But I want to see Jim Cramer lose his shit over the report. I want to see the little trickle of blood from his nose, before he strokes out, shits his pants, and his head explodes Scanners-style.
This is a valid take. Economics. Can’t live with it, someone in ‘Murica could potentially shoot it. My observation, living in a peninsular state that rhymes with D’Ploriduh, what you experience does depend on where you live and where you are in the journey. My last job search was an 18 month hell. My partner upskilled in software engineering just at the wrong moment. Plus face it, we are both old. Ageism is alive and well. Insurance here is a flippin joke. As are our state non-governing political performers. Numerous factors mean, I think, people are experiencing this weird economic period differently. I’m encouraged to see young people are doing better. Got one about to launch with a BS (hehe) in Finance. Terrifying
"Darned if I could get a decent black cat in glasses and necktie to sit on the desk, though. "
Is this because the A.I. couldn't generate a decent image or because the A.I. cat would not sit on the desk because cat? The trick is to not want the cat to sit on the desk or perhaps use a computer keyboard for important work.
The House GQP moderates (LOL) think that because most of us never heard of Mike Johnson before this week, that they will get a pass on voting for Jim Jordan with a smile. False! Sure, we've all been googling him this week, and it's horrifying what we are finding out. He's the Speaker now, and not only will his name be well known, but his anti-democratic, anti-American and hateful views will be well known. And he will make sure of that, by leading the House like the Christo-fascist he is.
Political observers and psychics seem to agree that he won't last long as Speaker. I don't know whether to hope that they are right or not, because the next GQP Speaker will be even worse.
There’ll be a shutdown. Johnson doesn’t seem to get that his entire purpose is to pass a budget, and so he’ll be cheering the shutdown along with the rest of the MAGAt trolls. That will be very bad optics for affected citizens, many of whom are mouth-breathers still saying “keep your government hands off my medicare!”…..it’s possible that it might even cause them to realize how the GQP has played them.
I'm debating swinging by Dollar Tree after work to pick up a plastic skull which I would then turn into a purse - for the party I'm attending later tonight. Because priorities.
I'm emotionally exhausted after a day full of support meetings yesterday. I'm a public health case investigator for the state of Maine. My co-workers are shaken to their very core as am I. I regularly speak to residents of Lewiston and Auburn and can't shake the idea that I may have spoken with some of the victims.
Being from Colorado, which has seen more than its share of mass shootings, I was able to offer a some advice? comfort? I don't know what the fuck but I think it made them feel a tiny bit better to know they will come through this. Maine has now joined a club no one wants to be a member of. And while they will heal from this horrific event, it is something they will have to carry with them moving forward. It breaks my heart that it will never be the same for them.
Maine has been a very special place. They have a saying that Maine is the biggest small town you will ever visit. And it's true. In fact for me, it has always felt almost like a different country and in a good way. It's hard to explain if you haven't spent time there.
I'm sorry to have made such a long post, but I needed to vent somewhere that isn't my work space with suffering, shell-shocked coworkers.
God that's terrible. I'm sure you're doing a great service to everyone around you, if only by just not being stunned. Sounds like awful faint praise, but those are the kinds of things that go the furthest in such a horrible situation.
I spend time in coastal NH as kid goes to school there. It's a different place and I love the area. I could see living there. I'm so sorry you all have experienced this trauma. I hate guns.
My GDP sucks this year, and the only interesting job I've seen is a "burial vault installer" position that says it's great for former prisoners and ex-convicts. I spent one night in jail over a 12 pack of Budweiser when I was 19, so probably am not qualified to work as a burial vault installer. The job hunt continues.
I'm . . . [stumbles, gasps for air] . . . back. Fell asleep listening to a link the Cryptofishist posted to a lecture about the physiology of transgenderism and was awakened three hours later when the narrator got excited about a physicist lying about something that turned out to be the only possible explanation for the extra dimensions in the universe.
Damnit, the cat heard the whole thing. Just lying there in a puddle of moonlight on my bed pretending to be asleep. And the real question is `what did she hear between those videos?'--I could hit the back button and find out, but I am afraid.
No, on ours it goes straight to The Fall of Civilizations podcast when we let it autoplay at night. Same episodes every night, much to my surprise.
Personally, I think the autopsy feature is THE gateway to white supremacy, but we have it trained pretty good. Still, they do try to sneak stuff about Hitler and guns in my recommendation, but not on the autoplay.
Huh. I too fall asleep to YT, tho my TV's on a timer unless I forget to set it. I like to look at my history the next day and see what I missed. Certain things do crop up on the reg - the 3 hr Halloween crafts video, lately - but there's other stuff in there too.
