Not being in constant contact with everyone you know, and not having a neverending stream of notifications assaulting you via your phone.

When you got to see relatives who lived far away, you talked about what had been going on in their life because you probably had no idea.

You read, listened to, or watched the news when you wanted to, unless someone you know told you sooner.

If you had to wait somewhere without a book or magazine, you just sat there with your thoughts. During childhood, you learned how to be bored and practice imagining things.

Why do guys like this always have half their face cut off in their profile picture?

Phil’s cards were my favorites as a kid because they were the perfect mix of weird and good at communicating the card visually.

I’m not as pessimistic as he is, but if you actually read the article he’s not wrong. He’s also not saying franchise films shouldn’t exist, but that there should be other choices. It’s nice he recognizes he is too old to say where cinema should go, and that the next generation will need to take those steps.

Personally, I think the root cause is that the studios are too risk averse. They only take chances when a vehicle has at least one big name attached, and they rarely give risks the support they need. Further, if one risk doesn’t pan out, they assume everything remotely like it won’t. Sometimes that one movie just doesn’t work out, but others like it could.

Trump saw that episode of The Office and decided to emulate Michael Scott’s strategy for speaking.

It’s not necessarily about difficulty. It’s mostly about risk and consequences. If a company fucks up the screws I buy to hang up pictures, I might get a dent in my floor or a bigger hole in my wall. If a company fucks up the screws keeping a plane together, it might fall out of the sky.

It goes both ways for “not attractive” women as well.

This is purely anecdotal, but all of the “not attractive” men I have known who complain there’s no women online for them are only talking about women who are more attractive than them. The ones who don’t complain have realistic standards and can find matches. It also tends to help they don’t have s shit attitude.

But it’s still a numbers game. More attractive people get more matches, but that doesn’t mean those are quality matches. I guess if all you’re looking for is casual sex it makes a difference.

I didn’t say that there isn’t publicly funded research. There is both public and private. The claim that private companies do nothing but package and manufacture is not in line with reality, however.

This is patently false. Do some research on the clinical development process. Running trials is neither cheap nor easy. You can’t just go from lab to store shelves. You have to run phase 1, 2, and 3 studies to prove it is safe and works.

I’m not arguing against being able to negotiate drug prices, by the way. The government should do that.

“So if the company has performed so well, surely there’s plenty of capital available for increasing worker compensation!”

Oracle is nothing if not consistent in providing shitty customer support across all sorts of products.

I’m both chaotic good and lawful neutral, depending if it’s for my job or not. I suppose that’s a fair assessment of the difference between my professional character and home character.

I would say questioning the position of the powers that be is the mark of good journalism, whether that’s government, religion, the wealthy, business, whatever.

I agree, though it depends on the activity. Going for drinks is shitty on coworkers who don’t drink. Going for BBQ is shitty on coworkers who are vegan/vegetarian. You can’t please everyone, but I think it’s very possible to at least not exclude anyone.

I worked at a place where everyone came in a bit early on Fridays for free bagels. It was nice to shoot the shit, and most people left a bit early in the afternoon to offset the earlier arrival. Maybe we lost a little productivity. However, everyone knew everyone in that office.

I think it depends on your industry and specialty. In my line of work my coworkers are all over the world and can’t really be centralized. There may be clusters in different regions, but it’s hard to justify (in my opinion) coming into the office to see two colleagues you may not even need to talk to that week. It is especially more difficult when meetings are regularly outside of normal work hours.

My company is still trying to force people back in where there are clusters, but I feel like they’re spending more on bullshit events to make it seem like it’s worth it than they could possibly gain in productivity. It really feels like a bunch of people trying to justify their jobs than anything else.

When I began the fight, my wife thought the song was hilarious. Since I had a lot of trouble with it, by the time I finished, she hated it. She’d start groaning everytime Raphael would start singing.

Agreed. The circlets are the only consistently good ones because they’re barely there. It’s tragic when a helmet is both a huge upgrade and distressingly ugly.

I have family who live in a rural area. It’s very nice to visit because the landscape is beautiful. The locals are also quite nice and helpful if you ever need it. But I don’t want to regularly spend an hour each way to the nearest supermarket or pharmacy. I don’t like driving that much. It seems to me a lot of the money you save on real estate you spend in time and convenience. I see the appeal, but it’s not for me.

I initially had the same worry. The game becomes a lot more enjoyable if you take a hard roleplaying approach: only do what your character would do, not what a completionist good two shoes would do. From early in my first playthrough, I had already decided that I was going to do a few more. So, it doesn’t feel like it matters if you really obviously miss some content.

That’s true. I work in a somewhat “small” work world for my area of expertise, and word does get around about bad employers. People seem to have a short memory once they start offering higher salaries, even though they never keep those up with inflation. A few years later, and they’re working for a shit boss with average pay.