They’ve actually achieved a higher state of enlightenment by using the superior duodecimal system (a.k.a. base 12).

Gosh dang, I was trying to make that a joke but yours is better than anything I thought of.

Christian
In
Name
Only

Not sure how much legality matters anymore, “normalize” or “desensitize” might be better words here. Ugh. I hate that’s an actual sentence I just typed. And to think there are certainly alternate timelines unimaginably worse than this. My heart breaks for alternate me. 😑

OOHHH very true, didn’t think of that. I’ll definitely try to be more considerate next time.

Not a big enough company for the owners to have vacation homes (only like 8 people so they were still very involved in the day-to-day), but one of them was talking about upgrading their riding mower a lot at the time. They were going to spend like 9 grand to cut their mowing time from 3 hours to 1 hour 45 minutes. All I could think was “lol, why not just restore most of that grass to native grassland and never think about it again?”

If I had the perspective then that I do now, I probably would have at least tried to do similar. At the time though I thought it was my dream job and blamed myself for feeling like I wasn’t meeting expectations. My crippling social anxiety (also just depression?) making it darn near impossible to ask for help… well, that didn’t help either.

The funny(?) thing is it was a small company of like 8 people total including the brothers that founded and own it. They’re not mean or totally heartless people either, the owners just don’t have good business sense.

I did my summer internship there during college a couple years earlier and thought everything went fine, but when they let me go they mentioned out of nowhere that “we had a similar concern while you were interning” even though I don’t recall them ever bringing that up with me prior to that very moment. Just weaseling for any justification they could think of for what they knew was a terrible miscalculation on their part, methinks. Oh well, it only put a minor dent in my self-esteem… 😅😑

For real. My last job essentially let me go because my being depressed meant they weren’t confident I could handle the workload of 2.5 people. Of course, they made that out to be my fault. Thanks guys, I’m worse now.

I had a bad feeling Michigan would be too. sigh

Slopturding

or

Turdturfing

I only wish we could have gotten a TV with a live Xitter search feed for “Iraq” in the background again. Yes, again. (Apologies for YouTube link.)

That’s what I thought, but then I got it. Here, the headline without amateur word order ambiguity:

Polls show increasing concerns about Trump’s mental acuity

I just learned about 20 minutes ago from another thread that the entire US government works off Twitter “intel” almost exclusively.

Last Week Tonight: Twitter

Well yeah, and that’s where things get interesting. Looking at their policy and voting history certainly does matter, and in fact it often is the best way to determine their character.

Yeah, I thought of that, but it would be just as easy for someone at the building to be like “I know your boss probably said you can just bust in here, but that’s not how the law works. You still need a warrant.”

But are ICE agents likely to understand even well established legal precedent? This is at the point of being guerrilla legality, it’s about using confusion to create delays for them wherever possible.

People are still confused or dismissive whenever I try to explain why I try to vote for character quality over party or policy. sigh

Seriously, you can always just buy more RAM…

^(oh. oh dear me.)