I try not to map it until the last guess, but a lot of times I know exactly where it is and can't pull up the regional names. Like Namibia the other day.
I am hoping that the more I play, the more shapes I can remember. That happened with Namibia - remembered the shape from an earlier Worldle, I think that it was a neighbor.
But I want to see Jim Cramer lose his shit over the report. I want to see the little trickle of blood from his nose, before he strokes out, shits his pants, and his head explodes Scanners-style.
Shit yeah! The Achievers!
I would never, ever watch that idiot unless I knew that what you said was going to happen when I tuned in.
This is a valid take. Economics. Can’t live with it, someone in ‘Murica could potentially shoot it. My observation, living in a peninsular state that rhymes with D’Ploriduh, what you experience does depend on where you live and where you are in the journey. My last job search was an 18 month hell. My partner upskilled in software engineering just at the wrong moment. Plus face it, we are both old. Ageism is alive and well. Insurance here is a flippin joke. As are our state non-governing political performers. Numerous factors mean, I think, people are experiencing this weird economic period differently. I’m encouraged to see young people are doing better. Got one about to launch with a BS (hehe) in Finance. Terrifying
Heh heh..."peninsular"...heh heh...
𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗢𝘁𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗰𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸
It feels like this was a combination of bad luck, bad timing, and bad placement.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/
Otis? Delirium tremens, the poor, dried out bastard.
That's why we use confidence intervals.
Not Sharpies?
Aren't they basically the same thing?
ummm, maybe? Maybe not?
My building has Otis elevators. The headline sent my thoughts in a completely different direction.
Has anyone heard from or seen ICC lately? I know she was/is ill.
As of her update yesterday she is recovering nicely. That fever ran its' course and is no more.
Yeah, she was around yesterday, and reported that her fever broke.
thanks! she's such a good person.
Super genius.
𝗫'𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸: 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗔𝗨𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝟭𝟲% 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯, 𝗮𝗽𝗽 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗫 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀 — The platform struggles to attract users and advertisers, third-party data suggest, while Musk has voiced optimism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/27/elon-musk-x-twitter-takeover-revenue-users-advertising
I guess the Chinese pronunciation of "X" as in Shitter is appropriate?
You simply have NO idea how much pleasure I would experience from seeing that sonofabitch flat broke and destitute.
Me too but ain't gonna happen
He'll just push the debt off on to the company, file for bankruptcy, and let the shareholders and tax payers eat the loss.
Maybe we should ban that.
course he is
His plan was always to tank it
it was too useful to communities whose existence he and his supporters hate.
He always lies a bunch of optimism, he's a damned carnival barker.
Mission Achomlished!
"Darned if I could get a decent black cat in glasses and necktie to sit on the desk, though. "
Is this because the A.I. couldn't generate a decent image or because the A.I. cat would not sit on the desk because cat? The trick is to not want the cat to sit on the desk or perhaps use a computer keyboard for important work.
AI never draws hands right either. It's almost like it's never had them. Weird.
The AI kept drawing a firecracker.
Can't sleep. Again.
It's rare that I have the computer on this early. I didn't think Morning Joe was even on until 4:00 am, Pacific.
You learn something new when you don't sleep.
So sorry for your insomnia. I woke up early, which is annoying, but I can't imagine getting no sleep at all.
This is becoming extremely annoying. That I remain functional annoys me even more.
I should be staggering and incoherent at this point. This is just nuts.
I learn that lack of sleep makes me sleepy.
I am annoyed that getting sleepy hasn't happened to me. I wish it would.
The House GQP moderates (LOL) think that because most of us never heard of Mike Johnson before this week, that they will get a pass on voting for Jim Jordan with a smile. False! Sure, we've all been googling him this week, and it's horrifying what we are finding out. He's the Speaker now, and not only will his name be well known, but his anti-democratic, anti-American and hateful views will be well known. And he will make sure of that, by leading the House like the Christo-fascist he is.
Yeah, good to see the real piece of shit they all agreed to.
Political observers and psychics seem to agree that he won't last long as Speaker. I don't know whether to hope that they are right or not, because the next GQP Speaker will be even worse.
Frankly, I don't care who it is as long as they keep the govt running.
Agree, but too many of them want to shut it down.
Yep, we get a whole new House in a year. Ish. Let's make it until then and then turn it around.
Looking forward to the self owning they get in the budget.
There’ll be a shutdown. Johnson doesn’t seem to get that his entire purpose is to pass a budget, and so he’ll be cheering the shutdown along with the rest of the MAGAt trolls. That will be very bad optics for affected citizens, many of whom are mouth-breathers still saying “keep your government hands off my medicare!”…..it’s possible that it might even cause them to realize how the GQP has played them.
