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Also, things like this can result from not providing a supportive environment where queer persons and their allies feel comfortable enough to unmask and freely discuss why "bussy" probably isn't the best terminology to use in external communications.

Channing Tatum and Jason Statham sitting in a tree. K. I. S. S. I. N. G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes this dude in their baby carriage.

I'm being honest here, I've done things like this at prior jobs. It was mostly a reflection of unfortunate business decisions than personal preference or skill set, per se.

If my raises and promotions are contingent on me achieving a goal like "use a reactive JavaScript framework in public facing component" or "develop an application in NodeJS", then you better believe I'm going to do both of those things regardless of whether the right project comes my way or not. I will find a way. Q3 comes around and I haven't been given an appropriate project to achieve my goals? Yes, I'm absolutely going to integrate an LLM component into the project search function of our business reporting system so I can check off the arbitrary "AI" goal I needed to complete in order to qualify for the top tier raise percentage.

I get it's a meme, but I'd be hard pressed to find one thing that's not annoying about shopping in these places.

Right hand to baby Jesus, I thought Kmart was basically no longer in operation, when did it become a programming language for nerds?

I know expensive, shitty healthcare in the USA is a stereotype, but in my experience it's also largely true. Maybe it's because I'm not wealthy or connected enough to have access to the good stuff, though?

The bills for my latest medical emergency are rolling in now.

The $1,000 USD ambulance bill is almost a relief, since I've heard others say their ride cost several times more than that. I declined pretty much all medical care in the ambulance and all offers for medication/treatment, though, so maybe that's part of it. Had I lost consciousness, I likely wouldn't have been able to say no.

The $2,000 USD emergency room bill? That's just the part that I have to pay out of pocket. The actual price they charged my insurance is $6,000+ for my slightly more than 90 minutes on a stretcher in the hallway. And it doesn't seem to have covered anything specific because the imaging (which I didn't even need), treatment, medications (which I would have refused if I knew how much they charged but they don't know that and can't tell you ahead of time), individual nurses, etc are all billed as separate line items. I was even charged thousands of dollars by a doctor I never even saw in person. I joked in another thread recently about $45 tylenol, but that's actually true. I'm paying $45 for 800mg of tylenol.

Months later, the billing part isn't even finalized. New claims/bills showed up literally 2 days ago, well after I thought I was done paying. Thousands of dollars out of pocket, on top of paying a thousand dollars a month for insurance.

At least the medical professionals that treated me were great.

I just made a similar comment a day or few ago: When I was a kid, I honestly would have believed that running with scissors was responsible for millions of childrens' deaths each year based on how much adults brought it up. They hype made it sound like being stabbed in the neck by a kid running with scissors was the number three cause of death in children, just slightly behind marijuana overdoses and LSD stickers.

This is how I found out that 800mg of ibuprofen / Tylenol costs $45 if you get it in a hospital in the USA.

There's always some degree of background static, hissing, humming, etc, no matter what channels I tried tuning them to. I don't expect perfectly clear audio while using an adapter, but those tuner types were always unacceptably bad for that any time I've tried them.

Worst that's happened to me is that I was detained and questioned by the cops while they investigated my "grow operation". I had some old school grow lights in my kitchen window for my window sill plants and a potted hibiscus outside on my deck.

It's sad that the cops couldn't immediately tell the difference between hibiscus and weed nor were they aware that people can grow indoor house plants under those pink/purple fluorescent lights which for sure wouldn't be strong enough to grow marijuana to begin with.

It's also funny that my neighbor at the time actually was growing weed on his front patio, and they never seemed to notice in the 5 or so years I lived next door.

Duh, it's a cloud, you inhale it.

The bluetooth to FM transmitter works well for you? I've tried them several times over the decades, even the expensive ones seem to suck. Maybe not as much as your bluetooth to cassette, I've never seen one of those for sale or used one.