Hah. You assume that by annexing territory everyone living there gets naturalized. These ghouls would sooner repeat what’s happening in Palestine.

That assertion becomes less and less hyperbolic with time. It’s truly alarming.

I’m left wondering that, if a person lacks any/all creativity whatsoever, is this how they fabricate lies? It might just explain how pathological this behavior is.

This always happens.

A company that acts without empathy for their customers will invariably act the same towards their employees. This is because the behavior is usually driven by personalities in leadership that (dis)function this way rather universally. Add the fact that empathy limits one’s ability to make money (in this economy), and that psychological modeling is a thing in the workplace, and it’s easy to see how we keep getting into trouble like this.

There really isn’t an “at the right hand of the devil” scenario. Everyone is in his path, especially if you’re close.

Do they put a seam or darts in to intentionally pull it into the crack?

Yes. That and the garment might be undersized, while taking advantage of the high lycra/spandex content of the material.

It also makes sense if you subtract empathy from the picture. Sprinkle on a little “zero-sum game” with respect to tax money and it tracks even better.

While I agree wholeheartedly, it has one fundamental problem: dirt. If there’s one thing that golf courses aren’t, it’s dirty. The sport has a lot of class and image tied up in it, and I highly doubt that you’ll get many of those folks out into the clay like that. You’d be creating a whole new extreme form of golf, instead.

I was gonna say. We’re all in the back seat of a car because you’re not running from that thing with knees that old.

Agreed! Also, the exclusivity of many golf courses is the ultimate P2W flex here. Communism would end country clubs, not the game.

Honestly, I’d like to think there’s a middle ground where we place golf courses in more ethically sound locations. Right now, a lot of courses are just gigantic resource sinks sitting on real-estate that could be put to better use.

Better to place then on land reclaimed from strip mining, cemeteries, or other low-productivity locations.

To be fair, we are looking in the entire world for birds entirely located in Brazil. Task seems deliberately harder than it needs to be.

EVERYONE WAS ON VACATION!

Also: I painstakingly put all this information into LinkedIn, where you also posted the job req and your HR recruiter made contact. Please kindly fuck all the way off with making me re-enter all this data into your crummy HR database.

What about people that can’t afford an internet connection, are computer illiterate, or simply don’t have the time or resources to wrangle something like that?

Also, there are economies at scale when it comes to charity. For example, consider a humble soup kitchen. Helping people en-masse is a far better way to support the needy than one-off fundraisers.

I would love this to be an unintended outcome from all this. However, I don’t think that’s where we’re headed.

I, for one, think there’s a lot of slop in and around the engineering of phones. We might see a lot more software, storage, and overall activity crunched, compressed, and crammed into our portable devices instead. And with more stuff in the cloud/SaaS realm, they can also become (even) thinner clients at the same time. :(

It’s “heavier” gear like laptops and desktops that’ll probably get pushed into the pro and “prosumer” market.

Oh, we don’t do compassion and positive reinforcement around here.

I would have sprung for a professionally made sandwich board or spinny sign.

I really hope this guy got some high-fives for his trouble.

This, exactly. It was a fad because it was almost unobtainable prior to that era.

We were here with our InstaPot chicken wings. Now it’s air fryers and ‘seed oil free’ french fries.

Never has there ever been a more load-bearing-linchpin use of the word “salad”.

I’m calling it now. Streaming services are going to continue to double-down on artificial scarcity for flagship shows until we 100% converge on cable. They’re going to reinvent broadcast schedules after slow-drip weekly episode rollouts and half-seasons (you are here) don’t get the results they want.

where we compared the four different sign languages the two of us use

You buried the lede. How does something like that even happen? I feel like the odds of two sign-language polyglots being in the same room, let alone in a romantic relationship, are vanishingly small.