NABDad
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- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
There were some things that could be interpreted as prayers, but the vast majority were not.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
Shit, cats do that. Do they also pray to god?
Why would cats pray to themselves?
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 weeks ago:
I’d argue that he’s just trying to claim that the reason no woman has ever gotten pleasure from sex with him is because he didn’t want her to.
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. The peel is a significant part of the banana. You wouldn’t want to waste it.
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 4 weeks ago:
Clearly the answer is to eat the sticker.
- Comment on Are Memoirs and Autobiographies partly fictional? How the f do people remember so much detail? 4 weeks ago:
Some people keep journals. When those people write their autobiographies, they can check the records.
Other people have good memories.
It’s probably also more important for it to be a good story than for it to be 100% accurate.
- Comment on Anon has had enough 5 weeks ago:
Some mornings, after you sit, you need to bend over until your forehead is on your feet.
- Comment on A hypothesis 5 weeks ago:
Witnessed a radiology resident typing her password into a computer and for each uppercase letter she would press shift-lock, type the letter, then press shift-lock again.
I couldn’t figure it out until my mom pointed out she probably only ever used a phone or tablet.
Which is crazy, because I can’t imagine getting through high school, college, and medical school without ever working on a desktop computer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was single for 16 years until I started dating my first girlfriend. We dated for seven years, and we’ve been married for 32.
We started as friends and stayed friends.
- Comment on Eaten by Jesus 1 month ago:
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
I had a class on college taught by a Catholic priest.
He loved to have people come to his door to talk religion. He’d invite them in, give them tea, and then talk to them about Catholicism until they asked to leave.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
I don’t really want anyone to knock on my door (the doormat says “GO AWAY!” for a reason). However, I’m likely to be much more polite to someone talking about science than religion.
I’d probably say “no, thank you” before slamming the door in their face.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
You are saying I should have said:
“It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than me.”
The personal pronoun, “me” is used when it is the object. However, that’s not the case here. I’m not being held. Thoughts are the object. I’m comparing how well they hold onto thoughts with how well I hold onto thoughts.
The sentence, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I”, has an implied verb. This is common in informal conversation.
The meaning I would expect an English speaker to understand would be, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I can.”
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
No. It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
If you have a bit of memory retention
Ah. That’s my problem.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
You guys can remember your thoughts long enough to post them after you get dried off?
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- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 2 months ago:
While I appreciate the composting efficiency, I was thinking something like this for maximum gruesomeness:
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 2 months ago:
If we’re going for gruesome, how about we build a huge version of one of those slicers that they feed vegetables in, and just feed the oligarchs into it.
Gives you the option to feed them head first if you want to show mercy, while still being able to feed them in feet first for someone like Musk.
Then they are cut up into small, easy to compost pieces.
- Comment on they all start out the same but in a month they figure it out 2 months ago:
In my experience, it is also an indication that they want to blame someone else for their actions.
- Comment on they all start out the same but in a month they figure it out 2 months ago:
I worked a job where when one of the team moved on, we’d all pitch in to keep things running while management would work to fill the vacancy. Management would work fast, and we’d fairly quickly get a new person.
When I moved to my next job, I automatically started busting my ass trying to get things done. My new coworkers had to take me aside and point out that there was no help coming. They weren’t going to hire anyone to help, and if I killed myself trying to keep things working, they might not even hire someone to replace me.
After years of us complaining that we needed more people, management decided to bring in a consultant to review our work, evaluate the department, and report on what actions, if any, were necessary. It was fairly clear that management expected the experts to report that we had enough staff.
After interviewing everyone and shadowing us while we worked, they reported that for the size of the organization and the amount of work we were doing, and comparing our staff to staff at similar organizations, we should have had at least twice as many people on our team.
To their credit, this served as a wakeup call to administration. They realized that they needed to take steps to correct the staffing, and also realized how lucky they were to have the staff they had to keep things running. That was over 20 years ago, and things have continued to improve.
- Comment on Breaking news 2 months ago:
At this point Federal Booby Inspector has more prestige.
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 2 months ago:
I know you are, but what am I?
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 2 months ago:
Yet still, my comment contributed more than yours (and more than this one).
Luckily it matters not at all.
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 2 months ago:
As I understand it, the term PTO (Paid Time Off) covers vacation time, sick time, paid holidays, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m there to work and earn money, not to make friends, not to fake a friendship with any manager.
That seems sad to me.
I managed a team for a few years. Another team in our organization made a pitch to take two of the people from my team into theirs. I ended up going along with the plan because it was a way to quickly get them a salary increase that I’d been trying to get for them for years. The rest of my team got absorbed into another team in our group and I transitioned to a non-management role.
We still chat constantly and we get together regularly for dinner. I consider them all close friends.
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 2 months ago:
Deleted my comment because I saw you beat me to it.
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 months ago:
As I understand it, the technique involves getting dehydrated almost to the point of death, getting the pictures/scene, then rehydrating before you have to get EMS involved.
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 months ago:
Well, I’m a depressed late-middle-aged father. I’m not a line cook, but I could probably work a grill in diner. I guess I should work out a bit to try to add muscle and cover everything.