Garmin running watch. Never liked running but am a list checker and analyst; seeing my inactivity or progress drive me to be more consistent and active. I’m massively healthier and happier as a result. Also first one lasted 10 years, 1-week battery life. Just bought a replacement last year(face was scuffed up after 10 years but was still running like a champ). No idea why other watches have such crap battery life without offering more features than Garmin but it’s brought me joy, mental and physical health.

https://www.epi.org/publication/trump-is-pushing-to-include-risky-assets-like-crypto-and-private-equity-in-401ks-why-this-endangers-retirement-savers-and-the-economy/

“If you didn’t hear back about the application, reach out to the company/recruiter/interviewer.” - they’re either not into you or swamped trying to get things lined up to move forward or both. Either way they don’t want to hear from you because you’re not getting it or they are working on it. Just pretend you didn’t get it and move on.

“Personalize your cover letter for each job application.” - no one has read that shit in years–and that was before AI slop started doing them all for people—and good companies don’t ask for them anymore as it’s cruel to waste applicants time on them.

“Ask for what you’re worth in the interview/during a promotion/counteroffer!” - this one comes with an asterix as it’s not always terrible advice, but well-run orgs gave a budget for your role, know what the job generally pays for the skills it requires and can’t go much outside of it at all or they’ll create pay equity issues which is against the law in most states if not federally, depending. I say all that and close by saying most companies aren’t well run, so they’re just trying to save money, but some are actually working withing a good system so don’t take it personally if they don’t or can’t offer you more.

Double entendre was like falling out of bed for him.

Goddamned Shakespeare!

HHGTTG, Les Miserables or Don Quixote.

There it is. Had been wondering who the creator of this solution to a problem with many better solutions was and why this was the answer and outcome, it’s so much more base and low than I suspected.

Interesting article! You should cross-post to some retro gaming communities, I’m sure they’d love it. I still never okayed this game as it came out when there was too much heat in Sims in the 90s, but probably would have enjoyed it more than some of the sim games I did play.

Which brings the model back to AI. All businesses have accomplished was basically add an extra step in actually forcing themselves to pay for what they actually need every so often. Instead of Sr>jr>offshore>sr. they now just added in AI to the loop.

Not that charlatans care, as long as they get theirs in the interim.

“no offense but”, classic Seattle. I was on a different continent but heard your Seattle condescension sound and clear.

You kind of seem desperate to brag about how cool you think you play situations; different countries and cultures and everyone’s risk tolerance is different. You should start a thread about how cool you are and share with a Seattle community, they probably are cooler and did it first.

You’re trying to correct something and are uninformed, not adding a ton to the convo.

"A spoon is frequently used in the preparation of certain drugs, primarily heroin and crack cocaine. For heroin, a spoon serves as a heating vessel to dissolve the powdered or tar form of the drug. Heroin is often mixed with water in the spoon, and heat is applied from underneath with a lighter to facilitate dissolution, to create a liquid for injection. A small piece of cotton or a cigarette filter is sometimes placed in the spoon to act as a filter, drawing the liquid into a syringe while leaving behind impurities.

Crack cocaine, a rock-like form of cocaine, can also be prepared using a spoon. Powdered cocaine is mixed with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and a small amount of water in the spoon. This mixture is then heated, causing a chemical reaction that separates the cocaine base, forming an oily mass that solidifies into crack cocaine “rocks” upon cooling. While crack is primarily smoked, the spoon is used in this “cooking” process to transform the powder into its smokable crack form."

2am subway station in Vienna. Had been drinking all night, really had to pee. Walked in to the bathroom, saw dude with a spoon and a lighter doing his crack thing and did a sweet 180 Michael Jackson spin on my rear heel and was out the door before it even closed from my opening it.

Had never seen anything like that in real life but didn’t need to look twice.

“the arm patch, disposal of and disdain for law, security and privacy, alignment with fascists…all of that seems pretty innocuous and normal but when we bored into FDAs data, wow, that really opened my eyes”

Nuremberg 2.0 testimony

I’m not in software development so don’t have an opinion on the practice, just passing on what I read that seemed relevant.

Who’s the barber here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ

What was only recently satire is an actual position.

They will kill you and your kids.

In a few years people won’t care if their milk is AI, I heard it from an expert whose salary depends on him taking this position

And my 🪓

From what I saw in a waterfox thread, it’s not enabled, has no lists added or setup and is clearly early-stage.

Get that rich-man’s Spirit Airline bailout treatment

Last dance with Mary Jane - Tom Petty

Cry me a river - Justin Timberlake

Goodbye - Barbara Streisand ( Hello Dolly)