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- Comment on Team Car! 16 hours ago:
Yeah… I hate to say it but cyclists take to the sidewalks in my neighborhood even though we have bike lanes everywhere. Obviously they are trying to be safer from cars which I can’t fault them for, but they do become a danger to pedestrians. Basically pedestrians are in a lose lose situation. Unless we want to start counting the bugs they step on.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 16 hours ago:
Fuckedtorio
- Comment on OCUPADO! 1 day ago:
This is the “just letting you know that someone is waiting” signal. I only do it when they’re taking fucking forever.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 1 day ago:
I have looked back on some really stupid thing I did and wondered why no one in my family called me out. Not that I blame them. It’s just weird to me that I smoked cigarettes all those years and they never gave me shit for it. My brother even gave me a fancy lighter for my birthday once. Again: not their fault I was an idiot but telling someone they are being a dolt can be an act of love.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 1 day ago:
You can only do so much while the pre-frontal cortex is still developing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
May I please begin by saying I LOVE MADONNA and respect the shit out of her. I’m glad she got what she wanted out of it all - but it really was always the music and dancing I was more interested in.
The provocative stuff was always trying a little bit hard, to my mind. Even this quote: I want to be provocative! I want to be political! Cringe.
The Sex coffee table book was a snooze for me. It had a number of staged tableaus that drew from S&M and other things that, at the time, were “edgy.” But they were hollow and fake. I did not in fact believe I was just looking at a photodocumentary of what she does with a strap-on come Friday night, and I didn’t see any thing that was new to me in there, let alone shocking or provocative.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
So personal question but do you dream with images?
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in your mind’s eye.
I guess this extends to reading? I wasn’t sure if that would count as “voluntarily” since it just seems to happen for me.
I read to my kids every night and if there is a movie of the book we’re reading, I will finish the book with them before we watch the movie. In this way, the images they have in their minds as we read are theirs. Sometimes interesting things happen in your mind when it needs to create its own images and I think this is a personal part of reading and one reason why reading is not just consumption but also a creative act unto itself.
Once Hollywood has made Jennifer Lawrence the protagonist, that’s all you’ll be able to see ever again.
However none of this would apply in your case so read or watch or listen however works best for you. Personally I find audiobooks a terrible way to read. My mind wanders instead of focusing more on the text. I realize I’ve been thinking about someone else for several minutes, and ultimately don’t retain as much from the book in the end. It’s like “having the tv on in the background” while doing household chores. That’s fine for stuff I don’t really care about, if I just want to relax and divert my mind. But if I really want to enjoy the book and get everything I can from it, I need to read it.
- Comment on We've All Been Here 5 days ago:
I’m so American it’s not a crime to smoke it where I live.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 5 days ago:
I’d go back to regular Googling and that’s all I’d miss. I very much want to do my job entirely by hand instead of spending my days trying to get AI to jump through the hoops and then having to fix everything when it can’t.
- Comment on onions 5 days ago:
True they have a sort of gummy texture that pops when you bite into it. I love that personally but I can see it’s a matter of taste. Does that mean you enjoy fresh cut onion in a salad (like bits of red onion in a Mediterranean salad) or fresh cut onion on a burger? Much more crisp texture. Just curious!
- Comment on onions 6 days ago:
Absolutely. I would say that not liking onions is a bit of an illusion though. They really are in everything and are so elemental to cooking. I think if people understood this better they wouldn’t fear onions so much. Sometimes fear of onions is also part of a generalized “zero seasoning” palette common among some older white Americans, where even black pepper is considered “spicy” and most food is totally flavorless and usually cooked to a pulp. It’s not about growing up… this palette is just missing out on so much happiness in the world. Being just a tiny bit brave with food is a wonderful decision to make in life.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
If “most of your wealth is in your home” you don’t have any wealth. What you have is an asset that has been made artificially scarce. It doesn’t help you at all unless you want to move to some area that doesn’t have as much artificial price inflation. However it does hurt your community significantly by making housing unavailable.
