Made up their own language and mumbled “curses” at people in it.

The weird couple made their own cat language and sat under the tree in front of school meowing at each other. Probably the source of all the furries-in-schools conspiracies.

Find meaning outside of work. Hobbies, friendships, volunteering, something other than working and just paying into the system for rich assholes to profit more.

30-pack of beer. Hoisted on the shoulder in clear view while giving the theatre worker my ticket. Teenage minimum wage workers by end of summer DGAF.

I didn’t even get that far. I called one for initial info and found out his “clinic” was a truck and he drove his Lasik machine to different locations thru the week. I asked him how often and how did he check his laser calibration. He said he did it once per month, sending samples in to a calibration lab and then they sent him a report a couple weeks later telling him if the laser was a-okay or if it needed adjustment.

So drive that truck around everyday, bumping that laser around. At least a months worth of patients will have their eyeballs lasered before he knew about an equipment problem. No thanks.

Because this meeting is not in good faith, it is just never going to happen.

The Zelensky/Putin meeting won’t happen. Not because Zelensky is asking in bad faith, but because Putin doesn’t want to negotiate anything short of Ukraine’s surrender.

If you’re a foreign student and not fully fluent in English, see if you can find some resources at your university to help. I would expect a UK university to have something. If you have a guidance counselor or a student resource center, those would be good places to start asking.

Taking a long time on homework or missing a deadline due to unclearly written direction in a language you’re not fully comfortable with doesn’t make you bad at university.

Lasik corrected my vision enough that I’ve had ~15 years without glasses, and can expect another 5-10 before I need reading glasses like any other aging human. The lens gets stiffer, the muscles that manipulate the lenses to focus weaken, people start to need glasses while reading to make up for it, Lasik will not stop that from happening.

So IMO, Lasik at 35+, not worth it. Lasik at 25 or under, maybe.

I also had astigmatism and went to a doctor who knew enough to use the Lasik process to counter some of it. I still have a little bit but can pass driving tests and go about daily life with no correction. I also play contact sports so not having to wear glasses was a significant mark in the pro column as well.

I also agree with others about not going to a Lasik salesman doctor. I went to a doctor who was affiliated with a hospital and did other sorts of eye surgeries.

They’re probably doing that to protect the identity of any Google workers providing them with information. If they posted the actual meme, Google could possibly trace it back to an employee and fire them.

Some of the memes they do have in the article, they note they are reconstructions and not the actual memes from Googles internal channels.

I agree it’s long though, they could have just recreated them and skipped the written description.

Best part of the article, hat tip to author Emanuel for how he included the correction request:

After this story was published Google’s spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that “it’s critical that we maintain humans in the loop.”

FIFA taking cues from Trump on PR. Do awful things, lie, don’t acknowledge the criticism, never apologize, keep doubling down. Maybe he could leave office and go join their board?

I have a coworker who is on an anti- boomer humor mission. We’re in a male-dominated field and the “my wife is a nag, she spends all my money, I don’t get why she doesn’t want to have sex with me while I treat her like my mother” jokes are frequent. He has a dozen ways of stopping the men from telling these jokes and reminding them that it’s ok to love their spouses. Or, you know, to divorce them if they don’t.

It’s a bare minimum thing, not bad-mouthing your spouse constantly, but I appreciate he’s the only man in the group willing to speak up and show the younger ones there is a better way.

The US plans to slap the new tariff on dozens of countries for allegedly failing to “address the importation of goods made with forced labour”.

I hope every country tariffs in return, citing how the US uses prison labor for all sorts of things and pays them so low it would take a full day to earn enough to buy a pack of ramen soup.

In some states, inmates may be paid as little as $0.12 per hour, a fraction of the minimum wage.

https://workerscomplawattorney.com/what-is-the-minimum-wage-in-prison/

Corn detasseling, wine grape picking, lawn care, call center for a survey company, data analytics for a different survey company, coffee shop, restaurant host/wait staff, tree trimming, aide at a school for kids with medical needs, tier 1 IT phone support, stocking shelves over night shift in a grocery store.

That’s roughly in order, starting with corn detasseling at age 13 and ending when I went to college. There were a couple others, very short lived that I don’t count if I quit before training was complete. And some others highly seasonal, like a Christmas tree farm that hired me to make wreaths for a week straight before christmas a few years in a row.

Something, something, rape apologia screed in a movies community. Reported and blocked. Wtf, man.

Klingons look very different through the various shows. And more than just costuming progress of the time.

TOS:

TNG-era, the one I think most people would think of:

Discovery:

And the latest show, Academy, reverts back to TNG-era style Klingons.

I visit Phoenix for work every 1-2 years. I’m there now this week. It’s always interesting to see how the Waymos have evolved. Since the last time I was out here, they have added more sensors at each corner of the vehicle. They are obviously not part of the original design, sticking out like cancer lumps.

Maybe they just to retrofit their fleet with a few more sensors that detect cops chasing them down.

Good luck. Tough to pick a more DIY-oriented bunch of hobbyists who would rather build their own hardware and compile their own software over allowing their printer to narc on them to the government.

RepRap 2: Countersurveillance Boogaloo, launching soon.

“Officially”

Pray tell, where might one find this official handbook?

Sincerely, An American who lived in Australia, and who dislikes both “cunt” and “dick” used for emphasis but who understands how different cultures views each.

I very much like sports. They belong in sports-specific communities though, not news communities, unless they’re actually making news. Like how FIFA is under investigation for fixing ticket prices. Or how the DOJ launched an investigation into FIFA for bribery but were dismissed by a judge saying bribery isn’t a priority of Trump’s administration. Or how Mexico will host the Iranian team because the US won’t let them stay overnight.

Even those more actual-news stories belong in world cup communities for now due to the volume of stories coming out. I would strongly prefer this community not become 25%+ world cup posts for the duration of the cup.

We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States

… “because we’ve somehow managed to fuck up our health system even more, and our doctors most capable of treating Ebola have left the US to other countries where they are supported in their efforts to save lives while we sit around, tanning our taints and eating roadkill dick”

FTFY, lil’ Marco.