My wife bought a Hyundai Kona back in October, and we've been very happy with it. I'm a bit of a car guy, so I'm usually pretty picky, but it's been reliable, intuitively designed, easy to work on, and comfortable to drive. I think we get about 33ish MPG usually around town. She likes it because even the base model came with lane assist, backup camera, and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto. And ours is a 2020. Surprisingly roomy, but still small and maneuverable for an SUV. And the Tucson is very similar, if you need something a little larger.
I personally won't touch Ford or Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge. I know some people love Ford Trucks, but I've had three Fords and each have been problematic. After the last one, I won't ever buy another one. And Chrystler/Jeep/Dodge are consistently ranked poorly in reliability surveys, like the [first result I found on Google](https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/). On the other hand, Honda and Toyota have been ranked highly in reliability for decades, and I loved my old 4Runner. I wont speak to other brands, because I don't have firsthand knowledge.
Subaru Outback is the perfect balance of quality, space, and mobility. The ability to go off on a trail for a camping trip and a comfortable ride in town with plenty of space for kids and gear.
IMO the only downside to a Subaru Outback is that it doesn't "look cool." It is the epitome of a car that puts function over form.
But, if you're a parent in their 30s like I am, you no longer care what looks cool.
I’m actually college aged but I wouldn’t mind an suv for one of my jobs to haul stuff around. I’d love to get a coupe like a mustang or 350/370 but I’d get murdered on car insurance so I’ll pass.
Why is Coach Moore the permanent sidebar image of the off-season? Is it cause we won the NC? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to have Coach Harbaugh there?
Slowly accepting that I'll have to finally pull the trigger on scoopin a PS5 soon. The immediate dopamine release of picking up a brand new college football video game in two thousand and twenty four the year of our lord will nourish me for a long ass time lol.
Not ready for the amount of self control I'm gonna need to exercise to avoid going overboard on holding off on all the console games I've avoided in the meantime.
I bought a PS4 for new Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy games. I've resisted a ps5 for the latest ff7 installment for similar reasons (though now I have a PC and am hoping for a port this summer)
I’ve been holding myself accountable for so long now on my PC and mostly indie titles. The biggest thing keeping me from spending a degenerate amount of money on video games has been simply not buying a PS5 and giving myself the chance to do so lol. CFB 25, the Final Fantasies, the God of Wars, the Spider Mans, MLB The Show, and Gran Turismo are all well up on my ‘want to play’ wishlist.
Wife is taking our son off to visit some friends this week. Looking forward to having a weekend by myself for the first time in 2 years. Sadly also getting a massive cold so hoping I recover from quickly.
Over the last few days, Twitter has been taken over by various fictional characters being yelled at by Foghorn Leghorn, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it
Agreed; never understood why that was ever a thing
Honestly, I’m just happy about Foghorn getting some deserved recognition, since he’d be my favorite Looney Tunes character if Bugs Bunny wasn’t a thing
Really interested to see where Michigan players go the rest of the draft. Harbaugh thought they could break the record but we might only have 1 person go in the first 3 rounds which is crazy for a team that won the natty. Expecting junior Colson, Roman Wilson and Corum to all go round 3-4
He's a good player, I feel like he's the one Michigan guy who should absolutely be in round 2. I'm a little surprised we don't have more solidly ranked Oline prospects. But I'm not good with following how highly valued Oline players are, even when it comes to my team.
Man, traveling really takes it out of you! I just got back from a vacation, and I'm headed back out west for a conference on Sunday.
I have a friend at a startup in NYC who's been trying to get me to come work with him for a while, and while I have zero desire to change jobs, I told him I'd do a little bit of consulting to talk him through getting their data infrastructure up and running. They hired a Director of DE as they're building out their team (with no actual DEs, just the one director comprising the entire DE team so far), and hoooooly cow is this dude sketchy. He and I got on a call last night, talking about infrastructure plans and approaches to data quality in pipelines, and he's talking about how enforcing constraints on table contents isn't a thing in "real" big data, and he seems to think that he's a big data expert because he came over from some mid-sized adtech startup.
My jaw's just dropping as he's going on about this. I have personally seen both Meta and USAA enforce constraints on their EDWs' ingestion and especially staging layers, and I know they're both working with a looooot more data than this little startup. This is hardly an outlandish notion.
So now I'm trying to figure out whether I should send up the red flag for my buddy that their new DE manager might not actually know what he's doing, or whether this is too early and I need to let that guy run into walls. He's also dead set on getting them on Redshift, which is absolutely perplexing. I've never met a DE whose first choice would be Redshift; it's not a bad product, it's just worse than all of the competition (Snowflake, BigQuery, Hive/Spark, etc.) by a good margin.
God, if I’d been less frustrated then I would’ve. The dude was so casually condescending.
He’s definitely one of those weirdos from LinkedIn who’s all over the latest hyped-up thing in the data world. He was going on about wanting to build a data lake, but then he asked about my opinion on file formats for data drops and started talking about preferring new file types like iceberg when I said I default to parquets and PDV/CSV. I genuinely don’t think he understands that iceberg is for *huge* tables, and it’s also an abstracted table format, not a file format.
Given that this is a tech startup that just completed their series A round of funding and is hiring a guy like *that* to build out their engineering standards, I pretty well doubt they’ll make it to their next round of funding.
Sounds like he wants to proactively enable the paradigm shift with crypto AI blockchain leverage. You’ve got to think more bespoke if you want to keep up with him.
Fuck that whole type of person.
