I dunno. I’m pretty smart in some things, but I’ve also made some real bone-headed mistakes. Sometimes I’m rushing, sometimes I just truly don’t think about it. Sometimes while talking through what I think is the best solution, I figure out I’m wrong.

two things I’ve done.

-gotten a 3.9 GPA with honors through two years of medical school

-didn’t realize “Penn State” was in Pennsylvania until I stopped and thought about it

like, sometimes we don’t think about things enough. Sometimes we have a brain fart. Sometimes we’ve just never been introduced to a particular concept or factoid (being ignorant).

I think the only true stupidity is when people don’t learn from their mistakes, when people refuse to update their ideas to fit new facts, and when people remain willfully, maliciously ignorant as a point of pride.

easier to a fool a man, than it is to convince him he’s been fooled.

omg you had an angry older customer actually admit a mistake? what’d you do, place a loaded gun on the counter as you were talking??

Used to work on the line at a Honda plant building Accords and Acuras. What makes me wary of Honda cars is the fact that something like 70% of the workforce there were temps.

They have this ridiculous system, where they hire everyone as temps, and then use a lottery to bring temps into a full time position. Except that means some temps will work there for over a decade… still as temps. I talked with these guys, they exist. decade of work as temp. no healthcare, no pension, no retirement, no sick days, no nothing. miss 3 days in that decade? you’re fired.

So despite their reputation, I still put them behind Toyota, just because of that. who knows? the seatbelt you trust with your life might be installed wrong and cross threaded and just pop right out during that crash. all because they had a temp do it their first day on the line.

Treasure Planet is DELIGHTFUL

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if you’re missing out on things you want to do in life, purely because of the usage of this substance, then it’s an addiction.

my suggestion? go on that date high as absolute BALLS lol

no, but surprise, surprise, this one was a BIG big fan of that certain well known individual.

I have personal experience in this. once had a small business, where a 1%er approached me with the biggest order I’d ever received. before I started we had to negotiate the price, and sign a contract. they agreed on $60k as the price of their order. then they added to the order, despite me telling them it was inadvisable. so they eventually racked up closer to $100k of services. I wasn’t silly, I got 20k upfront so I actually had enough money to make this order possible.

then, after months of work, I’m about to finish, so I hand them the final bill, which was about $80k. they said no. I bent over backwards trying to find a reasonable price, offered as much as a 70% discount if they would just pay and fuck off. nope. they offered 10k. Went to a bunch of lawyers with our signed contract that had the price negotiated and asked what my options were.

you know what every single one of them said?

“Too rich to sue.”

“sure, you could sue, they would extend the suit out for probably a decade, and then even after all the heartache, headache, and legal bills, even if I won they still wouldn’t pay. because they’re rich enough to not have anything in their name. it’s all in their wives names, some other company.”

“you cannot win.”

it’s a group of rich, entitled, evil people that our society is catered to providing for, and the other 99% are the ones subsidizing their lives.

it was shared online that wagner Prigozhin had a die hard following of people within his private army, and that they may retaliate in some way.

What I’m concerned about, is that further destabilization of putin and his power, only increases the likelihood of him resorting to nuclear weapons. To people in power, their greatest fear is losing said power. I just hope whoever is in charge of turning the keys and pushing “The button,” is strong enough to disobey orders.

you sound like a whiny little bitch

i dunno. if you have to put a bunch of effort into making an application NOT cause you distress, then it’s probably best to stop using it. if that limits your ability to keep up with people, well, focus on keeping up with the people you can, and check in with everyone else once in a blue moon. Humans just aren’t capable of maintaining like 20+ friendships. limit it to your close circle/family.

Dunbars number suggests we can maintain a working knowledge of the relations of ~150 people, but that is NOT the number of people in which we can maintain active friendships/personal relationships. It suggests that we can know of around 150 people, and how they relate to one another.

all this to say that in my eyes, social media has been built in such a way that it’s not worth the effort of making it psychologically inert.

Dressing in drag and putting on a comedy show isn’t the same as a “drag show”.

yes it is?

you’re thinking of burlesque. Burlesque has implied nudity, drag shows are comedic.

tell him to stop issueing the command of “come here,” and instead offer up alternatives.

“Hey, you got a second to see this?”

“Honey, you gotta check this out!”

“Honey, drop everything you’re doing and run to me”

“Hey babe, come experience this crazy thing with me!”

Most people enjoy the social climate of an office? what??

mountains of evidence in a widely publicized trial is the same as a secret trial with no evidence?

PoppinKream? that you, my dude?

Ram Trucks. according to research, these vehicles are the most likely to be driven, and wrecked, by a drunk driver. People who instinctively idolize an animal that solves it’s problems by smashing them with it’s face… probably not the best people to drive near.

in other news my ultra conservative parents installed solar panels on their house, and for over a month now, they’ve been generating more electricity than they can use, feeding back into the system their surplus. when real world results are such, we can start using these incidents as examples of why it’s not only the morally correct thing to do (combat climate change and save our species), but also the economically savvy thing to do.

who knows what will be the final straw that breaks their stubbornness.