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Not exclusive to IT; I had to weigh the benefits of continuing to work as a caregiver for a small company, versus working in retail for a massive chain (which translates to fantastic insurance benefits.)

Sadly not a competition.

I want a wood burned sign that says, “Spite can motivate where kindness cannot.”

He’s dead? So tell him yourself I guess lol.

Anyways, why would you “spread everyone out evenly?” We stuffed them into a tiny space that was already occupied. One assumes they’d be plopped into a town, which would centralize creating things like roads.

And the roads in Montana might suck, but there should be some kind of domestic package at play that would help from the federal level to create things like roads and water treatment and all that. Compared to how much we give Isreal now… could’ve put that money into development somewhere stateside.

When I was maybe 10 years old back in the 90s I asked my Dad why we put a bunch of people in a heavily populated area “when Montana is just sitting there empty. I mean, someone uses the land and we get like, taxes and museums and maybe an amusement park, right?”

He seemed genuinely poleaxed.

I still don’t have an answer to this day!

I have a friend who I game with who has been known to occasionally dabble in head-assery, and when we were all talking about removing alignment restrictions on race this was his take. “These are fantasy races!” “You’re just being too sensitive!”

I finally prevailed by pointing out that it’s just bad writing. If you want to tell me your villain is a monster, have them do something objectively evil like laugh and poison the drinking water of the town of Doma. Don’t just say, “he looks like the eeeeevil race”!

I’m glad you said this.

I’m approaching 40. I’ve played TTRPGs since middle school. I’m a woman.

I’ve experienced this misogyny. A lot over my lifetime. When I hear angry men bitching about people just discussing this, what I see is men who would prefer we not acknowledge that it’s bad.

And I find myself wondering if that’s because they don’t want to be confronted either with how this wasn’t acceptable when they were a part of the problem… or if it’s because they don’t want to hear that their thinking is still part of the problem.

You know what would be a fantastic way to spur forward legislation and law stopping the president from doing anything bonkers?

Having the president do something bonkers that the evil assholes who are setting the field to make Trump a king, have no choice but to stop.

The people arguing against using this new power because using it now makes you just as bad as “them,” are the dog-sitting-in-a-room-on-fire meme.

"Using the fire ax is just as evil as destroying the house yourself! Get fucked. We caught the Republicans smoking. Make them smoke the whole pack.

Slashdot was founded 26 years ago. I’m almost 40, so when I say this, I mean it-

Don’t condescend to young people about being children. You’re just old now. Embrace it. Explain things nicely or be one of those old people we hated when we were young.

I have long, thick, curly hair and washing it involves making sure the water soaks through to my scalp, making sure the conditioner gets through to the scalp, combing it through once it’s soaked with product (brushing it dry is a nightmare), scrubbing every inch of my scalp to avoid skin or dirt build up, then rinsing it.

This is a time consuming process. Luckily, my ADHD doesn’t interfere in this process because it makes every shower about me having an argument with someone where I win. Or babbling to myself about whatever major concerns I have (do I want to have children?)

And also I listen to podcasts. Right now I’m doing Dungeons and Daddies and the opening/closing song for it is such a goddamned banger it’s been playing nonstop in my head for at least the past 6 days.

In healthcare, in the US. I’ve had to do this. Last year, I spent 6 months doing it.

You really do wish you were dead.

I loved Vyvanse. I was able to advance at work because of Vyvanse.

And then out of nowhere my insurance decides, not it’s $350 a month. Back to adderall I went.

I’ll Chime in with my two cents that my experience with coffee and a pinch of salt really cuts the bitterness…

But I prefer bitter coffee so it’s wasted on me.

Oooh. +1 for repeat as if you’re teaching.

I ended up leading study groups because of this!

I’d start the study group knowing absolutely nothing, and end the class with an A+ every single time. Getting into the mindset of “how does (other person) think about this” got me asking questions in class, got me making notes to repackage information for someone else, and always wound up making me learn along the way!

*Excuse. Me.

Do. You. Have. A. Canoe? I. Could. Borrow.*

I’m so glad I’m not the only one that remembers these lyrics. I imagine a very specific subset of our generation singing it in nursing homes before much longer.

The website was homestarrunner.com and before YouTube, we used to just manually check the website. It was part of my day to check and see if anything new was on the site Also notable was that they never advertised. Their entire operation was done by word-of-mouth, in a time where there were no Facebook or reddit or YouTube or anything. The internet was a lot more wild then.

Homestarrunner (“It’s dot com!”), Weebl and Bob, nuklearpower, Joe Cartoon, Bob and George… it was a different world.

Another person who found you from all, so probably not welcome to comment, but on the chance I am…

I always wondered about this! It does work both ways. Every time there’s a heat wave that kills some of your elderly, I’m constantly shocked because where I live (US Deep South) we hit crazy high temps for extended periods of time and lose fewer people. With our population being insanely high compared to y’all I just… can’t with that.

Makes me want to come over there, develop a way to retrofit your homes, and get to work. Climate change means you’ll have more unbearable heat and more unbearable cold moving forward, not less!