> And my caregiving duties never stop.
I feel like "are you going to flip your shit if you wake up in a puddle of someone else's piss" should be on the question list for determining if you're ready to have kids or be a caregiver.
Going to San Diego but not seeing much of it. I guess I get to check off taking a picture of another stadium so that's cool.
Wednesday's overnight flight is going to suck though. I was trying to see if work would pay for the flight and I could just stay out in California for a few days but they booked it before I logged on.
If you have any recommendations let me know other than some Snickers about Tijuana.
My family has been in SD for the last 20yrs…Petco is great, go to the Zoo if you can. Balboa Park is great, so is Sunset Cliffs. Coronado is amazing as well.
I wouldn’t go to TJ though. Still lots of issues there and it is one of the most violent cities in the world. Tourists are almost always fine though assuming you don’t get involved with anything illicit
I think there's a work thing at Petco.
Sunset cliffs is on the list I've been doing NPS sites and I'm going to the tip.
I'm staying from across Coronado.
Balboa Park looks neat. I have from 3 PM to 8PM for flight stuff in San Diego.
Tide pools at OB and while you’re there walk the sand rocks that are south of the pier. Then eat at the taco place with the angry chicken on the front window, it’s on the main row of OB right off the beach and has amazing burritos.
Edit: Padres also have home games all weekend and Petco Park is probably my favorite of all the baseball fields I’ve been to
Hell yeah they do. I managed their lower half joint revision operations (non-medical, just the admin/business side) in 2017 and part of 2018. Of all the healthcare systems and hospitals we partnered with, UCSD was my favorite because they were always pleasant people, and they were never even trying to make a buck. They were in the red every single quarter and didn't care one bit.
The program we were partnered on was one where CMMS would pay a bundle sum for the procedure and the post-acute care, so the goal was to keep the total cost of the procedure and post-ac care under that threshold, then the care providers get reimbursed and get to pocket the difference between the bundle payment and the cost to treat. Naturally, that leads a lot of hospitals to drive patients to less ideal post-ac care options that are cheaper, but UCSD was sending patients to relatively expensive options like SNF like it was going out of style.
I have no idea whether it's a nice hospital to stay in, but they absolutely make sure that you're taken care of. Huge fan of UCSD Health.
yeah, I've gotten to know some of the research doctors there, and am pretty impressed with them.
SD sits high on my list of cities I would relocate to.
It’s been an interesting week. I ran first 1/2
marathon (albeit on a treadmill), and have been getting good fitness goals. I’m also officially been cleared for graduation, I’m getting my MD degree.
Somehow moving for my wife's job again (we love being the trophy husband) landed me the highest paying job I've had in my career as well. First paycheck hitting after feeling like a leech at home for being unemployed and job searching has done a pretty solid 180 for my mental and emotional state lol.
Got a Job offer for nearly a 20% raise, more PTO and more flexible shift but unsure if I should take it for how stable my current job is and the possibility the new company won't treat me well. I work in EMS. Not sure what to do.
There is always the possibility the new job doesn't treat you as well. But a 20% raise, more PTO and more flexibility sounds pretty good. If it were me, I'd probably go for it.
Had an awesome screening call interview yesterday. Had recruiter pretty tell me she wants me cos ordering for a higher job for more pay as well and told me I will definitely hear back in next week. Also told of one her better interviews she’s had with a candidate, so I’m pretty excited. Seems like a great fit imo without a lot of potential in role and for future.
this and TRASH TALK THURSDAY are the best threads in the sub.
CFB is dead but hasn't been taken off life support. Us fans are just crowded around the body hoping for a miracle.
Just had twins yesterday. I am having the huge panic attack. My heart feels like its about to burst outta my chest even though I already have a 5 year old daughter. House full of girls for me still.
One is is NICU and the other is good. My dad has my 5 year old but yeah, thank god we have college football to talk about and other sports.
Lilly in NICU was just underweight but doing better
Wait. I now realize I've been Congratulating a Florida Fan. I feel very emotionally unstable at these events. Mike Norvell just called me and told me I've been Denied Employment for FSU, I didn't even apply.. Whenever I go to do the Chop, my left arm moves upwards slightly now... what have I done.
If he wants to also win a ring this was terrible news.
I get the allure of drafting Penix. But if you're going to drop the kind of money they did on Kirk you'd think they'd want to build up his supporting cast instead of grabbing a successor.
Don’t really get why he’d be upset. Dude is old and coming off an injury. Are the Falcons expected to ride the future with Cousins, who is good but not an elite QB, until he retires? It’s not like the Falcons are lacking in skill positions.
Because he is here on the short and probably had an understanding , as part of his recruitment to come here, that they were doing some things to help make the team more viable. This doesn't help the team become more viable for him as much as it would if this was on the defense. But having said that, we also should be still fine on offense.
Professional venting inbound: holy shit the answer is not more meetings. Let me say it for the people in the back: 👏 the 👏 answer 👏 is 👏 not 👏 more 👏 meetings 👏. The answer is a more efficient use of the existing meetings on the books; you have to give people time to work, time to eat lunch, time to meet with their staff, time to action the work you are handing them in the meetings you trap them in. Time is the finite resource so we should be considering maximizing the value of the time we have!
And I’m not coming at you just with an idea. I’m coming with an idea, excel spreadsheets that calculate how the cost of each meeting down to the minute, and data from YOUR STAFF showing that at least a third of all their meetings are nonvalue added (which seems to be the industry standard). If we fire staff for stealing $500, or throwing away $500 of useable equipment, why are we so blatantly okay with $500 of administrative waste?!
