Bed sheet suspenders. Dumb problem, stupidly cheap, horribly made, and ABSOLUTELY fixed the friggin sheets being yanked off the corner of the bed twice a night by my tumble-dry-medium sleeper of a spouse.
When they finally broke after almost 2 years I sewed some that'll last 10 years and I don't regret them at all.
The fact that he was repeatedly moving them away from each other while checking that they were still asleep, plus finally returned drunk??
"They were staying up too late and I wanted to go to bed" my ASS
Many of your points are good, but 4 is pretty weak. I have left my personal laptop for 20 minutes to come back and find that the cat has put me into airplane mode, opened a hexadecimal calculator I didn't know I had, written a complain to Microsoft that only didn't send because of airplane mode (error popup and all), opened my family recipes, edited my family recipes to include actual text-symbol emojis among other garbage, and recorded the whole thing as a...... Gamer Clip???
She does this routinely.
I disable my work laptop keyboard before I even LOOK away from it, I don't want to find out how much damage she could push to production.
Mind you these are companies making billions a year in profits, while reddit reported a loss of 91 million in 2023
So Reddit made a respectable profit in 2023 of 102 million, but Spez felt he was worth twice the entire margin and 2-4 times what even established tech CEOs typically make. If he was happy with the paltry CEO pay that poor companies like Microsoft offer /s, Reddit would have posted ~ 50 mil in profit?
Listen, I'm not a financial expert, but how is that not some form of fraud?? My company posted a MUCH smaller loss (in one region!) than that and we had auditors crawling through our assholes looking for the why. Every transaction was looked at, every expense had to be justified, people lost their jobs, one is under federal investigation!!, and key leadership got busted back down to frycook - and rightfully so.
You're telling me the board (or ownership??) hired someone at arguably quadruple market rates and double their expected yearly margin to make them profitable and then posted basically a 9 figure loss that could be entirely contained in that one transaction....and that somehow isn't some sort of Trump-NY-Esque business valuation defrauding of their existing investors/tax fraud?
"Oops we made zero money for you guys last year because we actually made sure to pay all of it and more to this one guy, more money pls" right before an IPO?
Peak orphan crushing machine
There's a small difference between saying
"due to repeated wars by our neighbor explicitly using the presence of their citizens in foreign soil to justify annexation, we're revoking temporary residency of their foreign nationals and deporting them. Return to your home country or go elsewhere." And "Citizen or not, once a jap always a jap, due to our beef over Pacific imperialism we're taking your property and imprisoning you in this concentration camp"
There's a lot of "these allegations will be proven false in court" going on in this article.
My dude, there's DNA evidence. What allegations are there to disprove??
And why does it matter that it was before he worked at your clinic?? Like if someone had been found to be groping patients or stealing at their last identical job, there's no reason to be concerned they might have continued to do so while they worked for you?? No 'we'll look into this and be sure nothing untoward happened'??
"This was before he worked with us, and now we have safeguards in place, by which we mean we're aware he's a pervert and we watch him like a hawk, or whatever legal equivalent will absolve us of any wrongdoing for providing him with a target rich environment in exchange for the prestige."
Shirtposting
Pho!
I moved to Edmonton, AB from the US South and holy crap, the darkness is unreal. Even the locals struggle with this pitch-black 4pm nonsense.
That said, the city has a lot of focus on indoor spaces that really saves it. I used to go to West Ed mall just to walk around somewhere without a coat for free, you know?
The real gem of the city is the Muttart Conservatory though - and a year-long pass is like $30?? For an indoor rainforest??
Makes it worth living in the winter.
Life hack for OP and anyone else who ends up in this situation:
What if I am too stupid to understand? Can you explain it to my dumb ass?
I can think of 1½ ways to do that that wouldn't involve VBA.
They WOULD be a nightmare though.
needing to ask people what 3rd party chat service they prefer
Yeah Signal's great and all, but my spouse's family refuses to use anything but WhatsApp, half my family uses FB Messenger while the other half use Discord (and they are feuding about it), the older folks in my hobby group refuse to learn anything but the default text on their phone (that group chat is an unmanageable NIGHTMARE), and anything from work uses teams.....except the US folks who use slack, and now my friends want to get me on Signal, too? Relevant XKCD.
The solution to my problem is not yet another messaging app. I just want ONE inbox!
I've been pretty happy with Beeper so far. There are some features that aren't quite as good as using each app natively, yet, but I think they're off to a great start considering the sheer scale and variety of interfaces they're working with. It even gives me tools to deal with the hobby chat anarchy, and now I can send default SMS messages from my computer!
Wow that's a smug mug shot, holy moly.
That's someone who does NOT think they just got caught saying the quiet part.
Jesus H Christ
Fun fact: even "regular style" crutches are not actually supposed to rest in your armpits! You are supposed to hold onto the arm portion and use them similarly to the above crutches. When we adjusted that for the spouse, we had to shorten the crutches by like 2-3 inches and he said it was WAY more comfortable.
There are some videos on YouTube by physiotherapists etc that were supremely helpful - recommend giving them a quick watch and readjusting your crutches.
Source: spouse recently broke the hell out of his foot and also Had Shit To Do™.
