Mushguffler
11mo ago
Seems to me the obvious explanation is that they are worried this will look racist. Rejecting a redneck might have been fine, but you can't reject a black person for wearing the wrong clothes without getting sued or boycotted. The only resolution is to not have dress codes.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
Lol, I only got 8/12, I suck. I don't think I got a single woman right either. Honestly I suspect most of the ones I got right were gay men who were left-wingers. I'm gay myself, I think I just have good gaydar.
Verdict: Women are an enigma wrapped in a mystery, covered in... something I have no interest in.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
Do you use one of those self-control applications to stop you from e.g. wasting time on Facebook or reddit? I've been using one for a couple years, and I've noticed something. I usually keep the timer at a particular duration until I have a reason to change it, so right now it's at four hours and 17 minutes, it has been there for months. I set it a couple times a day.
I've noticed the time almost always runs out within a minute or two of me going to bed. I often seen it pop up (because it's done) literally as I'm getting up to to leave. Other times I check it just before going to bed and see it has like two minutes left.
I am curious if this happens to other people. Am I subconsciously timing my bedtime to sync up with the end of my blocking software's timer?
Mushguffler
2yr ago
I do it all, I think the SK stuff is mostly agronomy, engineering and public health, at least lately. Poland I think is #2 in my experience. I find French authors to be pretty sloppy IMHO.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
Their English is often near-perfect. It's usually better than the papers from English-speaking countries.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
and can I shirk another PR, having made it 3 years into my career only ever having done one
What's "PR" in this context?
Mushguffler
1yr ago
About 2000 Hawaiians. But I can't rule out the possibility that they are a supervillain and his lackeys. Still counts.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
If they refused to go to work, would they be arrested?
Mushguffler
2yr ago
Could it be a pangolin?
Mushguffler
2yr ago
Mushguffler
3mo ago
Yeah, I thought it was interesting too, I wavered on what they might be looking for. I thought maybe marking all the positive words would be a strike against me, so I only picked like a five or six kinda similar ones, like "industrious" and stuff. I didn't get the job, but I don't know why or what would have been better.
Mushguffler
5mo ago
I use Self-Control, which lets you block websites for a length of time. You can block all websites but allow a whitelist, or block only a few websites. That doesn't prevent all internet connection though, just browser use.
Mushguffler
11mo ago
The 2032 Olympics have been awarded too, to Brisbane.
Mushguffler
1yr ago
Not to nitpick, but isn't Thursday the 15th?
Do y'all think we're likely to see any new countries become independent in the next, say, twenty years? Just curious.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
Ontario's leader is under heavy fire for playing hardball and preventing educational workers from getting large raises. I don't know the details well, but couldn't one argue this is what fighting inflation looks like?
Only if those raises would otherwise come from new currency (i.e. the Canadian central bank prints new money), which I would assume is not the case. I don't think that has any connection to inflation.
Mushguffler
4mo ago
There's also the Space Force, but they're just nerds. They only exist so the other branches have someone whose lunch money they can steal. Might as well be Coast Guard.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
Lol, that makes more sense than shirking Puerto Ricans, which was the only idea I came up with.
Mushguffler
1yr ago
I read recently that cats have been evolving to be less friendly to humans, at least in the West, because friendly pet cats are spayed or neutered, as are strays that are caught by people. The cats that are reproducing are strays unfriendly enough to avoid animal control. Seems plausible the same effect is occurring for dogs.
Mushguffler
1yr ago
Yeah, but I'm gay and she's married to my friend, so I don't think that's what she was going for in this case.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
The main competitor to Amazon for ebooks is Smashwords, who pay authors a bit more. We'd appreciate off-Amazon sales, if you want to give them a try.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
I think it would be good if there were seven weekly posts like the Culture War Round-Up. That would help with user retention, I think. Like there could be one for economics, since that's not necessarily "culture war" per se.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
I'm finding all the pictures in comments very offputting. Can we ban that?
Mushguffler
2yr ago
She's upset at her own work being "interrupted", but of course her own work "interrupted" the day of the people who went to her seminar. Urgency is only a problem when people are not being urgent about her.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
There are definitely gay guys who are more into crazy hobos than handsome escorts.
If inflation were zero, it would amount to deflation over time as productivity and population increases. You have to have a little inflation to keep up with growth.
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