AA5B

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It does solve the problem at least as far as then you’d have legal standing to ban til too, and equally anything else that doesn’t follow the law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BRB, need more cheese⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their cheese had a brush with world fame and their only mistake was not publishing more pictures

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BRB, need more cheese⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • If it’s available in my grocery, I’ll stumble across it.
  • If it’s not available at my grocery, what is the point of me knowing about it?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time I'm here!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …. And blurt it out overly loudly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time I'm here!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly that’s what she felt like, but parts of the Midwest are strikingly flat with disturbingly regular road layouts, especially to someone who hasn’t been there before. My brother jokes that the biggest hill near him is the landfill and there’s too much truth to that

  It’s very different from the hilly area she was used to, where the joke is more like “the roads are not planned but just developed from wildlife paths “

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time I'm here!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  True story: first time my ex visited my family in the Midwest. As we started descending, she saw the perfect graph paper alignment and exclaimed way too loudly just as they throttled back “WOW, IT IS REALLY FLAT”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For work-sore hands⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do this too, until I found something more targeted. I also have a sensitivity to common lotion ingredients so can’t use them without making things worse. Unfortunately the petroleum jelly is never absorbed so without the gloves everything you touch gets greasy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your company looking for in your India resources? I’m convinced a lot of the problem is companies emphasizing low costs when outsourcing. You get what you pay for.

  I’ve seen much more consistent results from colleagues in India when the company invests in them as a location with longer term outlook. When you’re not just looking for lowest costs, you can afford better engineers and when you treat them right you can attract better engineers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You laugh, but I got my current job through linked in. I started going through old contacts to see if they were in an interesting place with openings, and found one - a guy who had been my VP a few jobs ago was building a new org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Early in my career I knew people without degreees who had managed to get in - once you’re in, you’re in. However their limitations became clear pretty quickly and I don’t believe you could break into the field today without a degree

  Even beyond the fact that this is a highly specialized kid where a degree is important, it’s a matter of scale. Every opening we have gets literally hundreds of applicants, all of whom have college degrees. We have to begin focusing on the most likely candidates somehow, so yes, no degree and you’re not even in the pile I see

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Family Size" has no meaning anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For my family of three, I’ve had to start buying “party size” of too many things.

  Family size cereal is ok though, since I’m the only one who eats it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"2 bedroom" AirBnB.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Van, sleeps 2” Is very different from: “2 bedroom Airbnb”.

  And it s not ok if the description is correct, they’re still fraudulently collecting views. That’s great that you have a camper van down by the river and I’m sure there are people who would appreciate it, but not someone who is looking for a 2 bedroom Airbnb”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oopsie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we’ve just changed what “the internet” is. Surely FaceHuggerBook is not the internet, that’s just a bunch of friends and family. I don’t trust the real internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oopsie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced. I mean of course they’re doing it but it only needs to be tiny nudges here and there and someone will go off the deep end. We give the Kremlin too much credit for our own dysfunction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nd snow 🥰 i love securing barren wilderness for oil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And trains. Can we finally get trains?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what happens when you just click through - you have legally agreed plus agree to binding arbitration for all future disagreements , in a venue of their choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a fee to close my HSA account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s unfortunate: it definitely sucks both that hearing aids are inordinately expensive and that they’re not usually covered. I assumed from reading your post that it was more intentionally spending down and abandoning the account

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a fee to close my HSA account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  401k money is taxable as regular income on withdrawal. The expectation is you will be in a lower tax bracket after retiring, so you win.

  HSA is not taxable, although I don’t know if that’s just when used for medical expenses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a fee to close my HSA account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: why? I’ve only been able to use an HSA once, and I thought the big advantage is that it’s your money you can keep and use whenever. Can’t you just keep using it normally, ideally save some of it?

  In my case, my ex got it put in our divorce judgement that I would carry “traditional” insurance, so I knew that my HSA had no future

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a fee to close my HSA account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this happen a couple jobs ago - I successfully spent it down to $1, but the they wouldn’t transfer that little. I suppose I may still legally have this amount somewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks mom, I don't want any⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also quite a few packages include recipes.

  • my family recipe for pecan pie has always been from the bottle of Karo Syrup
  • green stuff I made for New Years was originally from a package of Jello brand Pistachio instant pudding
  • family pumpkin pie recipe was from a can of pumpkin
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha ha ha ha …. Now all I can think of is the outstanding prank that could be. “Hey honey, can you please pump the gas?” Then “oh sorry, let me fix it, can you please pump the gas now”, over and over 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Initially he thought it would be a great video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regular autocorrect.

  It was intended to be “prudently”. Autocorrect seems to put too much weight on the first character, so if I fat-fingered ‘o’ instead of ‘p’ it tries to find an ‘o’ word that fits rather than the closest word that fits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you had a great christmas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, is this really true? I always assumed US was on the bad side of this trend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Initially he thought it would be a great video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was pretty far off and up on a ridge. I also would underestimate nature and believe I was orderly safe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is road or rail more expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The FAA must be an hallucination then. There is no ATC, no TSA, no ILS, no airways or airspace, no radar or radios.

  Sure airlines might pay for their own parking and facilities, might pay for a cushy spot to place your butt while you wait. They might pay for things that you the sheep see as you’re herded this way and that, but none of that is important to flying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is road or rail more expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We really should have nationalized the entire rail infrastructure, just like we did with highways and airports.

  But your analogy is incomplete. If you count things like rail yards, you should count rest areas and distributions centers and service centers. Doesn’t really change anything though: it’s a question of scale, weight and distance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are some downsides to marriage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you’re taking the joke too seriously. No one and no relationship is perfect. I can easily be both in a solid relationship with the love of my life and have some areas of frustration to vent in sexism jokes. Of course she may be frustrated enough to divorce me out of the blue, so I guess the joke is on me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are we satisfied with the idea that God made man intelligent in his image, while being all-knowing, but not this? Isn’t this the same thing? God could have made man with emotions in his image, while being in no way limited to those emotions himself

  (Insert misogynistic crack about an all-emotional God being proof God is a woman)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why women's pockets are useless | Answer in Progress⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy. I have cargo pants that can carry a standard 20 oz bottle of water for my dog, and that’s a lot of loose weight banging around when I take her for a long walk