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Live your best life. We all have bills to pay but If it isn’t the right fit, send out resumes. You owe corporations nothing. And you probably won’t get promoted if you hate your coworkers. You’re better off trying to find a better fit than trying to thrive somewhere that doesn’t match.

That advice goes to wildlife too. I’m guessing they won’t read this but if you’re a raccoon eating out of restaurant dumpsters, find the best dumpster. They got plenty nowadays.

At one job, I changed the default settings in everyone’s calendar to 45 minute meetings instead of an hour and it increased productivity like ten fold. Designers and developers need to have longer meetings sometimes but they don’t need a marketing person or an executive there.

I hope they all play amateur sports while the court case plays out.

If you’re using IQ as a measure of intelligence, you probably already know.

Ok, so maybe not nice.

People are really overlooking that he’s 69 and nice.

Honestly, this is a nice feature of macOS (or at least iTerm 2; I don’t use the official terminal). I know CTRL-C is used to kill processes and we all have that muscle memory but I usually try to change that on my personal Linux installs because I’ve hit it by mistake before.

I used to use CTRL+INSERT for copy and SHIFT+INSERT for paste but there’s usually no insert key on laptops or even small keyboards. It’s probably time to just adapt.

https://youtu.be/cAvXnBgJMdM

What the fuck are we spying on? You could probably just have a nice lunch with every person in Greenland for less money than it’ll cost to replace that jet that fell off the air craft carrier the other day. And that was the second jet.

Plus, we have a whole Alaska. We’re not going to lack access to the Northwest Passage. (NB: this is assuming there’s any logic at all. I have no idea why Trump is obsessed with Greenland. It’s probably because the Mercator projection makes it look bigger than it is and his assistants show him maps in the daily briefing or whatever.)

Also, I’m a Tottenham fan so it’s possible I’m just disagreeing with Arsene Wenger. Center of mass is fine too. Something like that but a line judge can’t pay attention to every body part. Just make it feet.

I’m an American so take this for what it’s worth but I played and refereed soccer. I broke my arm once and could only be a line judge (or assistant referee) for a bit. It’s a challenge keeping up with the second to last defender and then sprinting and watching for other activity (like whether a ball crossed the line and was actually a goal).

Which is maybe fine at the professional level but I still kind of hate VAR. I wish the law was about where the feet are. You can stay with the second to last defender and watch who runs first and still make it down to ensure a goal crosses the line. We have technology at top levels now but most levels don’t.

Not to say assistant referees shouldn’t call fouls. You can be focused on the second to last defender and still notice if someone gets an elbow to the eye or if shenanigans go on. But the center ref is almost always able to make those decisions reasonably well.

I’m not defending Gadaffi’s sanity or competence — his was one of misrule and clown behavior — but come the fuck on.

If every other recent console is any guide, we’re not going to be able to actually buy it for like 7 months unless you sleep in a parking lot or spend every second refreshing some random “is it in stock” web site. Honestly, it doesn’t matter that much to me what the launch stuff is. The “real” launch will be later.

Why are you borrowing like $3,000 a credit hour to use ChatGPT? Take some fucking humanities courses so you don’t grow up to be like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk challenging each other to an MMA match. This might be your last chance in life to be surrounded by experts and hot people having discussions.

Being able to use software everyone uses isn’t a marketable skill. Learn some shit. You’re an adult now.

When I was still hiring, I barely even read the education section except out of curiosity or to come up with interview questions. The only thing disqualifying would have been if the school was fake (like a Trump University MBA or whatever). It matters for “prestigious” white shoe law firms, major investment banks, grad school, etc. but not really anyone else.

Don’t half-ass your cover letter and interviews, though. For people without experience, especially, I, personally, was always trying to make sure we had a good match. I read every cover letter in part to make sure (a) people were literate, (b) knew what the job entailed, and (c) could be put in a position to succeed. You don’t want to hire someone who doesn’t match. A person applying to a non-profit working with schools and a person applying at a rocket launch start-up aren’t equally qualified regardless of skills and that’s fine.

I know needing a job sucks but there are always qualified people who just aren’t a good fit. So, don’t take it personally if you get rejected. I’ve been to third interviews because I got along with someone and then not chosen for jobs that, in retrospect, I really shouldn’t have been hired to do. I would have been miserable and left. Maybe it was a culture mismatch or maybe I’d didn’t care about the product but thought, “I could live in that city and get another job in a year.” There’s always “finalists” and sometimes, it comes down to a coin flip.

Always a good idea to piss off people who can survive in the woods and know how to manage bears.

That smells like oil lobby horseshit. It’s probably a real, but extremely minor phenomenon that we’re going to have to hear about for fucking ever.

Pretty sure Palantir got the “Keep Americans Divided” contract and not the non-profit radio stations that do Tiny Desk concerts and have to do fundraisers all the time to keep the lights on.

I’m just gonna say it: there should be fewer cicada broods. We already have like 16 types of ice. We’re supposed to remember what ice IX is and brood IX is? That’s like trying to remember which Google app name means “send a text message.” Google Talk XIII or whatever cursed thing we’re on now. Just far too many.

One of the great moments of old Twitter was when 5G first came out and famous crazy person Naomi Wolf went to Northern Ireland and said life without 5G felt calm and peaceful like 1970’s Belfast.