at a rally (because who the fuck cares), you can apparently lie about where a hurricane is projected to go (because it's jUsT a PrOjEcTiOn or something), but surely you can't bullshit your way out of a pandemic. Hospitals at capacity. Bodies piling up. Loved ones lost. Visible, real, tangible impacts of poor leadership and poor decisionmaking.

    But, turns out you can. Even in the most dire of circumstances, you can still convince people that reality isn't real. Or even if it is, it doesn't really matter and it's not their problem. And there are enough people out there who will buy into that message that it will ruin things for everyone else.

    Edit: To the original point of the question... I guess I had a little more faith in humanity before all that happened. More faith that real-world consequences would win out against rhetorical bullshit and tribalism.

  • TIL the Harrison Wells in our universe runs a YouTube cooking channel.

  • I did this recently. I wanted to refresh my memory on how I dealt with a personal problem several years ago that seemed to be coming up again.

    Surprisingly, the details that stuck with me the most over the years were pretty different from the details I focused on in my writing at the time. I remember going through a lot of problems at that time, and I give them pretty equal weight in my memory. But my writing was hyper-focused on one or two things, while everything else was kind of in the background.

    Unfortunately, the issue I felt was coming up again recently was one of those things that was in the background in my writing. So I don't think the exercise was all that helpful for my initial goal.

    Less surprisingly, my writing made me seem pretty cringe. I was expecting that, since I was looking back on a younger, dumber version of myself going through a hard time. But it's still a bit strange. Like, I thought I was acting as rationally as possible at the time, and I give myself a fair amount of credit for that looking back on it. But when I try to read from a more objective perspective, my missteps and character flaws are a lot more apparent.

    Sorta makes me wonder which of my present-day actions will make me say, "What was I thinking..." in another 10 years.

  • No refills 😔

  • It will happen suddenly, unilaterally, and in that weird messy way where it gets tied up in court for forever but somehow goes into effect anyway, or it gets blocked but has a "chilling effect" on the population such that the ultimate goal is nonetheless achieved.

    It will be stupid, there will be countless of hours of argument wasted on whether he can "actually" do it even though he just did, and people will be screwed over.

    If you don't like how that sounds, please do something now.

  • You could make that a goal. Go sneak into a playground (after hours, ideally in a non-creepy manner) and swing on a swingset. Or go to a dog park and run around with some puppies. Also ideally in a non-creepy manner.

    Or maybe don't take my advice. I feel like I had one good suggestion and the rest are all bad.

    Maybe a pick-up game of basketball? Or try to get real good at shooting free throws on your own?

  • You don't always need to be doing productive/constructive things. Rest and leisure are valuable too. But if you insist, I suppose the first step would be to come up with a list of goals you want to accomplish.

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  • me_irl

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  • Counteroffer: drink more alcohol and listen to music that is not good. You know, typical bar scene.