Oh 100%, completely agree with you there.

To be fair, ingredients have continued to climb in price, especially beef. The fast food model was always unsustainable without sacrificing quality even further and raising prices.

Man, I was literally just thinking about rewatching Little Miss Sunshine the other day. Then I saw a random video using a DeVotchka song from that movie. And now this. Weird coincidence for such an old movie (2004?).

So are you presently employed but just applying for a better job? Sorry if I’m misreading, pretty hungover and exhausted.

Shit is bleak. I work in the government and have started casually applying to jobs in the private sector (missing 3 checks is really shitty). Luckily, I have a savings buffer and my wife works, but that’s not going to last forever and her income isn’t enough to support us indefinitely. But there’s barely anything that offers comparable salary/benefits and/or is either near me or allows remote work. My niece graduated from university with a degree in comp sci and has been looking for a junior developer job since February of this year.

Hell, you go on the DevOps subreddit and there’s countless posts of people witnessing the same terrible tech job market. It’s really depressing.

More context needed. Sometimes my kids are savages, so yelling does occur on occasion. They’re usually pretty great, though.

Edit: yikes, people took my comment way too seriously. I don’t literally think my kids are savages, jfc. No shit, you shouldn’t yell at your kids. I typically don’t. But, I am not perfect, and neither is literally every single parent. We’re humans and there are days where we have shorter breaking points and our feelings get the best of us, especially when your kids are being super energetic, chaotic, and not listening to anyone. The important thing isn’t NOT yelling 100% of the time, it’s apologizing and explaining what happened to them afterwards when it does get the better of you.

I really tried to enjoy RDR2. It’s got some great qualities, and the acting, writing, and cutscenes are phenomenal. But… The gameplay… I’m all for slowburn walking simulator type games (e.g. I loved Detroit Become Human, among others).

But with RDR2, the world is so massive and yet there was no sense of excitement when finding stuff. You get just about all your upgrades fairly early in the game. There’s no sense of character gameplay progression. And after just a few hours of traveling around, it felt like I quickly had seen all the random event variations on the roads/trails (e.g. stop bandits hijacking a wagon, robberies, etc). I don’t know, it just felt like a hyper realistic GTA5: Western, but without all the plethora of goofy shenanigans that game has.

Tbf, those types of jobs have a higher degree of turnover and thus need slots backfilled more frequently. Trades jobs can be pretty fuckin miserable, especially ones that are incredibly physically demanding as you age.

I wasn’t aware of all that. That’s really shitty and gross of him to defend Polinski and Weinstein. How tf was he not canceled during the “woke” cancel wave of the mid-2010s?

I don’t disagree, but I struggle to see Tarantino doing high sci-fi like that very well. He’s a master at creating engrossing, gripping dialogue scenes. But what do I know, maybe he’d have done a great job in the end 🤷‍♂️

Hey now, I enjoy many of Tarantino’s movies. But I wholeheartedly agree that he’d be an awful pick to write and/or direct a Star Trek movie.

Gotcha, that’s what I was thinking as well. I haven’t done any software development in a long time (I have a degree in it, but professional career sent me down another path in tech), so my memory on input sanitization is very rusty. Thanks for the response!

What about quotes (single/double) and \s mixed with commas?

This is all staged melodrama. It’s so fucking obviously scripted to distract that it’s shameful the Internet and media are even attempting to sell it as some risque genuine drama.

Could always go the fake nail route. My SO has been doing that for a couple years. It’s way easier than painting and you can get all sorts of cool designs and patterns, especially for holiday themed ones (hers right now have glow in the dark ghosts and pumpkins on them).

So far, there’s no male birth control pill on the market. But there are two types of birth control pills in the works: YCT-529 and dimethandrolone undecanoate. YCT-529 is a hormone-free male birth control pill that aims to stop your body from making sperm by targeting the vitamin A signaling that makes sperm production possible.

Researchers studied the effects of this male birth control pill on animals. They found that in mice, after four weeks of use, it was 99% effective in preventing pregnancies. In primates, sperm counts dropped in just two weeks of use. Researchers also completed a phase 1 human study to test how safe and tolerable the drug is. Now, they’re recruiting participants for a phase 1B/2A study, but more research is needed before this drug can hit the market.

The other male birth control pill, dimethandrolone undecanoate (DMAU), may also be available as an injectable. This one is a hormonal birth control, meaning it impacts your male sex hormones, causing them to temporarily stop your body from making sperm.

In a phase 1 study, participants took DMAU for 28 days. But the participants weren’t relying on DMAU for birth control, so more research is needed. Even though a phase 2 trial is in the works, it’s not complete.

https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/male-contraceptives

Huh. I thought the trials had been completed, but I guess not. Feels like I remember hearing about them like 4-5+ years ago.

Why wouldn’t they be? Is it illegal to record people without their permission in the EU or something? Clueless American here.

Wasn’t it just an American carbon copy of a Japanese show?

There is no article linked that I can see.

Jfc… Aren’t those tests extremely basic, requiring a modicum of coherent short to long-term memory retention and logic?