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For me it's an investment in freezing my housing costs. I bought 8 years ago and since then the increases in my housing costs have been around 5% as taxes go up. In the same time period, rent for the apartment I was in previously has gone up 65% and is higher than my mortgage payment. Had I not purchased a house there's a good chance I would have had to either move in with family or move to a much cheaper area.

Photorealism and stylized animation are not the same thing and are used in different contexts.

Tell that to my mortgage.

For the record I own exactly one house, it's in terrible condition and I don't have the funds to renovate. Because of the mortgage.

Killing a rapist mid-act is not wrong. Killing an innocent person because they have the misfortune of being insured by your company is wrong.

I have been blessed with what the articles you've seen claim women say is the perfect dong. About 1 in 5 women have told me it was too large and uncomfortable while the rest have told me how much better bigger ones like mine are. One refused me outright after she saw it.

Funny thing is guys stare WAY more in nude situations.

Turns out after looking it up someone has done a more scientific study which determined that women prefer a 6.3 x 4.8 incher for a long-term partner, which is honestly much more reasonable when confronted with the actual stats on how big a human dong generally is.

Tame Impala's Currents.

What are the chances it was blasted into the sun?

Yikes bro. Teach with love.

If I did that to my cat I would become the victim of trauma.

If you have high impedance headphones and you're not using a headphone preamp you're not getting everything you paid for out of those cans.

You should check out Enter the Gungeon.

Everyone should check out Enter the Gungeon.

HEADCRABS AND CROWBARS WERE BOTH IN HALF-LIFE 1.

Mood

One of the benefits of having a number of middle managers leave is a few of the folks in the trenches get a chance to move up. Two of my team members were there in management through 2023, which is a number of years after everything went down. I don't know what their compensation looks like, but I know they must have gotten a 15% bump at the least jumping up during the exodus. They were the last two from the staff still at the company.

Only if he shows me that he wasn't destroying the company, but building networks to leverage crises into profit.

Which, it would seem, is what he and the rest of the C-suite team did.

They bought out the old owners and signed up a bunch of new customers that we didn't understand how to work with (new industries with different requirements, we were very specialized toward a few professions and our staff's knowledge and skills reflected that). They also brought in fresh, inexperienced people to manage the clients, so we didn't really get very good on-boarding results and didn't generate good documentation for the help desk to work off of. Right off the bat we did a bad job for these new customers and it took us a long time to do it, while our long-time customers had their wait times go up by an unacceptable amount.

My team was running at their limits, but I was not allowed to let up at all because we needed to get the tickets down. 9 hours days were the minimum, 9.5-10 were the norm. We hadn't hired any new people when we added the new clients and the new clients generated tickets at 1.75x the of rate existing clients, and they were still signed up more. After months of begging, they hired two people for Tier-3 positions without testing them technically. They were both from corp call centers and had previously read scripts with troubleshooting steps on them. Neither had ever logged into a router. This is where I quit.

Within four months of my departure (and a few others at my level around the same time, we had all had enough) the company had lost 30% of their clients, two of which were huge 250-person entities that were cash cows for biling. Four months later the owner-operators sold the whole thing to another company, getting high level jobs, equity and cash out of it. As far as I know they're all still working for the bigger company. Even if they lost money buying and selling, chances are they're on top in the long run.

This makes me want to call up the former CTO of the MSP I worked for who disagreed with me when I said TP-Link and other consumer hardware was a risk we shouldn't let our customers take and tell him that he's a miserable drunk who destroyed a company by taking a role he had no business in.

They ARE the ground.

Menard's fans and model railroad enthusiasts.

It's one of the easiest high-energy reactions to prepare, contains only very stable powdered iron and aluminum (though you can add other things as buffers to slow the reaction, such as boron or carbon) and it can only be kicked off by VERY intense heat, like from burning magnesium or the burning titanium powder in a sparkler. Thermite can be shipped through the mail with no special considerations. Were you thinking of something else?

Mechanical keyboard users are synth lovers that don't realize it yet. Want to spend a lot of money on a niche interfacing device with tons knobs, buttons and faders that other people will look at, and then say "Oh cool I guess," but will have you simultaneously praised and ridiculed on the internet for your choice? That's synths baby!