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79758 pts ยท December 31, 2011


I'm the kind of person that doesn't like to write about myself.

There's a bunch near me too (Boston area). I tried 3 or 4 of them and none had it. Guess I just need to keep at it and try some other ones.

Thanks!

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Junior thinks he's asking for a high five and that he'll give out treats after. That he's not accepting it (and worse: not giving out treats) is confusing Jr.

1 week ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

Where do you get the ube flavor from? I did a cursory search and didn't see it for sale at that many places except specialty shops that are probably fine but I didn't want to sign up with for 1 item.

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They're not flabbergasted. This dude knows he won't be penalized. His refusal to answer, denying that he's refusing to answer, etc., the whole song and dance is his theater, signaling to conservatives that he is one of them.

2 weeks ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

Even worse. It requires a 3/5 majority in the senate.

Or for it to be so absurdly desired by the entire party, while also holding a majority in the senate and house and holding the presidency, that it makes its way onto a reconciliation bill as a purely budgetary measure.

Reconciliation is hard and easy to derail and there are limits on it too.

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1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Understandable. Take care of yourself!

It's a rough road but I hope I hope you're able to heal from the loss.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you, hugs to you too! Yeah, the loss of what was dreamt of adds a lot to the hurt.

I don't know if it might help you, but something I've found helps me with a lost pet. I wait a few days, and then I pick a night I'm OK being a complete emotional wreck. I take that night and I write down every thought, memory, or idea I can with the pet.

For me, it helps shift my brain a bit. I don't need to obsessively think about them anymore, b/c I "know" that I won't forget them as I wrote it down.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I also lost my cat two years ago. I moved into the local major city last month, and I just had to stop and break down crying for a bit when I set her urn down in my new place. I had always thought we'd make it here together.

I hope you're able to find the fiscal space to confidently get a cat again soon!

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#2 I'd say this one isn't about the Cold War ending at all.

The trend towards less inequality started with the great depression and the New Deal efforts to combat it.

The trend towards greater inequality starts under Reagan. Then it accelerated during the 90s tech boom. I think the difference there is that the tech boom accelerated a kind of industry that heavily favors the market winners in a way that older industries did not, meaning more wealth got concentrated with the people at the top.

2 months ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 3

I hear you; it took me over six months to find something, and that was super recently. It's stressful, it's discouraging, and honestly I'd say it's more work than having a job itself. Just hang in there and keep at it. It's all you can do, really.

I hope you find something soon!

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm an EE in the US.

I agree that there will definitely be managers that axe a candidate for that reason. But on the flip side there will be managers who have your mentality too: they'll dislike a candidate that doesn't show an interest in professional growth. Can't cover everything.

I'm pretty sure one of my job applications was rejected on those grounds. A manager suggested he thought I'd be "stagnant" in the role because it only had so much room for growth for me. Rejected me the next day.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Job market is absolutely atrocious, yes. The point here though isn't to get by with a haphazard answer and for it to be good enough. It's to give a good answer. If you're bullshitting something about a long standing interesting the company then the people interviewing you will pick up on it and will be less likely to hire you, not more.

You want a simple, true, answer that justifies why you're interested in the position that relates to the type of work you'd be doing. That helps get the job.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I can only speak from my experience, but most HMs took my details on that well. I am an engineer (not junior) so it's also a field where there is always more to learn. This might work differently for other careers.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The point is to have it not be bullshit. The simple answer here is that hiring managers all know that the core reason we want a job is to have money to live -- they want to know why do you want the specific job at their specific company.

All that comes down to in practice is being able to say "I care about X, you guys do X" in some way. That shouldn't be bullshit, it should be honest. At least for white collar jobs -- I can't speak to blue collar which I assume has a different mentality.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

As someone that recently spent a few months job searching before I landed something... The trick isn't to have a long standing passion for the company. It's to be able to map what the company does to what you want to do, and to be able to explain that naturally in a conversation.

This is harder with more mundane jobs, but those jobs are less likely to care about this topic. For office jobs it's applicable. Map a desire to help people, to build complex things, to deepen knowledge in a field, etc

3 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

That picture made me want to read the rest of the forward. Unfortunately I couldn't find it online anywhere to share with others, but my ebook copy has it. It was interesting but the text in your image above is the only bit relevant to the TV quote.

The next segment is him talking about how even as readers used their own experience to make the quote work for them in ways he hadn't expected, he realized he did the same with books he read when younger.

3 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

You're treading on thin ice.

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Pointing out the hypocrisy isn't there to convince them. It's to convince people who are on the fence or people that don't follow things closely and only get the news via small bits that leak out into public discourse. Like this video!

3 months ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

It's not that they wouldn't retcon. It's that they wouldn't retcon to do something like what you describe, cool as it may be.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#24

3 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

He's already been established as a daemon prince of chaos undivided as a result of the Iron Cage.

It's a neat idea but they'd have to do some retconing to make it work. Which I'd be OK with but I doubt GW would do it.

3 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

If they're not closely related to leopards, how closely related are they to clouds?

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A cat I had many years ago loved to bring mice to me and watch me catch them.

The best way I found to do it was empty yogurt containers. Perfect size to go over a mouse, and easy enough to slip a cover underneath it after success.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

100% right.

Although there can be a linked factor: by finding social interactions tiring, someone might be inclined to avoid them, resulting in them being socially anxious due to inexperience. This might be a part of why people associate being introverted with being bad at socializing.

3 months ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

If not friend, why friend shape?

3 months ago | Likes 113 Dislikes 1

A lot less likely to hit someone's home or workplace at sea, too.

3 months ago | Likes 136 Dislikes 0

I'm not a lawyer but I don't see the way for him to personally benefit from this. The scummiest part you can say about this is that he's 87 and was 83 when he did this -- he's doing it after it has little impact on his life because there's only so much of it he has left.

The company basically owns itself and invests the profits into itself or into charities. As best I can tell his goal was to ensure the company continues to run under his ethical concerns after he's dead.

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The Patagonia founder is not a billionaire any more specifically because he did this. He placed ownership of the company in a trust to use its profits to care for the environment. He couldn't do that without owning it, and he wouldn't profit off of doing so. His main wealth was in the company, which he got rid of without being paid for it.

Founder of North Face died in 2015 and, by definition of no longer being alive, is also not a billionaire.

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