I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.

I can’t be fucked to type it all out but I was about to write a fake reinventing of the S&P500 and 401ks - which is the “safe” [citation needed] version

eh it’s one day a week and I’m respected and appreciated in other contexts it’s just the one day because the boss is convinced it enables the team.

one CXO is playing the music, the COO hides in the corner by the swag storage, the CEO has a private office not connected to the main bullpen, the two VPs don’t care or are joining in

right now I am hiding in a call booth in my office on our one in person day a week because the rest of the office is singing along to achy breaky heart while two junior employees throw lifesaver mints at each other.

if I wanted to only play half my games at twice the price for only a few years on hardware i can’t upgrade with fewer functions and content due to exclusivity, I would buy a console

The public largely supported the abolition of duelling. The reason it disappeared was because it was largely associated with slave owners in the south and it disappeared after they lost the Civil War.

you can’t sin against the devil

I didn’t play Stardew valley because she star on my valley til I dew

Not quite the same for me, but realizing I could command line automate Hubstaff (productivity tracking software) means my time sheet is always accurate and in budget.

well of course not, they all have sports cars etc etc

I have done this with work stuff. Doesn’t always work.

Studies suggest this is an extreme minority, and stories like yours - while yours might be true (and be fair to me here, we’re just two usernames, we don’t know each other’s motives and biases), it’s often used to push reasons to defund homeless shelters and criminalize being poor.

Even if you have seen a homeless person (or imposter) do something wrong, it might be worth considering that being homeless is very difficult and often caused by pre-existing medical conditions or institutionalized discrimination.

Excel has a 15 point float, a quadrillionth, which should be enough for anything you were using excel for.

counterpoint: Bob Vylan

I saw it on Jul 4 in the cinema with some friends as something to do. it wasn’t truly awful just kinda mid.

It feels like ScarJo is trying hard to be Gal Godot, that they’re trying to muscle in on the Slutty Little Glasses for Men meme, and the MegaDinos that are genetically engineered are the least interesting parts of the movie.

It’s in favor, the characters are mildly interesting, interact well and the structure is pretty satisfying.

I just watched the new Jurassic Park movie yesterday and a guy falls 500 feet into a shallow river and is completely unhurt so now I don’t know who to believe

the joke is he’s falling to his death and someone is telling him “you can do it [survive]!”

Gustav Janouch interviewed Kafka who talked passionately about music but not specific music.

However, being from Central Europe at the turn of the century, it’s likely he was talking about the composers Smetana and Dvořak.

So doth hates potatoes

would be the modern equivalent of “so does hates” which doesn’t make sense

“So, doth thou hate potatoes?” or “So, thou hates potatoes?”