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sunsofold

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  • Campaign to overturn [Obergefell v. Hodges] uses 14-year-old junk science to 'prove' gay people are bad parents

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  • In the mind's eye, an image forms. An alternate version of that segment from The Boondocks TV show.

    A man pulls off his belt and raises it, standing over a small child. The child cowers. The man screams, 'I am about to ruin your ability to trust anyone or love yourself, ever again!' But then he stops, looks down at himself, and says 'Oh, wait. That's right. I'm straight. Come on, kid. Let's go get ice cream.'

  • The way my partner eats avocado.

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  • Such wastage.

    It's so easy to slice around the pit to split in half and then crush out the flesh. No left behind bits. It comes out as a few lumps and then paste.

  • need advice

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  • For the job? Much as I hate to say it, networking. Nudge friends and family, individually, about openings at their work or they have heard of. Trying to fight HR nonsense is like fighting a robot. It's stupid. It's hard. It's easier with friends already near the controls.

    As for guilt, drop it. If you want to consider it debt, repay it years from now when they need your help. They will. Don't worry too much about it right now.

  • TIL that 3/4 of bee species make silk

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  • Close. Wigs.

  • Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?

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  • Don't cite things on a gotcha response as if it were even momentarily researched.

    1. Police aren't usually pulling over random people and randomly testing them. If you're being pulled over for drinking it's usually because they already suspect something based on your driving. The only exception are checkpoints, but we'll come back to that.
    2. You would have to be doing something weird even to get a result from almost any of the items listed in your own source. An evidentiary breath analysis unit can read as low as 0.020. The highest ABV in that list (that is food, not an extract) is ~2% for soy sauce. You could drink a pint of that soy sauce, (eeugh!) and by the time the alcohol evaporated from your mouth (it lasts several minutes and would prevent an accurate reading) your BAC would likely be below the detection threshold. Procedure (at least where I was, but likely anywhere) would require a second confirmation test 15 minutes after the first to make sure the first wasn't caused by oral residue.

    So, worst case scenario, you chug a pint of soy sauce in your car, immediately drive up to a checkpoint on the way to a hospital because of the amount of salt, they test you randomly and get a positive result from the oral residue, and then get nothing when they retest unless you are so small and light that you are probably a literal child.

  • Smooshed

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  • In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone, Michigan, asked a question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? The majority of officials refused to answer

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  • Thanks for angrily strawmanning what I wrote. It tells me I can just drop this thread. Toodles.

  • How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job?

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  • The best thing would be shorter hours for the same total pay. It has the freedom to add more hours if they want more income, spend more time with the people or hobbies they love if they don't, and makes whatever headaches the job may include more tolerable. If that's not an option, it depends on what the headache is. Taking 100g off the scanner I have to lift 50 times each day vs taking home an extra, let's say 5~10% pay? I'll take the cash. It'd let me take more time off, do more fun things, etc. and the weight isn't that much unless you have a prior condition. If it's something that will make it so I can eliminate the need to scan anything and just get to the more important parts of the job, maybe.

    Let's be real here, though. If the option was there, any slackager (slacker manager) is going to do neither because that'd take effort. Any company serving manager is going to just not give the raise and tell the employees they complain too much and should be grateful for the work. And any human serving manager will be fired for wasting company funds on unecessary comforts or raises.

  • In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone, Michigan, asked a question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? The majority of officials refused to answer

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  • An NDA is a contract in which someone agrees not to disclose information on a certain set of topics, under penalty defined in the contract or civil liabilities for breach of contract. "Have to talk about it" is an odd phrase for the subject. An NDA doesn't force someone to talk/not talk about anything. It just creates a strong incentive to not talk about the topics included in the NDA or anything that might arguably fall under those topics because it opens one up to penalties. Many people can and do use NDAs as an excuse not to share information, with some even using a false implication that an NDA exists which prevents them sharing inconvenient information.

  • In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone, Michigan, asked a question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? The majority of officials refused to answer

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  • Nope. All of it. It should be unappetizing to take power over others. If someone wants to have authority to afflict thousands if not millions of people with their existence, they don't get to have any space to hide their crimes. If they don't want to make that sacrifice to keep us safe, they can just stay home. No one is forcing them to seek public office.

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  • We can only hope. Trump has so many people who despise him, it would be an incredible feat for America to elect a president people hate more.

  • Iran war live: Tehran hits Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar after deadly US strikes

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  • What should they do? Responses sit either in the non-violent space, which is only effective when the people in power have a sense of shame for 'failing to represent their constituency,' or the violent space, which is self-destructive and, if you're facing the gigantic american system, suicidal, and feeds into rhetoric about how the government needs to crack down on violent extremists, helping to legitimate further authoritarianism.

  • In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone, Michigan, asked a question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? The majority of officials refused to answer

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  • No NDA necessary. That'd be under other laws/systems. Some would be under things like HIPAA in the US if they learned the information in the course of their work. At minimum, it would fall under civil liability if they publicised private information of private individuals and those people claimed that it caused them harm in some way.

  • In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone, Michigan, asked a question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? The majority of officials refused to answer

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  • It should not be legal for elected officials to sign NDAs with corporations.

    Part of the price for being given the power of office should be the loss of privacy. If you are an official, you are no longer a private citizen. You are a representative and should not be doing anything you want to keep secret from your constituency.

  • Is America going to have a population problem like other countries are have nowadays?

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  • Could you be more specific what the 'population problem' you are referring to is?

  • "He had no visible red flags"

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  • Replacement in what?

  • Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ???

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  • People always had variable schedules. The phone has always been a disturbing projection of one's presence into another person's home or office. But if you want to have connections to people who don't live in your house, you pay the price of a few seconds of unreasoning terror as you listen to the ringing and think 'Oh, gods, I'm such an asshole for invading their lives. What if they're trying to put out a grease fire and my phone call makes them feel like they have to let their house burn down with their pets and kids in it to answer my pathetic, needy demands for their attention? What if they're having sex and answer anyway so I'm just this disembodied presence in the middle of their coitus? What if they--" and then they answer and are happy to hear from you. Even if they don't spend six hours on the line, letting them know you had a joke to share with them can make both of your days better and you can say, 'No worries. Call me back when you're on the road and we can BS about ostriches for your half an hour of commute time. It'll at least be better than listening to the news.'

  • "He had no visible red flags"

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  • How about Arwen? She's charismatic, has no hate for anyone, and needs a place to live. I'm sure she'd be a great candidate.

  • Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?

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  • I've been moving toward GOG to prevent DRM/update annoyance, but I've used isthereanydeal to find some other places to get things I want on steam.