Hey now. We don’t elect women with a strong and documented history showing good judgement, ethics or moral character; and instead we try to find problems with them so that we can retroactively justify throwing away a vote and really a country on some no-name no-chance third party gamble. Bonus points if they married or were VP to a -± gasp -± imperfect president already.

It’s just the American way.

I didn’t know one could get a spur on that bone.

You buy such a thing with Club Z points?

everyday

Did you mean “every day” (i.e daily) here, or did you really intend for “everyday” (i.e mundane) instead?

That’s the one you buy then if that’s what matters to you.

Yeah. But where can I find a phone with Qi, reverse-Qi, and a 3.5mm jack? Other than the old one I have now, that is.

I’m thinking they’ll disagree, and choose a generation of fury. And I support that.

anew

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Any smart bulbs we can still flash? Once they’re set up and joined, I want to use the BT for presence detection.

There’s a lot of people who don’t know what a binary choice is.

You must struggle with evolution; and also pragmatism in general. True?

I love the take where the legal system is our enemy. If you want anarchy, follow McCandless.

begged two important questions

Nope. It just raised them. That reporter needs to go back to school.

sysadmin work for an public institution or so where people are only bullshitting their jobs.

About half my career and part of my current contract load is to a public organization of one type or another. But I’ve been half and half anyway.

Dotcom is a wasteland of gunners/pluggers and wageslaves, none of them afforded enough time to get anything complete and good. Public orgs with union contracts employ people with a good life balance and the freedom to do a great job about 95% of the time, after the layers of regulations are met.

I found slackers at both types of org: the public slacker is a hapless clod whose tasks all get reassigned and he really doesn’t do much. He’s about 3% of the workforce. The dotcom slacker is a harried guy muddling through something he’s not trained for, with no help since his peers have their own KPIs, hoping like fuck he can get Project Grapefruit done by next Town Hall meeting lest he be voted off the island. Again, 3%.

The public org is great people who’ve done this work effectively their entire career. They’re astoundingly good at it, and are still energized by the work and the educational programmes. Dotcoms have no training and the few people who make it past 2 years are likely PIPped by year 4 because of the “fresh talent” policy

I envy the public org people. I miss my non-work life sometimes.

Some people have Ski money; but no American has Trauma cash.

They cope with that by absolutely ignoring the risk they’ll become generationally bankrupt from something as common as a car accident.

Do many pockets.

I miss my combat pants. They were comfy by the time I had to give them back, and they had so many pockets.

If he doesn’t start a sentence with “Well, Jesus, fuck, buddy,” then he’s not one of us.

Yeah. I’ll take a soft-no form letter if they ditched me vs the ghosting i got last time around.

A dear friend on the last of her reserves is waiting to hear from one of the last few interviews she’ll get in her house if she doesn’t land something within weeks. And she loves that house. We don’t have the heart to tell her they’ve ghosted her since Friday as it’ll break her.

You missed a slash in there.

That’s what the fanboys use. It’s “slopping” for the rest of us.

Ya choose better or you get worse.

Evolution takes a few iterations, but you have to put in the one day of work every 4 years without getting bored of it.