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Do we think these payment processors are running their own call centers? Seems more likely that they’re contracting the work out, and those firms just aren’t going to get their contracts renewed.

So don’t get tattoos of things you like. There’s plenty of reasons to get tattoos beyond just “beautiful expression.”

I know a guy who got his wife’s phone number tattooed on his foot, just in case he ever doesn’t have his phone on him.

My brother got “Ouch” on the inside of his lip because it was funny.

My wife has multiple tattoos of bullshit flash because the artist offered to do them for free and she likes the way getting a tattoo feels.

If you want a tattoo, just get a tattoo. If you truly end up hating it down the road, plenty of artists specialize in cover-ups.

John Darnielle is my must-read list. Wolf in White Van was absolutely captivating to me when it came out. I was late reading Universal Harvester, but when I finally did, it literally made me gasp out loud at some of the most horror. And so I decided to lock in and never miss a new drop again. His last book was a day-one buy that I loved, and now I’m just waiting for him to announce something else.

I’m almost forty and regularly hosted parties like this all through high school. So mileage must vary.

I’ve literally had my home broken into and stuff stolen from it. It was the one time in my life that I ever called the police. They trampled through my place, made a mess and broke more things, and then decided I was reporting a suspicious amount of electronics and accused me of trying to do some kind of insurance fraud.

Fuck cops.

Hard disagree on the jump button. That thing has fundamentally altered how I play so heavily that I struggle going back to Dark Souls games.

NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC’s On the Media or WBEZ’s Wait Wait gets axed.

I was paraphrasing both OP and yourself to create a farce, yes. Because farces are funny. It was a joke, not a clever and cutting rhetorical maneuver.

So, yeah, sucks a little that you took it so personally, but I do feel pretty good about it.

“I think the system is unfair and could be dramatically improved.”

“This is the improved version! No further progress shall be made! Work your 9-5 and be glad you’re not locked in the shirtwaist factory for twelve hours a day!”

I’ve definitely had English essays that were like, “read the short story presented below and then explain how the author used literary devices to express their purpose.”

I know a few millennial homeowners, and almost every one falls into one of two categories: they were gifted the home (or down payment) from a family member; or they married a Gen-X doctor in 2007 and bought right after the market crashed in 2008 and they’ve watched their home value quadruple since then.

That’s it. Have family that’s well-off enough, or marry someone that had money at the right time to exploit a financial disaster.

Clinton didn’t endorse the incumbent. He endorsed Cuomo, New York’s former governor who resigned in disgrace several years ago. Apparently Cuomo feels that enough time has passed since he resigned in disgrace that he can try starting up his career again.

I don’t know why you think that. Giuliani and Bloomberg were both Republicans. Republicans have run New York for more than half of the last 30 years.

And even when we get Democrats, we end up with conservative Dems like Eric Adams out here promising to lock people up.

never mention it in relation to My Chemical Romance

But “Vampire Money” is an absolute banger written specifically to make fun of all the other bands lining up to be on Twilight soundtracks while MCR turned down offers multiple times.

We read very different books. I thought the first half was hilarious, but it lulled me into a comfort of the absurdity and the banality that set up an absolutely devastating second half.

I think it’s one of the greatest books I’ve ever read, but I don’t think it was a comedy.

Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

Stokely Carmichael, one of SNCC’s first freedom riders

It reminds me of the prevalence of left-handedness in the US. If you look at a chart, left-handedness absolutely exploded in the early 20th century, going from 3% of the population up to 10%. But it’s stayed at 10% for about 8 decades now.

No one actually thinks more of the population suddenly became left-handed and then stabilized. It was a combination of underreporting and forcing left-handed children to write right-handed.

Same as with any difference that can be hidden. We don’t have more autistic people now; we’re just better at recognizing that the guy that spent his entire life photographing snowflakes might’ve just lived before we had diagnostic tools or a cultural understanding of special interests and the autism spectrum.

My company instituted “Wellbeing Days.” They marked three days throughout the year on everyone’s calendar and said you should avoid answering calls or attending meetings on those days, instead focusing on personal reflection and development.

… so I stayed home and focused on developing my Elden Ring skills.