Etterra

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Etterra ,

Handling a wild animal. So smart.

Etterra ,

Just make sure your submarine is properly built and safety tested by experience professionals and not just some idiot billionaire.

Etterra ,

Maybe that's why he had such bad luck with women. He probably didn't even figure it out himself until he was back home and finally got a promotion.

Etterra ,

I didn't think she's gay, probably more pansexual. She had a pretty weird upbringing, if you'll recall, so her sexuality is more like "gender is irrelevant."

Etterra ,

You're posting for your inability to download ublock.

Etterra ,

That's not a penalty. That's a rounding error.

Etterra ,

There's one way that I know of which while not technically evading the inexorable grinding misery of entropy, will ensure that you remain blissfully unaware of it.

Etterra ,

Good luck with that. It'd be hilarious if Texas succeeded and then came crawling back within a decade.

Etterra ,

Good luck with it. You may need to use shotguns. The rich bastards in power will never agree to party with any money that they aren't literally forced to.

Etterra ,

Whatever you got to tell yourself buddy. Don't worry, I'll mock you with your funeral.

Etterra ,

I quit Facebook in 2016 and never looked back. Hard to believe how long ago that was already. But if they want to end Lower Decks after season 5, it makes perfect sense and I'm all for it. I mean they have to leave the lower ranks eventually. Not only that, but if you force a show to drag on past its natural lifetime, it's going to suffer for it. Every fucking time.

Etterra ,

Futurama did it.

Etterra ,

Well must Americans want to end Greg Abbott expressing anything at all, but we can't all have what we want.

Etterra ,

It's not a crime, it's just an annoying medical condition.

Etterra ,

Right, because sports are so poor that they can barely afford their millions and millions of dollars in salaries - please help them. Won’t somebody think of the profit margins?

Etterra ,

Meh I saw a full solar eclipse as a kid and it was fine. I mean it’s not like we’re seeing photographic proof of life at Alpha Centauri or something.

Etterra ,

Let’s be honest. You didn’t like learning cursive, you didn’t like having to write full-ass papers in cursive because the computer lab was always full as a teenager, and you don’t like writing cursive now because it means you probably have to borrow a pen from somebody at work who never washes their hands. Sincerely, a 45 year old.

Etterra ,

The American dream was tortured to death, buried, dug up, ground into “dietary supplements,” then sold by Mr. Beast so he could pay poor people to fight over the chance to claw their way out of debt.

Etterra ,

Apparently a goth princess judging by the nail polish LOL

Etterra ,

Oh yeah. You know after World War III it’s not going to be warp engines that get invented.

Etterra ,

Looks fine to me. Just make sure it can pull enough air through those tiny holes. Might need to take a drill to the white casing to open those up.

Etterra ,

What would be ideal IMO is a bug with a gut bacteria exclusive to that species alone that could eat plastics and digest them fully so microplastics aren’t an issue. Likely, a species for each type of problem plastic. A natural analogue would be termites, which can only digest wood because of such a relationship.

It would have to be an artificially engineered relationship, and an insect that’s not particularly proliferate. Preferably with a narrow set of habitat tolerances. That way they could be farmed, but be unlikely to get into the environment and become a nuisance by eating plastics we don’t want them to.

Etterra ,

Dude, your company does not care in you in the slightest. ALWAYS take corporations and the government for every cent you can legally claw out of them. Because they will screw you over as hard as they can the second they feel like they can make more money and get away with it.

Etterra ,

Yes and no. It’s more like a trap that the company is trapped in. It’s the corporate equivalent of having to keep renting an apartment you don’t live in anymore and can’t sub-let. The sunk cost fallacy applies, but also it’s a case of “we’re stuck with this and we’re going to USE it even if it kills our wage slaves.”

Etterra ,

There’s an often overlooked part that you could call the “extrovert factor.” There’s always plenty of coworkers that thrive in group settings. Some number, maybe most, middle managers are extroverts, and when forced to work the way the average minion does, they suffer. It’s why they became middle managers in the first place. Their productivity suffers in isolation too, so when converted into a wage slave, they can’t complete with less extroverted people. Unfortunately they’re better situated to promote their own success, getting by in people skills while more competent people get screwed.

Extroverts also seem to suffer in productivity during WFH, even if they aren’t managers. They are stuck in a situation that hurts their functionality, offsetting the statistics. If they actually broke down WFH productivity by job description, I suspect that the extrovert/introvert factor will be a huge determiner of productivity.

Optional office hours seem the best fix, but the corporate attitude of obsessively monitoring the workers to be sure they’re not wasting time and therefore money is another factor that makes these companies want to favor their preconceptions. The confirmation bias kicks in and then we have to listen to them focus on it.

Etterra ,

I wonder how many of the participanting women who didn’t vote Joe Rogan as a red flag even know who he is.

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Etterra ,

Maybe they are, but not all of it. There’s always the ones that double down.

Etterra ,

Don’t forget the industrial revolution attitude that you have to watch your employees like hawks so they don’t “steal” from the company by slacking off. Even if they have to schedule constant pointless meetings that accomplish zero work while looking like work, just so they can keep an eye on their wage-slaves while making themselves appear productive. Control freaks, social bums, ladder climbers, and tin pot tyrants aren’t the only middle manager subspecies.

Fixing my drain required breaking laws, pissing off IRC users, breaking tools…

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Etterra ,

If you really do have multiple sharp bends in the drain line I have to wonder who the hell did the install. Good luck with that crap in the future. Oh and in the future, spilled hydrochloric acid should be cleaned up immediately with water and/or some baking soda or similar to summer and neutralize it respectively.

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