I need to make a (shitty) beer look good.
I also, and, need to read a 4-page script about a dungeon scene.
I also am looking forward to replying to an old friend.
I will be making some better horns for my Satan costume.
I hope that your obligations are as delicious, friends.
I'm debating swinging by Dollar Tree after work to pick up a plastic skull which I would then turn into a purse - for the party I'm attending later tonight. Because priorities.
I made a chrome-like effect for a client logo.
What?
Is your client from 2004?
I'm emotionally exhausted after a day full of support meetings yesterday. I'm a public health case investigator for the state of Maine. My co-workers are shaken to their very core as am I. I regularly speak to residents of Lewiston and Auburn and can't shake the idea that I may have spoken with some of the victims.
Being from Colorado, which has seen more than its share of mass shootings, I was able to offer a some advice? comfort? I don't know what the fuck but I think it made them feel a tiny bit better to know they will come through this. Maine has now joined a club no one wants to be a member of. And while they will heal from this horrific event, it is something they will have to carry with them moving forward. It breaks my heart that it will never be the same for them.
Maine has been a very special place. They have a saying that Maine is the biggest small town you will ever visit. And it's true. In fact for me, it has always felt almost like a different country and in a good way. It's hard to explain if you haven't spent time there.
I'm sorry to have made such a long post, but I needed to vent somewhere that isn't my work space with suffering, shell-shocked coworkers.
I can not imagine. Hang in there *hugs*
God that's terrible. I'm sure you're doing a great service to everyone around you, if only by just not being stunned. Sounds like awful faint praise, but those are the kinds of things that go the furthest in such a horrible situation.
Carry on with your good work.
I spend time in coastal NH as kid goes to school there. It's a different place and I love the area. I could see living there. I'm so sorry you all have experienced this trauma. I hate guns.
My GDP sucks this year, and the only interesting job I've seen is a "burial vault installer" position that says it's great for former prisoners and ex-convicts. I spent one night in jail over a 12 pack of Budweiser when I was 19, so probably am not qualified to work as a burial vault installer. The job hunt continues.
I'm surprised they don't have an extensive background check, drug testing, and requirements of at least a Master's degree.
And four years of experience.
Sounds like an awesome job.
That's what I thought. Better than a sawmill!
At least the clientele wont be complaining.
Or will they? 👻👻👻
Morning all. ☕
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Morning!
Happy Friday!
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I'm . . . [stumbles, gasps for air] . . . back. Fell asleep listening to a link the Cryptofishist posted to a lecture about the physiology of transgenderism and was awakened three hours later when the narrator got excited about a physicist lying about something that turned out to be the only possible explanation for the extra dimensions in the universe.
Damnit, the cat heard the whole thing. Just lying there in a puddle of moonlight on my bed pretending to be asleep. And the real question is `what did she hear between those videos?'--I could hit the back button and find out, but I am afraid.
We fell asleep to YT every night and it plays the exact same videos.
About the quarks?
No, on ours it goes straight to The Fall of Civilizations podcast when we let it autoplay at night. Same episodes every night, much to my surprise.
Personally, I think the autopsy feature is THE gateway to white supremacy, but we have it trained pretty good. Still, they do try to sneak stuff about Hitler and guns in my recommendation, but not on the autoplay.
I LOVE that podcast! His voice is gorgeous, his material is well researched, his presentation style is engaging. LOVE it.
Huh. I too fall asleep to YT, tho my TV's on a timer unless I forget to set it. I like to look at my history the next day and see what I missed. Certain things do crop up on the reg - the 3 hr Halloween crafts video, lately - but there's other stuff in there too.
Mine is on a timer but for some reason YT keeps playing.
Good morning!
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I'll bet everybody had the same first guess. I got lucky, and took all of the guesses for the neighbors; only missed the capital.
I had a different first guess, as I had no idea which country today's Worldle is, I put the first name that popped in my head.
I think you're right. I started with SL, though I knew the silhouette was too jagged to be correct.
Good morning! I tanked the bugger, all six misses, and said, "Fuck it."
After 3 wrong guesses, I cheat and look at a map. Even then, I still miss sometimes, as some countries' shapes are similar.
I try not to map it until the last guess, but a lot of times I know exactly where it is and can't pull up the regional names. Like Namibia the other day.
I am hoping that the more I play, the more shapes I can remember. That happened with Namibia - remembered the shape from an earlier Worldle, I think that it was a neighbor.
Okay.
We're here now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8xtj9gFE90
No, I do not regret anything.
Morning fantastic bastard.
It is you that I also love.