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- Comment on Are there "headhunters" that work *for* you? 2 days ago:
Another but:
You’ve got to be a pretty good candidate for them to want to work with you. A friend of mine was placed by one, but she had a decade of project management experience with all the right buzzwords
- Comment on Have you?!?! 4 days ago:
Thanks and sorry, Hendrik Lorentz! I’d consider it a grave insult to be confused for Freud, lol.
- Comment on Have you?!?! 4 days ago:
I only recognize Nobel (not even certain about him), Curie, Freud, and Einstein, that’s bad.
- Comment on No title and I can't stop laughing 5 days ago:
What does this mean? I looked up malazan yoke and got nothing.
- Comment on Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr 5 days ago:
Is this edited? He looks rough, even compared to just a few months ago. His job would still be stressful, but probably much less so if he were doing a good job. Pretty ironic that he’s harming his own health through his stances on healthcare while incorrectly attributing the poor health of the Americans to their own stances toward healthcare.
- Comment on Feelin Swifty 6 days ago:
I love their music!
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 6 days ago:
I had an aunt Julia growing up and my parents sat me down when I was four or five and they heard me calling her aunt Ju to explain that “Jew” wasn’t inherently a slur, but it could be offensive to people if I just shouted it randomly after my aunt. Based on that, I suspect they would have talked to me about slurs if it had come up, but I never used them.
I did once talk to my grandmother at around age eleven about seeing a huge Afro and she asked if I meant the person or the hairstyle. I complained to my mom about her being racist and she set me straight. Both of my my grandparents taught at colleges in the greater Boston area around the time they were integrated and my grandmother insisted on renting a room in their house out to black students who couldn’t get housing otherwise throughout my mom’s whole childhood and ended friendships with people who had a problem with it. She was just from another time and didn’t consider “Afro” to be an offensive term, probably because she was involved in civil rights through the seventies, when that was used by lots of black groups as a term of empowerment
- Comment on Looks like she's making it official...! 6 days ago:
And why does everyone assume that everyone cares about youth and has the same taste in appearances? Maybe she grew up a patriots fan and her absolute dream was to meet belichick, then they hit it off. Maybe he makes her laugh and he’s kind and good with his hands. Maybe they’ve got a super niche kink in common.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 1 week ago:
I cannot describe how much I hate this feeling. It’s probably honestly been protective because I have another reason to always use condoms, and even when I’m drunk, I’m still autistic.
- Comment on Informative review 1 week ago:
- Comment on Informative review 1 week ago:
Could be boba
- Comment on leading ai company 1 week ago:
I’m nowhere close to tech and this is obviously a bad sign. Imagine an apartment complex trying to get new tenants by advertising that they have plumbers and exterminators do work twice a day at various units.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 weeks ago:
I think I’d prefer a comprehensive test of each maga hat’s tensile strength, just to be sure.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 weeks ago:
Tbh, the fraternity was pretty inclusive. It wasn’t required that they go coed, they just decided to. I do wonder what she’s like now that she’s a lot further removed from her hometown, but I know she’s at least still heavily anti-trump.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 weeks ago:
For a long time (at least through the late 2010s and possibly still now, I’m no longer a good candidate to donate for other reasons), you couldn’t donate if you were a man who had sex with men (MSM) or if you had had sex with a MSM recently (6 months-2 years). Your own condom use was irrelevant.
I did once decide to stick with hands only with someone because I had an appointment to donate blood later that week. My stepsister wasn’t aware of that restriction though and I can’t imagine it’s the presiding reason why a lot of even queer women aren’t interested in bi men, given the demographics of blood donation.
There are a lot of wild things that preclude you from donating blood depending on where you live though, including time spent in the UK during the mad cow disease spike, even if you were a vegan. I understand that blood donation organizations are working with such large numbers and such a small margin for error that they would rather exclude a thousand good candidates than let one bad candidate donate, but it ends up being extremely discriminatory. I looked for some recent numbers, and it is true that even today the majority of new HIV cases occur in MSM or people who have sex with MSM, but given how widespread HIV suppression treatment is (in the US), correct condom usage reduces that risk to nearly zero.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 weeks ago:
I’m in my mid thirties, and I’m a bi woman who tends to go for bi men. I was once chatting about one of my exes with my dad and same aged stepsister, when she expressed deep surprise that I would be willing to date a man who had dated a man. My dad agreed, which is par for the course, but I could not for the life of me get a believable answer from my stepsister as to why that would be a dealbreaker.
She had been part of the GSA in one of the most progressive towns in America and was at that time in first cohort of women to join a previously men-only fraternity at her college, so she definitely falls under the progressive umbrella.
I literally can’t think of a reason except for donating blood, but that wasn’t it.
- Comment on Me too. 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I said salty protein :) Swiss cheese is imo so unremarkable that the dairy free version is just as good, and a vegan Reuben is still a perfect sandwich.
- Comment on Won't someone PLEASE think of the producers which easily make millions in profits each year 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t load for me
- Comment on Me too. 2 weeks ago:
Like why Reubens are so good. I don’t like salty protein, bread with caraway seeds, thousand island dressing or Swiss cheese, but fuck is a Reuben delicious.
- Comment on Refreshing to occasionally see an honestly written obituary 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I wonder if the obituaries for Dennis and Lyle are as celebratory.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
Preserving has been an option for much of our history and it works much better than just storage.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 3 weeks ago:
It’s just the standard chicken pasta recipe for buffalos.
- Comment on It's a perfect night 3 weeks ago:
Coffee is also bad for your gall bladder if you already have gallstones. It can help prevent them before they’ve formed though
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 3 weeks ago:
I never realized how much colm meaney looks like Gorbachev.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 4 weeks ago:
Once during the early pandemic, I inadvertently received 12 pounds of frozen broccoli from a grocery delivery (~5,5 kilos). I have never been too full for a piece of broccoli, and didn’t have the space in my freezer for all of it, so I decided to make a huge amount and see how much I could actually eat.
I made 6 pounds (roasted with spices and a little olive oil) and ate it all without issue. I honestly could have eaten more, but I was a little worried about causing myself digestive issues. I didn’t have any, even though doing the math, I was over 4% broccoli afterwards.
- Comment on Count yourself lucky 4 weeks ago:
How long is 6000 metric miles?
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t know if they do the right e sound there, but that’s 100% how I pronounce it in English (I’m from New England, so I would assume it’s pronounced more correctly in Texas, but maybe not).
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 4 weeks ago:
Tbh, excepting maybe bail peprs, I think they’re all written phonetically for the local accent.
- Comment on Anon is unaware he's at risk for a heart attack 4 weeks ago:
Legal documents tend to just specify things like that as a matter of course. Boilerplate is easier to adapt than starting from scratch every time.
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 weeks ago:
asking for help moving boxes /eyeroll
Just as an aside, I would do this regardless of my interest. If I’m moving and there’s someone watching, I’m going to try to enlist help. They can say no and I won’t be offended in any way, but I’ll give it a shot, because moving sucks and it’s faster with more hands. I won’t gush about how strong the movers are or anything, but I will offer them beer/pizza afterwards.