It might be time to look elsewhere and my heart is broken.
Ha! If a company asked me to cancel a flight or vacation for anything less than “this company is about to go bankrupt if you don’t do this right now,” my flight wouldn’t be cancelled but my job sure would. I’d quit on the spot. Believe it.
And I’d expect full compensation and extra pay if I did cancel anything (which is very, very fucking unlikely).
Romance is not a competition to see who can hold the most power in the relationship, it's a collaboration to see how hard the relationship can flex on the rest of society
— Misha – Visiting the bay area Nov 19 – Jan 3 (@drethelin) July 31, 2020
PMC libs are utterly confused and don’t have a clue what this person is talking about. But he’s right.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
I suddenly feel very old pic.twitter.com/pVxh5Uu6se
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) December 19, 2022
🙁
Most reliable connector and standard ever though. Wish we made things that just worked anymore. That one always did.
and people wonder why I’m so mad about the current state of technology all the time https://t.co/bT8TYvGj8N
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) December 21, 2022
Same here. It’s enraging. We had near-unlimited resources and did complete clown shit with it. Meanwhile, we had a whole fucking flotilla of PMC libs telling us that assuredly nothing else was possible.
We could have built out a modern power grid, had renewables everywhere, lots of nuclear, been on the way to fusion power and revamped all of our housing. What we ended up with was fucking crypto coin, NFTs, WeWork and Juicero. Awesome.
Zelensky is in DC to thank US for just 5% of its defense budget which has vaporized the Russian military & reduced it to a laughing stock.
I remain a master strategist.
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) December 21, 2022
Ha! Ian Welsh tells me Russia is winning. Anyone else who is not smoking fucking planet-sized crack rocks realizes that the Russian military was destroyed with our pocket change.
The war will go on for a long time. But short of nuclear weapon usage, Russia will be in permanent retreat.
HELLO.
In exactly 3 weeks my new book, YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, will be in stores! This is the thread where I try to entice you to buy it, plying you with photos of:
1. dog
2. cat
3. a cool spooky house
4. my ass in a bikinibecause surely everyone likes *one* of these things pic.twitter.com/Q12CGjvQjO
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) December 20, 2022
One of the reasons I like Kat is that she’s not a prude.
But I’d rather pet the kitty than the booty tbh. (I mean, it’s a nice ass. But…kitty!)
The thing about masks, they were never a panacea. We treated them like they were at the expense of talking about the harder structural things in a serious way. The lack of sick pay. The congregate living issues. Vaccine hesitancy and public trust.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) December 19, 2022
For a lot of people masks were the equivalent of 1,000 feet of lead shielding: unassailable, unquestionable, better than all vaccines, better than any other alternative. This was fine with the powerful because the other alternatives would’ve required concessions, changes, and money spent.
It sucks when something becomes an identity marker. Really makes your brain turn into mush.
"Lockdowns" (or rather, the half-assed social distancing stuff we called "lockdowns" were a great idea in 2020, until we got vaccines that worked. Then they became a bad idea. If that's a nuanced or difficult idea to understand, well, I'm sorry!
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) December 20, 2022
Correct. This harms the fewest people for the least time while reaping the largest benefits for the many. We live in a society, as much as the neo-Thatcherites hate admitting it. Perpetual lockdown (or some equivalent) was never the answer.
How is it that they made a chart with 18 different sleeping positions and I'm none of them https://t.co/nQoyLOVhqO
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) December 20, 2022
Also none.
My partner thinks my method of taking mandatory online training classes is amusing: I leave the videos playing in a browser window somewhere, pay no attention at all, then take the exam at the end and get 94% correct.
I like having a big brain sometimes. Wish I didn’t have to do this BS to renew a cert, though.
Very good forgotten film from the 1980s that I think should be remade. Though it is a quality work, it is now very dated. I loved this movie when I was 10-11.
Dell’s fraud department is like: You’re buying a computer, that’s fraud!
Sometimes I wonder what companies are thinking. If AI is behind all of this, it’s the dumbest AI ever.
The Covidians who wanted to prevent anyone from having any fun for basically forever on some religious crusade…dang, we dodged a close one there.
They were nearer than I would’ve liked to achieving dominance.
The inflation numbers as the average person experiences them are essentially fake. They measure inflation as someone well off experiences it, not as someone whose primary expenses are rent, food, gas and various unexpected emergencies.
The official inflation claims of less than 10% in the past year are bogus to the point of absurdity. For most people it’s been closer to 25%-50% in the US — and similar in other countries. (Yes, I understand how inflation is officially calculated. No, I do not care; it is a bad measure for most.)