Don’t listen to these fools, your body is a temple. 🙏

This moment of enlightenment brought to you by Mountain Dew Buddha Blast … like a holy hand grenade to your pancreas ™

According to trump, it was more valuable 30 years ago.

Damn you got this whole angry dude who puts down people and their ideas schtick down.

I already told you why. You have a very narrow, Disne-esque perception of what living under a monarchy is, and I’m telling you, often the “serfs” had more autonomy and authority than that perception.

We must not attribute a modern context to historical times. Rather, we should strive to look at history through a historical lens.

Got to have the right location, resources, timing and motivation. It’s not like wealth falls from the sky. It’s not like workers/constituents will work for the sake of working, at least not most of them. They have to get something out of the deal.

Get some knowledge in your head, read a book. Think for yourself and stop getting your info from the Disney channel.

I think you’ve bought into the Disney trope a bit too much, or at best viewing history from a myopic perspective.

Monarchs provided defense for their constituents, they provided city planning. Wealth extraction was an outcome, not unlike a business. Not all kings were Ivan IV’s, there are far more who served their people well who are not as infamous.

That isn’t to say I’m a monarchist, not by a long shot, just that monarchy serves its place in history.

I was with you until “stolen from the people.” Monarchs back in their heyday served a purpose. It took centuries to build up nation-states and common law.

Hell, it took Germany until the late 1800s to get their shit together, and even after then, it took another 100 years still.

Yeah, that’s what they just said, Al from Newark did it all for a full 3 hours.

The man’s an absolute megamind.

I agree. Lots of “blame the victim” going on in this thread.

Nah Nah Nah

Dude said easy and with health insurance, it checks the boxes. They may even be able to do it at home, without a lot of social interaction.

• Medical Coder
• Data Analyst
• Cybersecurity Analyst

Yet one more reason why people in the US are not having kids.

What’s your excuse, Russia?

There’s three ways to get rid of cancer:

• Poison it. Diminish its numbers to the point where it never comes back.
• Excise it. Cut it away from the rest of the host.
• Do nothing. It’ll die once it consumes the host.

Eating granola and berries or sitting there with hopes and praying for change is option 3. I’m on team option 1. Time to get active.

Well yea, when you train the entire 2nd generation of coders on a book that is “For dummies” what did you expect?

A hopeful little W for democracy. A big win for us in North Carolina.

The R’s lost their supermajority in the legislature too, by one seat that was won by a mere 226 votes. What this means is we finally have a moment down here where the two parties have to cooperate together to get anything done….if anything gets done.

Being a US citizen permanently living in a foreign country, paying taxes to that country and not paying US taxes.

I’ve been interviewing folks for an internship position lately. These have been remote interviews. Six things that have made candidates stand out to me.

• Get your camera angle straight. Don’t slouch in the corner. I need professionals so I need you to look like one.
• Hide the weird shit in your backgrounds, unless it’s something you want to talk about
• Have presence / wow factor. I’m interviewing for a position that will sometimes talk to customers. I’m your customer at the moment and I really do want to buy what you’re selling, and will absolutely do so if you wow me.
• Read the job description, I put a lot of effort into that thing (I know, not every company does). Get to know the JD and company website. I had a marketing guy apply and he got through the resume review because he had an lot experience in my industry. Turns out he didn’t and I read right through it. Don’t waste my and your time, neither of us have enough of it on this planet as is.
• Have hobbies, extracurriculars. I get tired of asking the same boring questions to everyone so I may ask you about them. I’m in no way religious but surprisingly, I’ve now had two candidates talk to me about how they’re a leader in their church and that they’re leading groups or projects there. It got them both to the next round. I want to hire a colleague not a robot.
• Have writing and presentation samples prepared. I want to see how you document things I want to see the work you’re proud of. I need dynamism and a diverse team, not all of us need to be customer facing rockstars. A beautiful presentation absolutely can and has won me over on candidates that did not have the interview presence.

Some don’ts

• Don’t act aloof. I’m giving you my attention and I need the same from you.
• Don’t be cocky. I want confidence but not cockiness, as cockiness would likely have my clients calling me telling me to get you off their projects.
• Don’t ask me to rate how well you did at the end of the interview. That’s what practice interviews are for.

A quorum of forums.

Same place as nearly everything else, the Sun.

Why does their joy have to be in guzzling cola? States are already taxing high sugar items on the rest of us ffs, how is this any different?

If they want to buy these items they still can, just have to use their own coin, not ours.