Both. It depends on how interested I am in the headline and whether there is a paywall.

Well in defense of women, I do depend on my wife for a lot of that stuff.

For the record, I reciprocate when we go on vacation. I usually carry a backpack with everything and it is often very heavy with bottles of water.

I have never seen a nuclear explosion in person and I hope I never do. I kind of think they SHOULD be treated with reverence.

I have no idea what normal people do, but I avoid ads at all costs. Sometimes I pay premium, sometimes I just don’t watch.

Or you could teach him. Better for both of you.

Not always. I think the best people think they WON’T be let go and some others who don’t perform, figure they are on the chopping block.

In our case it didn’t matter because they wound up having four rounds of layoffs before shutting that location down entirely. So it really wound up being WHEN you were fired, not IF.

I worked with a guy who’s wife had just had a baby and the baby was sick. The guy was very good at his job but was working from home without really asking permission. We have some leeway in this matter but technically he didn’t clear it. His supervisor really had it in for him and was trying very hard to get him fired for falsifying his time card. I don’t know why he didn’t like him, but the supervisor was a real ass. It may have been racist motivation, but I’m not sure.

I should point out that I had asked this guy to do some work for me that I didn’t have the capability to do and this guy approached it in such a unique way that the customer and some universities were really interested in his work. This is a defense contractor environment where every working hour has to be accounted for. Whenever I asked the guy a question whether via email or telephone, he always responded immediately. It was all computer code so I didn’t see a problem with this.

When he came into work and told me what was going on I immediately contact the manager on his behalf.

Well bottom line is that management pretty much dropped the subject and the supervisor was walked out of the facility. Turns out he had been falsifying his own time card the whole time. How’s that for hypocrisy?

Justice served.

I worked for a company that did just that and it was the best way to do it because a lot of people left on their own.

Yup, I worked for a company that was laying off but they were still hiring because, “they had a hiring policy.” Absolutely nonsensical.

Termite treatment.

Thank you. Nuance, you know.

This is so flawed it isn’t even funny.

You need way more than 1,000,000 fingers. This is America after all. Even if you use all ten fingers, that’s only like 9.9 million guns.

Agreed.

Voting him out will not remove him from your feed. You will hear about how the election was stolen again. About how his disciples tried to destroy the capitol or the white house or whatever, again. You will hear about how he was out on trial again. You will hear about whatever new crap he comes up with.

It’s not just, you know, Halloween?

Not sure that’s the kind of technology purchase to which the OP was referring. I thought you were going to say you purchased some kind of high tech sink and was excited to hear what it did to improve your life. I mean, I can see the point but…

Was so excited to answer this only to find the top post hit virtually every one of my suggestions.

But there is one more. This year I plan to revisit an old classic:

The Lost Boys.

Nope. I’m just that bad. I feel like I have a logical mind but it just seems like the command don’t do what I think they will, won’t operate on a certain type of variable or Holy crap I forgot a friggin space or semi-colon or something.

Languages in order of proficiency: C++ HTML/CSS Matlab Basic Fortran (1 class taken)

But when I say proficient I seriously mean looking stuff up on the internet for every single line. And I haven’t used Basic in decades.

A one out of ten. I consider myself the world’s second worst programmer.

I see.