I'm literally saying this as a visa holder / residence permit holder in my country of residence right now. When it was issued me, it was made very clear that my status in the country was a privilege that could be revoked at any time for a myriad of reasons. Now, "repeated wars of aggression by your home country with the specific excuse of controlling territory occupied by you" wasn't EXPLICITLY listed, but I'd be shocked to retain my status in those circumstances.
I'm not their citizen - as of yet I haven't started attempting to be one. Describing myself even as "from" here would be misleading. "Once a _____ always a ______” doesn't even apply - I've never tried to be anything BUT a ______??
If article was "Lithuania strips citizenship and rights from Russian born naturalized residents" I'd be concerned. Instead, article is "Lithuania deports small fraction of its Russian and Belarusian expats identified as active threat during wartime". Which is actually surprisingly restrained.
Yeah those fines were a joke. $140k over two years for a place that likely charges that much per year for each of its 170 residents? They don't care.
Why not both? I like twice the content.
Same, but I'm mostly waiting for Sync for Lemmy. I know it wasn't the most popular 3rd party Reddit app, but it sure was my favorite.
The announcement in their app for Reddit today was the whole reason I'm here! :D
You actually made me lol in this airport thank you
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This article is such a treasure trove. Thank you!
I never considered this might be why I'm good at our system design and maintenance - I do a little bit of everything and every day is different!
Sent a relatively new and somewhat nervous co-worker a "grandpasimpsonleave.gif" responding to the 8 billionth mutual emergency of the day followed immediately by "I kid, I kid, we'll fix it! 😉 [Relevant follow up question]?"
Guess which of those two messages was the last one unaffected by the outage? Yep. I got to watch her devolve into a panic as her messages reached me and my responses didn't get sent to her, and THEN delivered in the worst order/selection possible. Felt like the more critical the message, the less likely to send.
And! She's on the other side of the continent and all her location's phones are through teams also! And it was time sensitive.
Rough Friday.
It was my understanding that defederation was a one way thing? So if instance A defederates instance B, A will not see anything from B but B could still see things from A?
Rand Paul's neighbor punched him in the face and apparently that was okay, too.
Rene Boucher, 58, was charged on Friday with assaulting a member of Congress, a felony, months after his sneak attack on Sen. Rand Paul in November, according to officials.
"Assaulting a member of Congress is an offense we take very seriously," said Josh Minkler, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. "Those who choose to commit such an act will be held accountable."
Officials said Boucher signed a plea agreement, but no date or sentencing has been set. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000.
It may not be CSI quality, but it is FBI quality! Those EXACT tests and types of matches were how they identified the golden state killer and identify hundreds of John/Jane Does every year these days.
Turi King, who worked on the Richard III identification, has done very great and approachable lectures on those tests and how they're used in forensic genetics. Highly recommended watch BTW, and several are available on YouTube - she has one on just those tests and how they can be used as well as discussing their strengths and weaknesses with examples.
The "I'm 3.2% Native American" stuff is (mostly) BS, but if it's identifying specific matches, it's pretty strong evidence. It's not definitively HIM until they test him specifically, but it is the exact sort of thing that should put you on a suspect list and warrant him spitting in a cup, yeah.
The only way I could see it NOT being him is if he was using a close relative as the source, but I'm not sure why he wouldn't say that once challenged. Technically, that would have fulfilled the requirements of "anonymous" and "unknown to the mother" he promised.
I bought timer lid containers for my pills, ADHD and otherwise (believe you me, you do NOT want to accidentally take a second dose of migraine preventatives!). Now the cap shows exactly how long since I last opened the bottle, and I don't have to go through the trouble of [not remembering to] refill pill organizers.
If I'm not sure in the morning I can just look at the cap and know for sure!
And then forget if I checked, and check again, etc. as one does.
Also they were HORRIFICALLY unreliable, to the point where my mechanic's actual quote was "Folks, I'm not in the habit of talking myself out of a $10,000 paycheck, but this car is not worth it." 30 minutes before we walked in his door it was working fine, by the time he went to drive it to the bay it wouldn't start, and never did again.
It wasn't even paid off yet.
To say nothing of the fact that one had to drop the engine to get to the alternator, the electrical blew itself out twice in the 4 years we owned it, very few of the features worked with any competence, and we just got our 3rd or 4th safety recall for it (or whatever is left of the parts at the scrapyard).
Consumer Reports rated its reliability as a six - not out of ten, but out of ONE HUNDRED.
Absolute lemons.
Bro new headcannon just dropped
Thank you! Especially appreciate the commentary below the wiki article - otherwise I'm not sure I would know who's "winning" or "losing" in that mess.
Even if no one wins, sounds like he won by not playing.
Luckily it is not too hard to make my friend! Whip yourself up a batch tonight.
The No Name ice cream wafers are also the best around, and the cheapest to boot!
We were actually surprised that not only were they just as good at like ⅓ the price, they were WAY better.
You can get a giant pack of them for literally the price of a checkout line candy bar.
I know! That was the most disrespectful part!!
That's too bad, I'd love to see some "money lenders in the temple" action personally
Ok that's actually hilarious.
In the spirit of anarchy chess, I MAY need to find out. For science.
From the sound of things, he took the money to help an abuser get his rape victim back ----- eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeshhhh