Except the only thing that these people are actually doing is saying shit you don't like.
Are you sure it's the *only* thing? A gal I know got spit on by a stranger in a coffee shop in Denver today, because she was Jewish. Now maybe *that* guy isn't like these other guys with the same ideology, and as long as they're only talking about things, and it's just this guy who's working his way up through assault, there's a line there. But it's hard to believe anyone who self-identifies as a Nazi isn't hoping to have a chance to do at least that much.
Using the word "won" is highly misleading here. She received more votes, but more votes doesn't "win" anything in this context. And, since most of us ought to understand that aspect of the electoral college before we leave elementary school, it's a really useless point for people to keep bringing up.
Voltaire never actually said his famous quote. I know you're parodying, but it's a true story. It was made up by a biographer of Voltaire, as a sort of summary statement.
Yeah, that one drives me crazy. "Sure, I ate 5000 calories, but the reason I'm sleepy is because of the turkey, which I ate in amounts only slightly larger than what I'd put in a sandwich on a normal day." Then there's other things, like the frequent drinking, the all-day activity, the travel, the time with relatives, all of which might make a person sleepy, depending.
If I get dark and cynical enough, it goes from gloomy to deep to absurd to funny, and I end up laughing at myself. I have no idea if it works for anyone else.
From a mindfulness perspective, sometimes just recognizing what you're really feeling (as opposed to denying or fighting it) might also help it clarify, and then pass.
And then there's the Slashdot headline, which says the opposite of what the summary says. What's up with that?
That seems exceptionally stable. Since '89 I've lived in 4 different states, and experienced at least two area code split-offs. I may be pretty flighty, but I'd say the average in 27 years is at least one change for most people.
Well, I don't know about everyone else, but if I had to choose between a $100 ticket and $20 in "fees" or a $120 ticket, without fees called out like my bank account is being pillaged (especially when I have to then choose between $5 to print it myself or $10 for delivery by mail, which somehow always seems as if it might not get there in time unless I upgrade to $15, even a month in advance), I'd damn well pay what just looks like a normal price, instead of the one that looks like it's got three layers of extortion.
Maybe the prices end up being exactly the same. Maybe it's just a terrible marketing problem that TicketMaster presents. But I find myself loathing them every single time I have to interact with them, because it feels like they're not just nickel and diming me, but opportunistically bleeding me dry.
If anyone can unseat Ticketmaster and their ridiculous and exorbitant fees, I say: please do!
Now it would be unfortunate if one unpleasant monopoly ended up simply replacing another one, but I'd love to at least see some competition in this area.
I hate speed bumps and speed "humps" (the wide ones that sometimes have a pedestrian walkway across). It's me being punished because other idiots couldn't control themselves and slow down.
It's also a device that usually enforces a 25 MPH speed limit by making you slow down to 10-15 MPH, which I find really inappropriate.
quadrupled our premiums and quintupled our deductibles
I can't tell if you're speaking about yourself in solid numbers, or hand-waving in general? My experience with insurance is it's gone up a few percent every other year for the last 13 years, with not a lot of change in deductibles or coverage. In other words: no difference before or after.
The very unfortunate net effect here is that our population is tremendously over-educated. Some degrees (like journalism, for example) churn out more graduates each year than there are job openings on the entire planet. These kids are being sold an utter fantasy and are facing lifelong debt, no realistic job prospects in their chosen field, and depression from their shattered dreams.
This is kinda-true, but not the whole picture. You don't always have to major in what will be your future career path. I studied physics, but ended up in computing, as did a lot of my classmates. And during the dot-com bust, I was saved from complete bankruptcy not by any of my science background, but by freelance proofreading gigs, despite the fact that the world has more trained journalists than ants.
There's also my brother, who channeled his journalism degree into being a proofer and office manager at a design firm, bounced around a bit, and ended up as a copy editor at Apple. He joked that he may have been one of the highest-paid editors in the world.
Anecdotes aren't data and all that, but reading and writing skills don't have to be a waste, just because the label on your major isn't what your job ends up being.
Yep. It doesn't actually take much to do a "pinhole". One eclipse, I only noticed because a tree's shadow was casting hundreds of crescent images, where the sun filtered through the leaves. I looked at that, thought, "That's funny," and then realized there had to be an eclipse going on. I went inside, and one of our blinds was down, but the row of sunlight dots coming through the edge also projected crescents on the far wall.
Another time, someone brought out a colander. It was built with a hundred circular holes arranged in a star shape. When used as a projector, you got hundreds of sun crescents making a star pattern on the ground, which was really neat.