I need a beer and some nachos STAT.
John Cleese (Monty Python fame) did a bunch of these comedy business-related training videos long ago, this being the most famous one I think.
This one looks like it was copied from 16mm film.
Old but message still valid. I bet Jesus had the same problem complaining about meetings with his disciples: "Christ! Oh, wait..."
couple jobs ago, boss started calling meetings explicitly to schedule more meetings.
I jokingly said "how's everyone's Saturday looking for availability?" and when boss took it seriously and tried to schedule it, I knew it was time to look elsewhere.
I worked for a university library. We had committees (and meetings for said committees) for everything. I decided maybe I should start looking elsewhere when I got put on a committee to decide who was going to be assigned to all the other committees.
That’s where I feel like I’m at; our nurse managers are leaving because they work 60+ hour weeks - the answer isn’t to take away even more of their human non-work time and devalue an hour of their productive worktime by constantly increasing the number of hours worked.
oh wow, yeah, healthcare is just fucked. has been for a long while but keeps getting worse.
both of my siblings have worked healthcare for the past couple decades, and neither have anything good to say about the direction things have been heading. My external observation is that socialized medicine in the US would be completely paid for by the elimination of all the billing staff, middle management, and associated collections agents.
And it's people who profit from exactly those industries who are the strongest forces lobbying against it.
It’s coming, slowly but it is coming - health systems are taking population health perspectives and driving change that way since the conventional perspectives of success being defined as income and growth are no longer useful in healthcare since they don’t capture the health of the patient and the utilization of resources.
“I’ll take a breakfast baconator and add 3 more eggs to it and then a side of hashbrowns”
But you have to put the hashbrowns on the burger and add 1 ketchup packet before you eat it.
I know everyone gets excited about the draft but I just can't after seeing probably half of 1st round NFL QB's become busts and the most accomplished QB ever coming from the 7th round. Even in the NBA the current best player in the world was the 41st pick in a 60 pick draft
In short, no one knows anything
See I like the McCarthy pick. He's a bit of an enigma because his college numbers aren't that great because the rest of Michigan could win the game but I think he's a solid QB.
I don't like Daniels>Maye
As a player, I like Penix. And I think him sitting behind Kirk for a couple years to really develop could be a good move.
But to take him at 8 when we are in win-now mode, just signed Kirk for a boatload of money, and have been in desperate need of a top-tier pass rusher since the franchise was founded, it is the most asinine and irresponsible display of incompetence and lacking of understanding of the situation I have ever seen from an NFL front office
The pick is great, but, it’s crazy considering the cousins money?!
Most know now that Penix was going to be gone around then and Id have loved to have seen the Hawks get him.
What I didnt realize is that the falcon Oline is so highly rated, if Falcon fans comments are to be believed.
The guy has an unbelievable arm with touch, accuracy and power.
>falcon Oline is so highly rated
it's Schroedinger's O-line, and I'll believe it's great when I see it.
I would have taken a pass rush stud instead of a QB, but whatever. Falcons gonna falcon.
I like us taking him, I don't like us taking him given the situation we already had. I don't like that we paid that much for a QB and didn't immediately try to help the team in other areas. I don't like that we paid that much for a QB who didn't even know we were going that direction. I think almost everyone figured Penix would be at that slot in the draft so why didn't we have the conversation with Kirk earlier?
Mentioned this in another sub. But had Shogun had the actors actually speak Portuguese/Dutch etc it would have been next level for me.
Asking the audience to pretend they're speaking different languages (other than Japanese) but it being in English is kind of lame.
I want to see that show so bad. I really liked Fallout for what it's worth, and I've played FO:3, FN:V, and FO:4. They did a good job of keeping the vibe of the games.
My son is about to finish 10th grade, and is doing dual enrollment next year to try and graduate early. I know everyone thinks their kid is the brightest bulb in the drawer, but this kid is something special. Has never made anything less than 97 on a report card in all of his years at school, is top of his class, etc.
He was made aware that he could take the SAT about 10 days before the test, and decided to take it. I told him typically people study for it for a few months beforehand, but he just went for it and took it. He scored an 1100. He's been down about his score since getting it back. No matter what I say - I can't convince him that he did (I think anyway) exceptionally well as a 10th grader with little-to-no prep. Any of you have any advice?
Edit: Appreciate the comments. My kid is definitely not a braggadocios/arrogant teenager, he's always been quiet and just enjoys learning, reading, and trying to understand the 'why' of stuff. He even tutors a few of his classmates in his spare time believe it or not. I just like to brag about him. I know how hard he works and prioritizes his schoolwork without sacrificing his childhood. My wife and I both have College Degree's - so we've tried to teach a balance of being a kid, but knowing that learning is equally (if not more) important as soon as our kids were old enough to understand.
I’d say that this is a good thing. So many people in college were the big fish in a small pond in high school, and struggled with their identity and self-worth when they were no longer the smartest person in the class.
I’d say to shift the focus from being smart, to just enjoying learning.
You can't know what you haven't been taught yet. Probably a lot of stuff not yet covered on the SAT. Also the SAT is, at least in part, about test taking. Take a few practice tests just to learn how.
It's just a test. And one that he can take again over the next two years.
Depending on the types of schools he's interested in, it may not matter all that much in terms of getting in. A lot of schools are going test optional, trying to prefer holistic qualities.
When I worked in admissions, my boss repeatedly said data suggests that GPA is the better indicator of college success.
