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That was my pencil from middle school through college. Like literally 1 of them. The same pencil lasted me over a decade. I loved that pencil.

Technically yes? But also technically no? It's complicated.

I've told the longer story before, but the short version is that I was the longest-tenured employee at a movie rental place during college. I had outlasted 3 managers, and 2 full rotations of the entire rest of the staff. Money started going missing from the store, and I figured out based on times, schedules, etc. that it was the newest manager who was stealing. So I took that information and went to the district manager. I was fired a week later on some bullshit completely fabricated customer complaint. Got a call about a month or so after from the regional manager telling me that the district manager had been working with several of the store managers in his area to steal a significant amount of cash from the company. They were all fired and, while I'm not 100% certain, I believe they were in the process of filing criminal charges. But the regional manager was trying to re-staff like 20 different positions, and by suggestion from the rest of my store's crew wanted to offer me the manager position for that location.

I was graduating from college and moving back home about 2 months later, and they didn't have a store closer to my home that I could transfer to, so I had to decline. Apparently he had actually heard glowing reviews of me specifically several times from previous managers over the ~2.5 years I'd been working there, and he seemed genuinely sorry about what happened and disappointed that I couldn't stay with them.

So yes, I was fired. But then it was rescinded and they offered me a promotion instead.

I'm sure we'll never find an actual use for fish driving vehicles on land. But that's not the point of the study.

Learning about how simpler systems work is the first step in understanding more complex systems. Want to understand how the human brain is capable of interpreting its environment? You're not going to start with humans. You start with something simpler and work your way up.

It's like if you were dropped off in the middle of nowhere with no maps or tools and told you'll be saved if you head 5 miles north. If you're completely ignorant, all you can really do is pick a random direction and start walking. But if you understand how the sun moves, you can easily look up and figure out which way is north. Understanding which direction the Earth rotates on its own seems pretty useless. But that base-level knowledge can become a tool to direct you on how to solve more complicated problems. That's what these types of studies are for.

AFrenchY2J posted...

How come the GOP can get away with anything, but my side has to resign?

The difference is that one side at least admits they fucked up when they get caught and is willing to face the consequences for that.

The other side refuses to believe that they even did anything wrong in the first place.

Shouldn't you be happy that Dems at least hold each other somewhat accountable for their wrongs? It's still not great, and they still don't suffer nearly the same level of repercussions that a normal day-job working guy would for the same actions. But at least it's something. If they didn't, could you even really claim that they were any different from their opposition?

Full Throttle posted...

How old were you when your parents were comfortable leaving you home alone and without supervision?

For a couple hours? Like 9 or 10.

For anything more than a single night? Maybe 14?

trickMms posted...

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Quit calling them "hesitant vaxxers." They're not hesitating. They're refusing. If they haven't gotten it by this point, they're not going to. They made their bed, now they can lie in it. And we can close the lid and walk away. There is no amount of information that is going to change the mind of someone who has already decided that all information they disagree with is fake.

When you play stupid games...

Most factory/automation games have a metric fuckton of gameplay.

Satisfactory is a great one, especially if you're somewhat new to the genre. I've also recently gotten hooked on Dyson Sphere Program. It has consistently blown my mind in terms of both scale and sheer beauty. Launching your first solar sails and starting on your first Dyson sphere can create some absolutely jaw-droppingly stunning moments.

Like this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEpTaXRIhE0

I'm really disappointed "Normal Water" wasn't just a literal glass of water.

I mean...it depends. I know people who wear sandals because they invariably have to take their shoes off at security. Sandals are just less hassle.

As a native Ohioan....please let me go to the shadow realm. I gotta get out of here.

I always liked the hacking in Warframe, actually.

A tournament could takes years to complete.

They need a significant amount of recovery time after big fights before they're ready to take on another opponent. Top-tier fighters usually only have a couple fights a year, sometimes not even that.

How can you say "we're not letting the lapped cars through" for 3 laps under the safety car, and then Red Bull complains and immediately the cars are let through?

But ONLY the ones that were between Hamilton and Verstappen? Half the lapped cars weren't allowed to go through before they removed the safety car. In what world is this an acceptable way to decide the championship?

Why does Max get to have a free win in a race where he literally had nothing on Hamilton the entire time? When the best driver is so clearly screwed out of a win because of completely arbitrary decisions that don't line up with any previously established procedures, you have to question the legitimacy of the race.

Mercedes genuinely might have a case for contesting that finish. They literally didn't let all of the lapped cars through. The moment the ones between Hamilton and Verstappen got out of the way they started the race up again.

How do you make any argument against blatant favoritism? What the fuck just happened? And how are they allowed to get away with it?

Max earned literally nothing that entire fucking race. He had absolutely no chance of competing without a straight-up gift from race control. This is a fucking travesty.

Well that is the single most horse shit thing I've ever witnessed. What an absolute fucking joke.

Well fuck.

Hamilton is screwed if they restart.

Oh ffs, if Mercedes fucks Hamilton over again with terrible strategy...

They've been fucking up strategy all season and it's kind of ridiculous. Seems like every other race Hamilton is mad at the team about something, and I frankly don't blame him. This had better work out.

Damn. Kinda gutted for Kimi. What a disappointing way to end his career. :-(

emblem boy posted...

That defense from Checo to slow down Hamilton

Credit to Perez, that was some great driving.

But Red Bull just don't have the pace. Hamilton's making a statement right now.

Credit to Perez there, that was one hell of a fight against Hamilton. But it seems to be all for naught. It just doesn't look like Max has got enough to even pressure Hamilton on this track.

Only took 6 corners for Max to try a dirty tactic. Shocker.

Fuck Verstappen. He's going to get someone hurt driving like that. It's about time race control stopped letting him get away with that shit.

I just read that as Fallon getting worried because that probably was not part of any rehearsal or pre-show rundown. Like Jonah was just spontaneously doing something on his own that hadn't been approved or run by the show first. And when something like that happens, you really never know what the person is about to say or do.

TendoDRM posted...

His first strategy should be to avoid Max, who I can see taking them both out to guarantee himself the championship.

While possible, they would have to make a pretty convincing argument that it wasn't intentional if they want to avoid a points deduction. Especially as dirty as Max has been racing recently. More likely Perez is told to take one for the team and throw himself into Hamilton.

Either way, if Hamilton doesn't finish the race and there's any hint of it being because of Red Bull, there will be an absolute shitstorm afterwards.