Mushguffler
13d ago
He's an insane Frenchman with an addiction to tea.
Mushguffler
1mo ago
Remember when we all pretended it was a rule not to name diseases after places? That was fun.
Mushguffler
17d ago
That's why the American West has a culturally Southern orientation too -- white people in the South couldn't compete with slave labor, so they moved west in higher numbers than whites in the north.
Mushguffler
3mo ago
ensure someone picks up the phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help
This is utter bullshit, I had student loans. Nobody picks up the phone.
Mushguffler
3mo ago
I applied to one recently that had a long list of adjectives, like basically any adjective you could use to describe a person. There were hundreds, maybe a thousand, and you had to mark all the ones that describe you. From "industrious" and "punctual" to "gregarious" and "sanguine", it was ridiculous.
Mushguffler
5mo ago
Maybe arsons in less-flammable times don't result in newsworthy conflagrations. Nobody cares about the fires that remain small and burn themselves out quickly. During fire-prone times, any arson is liable to become a big deal.
Mushguffler
3mo ago
Mirrors are shockingly uneducated in homophones.
Mushguffler
6mo ago
My understanding is that back surgery is very rarely helpful and usually makes the pain worse. People are always upset to find the surgery is not covered, but there's a very good reason for it. It doesn't work.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
Horseshoe crab
Mushguffler
1yr ago
I've also never met a man who was upset about a woman not cleaning the house enough, with the exception of a couple Niles Crane-type obsessives who married the same. Literally the vast majority of straight men I know would rather their wives spent less time cleaning. If pressure from husbands could affect women's cleaning, it'd make them clean less.
Mushguffler
11mo ago
Honestly, Trump should just keep saying "she was the official border czar, and she failed". The Democrats will feel obligated to engage in constant semantic clarifications instead of actually campaigning.
Mushguffler
1yr ago
That's kind of a Latin American thing, right? electing outsiders. Fujimori in Peru, Bukele in el Salvador, I think some others I'm forgetting. They like electing ethnic outsiders.
Mushguffler
7mo ago
"Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson is a great book-length example of that.
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
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.
In case anyone's wondering...
1: Pest-control companies said they didn't know which pesticide they used because they hadn't diagnosed the problem yet. They hadn't chosen a pesticide. (edit: or, more likely, the person on the phone isn't an exterminator and doesn't know)
2: The company that didn't say she had to wash all her clothes, etc. just skipped that step to get a customer. The moths will likely be back within a year, because they laid eggs in the folds of old clothes or stacks of cardboard or ruffles on the edge of a couch cushion. I realize it's a pain, but it's the only way to solve the problem (thereby minimizing the total number of "murdered" moths, the cost of treatment and the amount of pesticide used).
3: This seems more like burgeoning OCD than legitimate animal welfare concerns. Switch to hardwood floors, synthetic fabrics and no whole cereal grains if you really care so damn much about moths.
4: Carpet moths don't eat carpets. They eat human hair, insects and animal leavings, etc. Actually carpet moths don't eat, but carpet-moth caterpillars do.
Mushguffler
1yr ago
easy majors (communications is a big one)
A friend of mine's wife once was begging me for help with an assignment for a class for her communications degree. The assignment was to watch a TED talk and write four sentences about it. That was the entirety of the assignment. She needed help.
Mushguffler
7mo ago
they’re not fossilized because they have bird like bones that aren’t very robust the fossil record is incomplete etc.
Bird fossils do exist.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
I have a Puerto Rican friend whose daughter has terrible taste in men. Every time I see him, he brings up out of the blue like "You know, Peruvians are all retarded and they fuck dogs", and I'll say "your daughter's dating a Peruvian guy huh?" He's got a reason to dislike every Spanish-speaking nationality. Colombians beat their wives and are all gay, Venezuelans are poor and smell like trash, Salvadorans are miniature gangsters, Mexicans are morons, etc. She's had a lot of boyfriends.
Mushguffler
7mo ago
For Coke and Pepsi, advertising is defensive. If you aren't wooing your fans with ads, you're losing them to upstart companies that are. It's not possible to bank supporters, not for brands and not for political parties.
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
In D&D a long time ago, I mentioned that you could estimate the time by using the width of your fingers to measure the distance between the sun and the horizon. My friends pooh-poohed this and mentioned it for years as an example of me being stupid and believing in dumb shit.
Until Johnny Depp did it in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Then they accepted that it was real. No amount of me googling it, finding good sources or even literally doing it so they could see it was real would help. They had to see Johnny Depp do it.
Mushguffler
2yr ago
Seems to me you have it exactly backwards. A bunch of stealthy fires approximating a mass layoff over time means no one will know when the layoffs will end. Musk said he was going to lay off a bunch of people, then he did. Those who remain should be, and I would wager are, confident that they are not also on the verge of being laidoff.
I don't think shitposting matters in the long run. I also am dubious Musk's plans will lead to profitability.
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.
If Obama could make banks stop providing services to legal gunshops, surely Trump could make them stop providing services to illegal immigrants.
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