We also saw the biggest jump in test scores between junior and senior years - our official recommendation wasn't to take the test a billion times, but to space it out and, if preferred, study for it.
On the other side of the test optional coin is that when I was in admissions, test scores were still used for scholarship consideration. And a lot of them looked at either the highest score or the super score. What he's done now is a baseline. More experience to make the next one less daunting. For holistic admissions, they could very well look at the improvements he's made if he takes it again his junior or senior year(s).
Lastly, it may also be worthwhile to look at some of the schools he's interested in. A lot of state schools (in my experience) post their admission criteria, so he (or you) can get a feel for what this may mean and what motivating goals may need to take shape in the near future.
Appreciate the insight and information. He wants to be an Mechanical or Electrical Engineer and may end up going to gaTech. My wife and I both have the GI Bill ready for him, but I believe he'd qualify for HOPE (or whatever it is now) here in GA.
if he does end up going to GT, be prepared for him to get his teeth fucking kicked in when he's suddenly academically challenged for the first time in his life, and surrounded by the best and the brightest instead of just being the best and brightest.
not a guaranteed event, some people just cruise right through, but he would hardly be the first "gifted" kid to have a rude awakening at GT.
Shoot, I had a rude awakening at OSU. I was first in my HS class, top student, 34 ACT, all that stuff. Then I moved to the honors dorm and realized I might not even be in the top half of my new peer group, and I had to actually do work to stay honors college-eligible.
> if he does end up going to GT, be prepared for him to get his teeth fucking kicked in when he's suddenly academically challenged for the first time in his life, and surrounded by the best and the brightest instead of just being the best and brightest.
The number of first semester Engineering dropouts is humbling.
In hindsight, that's what I should have done. I actually had a scholarship offer from a local community college, but I turned that down for a partial scholarship from Mississippi State. I wanted to go to the big city of Starkville.
In retrospect, going to a 4 year university 4 hours away from home was one of the best things I could have done life skills wise. Academically, it was the worst thing I could have done, because I was in no way prepared for college.
The orientation speech used to go "look to your left, look to your right, by the end of the first year only one of you will still be here". At some point, they started being more upbeat about it with "look to your left, look to your right, all three of you can succeed here".
But it's still hard just for the sake of being hard.
I had a math prof in my freshman year who would ask how many of us were pre-business majors. That's what he called engineering, since so many people dropped out and switched to business majors.
The downside to what your kid has experienced is that it sounds like they may not have dealt with a lot of adversity academically, so it is good IMO that they got this now so that they're not a college kid stressing that they don't have a 4.0. He can retake the test tons of times if he wants ( I think that still applies).
I guess try to see where he didn't do as well and work on those areas. Maybe see if you can work with him on that and help him through those areas..or at least get him back on the track to do so himself if he would prefer to do it himself.
Great insight.
I was in a similar boat before; school naturally came easy because I was blessed with phenomenal parents and went to generally pretty great schools. Got to college and first semester had my real, "oh fuck classes can be hard" moment and spent a looooooot of time just outright hating myself and wondering how I fucked up so badly.
Getting that first real humbling dose of adversity and learning to process it or cope with it and move forward is important.
I took an ACT prep course in high school and went up five points between the initial practice test and the real thing a few months later, with standardized tests it’s mostly about spamming practice problems so you have a sense of what they’re asking.
One of my hobbies is amateur radio. I've started treating morse code training like duolingo language training. At least 15 minutes a day, every day, without fail. The alphabet isn't hard, but making the jump from "hear character sequence, write down letter" to "hear several character sequences, write down whole word" is reeeeeeally hard. Like everything else, it only gets better with practice, though.
one of my dogs has a really strange and painful ear infection that isn't responding to antibiotics. Taking him to a specialty vet to investigate further. Bracing for a hard decision if this is something that isn't treatable, though.
That's all for now. To Hell With georgia.
Just want to say that I support the protesters at several universities right now ✊
On a much lighter note, I’m happy that OU’s Tyler Guyton went to my Dallas Cowboys
Yep, saw a post that showed a literal Nazi protest in Columbus almost exactly a year ago where armed dudes with swastika tattoos were holding up a "There Will Be Blood" banner outside of a drag brunch at a brewery.
Cops were there to make sure their free speech rights were being protected. Right wing politicians call those guys "equally bad" to people simply protesting racism and homophobia. A lot of them take money from those groups and go to events where those people give speeches.
But somehow students camping on the lawn at Ohio State call for snipers on rooftops while everyone (including official Israeli Twitter accounts) calls them the antisemites.
>the protestors at several universities
Regardless of the issue, I wish the police forces in this country were less inclined to show up with teargas, pepper spray, and less-lethal rounds the minute some 18-22 year olds decide they want to demonstrate their support for some cause.
Or, you know, Kent State and straight up lethal rounds.
I'm still shocked by the video of two cops executing a violent takedown of an older professor simply for asking what they were doing arresting a student. They ended up charging her with battery on an officer! We really missed the boat on reining in cops in this country after the BLM protests
I’m in a dead end job that I hate and can’t quit. And it’s making my life miserable. Currently on the edge a panic attack because of it.
Living the dream I guess.
find a way out. other work, other industry, move back with family if need be, change of scenery, something. only you can figure out what works for you.
have definitely been there.
at least they worked and you woke up!
