Occasionally. It’s frustrating that most free porn sites are kind of bad at search and filter. You’d think a tagging system would be easy to implement but most sites seem to just have a barely functional search.

Workday also gets mad if your resume has “special characters” in it, like quotation marks. Why they can’t sanitize input themselves, I don’t know. Presumably incompetence.

Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.

Many companies use workday for the job application process, which wants an account. Workday is a steaming pile of garbage.

Trying to date someone who’s not interested in me sounds miserable.

Dating someone that I’m not into sounds cruel to them. Unless it’s clearly a, like, casual or otherwise non-invested situation, and they’re aware, but that also sounds hazardous.

My cat will go under the blankets in bed when it’s cold out. He figured this out after many years of living here. Some nights it still takes him a while to figure it out. He’ll jump on the bed. I’ll lift the blankets. He’ll peer under there like he’s never seen this scenario before in his life. After several cautious minutes he’ll usually settle down. If I try to speed up the process by putting the blankets on him, he’ll run out of the room

Not to overly repeat myself, but as discussed in the book “dying of whiteness”, there’s a lot of people that would rather their kid go hungry than a black kid get a meal.

Buying drm free music is a good long term plan. You build a library you can share with friends and family.

Sure, for a generous definition of “possible”. However I don’t see how you get from there to “either all are, or all are not”.

Like, you could at some point have said we don’t understand magnetism. You couldn’t from that argue that either all metals are magnetic or none are.

either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not

man what

You’re making me grapple with how expensive housing is here. A down payment for a two bedroom apartment in Brooklyn is going to be like $100-200k.

It’s fine, I tell myself. I can walk to everything I need and take transit to everything else.

$50k is a weird amount.

If you’re currently financially in crisis, it will probably save your life. But if you’re doing okay, it probably won’t change your life much. And if you’re even mildly rich, like six figure salary, you might not even notice.

I’d probably just put it in vanguard or a high yield savings, in preparation for bigger expenses that are probably coming (eg: moving, unemployment)

I thought the velvet underground “run run run” was

Run run run run run take your jacket too

Instead of “take a drag or two”

Good advice when it’s cold out!

The supernatural parts are bad to take literally. Some of the philosophy can be interesting. The rote, blind, following of rules is typically not good.

It makes more sense in the context of early humanity.

Nowadays it’s an excuse for poor behavior and nonsense.

Not only has shit gotten expensive, I got laid off from a good paying job and could only land a middling salary. I used to buy more varied food. I’d order delivery when I had guests over. I’d buy seltzer.

No more. Fuck em. If they don’t want to pay me I’ll keep my spend to a minimum.

It would still be anti-labor and a force multiplier for confident stupidity.

Well, if you don’t ban or otherwise moderate unpleasant people, your community will rot until it’s nothing but unpleasant people and those who can tolerate them. So that’s not a desirable outcome.

Communities should have rules. People who repeatedly break those rules should be banned. This is true online and offline.

The more challenging question is “what are the best rules to make?”

Most places will disallow porn and gore, or require them to be appropriately labeled or quarantined. That makes sense to me.

Many places will ban anything too violent. Threats against individuals I understand. Saying you can’t even imagine violence against organizations doing violence (eg: ice, the Republican party) is lending support to horrible people, so I’m not keen on that. I can see wanting to keep it from turning into revenge porn, or wanting to avoid drawing the attention of the state.

“No personal attacks on members” was a rule on a place I used to post. Was pretty nice, usually.

Elden Ring and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead”. That’s… interesting. Elden Ring is very self serious, so I don’t know what happens when you add in semi self aware satire.

Without jeopardizing your academics, prioritize rare things.

TV and video games will always be there. Your friend asking you to come play tennis won’t. Go play tennis even if you don’t think you’ll love it.

I don’t know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I’ll share some things I think have helped.

Avoid long sentences. Many people don’t read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.

Read back what you wrote out loud.

Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.

Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.

Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don’t try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.