I know that everyone dies but can we at least fucking make it to middle age???
The majority of the people I was at all close to in middle school and high school are dead now. I guess it’s not unsual when you’re from the lower class and a backwater area. And I’m talking about same-age peers here, not adults.
Not looking for sympathy. It’s just the way it is. Throwaway people get thrown away. It’s how America works.
Landlords are the reason inflation is so high.
Certainly one of the main reasons.
In the past three days, I’ve seen more homeless people in the area of California we’re in than I’ve seen in all the time I’ve spent in Europe in my entire life. We just do not care and it’s only going to get worse.
So what, I lied about my age. Is that a serious dating crime?
Well, she seems perfectly horrible. They both do, really. If someone lied about their age to me, I’d immediately drop them. What else are they going to lie about? Probably a whole lot.
I don’t even fucking care about the specific age. But the lie is a big hell naw for me.
My body and face have changed so much (for the better) in the past few years, sometimes when I catch my reflection accidentally in public I don’t recognize myself.
That’s an odd feeling.
Good. Because it’s an idiotic fucking idea that greatly increases employee stress and reduces productivity enormously, especially since a lot of people have one hour commutes each way and then go into a terrible and noisy open plan office to pretend to work. Then still do their real work at home.
By the way, I am an executive and I told my direct manager I’d quit immediately if there were any return to office forced, and I told my direct reports I’d fight it if it were ever mandated.
This story frames RTO as inevitable, though. And for most it probably is. But I can tell you: I will never work full time in an office again. Never.
Do most skinny people over 30 have to think about what they eat literally all the time?
Nope! And I used to be fat so this isn’t an always-skinny person giving advice here. Also, I have an extremely slow metabolism so it’s very easy for me to gain weight.
But the best way to do it is to make eating well a routine, a habit. Also, be sure to eat higher-quality food. It’s far more satiating. And for me it’s important to have one day a week that I can (within reason) consume whatever I want to. If needed, measure portions. I have not needed to because I have ridiculous self control but I believe portion control can help if you do not.
And no, I am not hungry all the time and after the first few weeks I just got used to eating a lot less. (Again, I want to reiterate that it really, really helps to eat higher quality food, the best within reason you can afford.)
It’s certainly easier to intuitively eat your way to a miserable existence and early death, but that ain’t how I’d play it.
The general rule is that when a CEO or other high-level executive says anything like, “There will not be layoffs” or “We have no plan for laying off people,” it’s time to update the ol’ resume. This means layoffs are imminent 100% of the time.
This has happened a few times in my career and I’ve never been wrong.
The reason they do is that they are attempting to not lose people in a rush out the door — but they do anyway. The very second I hear anything like this, there is a sonic boom of my ass scooting. So they end up losing their best people quickly.
US set to unveil long-awaited crackdown on real estate money laundering.
Drat. I might’ve needed that one day. Ah well, there are other ways.
What fictional death emotionally destroyed you?
When the character Ekaterina Golovkina in Life (2017) slowly and agonizingly drowns in her spacesuit. What makes it so much worse was her colleague being literal inches away from her but unable to help and just having to watch her die face to face.
Fuck, man, that scene was brutal. No gore. Not even a drop of blood. But horrifying. Especially the sounds of her drowning and how she held it together with just steel will till the end.
I’m a good swimmer. I’ve always wanted a house you had to do something like dive 40 feet down to get into.
Ain’t no one ever robbing that place. Note that the house itself wouldn’t be underwater. Just the entrance.
Because I did not know a single Jewish person when I was really little, I thought a Bar Mitzvah was a celebration that occurred when you were officially allowed to drink (I thought Jews had different drinking laws than gentiles).
But I was five or six. And no internet. It was hard to find out stuff back then, and no adults knew or would give straight answers on anything.
I was a champion of fake meat: but I’m not surprised people are losing their taste for it.
Anyone who had a taste for it was beyond impossibly insane, because fake meat is like licking a bear-snot-beslimed dumpster.
At least someone like this clown admits it was a con job, just like all the bug-eating propaganda that often accompanied it. Me, I eat as much meat as my body needs, which is quite a lot. Plant proteins are not a good replacement. And real meat tastes far better of course.
I’m just so tired of being the guy with his eye on the details.
Brother, I am right there with you.
I solve 70% of problems even for those in my own field by just reading the error message and doing what it says. That’s it, that’s all. And that’s ridiculous. How can people not do this? Doing so doesn’t make me some mega-genius. IMO it just makes me minimally competent to perform my role. But apparently that’s a lot to ask.
I’m reading Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment again. I read it for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I am getting more out of it this time because then I had only about the equivalent of an undergrad in philosophy and now I have far more.
It’s dense, it makes a lot of claims, and it was written towards the middle and end of WWII. Some of it is anachronistic but most of it holds up pretty well. When you consider that Dialectic was being completed at the end of the largest example of rationalized mass slaughter in human history, their critique of enlightenment makes a lot more sense.
Would I recommend the book to most people? Or even people who read this blog? No. It’s for someone who has time to kill or is deeply interested in this sort of philosophy and its development. And it’s a hard book. Not Heidegger hard, but difficult enough that parts of it slow me down — and almost nothing written in English does that.
It’s worth it for me to re-read. For most people? Skip it.
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking.
I’ve noticed tons of sites doing this. Google is evil and sites that do this are terrible.