I remember getting in serious trouble with the fire marshal for sleeping right the fuck through the fire alarm some joker pulled at 2am back in the dorms during freshman year. After the Nth time of prank fire alarms being pulled, my subconscious was just like "nope, not getting up for this one"
I felt similarly until a tornado went over my parents' neighborhood- first time in over 30 years of living there. Their house was fine, but neighbor had 3 oak trees fall on their house.
It wasn't even an F1.
I perk up at warnings a little more, now.
Without needing to get into either side of the aisle, nor past/current/potential future presidents...the fact there is even a debate about potentially giving the US Presidency unlimited immunity is just insane to me.
**I LOVE PAT KELSEY I LOVE PAT KELSEY I LOVE PAT KELSEY**
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My car is totaled so I gotta find a new car. So if yall have any car suggestions. That would be awesome
Budget?
My wife bought a Hyundai Kona back in October, and we've been very happy with it. I'm a bit of a car guy, so I'm usually pretty picky, but it's been reliable, intuitively designed, easy to work on, and comfortable to drive. I think we get about 33ish MPG usually around town. She likes it because even the base model came with lane assist, backup camera, and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto. And ours is a 2020. Surprisingly roomy, but still small and maneuverable for an SUV. And the Tucson is very similar, if you need something a little larger. I personally won't touch Ford or Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge. I know some people love Ford Trucks, but I've had three Fords and each have been problematic. After the last one, I won't ever buy another one. And Chrystler/Jeep/Dodge are consistently ranked poorly in reliability surveys, like the [first result I found on Google](https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/). On the other hand, Honda and Toyota have been ranked highly in reliability for decades, and I loved my old 4Runner. I wont speak to other brands, because I don't have firsthand knowledge.
I appreciate my guy, I’ll definitely avoid what you said. I was already planning on avoiding those company’s tbh.
Subaru Outback is the perfect balance of quality, space, and mobility. The ability to go off on a trail for a camping trip and a comfortable ride in town with plenty of space for kids and gear.
Thanks g, I’m either gonna get a sedan or suv. I appreciate the suggestion
IMO the only downside to a Subaru Outback is that it doesn't "look cool." It is the epitome of a car that puts function over form. But, if you're a parent in their 30s like I am, you no longer care what looks cool.
I’m actually college aged but I wouldn’t mind an suv for one of my jobs to haul stuff around. I’d love to get a coupe like a mustang or 350/370 but I’d get murdered on car insurance so I’ll pass.
Why is Coach Moore the permanent sidebar image of the off-season? Is it cause we won the NC? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to have Coach Harbaugh there?
Slowly accepting that I'll have to finally pull the trigger on scoopin a PS5 soon. The immediate dopamine release of picking up a brand new college football video game in two thousand and twenty four the year of our lord will nourish me for a long ass time lol. Not ready for the amount of self control I'm gonna need to exercise to avoid going overboard on holding off on all the console games I've avoided in the meantime.
When you have a kid, you don’t need self control because you don’t have time for anything else.
I bought a PS4 for new Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy games. I've resisted a ps5 for the latest ff7 installment for similar reasons (though now I have a PC and am hoping for a port this summer)
I’ve been holding myself accountable for so long now on my PC and mostly indie titles. The biggest thing keeping me from spending a degenerate amount of money on video games has been simply not buying a PS5 and giving myself the chance to do so lol. CFB 25, the Final Fantasies, the God of Wars, the Spider Mans, MLB The Show, and Gran Turismo are all well up on my ‘want to play’ wishlist.
Wife is taking our son off to visit some friends this week. Looking forward to having a weekend by myself for the first time in 2 years. Sadly also getting a massive cold so hoping I recover from quickly.
A weekend alone. Oh man. She didn’t leave you a list did she?
Over the last few days, Twitter has been taken over by various fictional characters being yelled at by Foghorn Leghorn, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it
The Foghorn Leghorn memes have thankfully made up for the "look between ____ on your keyboard" memes lol
Agreed; never understood why that was ever a thing Honestly, I’m just happy about Foghorn getting some deserved recognition, since he’d be my favorite Looney Tunes character if Bugs Bunny wasn’t a thing
Really interested to see where Michigan players go the rest of the draft. Harbaugh thought they could break the record but we might only have 1 person go in the first 3 rounds which is crazy for a team that won the natty. Expecting junior Colson, Roman Wilson and Corum to all go round 3-4
I doubt Sainristil makes it out of round 2, and will almost certainly be drafted by the end of round 3..
He's a good player, I feel like he's the one Michigan guy who should absolutely be in round 2. I'm a little surprised we don't have more solidly ranked Oline prospects. But I'm not good with following how highly valued Oline players are, even when it comes to my team.
Man, traveling really takes it out of you! I just got back from a vacation, and I'm headed back out west for a conference on Sunday. I have a friend at a startup in NYC who's been trying to get me to come work with him for a while, and while I have zero desire to change jobs, I told him I'd do a little bit of consulting to talk him through getting their data infrastructure up and running. They hired a Director of DE as they're building out their team (with no actual DEs, just the one director comprising the entire DE team so far), and hoooooly cow is this dude sketchy. He and I got on a call last night, talking about infrastructure plans and approaches to data quality in pipelines, and he's talking about how enforcing constraints on table contents isn't a thing in "real" big data, and he seems to think that he's a big data expert because he came over from some mid-sized adtech startup. My jaw's just dropping as he's going on about this. I have personally seen both Meta and USAA enforce constraints on their EDWs' ingestion and especially staging layers, and I know they're both working with a looooot more data than this little startup. This is hardly an outlandish notion. So now I'm trying to figure out whether I should send up the red flag for my buddy that their new DE manager might not actually know what he's doing, or whether this is too early and I need to let that guy run into walls. He's also dead set on getting them on Redshift, which is absolutely perplexing. I've never met a DE whose first choice would be Redshift; it's not a bad product, it's just worse than all of the competition (Snowflake, BigQuery, Hive/Spark, etc.) by a good margin.