You can also just make a grid out of your fingers, and get multiple pinholes at once, though it's harder to hold than a piece of paper, probably.
I had the unusual experience of a boss who polled my salary versus others at the university, and finagled a raise from the department because I was below average for that position. I'm not sure it fully got me up to average, but it was at least a few thousand, and it was a completely unprompted action in the middle of the year, between my regularly scheduled reviews and raises, so it was definitely appreciated. I'm not sure if being a university environment made that possible in a way that your typical company might not voluntarily "give up" money, even for the benefit of employee contentment and retention.
This is definitely true. I got hit a couple of times with layoffs before and around the dot-com bust, and it was a desperate scramble trying to find the next thing, and filling the gaps with whatever lousy thing I could get, alternating between unemployed and underemployed for quite a while. In later years I've only moved on a couple of times, but did so of my own volition, and in both cases not only felt a lot more relaxed about the situation, but was also able to more clearly make it a step up.
Aye. For a moment I was really excited to see an article about an RPG, because it seems like it's been ages since we've had many game posts. But by the time the summary explained an RPG to me by backing up and explaining D&D and experience points, I knew we were doomed.
Honestly, I'm also sort of amused by people going through self-inflicted ordeals, too, if done well. I've read multiple books about the Appalachian trail, for instance, and even a book about a guy reading the OED. But this is a really lame and pointless ordeal if I've ever heard of one. It's like deciding that from now on all liquids you drink will come from a very small eyedropper--painstaking, tedious, and really pointless.
They should really investigate Amazon Prime, they advertise "free" shipping, but inflate prices to account for shipping.
I've heard this a lot, but the Prime prices are still usually cheaper than or at least equal to what I'd pay at a local store, and I don't have to drive for 20-30 minutes to get it. Maybe that stuff was previously even cheaper on Amazon before Prime existed? That was so long ago I can't compare.
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Except the only thing that these people are actually doing is saying shit you don't like.
Are you sure it's the *only* thing? A gal I know got spit on by a stranger in a coffee shop in Denver today, because she was Jewish. Now maybe *that* guy isn't like these other guys with the same ideology, and as long as they're only talking about things, and it's just this guy who's working his way up through assault, there's a line there. But it's hard to believe anyone who self-identifies as a Nazi isn't hoping to have a chance to do at least that much.
Using the word "won" is highly misleading here. She received more votes, but more votes doesn't "win" anything in this context. And, since most of us ought to understand that aspect of the electoral college before we leave elementary school, it's a really useless point for people to keep bringing up.
Voltaire never actually said his famous quote. I know you're parodying, but it's a true story. It was made up by a biographer of Voltaire, as a sort of summary statement.
Yeah, that one drives me crazy. "Sure, I ate 5000 calories, but the reason I'm sleepy is because of the turkey, which I ate in amounts only slightly larger than what I'd put in a sandwich on a normal day." Then there's other things, like the frequent drinking, the all-day activity, the travel, the time with relatives, all of which might make a person sleepy, depending.
I was in Des Plaines, IL for the 847 split-off.
Yeah, my brain broke down somewhere while trying to translate the triple negative. No other explanation.
If I get dark and cynical enough, it goes from gloomy to deep to absurd to funny, and I end up laughing at myself. I have no idea if it works for anyone else.
From a mindfulness perspective, sometimes just recognizing what you're really feeling (as opposed to denying or fighting it) might also help it clarify, and then pass.
And then there's the Slashdot headline, which says the opposite of what the summary says. What's up with that?
That seems exceptionally stable. Since '89 I've lived in 4 different states, and experienced at least two area code split-offs. I may be pretty flighty, but I'd say the average in 27 years is at least one change for most people.
Force some of the men to get sex changes, I'd wager.
Well, I don't know about everyone else, but if I had to choose between a $100 ticket and $20 in "fees" or a $120 ticket, without fees called out like my bank account is being pillaged (especially when I have to then choose between $5 to print it myself or $10 for delivery by mail, which somehow always seems as if it might not get there in time unless I upgrade to $15, even a month in advance), I'd damn well pay what just looks like a normal price, instead of the one that looks like it's got three layers of extortion.
Maybe the prices end up being exactly the same. Maybe it's just a terrible marketing problem that TicketMaster presents. But I find myself loathing them every single time I have to interact with them, because it feels like they're not just nickel and diming me, but opportunistically bleeding me dry.
If anyone can unseat Ticketmaster and their ridiculous and exorbitant fees, I say: please do!
Now it would be unfortunate if one unpleasant monopoly ended up simply replacing another one, but I'd love to at least see some competition in this area.
