I’m an IT manager and today I had the director of HR bring me her new iphone asking if I can help her set it up. Um, no… first, that isn’t my job, and second, I have no idea how to setup an iphone. I assume it’s an easy process but I’ve never done it before and have more pressing matters to attend to instead of fiddling with her new phone.

This is apparently a great weight loss mushroom. If you eat it you will experience rapid weight loss through vomiting and diarrhea. You might experience some cramping discomfort.

/S

Seriously, do not eat this mushroom, it likely won’t kill you but you won’t enjoy it.

I’m actually seeing a lot more this year in my yard, and I’m wondering if it’s because I didn’t rake/mow my leaves in the fall. I’d like to say that I left the leaves on the ground for the bugs, but it was really just laziness.

I also recently got a plugin hybrid and while it is charging there’s a green light on the dash… I noticed a firefly hanging out on my windshield flashing every time my car flashed. Poor fella thought he found the largest firefly around.

Might I suggest: Tebya ne trakhnut, tak chto ne verti zadnitsey

May you always look back on the puppy months and remember the cuteness… and forget the middle of the night trips outside, the early mornings, the late nights, the chewed up [furniture | shoes | cords | etc.], accidents on the carpet, biting, scratching and constant ball of energy (between naps) of this cute little bundle of fur.

(I’m currently 10 weeks into puppy training my new mini goldendoodle and I’m optimistic that the worst is now behind us)

They are just a troll, trying to get people to pay attention to them. Blocking them makes it so you won’t accidentally interact with them again.

Just block him, no need to reply to him.

Nah, you pick your battles. If the kid wants Nikes because that’s what everyone else has, then get him Nikes. I heard 10 years ago that Sketchers are for toddlers and old people… and from what I’ve seen that perception hasn’t changed.

Like it or not, we are social animals and fitting in is important, especially for children. When my daughter was a toddler we made it a point to NOT expose her to Paw Patrol because it is just blatant targeted marketing to children. It was a point of pride for us to be able to walk past Paw Patrol branded apple sauce and not have her begging for it. And then we sent her to preschool and after the first week she came home sad that all the other kids were playing Paw Patrol but she didn’t know any of the characters, so she couldn’t play. That was a real shitty day for me as a parent because that was my failing. We started letting her watch Paw Patrol (as well as other non-PBS kids shows) because pop culture is important. Same with fashion… not every kid needs to wear Nike, but they should be aware of what the trends are and have a say in what they get.

I don’t really buy the argument that the government should bother to sell some of its capacity

I agree … the reason Amazon started AWS is because their compute need fluctuates throughout the year and they needed to build out their data centers to meet their peak need… most of the year it sat unused.

The government doesn’t have that problem, they can build out for their projected need and not have tons of waste.

Several years ago I was at a Microsoft event and I ran into a guy who said that his job is to keep the time on Windows in sync with the actual rotation of the Earth. I asked if he meant leap seconds, but he said that it’s more to do with earthquakes and weather. I had no idea and looked into it a bit, it’s fascinating.

Thank you… I’m an idiot and wasn’t thinking about the Southern Ocean as in ‘The’ Southern Ocean… instead I was thinking about it in terms of the oceans in the south (as in, not necessarily glacial). But yes, now I get it and understand. It probably would have helped if I had opened the link to start with.

I had to look up that last part, as it seemed counter-intuitive, but apparently deep ocean water bottoms out at 4 degrees C.

Right, but I still wouldn’t call water that is 4 degrees C as warm. How is deep water warm?

If we just accept these things, they will keep pushing for more.

They are going to do whatever they want to do. They’ve long passed the point of caring if they anger people.

It isn’t an allergy to all meat though… the meat from primates are safe for people with Alpha-gal Syndrome. Time to invest in monkey farms.

Nah, if you need to know why they’ve been vanished to Australia you just need to look into their defense strategy.

Same.

It was a deciding factor in which house I bought. Not having an alternative to Comcast is a deal breaker.

Comcast does provide service to my location, and I took a shovel and cut the buried cable shortly after I moved in.

Wait. The car companies were getting credits to put this functionality on cars? It wasn’t a law saying that they had to do it, but it was money the car companies were getting is the reason it was forced on us?

Thank you, I’ve made my donation!

Thank you, I’ve made my donation!