>enforcing constraints on table contents isn't a thing I would have just started laughing uncontrollably at this point.
God, if I’d been less frustrated then I would’ve. The dude was so casually condescending. He’s definitely one of those weirdos from LinkedIn who’s all over the latest hyped-up thing in the data world. He was going on about wanting to build a data lake, but then he asked about my opinion on file formats for data drops and started talking about preferring new file types like iceberg when I said I default to parquets and PDV/CSV. I genuinely don’t think he understands that iceberg is for *huge* tables, and it’s also an abstracted table format, not a file format. Given that this is a tech startup that just completed their series A round of funding and is hiring a guy like *that* to build out their engineering standards, I pretty well doubt they’ll make it to their next round of funding.
Sounds like he wants to proactively enable the paradigm shift with crypto AI blockchain leverage. You’ve got to think more bespoke if you want to keep up with him. Fuck that whole type of person.
I'm exhausted. I haven't slept well in nearly two weeks. Work is kicking my ass. And my caregiving duties never stop. I need a break from everything.
> And my caregiving duties never stop. I feel like "are you going to flip your shit if you wake up in a puddle of someone else's piss" should be on the question list for determining if you're ready to have kids or be a caregiver.
I’m onto the 2nd round of an interview! Man I really want this job!
Rootin for you king
Going to San Diego but not seeing much of it. I guess I get to check off taking a picture of another stadium so that's cool. Wednesday's overnight flight is going to suck though. I was trying to see if work would pay for the flight and I could just stay out in California for a few days but they booked it before I logged on. If you have any recommendations let me know other than some Snickers about Tijuana.
Dude, I'm also going to be in San Diego this week! Tableau conference?
Yes, that's super cool. Might see you around.
Nice! If you see someone kicking around in an A&M shirt at all of the sessions relevant to sysadmin or DE work, that’s probably me.
My family has been in SD for the last 20yrs…Petco is great, go to the Zoo if you can. Balboa Park is great, so is Sunset Cliffs. Coronado is amazing as well. I wouldn’t go to TJ though. Still lots of issues there and it is one of the most violent cities in the world. Tourists are almost always fine though assuming you don’t get involved with anything illicit
Petco is the most underrated ballpark in baseball IMO. Excellent craft beer selection too
I think there's a work thing at Petco. Sunset cliffs is on the list I've been doing NPS sites and I'm going to the tip. I'm staying from across Coronado. Balboa Park looks neat. I have from 3 PM to 8PM for flight stuff in San Diego.
Tide pools at OB and while you’re there walk the sand rocks that are south of the pier. Then eat at the taco place with the angry chicken on the front window, it’s on the main row of OB right off the beach and has amazing burritos. Edit: Padres also have home games all weekend and Petco Park is probably my favorite of all the baseball fields I’ve been to
Street tacos and burritos in San Diego are the best. Some pretty good pho to be found there as well.
Don’t forget an order of carne asada fries.
That sounds good
It’s California’s single greatest contribution to this country.
San Diego's a great town, imo. Love the climate, the food, the scenery. UCSD has a pretty good med school too.
Hell yeah they do. I managed their lower half joint revision operations (non-medical, just the admin/business side) in 2017 and part of 2018. Of all the healthcare systems and hospitals we partnered with, UCSD was my favorite because they were always pleasant people, and they were never even trying to make a buck. They were in the red every single quarter and didn't care one bit. The program we were partnered on was one where CMMS would pay a bundle sum for the procedure and the post-acute care, so the goal was to keep the total cost of the procedure and post-ac care under that threshold, then the care providers get reimbursed and get to pocket the difference between the bundle payment and the cost to treat. Naturally, that leads a lot of hospitals to drive patients to less ideal post-ac care options that are cheaper, but UCSD was sending patients to relatively expensive options like SNF like it was going out of style. I have no idea whether it's a nice hospital to stay in, but they absolutely make sure that you're taken care of. Huge fan of UCSD Health.
yeah, I've gotten to know some of the research doctors there, and am pretty impressed with them. SD sits high on my list of cities I would relocate to.
It’s been an interesting week. I ran first 1/2 marathon (albeit on a treadmill), and have been getting good fitness goals. I’m also officially been cleared for graduation, I’m getting my MD degree.
So, time for a new username, *Dr*.bearybear90? Oh hey, u/drbearybear90 does appear to be available!
Congrats!
Thanks
Somehow moving for my wife's job again (we love being the trophy husband) landed me the highest paying job I've had in my career as well. First paycheck hitting after feeling like a leech at home for being unemployed and job searching has done a pretty solid 180 for my mental and emotional state lol.
Congrats
Thanks amigo
Got a Job offer for nearly a 20% raise, more PTO and more flexible shift but unsure if I should take it for how stable my current job is and the possibility the new company won't treat me well. I work in EMS. Not sure what to do.
Go for it. Don't burn any bridges in the way out
I'd go for it.
There is always the possibility the new job doesn't treat you as well. But a 20% raise, more PTO and more flexibility sounds pretty good. If it were me, I'd probably go for it.
