Yeah I can’t really stand the guy, haven’t really like him since anything after “Snowball Fight”, but I gotta admit his late night show is easily the best out of any of them right now. Notwithstanding of course previous goats like Conan (or Ferguson a little).

Definitely! They’ve got a lot of understated but really cool instrumentation on this one. I tried drumming along to a few of the tracks, and it’s easy enough to get a decent groove, but the subtleties they’re actually playing are just completely wild. Like a jazz drummer just going nuts and doing his own thing, but just softly and real gently mixed. It’s pretty impressive.

They just dropped a new album, “Only God Was Above Us”, and as much as I was totally ready to hate it, it’s actually really good. Nowhere near as saccharine as this track, but just real nice, very chill.

Congratulations, you have a conscience, and are therefore unsuited for management.

Also the confrontation thing, yeah big time. Moving up means more crushing downwards, which feels bad no matter what. Either somebody genuinely fucked up, and it’s some degree of your fault for not training them right or catching it sooner, or they really did what they thought was right (and may have actually been the right thing) but a customer is mad or your bosses are mad or another department is mad, and you have to discipline them anyways.

You also have to fire people, which is probably the worst interpersonal interaction you can ever have at work, let alone in most areas of life. Again sometimes it’s fully justified, and it still sucks, but plenty of times it’s something like a layoff where it’s “nothing personal, just the bottom line ya know”, or it’s that the bosses decided that this person needs to be fired for some arbitrary reason you may not even agree with, but you still have to be the one to pull the trigger and ruin this person’s day/year. Additionally, you usually can’t talk about the reasons with anyone else, so you have to field questions from the rest of your team that are usually good and valid, but you have to explain the away with vague corpo-speak and can’t really tell them what’s up.

So ya know, if any of that sounds fun, I mean, get checked out, because yikes.

I could have written this exact post, down to most of the same numbers lol.

If you think you’ll actually like management (which probably means a lot more meetings, reviewing other people’s work and time sheets, and making high-level decisions instead of actually doing any of the work involved) (and also means taking the flak for any screw-ups your subordinates make, trying to implement new procedures in a desperate attempt to make things better but your underlings hate the changes and your bosses are never as impressed as you thought they’d be, and watching other people excel and grow and learn new things doing the stuff you probably got into your industry to do in the first place), then by all means go for it.

I fell for this trap a few times. I was desperate for the pay increase at the time, which go figure never feels like as much as it looked like on paper, but I still needed it anyways.

These days, I keep it very explicit with my bosses that I have no interest whatsoever in doing those roles any more. It might make me a slightly less attractive employee, and it might hamper my career growth to some extent, but it means I get to actually do the thing I’ve always wanted to do every single day, instead of getting sucked into a bullshit-conjuration position vaguely adjacent to that thing, and I am grateful every day for that.

I was just listening to this today! It’s really good!

They’ll tell you at the beginning to go back and listen to the introductory episode, and if you’re someone like me that doesn’t have a strong background in Chinese history, I agree that it’s really worth doing, since they give kind of a high-level overview of the whole thing, and then this series really dives in deep.

I mean, weed is good for all that, but I’m guessing if that was an option you’d have certainly tried it already.

Headaches run in my family, and some swear by lidocaine patches. Never did much for me, but shouldn’t hurt to try.

It’s just yummy, and the flavor is way more intense. I brew and drink some pretty fancy coffees sometimes, but even still I don’t really care about the differences between anything above mid-tier, so that’s where I usually live. It’s just nice to have something to sip on that hurts ya back, ya know?

Though admittedly, I’ll sometimes go for a brown sugar shaken espresso monstrosity, but those are on pretty rare occasions, and usually when I’m already making one for my spouse anyways.

I mean anecdotally, I did a very similar thing to that for about 8 years straight, and towards the tail end I joined a roller derby team and my athletic endurance was better than ever, and at its best when I was fully lit. Great for lifting weights too.

Found it to be wonderful for practicing things you already mostly knew how to do, but more challenging for learning entirely new things. But lung capacity was an absolute non-issue for me, personally. I always attributed that to the extra deep breaths and breath-holding that went with the hobby.

Snap always seems to me like a red flag for poly/enm. Like, it usually seems like people insisting on that are often the ones looking for plausible deniability about their conversations and activities.

Like I guess if you’re sending a lot of lewds, they are slightly less likely to be sitting in the storage of someone else’s phone, but if you don’t trust the person you’re sending it to to keep it safe, then you better not care what happens with it after you send it anyways.

Beyond the disappearing thing, the rest if it kinda sucks to use. The only really good thing it has going for it is a super robust camera filter marketplace. They’ve got really good face swapping and image manipulation filters, and that shit is genuinely fun to use. I really wish they would just release the camera part on its own, with no connection to anyone else at all. But ofc that’s jot their business so they won’t.

Very yes! UTC-5 here. Got kids though so not a ton of availability, but this is something I’ll make some room for.

Usually play edh and draft, but down for whatever.

Spelltable is is my usually haunt, and it’s pretty cool for anyone that wants to do some paper. You can use OBS with something like Moxfield or similar to play webcam without having any paper. Maybe not so good for opsec I guess, but certainly fun.

Edit for *OBS.

Rep. Gregory Meeks

Nominative determinism for cowardly shit-libs.

Yeah it was fine. A little unwieldy to eat what with the big pile of stuff on top, and the base is pretty fragile and falls apart easily, but decent flavor.

Whoah, I guess I’m a little out of date. I’ll check that one out then!

Right? If you ignore the dumb-looking decals, at least.

Edit: pretty dang low bar though, tbf.

Yeah they definitely get there. I miss their first album vibes fr though. “Tesselate” was a great ode to threesomes (well love triangles, at least) , and “Fitzpleasure” was just all horny, all day.

I feel like The Dream is the closest they’ve gotten back to that sound since then, but they went a little far with it and didn’t have many catchy or groovy tracks, imo. Any recommendations for bands/albums with similar vibes to An Awesome Wave?

Oof, it’s even the perfect shade of orange, the kind that evokes extreme citrus flavor. Crush orange soda levels of orange. Beautiful!

Shame that awesome cars are so often owned by awful people. Should get the exact same one and convert it to fuel cell just to spite him. ;P

If you’re a homeserver nerd, you can set up a Komga service and then use an app like Tachiyomi for reading from your library. A bit involved if you’ve only got a few things, but the time investment really pays off if you’ve got a big library.