"Idiot ... stole his previous company's data
Technically it's not theft, it's copyright infringement.That's much worse.
(Actually, I'm guessing there's some other term for accessing corporate secrets. Just couldn't resist the knee-jerk Slashdot correction.)
I hate speed bumps and speed "humps" (the wide ones that sometimes have a pedestrian walkway across). It's me being punished because other idiots couldn't control themselves and slow down.
It's also a device that usually enforces a 25 MPH speed limit by making you slow down to 10-15 MPH, which I find really inappropriate.
quadrupled our premiums and quintupled our deductibles
I can't tell if you're speaking about yourself in solid numbers, or hand-waving in general? My experience with insurance is it's gone up a few percent every other year for the last 13 years, with not a lot of change in deductibles or coverage. In other words: no difference before or after.
The very unfortunate net effect here is that our population is tremendously over-educated. Some degrees (like journalism, for example) churn out more graduates each year than there are job openings on the entire planet. These kids are being sold an utter fantasy and are facing lifelong debt, no realistic job prospects in their chosen field, and depression from their shattered dreams.
This is kinda-true, but not the whole picture. You don't always have to major in what will be your future career path. I studied physics, but ended up in computing, as did a lot of my classmates. And during the dot-com bust, I was saved from complete bankruptcy not by any of my science background, but by freelance proofreading gigs, despite the fact that the world has more trained journalists than ants.
There's also my brother, who channeled his journalism degree into being a proofer and office manager at a design firm, bounced around a bit, and ended up as a copy editor at Apple. He joked that he may have been one of the highest-paid editors in the world.
Anecdotes aren't data and all that, but reading and writing skills don't have to be a waste, just because the label on your major isn't what your job ends up being.
That sounds more like wishful thinking than an actual rule.
Yep. It doesn't actually take much to do a "pinhole". One eclipse, I only noticed because a tree's shadow was casting hundreds of crescent images, where the sun filtered through the leaves. I looked at that, thought, "That's funny," and then realized there had to be an eclipse going on. I went inside, and one of our blinds was down, but the row of sunlight dots coming through the edge also projected crescents on the far wall.
Another time, someone brought out a colander. It was built with a hundred circular holes arranged in a star shape. When used as a projector, you got hundreds of sun crescents making a star pattern on the ground, which was really neat.
You can also just make a grid out of your fingers, and get multiple pinholes at once, though it's harder to hold than a piece of paper, probably.
Actually, no. Dice sold Slashdot to the new overlords around 9 months ago.
I keep a dedicated music player in my car, because I can't fit enough on my phone.
Yeah, I scoffed at that opening line, too. Everything? My take ...
Lily Robotics had everything: Two charismatic young founders; millions in funding; and a product that promised to change the world
But did they have love?
Yeah, it's a shame when it works that way.
I had the unusual experience of a boss who polled my salary versus others at the university, and finagled a raise from the department because I was below average for that position. I'm not sure it fully got me up to average, but it was at least a few thousand, and it was a completely unprompted action in the middle of the year, between my regularly scheduled reviews and raises, so it was definitely appreciated. I'm not sure if being a university environment made that possible in a way that your typical company might not voluntarily "give up" money, even for the benefit of employee contentment and retention.
This is definitely true. I got hit a couple of times with layoffs before and around the dot-com bust, and it was a desperate scramble trying to find the next thing, and filling the gaps with whatever lousy thing I could get, alternating between unemployed and underemployed for quite a while. In later years I've only moved on a couple of times, but did so of my own volition, and in both cases not only felt a lot more relaxed about the situation, but was also able to more clearly make it a step up.
Aye. For a moment I was really excited to see an article about an RPG, because it seems like it's been ages since we've had many game posts. But by the time the summary explained an RPG to me by backing up and explaining D&D and experience points, I knew we were doomed.
Honestly, I'm also sort of amused by people going through self-inflicted ordeals, too, if done well. I've read multiple books about the Appalachian trail, for instance, and even a book about a guy reading the OED. But this is a really lame and pointless ordeal if I've ever heard of one. It's like deciding that from now on all liquids you drink will come from a very small eyedropper--painstaking, tedious, and really pointless.
phone, wallet, crotch and cash.
I love that song. It's like a Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme for the 90's.
They should really investigate Amazon Prime, they advertise "free" shipping, but inflate prices to account for shipping.
I've heard this a lot, but the Prime prices are still usually cheaper than or at least equal to what I'd pay at a local store, and I don't have to drive for 20-30 minutes to get it. Maybe that stuff was previously even cheaper on Amazon before Prime existed? That was so long ago I can't compare.