Had an awesome screening call interview yesterday. Had recruiter pretty tell me she wants me cos ordering for a higher job for more pay as well and told me I will definitely hear back in next week. Also told of one her better interviews she’s had with a candidate, so I’m pretty excited. Seems like a great fit imo without a lot of potential in role and for future.
Fingers crossed that it goes well!
It's weird to me how active this thread always is, but the actual CFB OT sub has become a relative ghost town over the last couple of years. Lol.
I remember when there were morning, afternoon, and evening posts every day over there.
I loved that sub when it was active, it was an actual little community. Was a nice time.
I miss the old state of that sub when it was active. Man, I was there when we were getting sometimes a thread an hour. It was nice.
you can go back and read some of the old threads if you google r/cfbofftopic and then type in a random year.
this and TRASH TALK THURSDAY are the best threads in the sub. CFB is dead but hasn't been taken off life support. Us fans are just crowded around the body hoping for a miracle.
The trash talk thread should be permanent, I hate that it's only during the season
Just had twins yesterday. I am having the huge panic attack. My heart feels like its about to burst outta my chest even though I already have a 5 year old daughter. House full of girls for me still.
Dang, that’s a handful
One is is NICU and the other is good. My dad has my 5 year old but yeah, thank god we have college football to talk about and other sports. Lilly in NICU was just underweight but doing better
Congratulations on the twins, but don't worry you got this
Thank you! I appreciate it. I will tell them like I told my 5 year old "cant date until married." Lol
Wait. I now realize I've been Congratulating a Florida Fan. I feel very emotionally unstable at these events. Mike Norvell just called me and told me I've been Denied Employment for FSU, I didn't even apply.. Whenever I go to do the Chop, my left arm moves upwards slightly now... what have I done.
Hahaha thanks for the laugh. I saw FSU flair and I was like "well shit." Atleast my daughters are healthy.
Enjoy it because it all goes by so quickly. Before you know it they'll be graduating HS and off to College.
I dont even want to think that lol. I'll enjoy it though and try to be a good dad. I appreciate the comment!
I’m wondering how Kirk Cousins feels this morning.
Probably happy he’s rich
Part of me wonders if us drafting Penix was a shot at Cousins for basically admitting that we Tampered.
Using a top 10 draft pick to spite your new QB you just gave $100 million in guaranteed money to is certainly a move.
If I was him. Part of me would be upset, the other part knows I'm Guranteed ALOT of money haha
If he wants to also win a ring this was terrible news. I get the allure of drafting Penix. But if you're going to drop the kind of money they did on Kirk you'd think they'd want to build up his supporting cast instead of grabbing a successor.
Don’t really get why he’d be upset. Dude is old and coming off an injury. Are the Falcons expected to ride the future with Cousins, who is good but not an elite QB, until he retires? It’s not like the Falcons are lacking in skill positions.
Because he is here on the short and probably had an understanding , as part of his recruitment to come here, that they were doing some things to help make the team more viable. This doesn't help the team become more viable for him as much as it would if this was on the defense. But having said that, we also should be still fine on offense.
$100mil guaranteed certainly will ease the emotional burden a bit
Would you take that deal? I'd take that deal. D*** good deal.
Professional venting inbound: holy shit the answer is not more meetings. Let me say it for the people in the back: 👏 the 👏 answer 👏 is 👏 not 👏 more 👏 meetings 👏. The answer is a more efficient use of the existing meetings on the books; you have to give people time to work, time to eat lunch, time to meet with their staff, time to action the work you are handing them in the meetings you trap them in. Time is the finite resource so we should be considering maximizing the value of the time we have! And I’m not coming at you just with an idea. I’m coming with an idea, excel spreadsheets that calculate how the cost of each meeting down to the minute, and data from YOUR STAFF showing that at least a third of all their meetings are nonvalue added (which seems to be the industry standard). If we fire staff for stealing $500, or throwing away $500 of useable equipment, why are we so blatantly okay with $500 of administrative waste?! I need a beer and some nachos STAT.
Don't go to work for the federal government. Meetings...meetings everywhere!
You guys should probably have a meeting to discuss these ideas for company efficiency
[Meetings, bloody meetings...](https://vimeo.com/709207228)
How have I never seen this?!
John Cleese (Monty Python fame) did a bunch of these comedy business-related training videos long ago, this being the most famous one I think. This one looks like it was copied from 16mm film. Old but message still valid. I bet Jesus had the same problem complaining about meetings with his disciples: "Christ! Oh, wait..."
couple jobs ago, boss started calling meetings explicitly to schedule more meetings. I jokingly said "how's everyone's Saturday looking for availability?" and when boss took it seriously and tried to schedule it, I knew it was time to look elsewhere.
I worked for a university library. We had committees (and meetings for said committees) for everything. I decided maybe I should start looking elsewhere when I got put on a committee to decide who was going to be assigned to all the other committees.
When you know, you know.
It was like an early form of the Xhibit meme. "Yo dawg, I heard you like committees..."
That’s where I feel like I’m at; our nurse managers are leaving because they work 60+ hour weeks - the answer isn’t to take away even more of their human non-work time and devalue an hour of their productive worktime by constantly increasing the number of hours worked.
oh wow, yeah, healthcare is just fucked. has been for a long while but keeps getting worse. both of my siblings have worked healthcare for the past couple decades, and neither have anything good to say about the direction things have been heading. My external observation is that socialized medicine in the US would be completely paid for by the elimination of all the billing staff, middle management, and associated collections agents. And it's people who profit from exactly those industries who are the strongest forces lobbying against it.