People need to think of their children, nieces and nephews before they go calling this selfish short-term thinking “completely logical.” If it’s logical at all it’s in a very narrow way to only a narrow group of people. Nothing “complete” about it.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
enough housing where it’s needed
“Enough housing” is a bad way to frame it. Because - again - we have plenty of vacant housing in the deindustrialized midwest.
Sure, cutting my sentence in half IS a bad way to frame it. So bad that I’m not even going to read the remainder of your comment.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
This is an important aspect. Someone above this said “houses are twice the size now so they cost twice as much” and I just had to shake my head. It’s not only new construction that’s expensive.
But whether it’s the cost of all homes or the pricing of homes where they’re in demand, the ultimate question is still the same: why haven’t we had enough housing where it’s needed for prices to be more stable?
But any good answer to this is going to hit 20 different points. Urbanization. NIMBYism. Private equity. Foreign buyers. Empty homes. Changing codes. Suitable land. And on and on.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Among many other things, people now vote in local elections according to “what will be good for my property value” and this often (usually) doesn’t mean making more affordable housing available. It’s a very specific case of NIMBYism. Luxury condo building with 15% affordable units? Not where it will affect my property value!
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
I have no idea what anyone else does, but I look at them as a chance to explain why my resume is a match for the job. Some people rewrite their whole resume every application to tailor it to the job, but that feels like more work and they’re going to know I did it when they see my LinkedIn and it doesn’t match. So I highlight the stuff that’s specific to that job because my resume wasn’t necessarily written just for that job opening.
- Comment on Take cover 1 week ago:
I’ve had to eat a whole bus tire in a job interview.
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 1 week ago:
I’m guessing they mean a model like this one.
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 1 week ago:
Also, keep the shoe of the reciprocating saw firmly against the workpiece to start, and throughout the cut.
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 1 week ago:
This guy is a… tool.
- Comment on Pikachu 2 weeks ago:
They contributed to winning the fight and made history.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Just the essentials…
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 3 weeks ago:
If anything, Biden Derangement Syndrome was absolutely a thing. MAGAts were so incredibly panicked about Biden when he was an entirely milquetoast, middle-of-the road Democrat. Do even they argue that Trump is just another Republican? I can’t see how anyone could.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 3 weeks ago:
I agree it’s completely reasonable if some people would prefer sex segregated gyms. Women too of course.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 3 weeks ago:
Right? Who even wants anybody to be king? It’s pathetic that their cosmology itself is a fucking monarchy.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 3 weeks ago:
A gym is the only place a Christian ever tried to recruit me for his Bible study group.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
How prevalent do you think people think it Is? I think people think it is way more common than you think people think it is.
- Comment on Behold, the future! 4 weeks ago:
I’m wondering what happens to all the shipping once the Oakland port is paved.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure there is a little truth to it sometimes but one big thing this ignores is that many of us have always had remote coworkers because our employer has multiple offices in different cities, countries, and continents around the world. I’m not worried about someone who’s in the office with my boss passing me by because that’s a tiny minority of everyone we work with anyway.
Interestingly, this is also why WFH has held up at the company where I work. Even when you go in to the office, you spend half the day on zoom. Our company has consolidated floors, closed whole offices and entire campuses to reduce the amount of real estate it pays to maintain. There’s a lot of savings in it for them. And our CEO has said that he likes how remote work makes it trivial to get the entire leadership team together for a conversation because they aren’t all flying around the world constantly, inaccessible for days at a time because they’re traveling. They do make in person visits, but don’t live on planes like they used to. They also did the math and they exceeded their 10 year goal for climate reduction overnight just by going to remote.
There are so many benefits for the company as well as the employees that I’m really confused why some companies go all RTO. Probably they just don’t have good systems in place to know who’s doing their job. We do.