This roughly mirrors my experience in corporate America.

I’ve of course heard of Labubus, but do you not pick one to purchase? Like, are people literally paying without knowing what they’ll get?

I can’t imagine going to HEB and buying a random box that contains “some kind of food.”

Flagging @TehPers@beehaw.org on this response, as it applies to both of you. You’re reasonable, longtime, constructive members on Beehaw. Maybe someone’s having a bad day, but it saddens me to see the two of you going at each other. I don’t feel there’s a rift here, just disagreement over wording.

This said, we’re all adults. I’m just more confused than anything, and I’m sure as fuck not going to take a side. This interaction wasn’t Beeing nice.

You’re making me feel very old. Reality TV was what permanently turned me off of linear programming. I gradually started learning about the Kardashians via memes in comments.

I’ve been in Texas for over a decade and still have not gone to a Buccee’s. Some people swear by the beaver nuggets, while others share your opinion.

If I ever need to fuel up or pee, and Buccee’s is the next place, I’ll give it a try. But I do not get how it’s achieved mythical status.

If you’re starting with “people with several jobs,” you’re not addressing speakerphone use but rather the collapse of the social contract.

Shhh … the cloud is the only way forward. Heresy!

I’ll forgive it this once.

Most phone glass is oleophobic at this point and has been for years. So that’s a shit excuse.

I can see where you’re coming from on that at least with speakerphone, you know no one is addressing you. When I was at my ex’s last week, she said something from the bedroom, prompting me to loudly say “What?” Her son had just called, and if he’d heard my voice, we’d not have parted ways on good terms.

Sure, but like, use your phone at home instead. It’s like people bringing dogs to grocery stores and restaurants (we have something of an epidemic of dogs shitting in food places when they’d have been fine in the yard for an hour here in Austin).

I’m aware. I was referring to the initial editorial judgment by the pub.

It was amusing in Star Trek IV, but that seems quaint now.

I can totally get behind speakerphone in that precise situation.

Given that copy desks were being gutted more than a decade ago just with little things like Grammarly, it absolutely will replace knowledge jobs. It won’t be better, but it will mean more share buybacks.

I’d not have put the clickbait “shocking” in the hed, but regardless, we’re running out of things to take off. Masks, gloves … they want us totally naked, and preferably underage.

The fucked part is this junta would welcome attacks on California. Now, if they hit Texas, the nukes come out.

But where’s the profit in a society that is housed, fed, healthy and happy?

It is beyond disgusting that people who live paycheck to paycheck are hoodwinked into thinking the rich will save them. And then they vote in large numbers.

Like, have you never had a corporate boss? Money cares nothing about you, and the ownership class needs all of yours.

I’d be totally fine with either a system like drug patents that expire in (comparatively) short order or just the rest of the creator’s life. Life plus anything is an absurd construction that upends copyright as a means of encouraging artistic works. “I’ll make another album so my kids don’t have to work” is not the correct motivation in any situation.