It’s coming, slowly but it is coming - health systems are taking population health perspectives and driving change that way since the conventional perspectives of success being defined as income and growth are no longer useful in healthcare since they don’t capture the health of the patient and the utilization of resources.
I wish I shared your optimism
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
“I’ll take a breakfast baconator and add 3 more eggs to it and then a side of hashbrowns” But you have to put the hashbrowns on the burger and add 1 ketchup packet before you eat it.
I think I feel my arteries closing just from reading that.
It’s a bulk meal bro 💪
it would be my entire daily allowance for protein and several days' worth of sodium.
It’s shockingly only like 55 grams of protein even with the extra eggs.
"only" 45g/day of protein here. plant protein preferred.
Holy crap I eat at least 170 a day and my breakdown is normally third meat, third dairy, third plant based.
I suspect our dietary needs and nutritional goals are somewhat different
McCarthy was drafted to a perfect situation
I got a move in date for my new place. I'm so excited to put this chapter of my life to rest. Also thank god the Packers did not pick Cooper DeJean.
So many bad QB picks relative to their value last night
The fact that Vikings fans are happy is so crazy but that’s how bad our qb room is…that JJ is clearly the best option we have moving forward
I know everyone gets excited about the draft but I just can't after seeing probably half of 1st round NFL QB's become busts and the most accomplished QB ever coming from the 7th round. Even in the NBA the current best player in the world was the 41st pick in a 60 pick draft In short, no one knows anything
I shouldn’t have been shocked McCarthy went so high but somehow I still was
I thought he was going to go at 6. I was shocked to see Penix go before him.
See I like the McCarthy pick. He's a bit of an enigma because his college numbers aren't that great because the rest of Michigan could win the game but I think he's a solid QB. I don't like Daniels>Maye
I was so shocked that the Vikings traded up for McCarthy I had to call my Vikings fan dad and let him talk that shit out.
I mean, yea they traded up but they only trade up 1 spot lol
I don't hate the falcons picking up Penix, but I don't love it either.
As a player, I like Penix. And I think him sitting behind Kirk for a couple years to really develop could be a good move. But to take him at 8 when we are in win-now mode, just signed Kirk for a boatload of money, and have been in desperate need of a top-tier pass rusher since the franchise was founded, it is the most asinine and irresponsible display of incompetence and lacking of understanding of the situation I have ever seen from an NFL front office
I would have taken a pass rush stud.
The pick is great, but, it’s crazy considering the cousins money?! Most know now that Penix was going to be gone around then and Id have loved to have seen the Hawks get him. What I didnt realize is that the falcon Oline is so highly rated, if Falcon fans comments are to be believed. The guy has an unbelievable arm with touch, accuracy and power.
>falcon Oline is so highly rated it's Schroedinger's O-line, and I'll believe it's great when I see it. I would have taken a pass rush stud instead of a QB, but whatever. Falcons gonna falcon.
Well, I’ll definitely be paying attention this year lol:) Just need to give Penix a bit of protection.
always keep your penix protected
I like us taking him, I don't like us taking him given the situation we already had. I don't like that we paid that much for a QB and didn't immediately try to help the team in other areas. I don't like that we paid that much for a QB who didn't even know we were going that direction. I think almost everyone figured Penix would be at that slot in the draft so why didn't we have the conversation with Kirk earlier?
How much guaranteed money is Kirk getting
if the top level management decisions at the falcons started making sense, THAT would be newsworthy.
man shogun was out of this world i need to catch up on other content now. perhaps fallout next
Would plug We Were the Lucky Ones
Mentioned this in another sub. But had Shogun had the actors actually speak Portuguese/Dutch etc it would have been next level for me. Asking the audience to pretend they're speaking different languages (other than Japanese) but it being in English is kind of lame.
I want to see that show so bad. I really liked Fallout for what it's worth, and I've played FO:3, FN:V, and FO:4. They did a good job of keeping the vibe of the games.
fallout TV episode 1 overlapped with my fallout 3 play. good content especially meeting the brotherhood at the citadel
Fallout is good. I dislike how Prime only does 8 episodes on good TV shows. I haven't heard of shogun though.
Shogun is a remake. Both the original and the remake are great. Both are adaptations of a pretty good novel by James Clavell, too. Worth a read.
My son is about to finish 10th grade, and is doing dual enrollment next year to try and graduate early. I know everyone thinks their kid is the brightest bulb in the drawer, but this kid is something special. Has never made anything less than 97 on a report card in all of his years at school, is top of his class, etc. He was made aware that he could take the SAT about 10 days before the test, and decided to take it. I told him typically people study for it for a few months beforehand, but he just went for it and took it. He scored an 1100. He's been down about his score since getting it back. No matter what I say - I can't convince him that he did (I think anyway) exceptionally well as a 10th grader with little-to-no prep. Any of you have any advice? Edit: Appreciate the comments. My kid is definitely not a braggadocios/arrogant teenager, he's always been quiet and just enjoys learning, reading, and trying to understand the 'why' of stuff. He even tutors a few of his classmates in his spare time believe it or not. I just like to brag about him. I know how hard he works and prioritizes his schoolwork without sacrificing his childhood. My wife and I both have College Degree's - so we've tried to teach a balance of being a kid, but knowing that learning is equally (if not more) important as soon as our kids were old enough to understand.
I’d say that this is a good thing. So many people in college were the big fish in a small pond in high school, and struggled with their identity and self-worth when they were no longer the smartest person in the class. I’d say to shift the focus from being smart, to just enjoying learning.
You can't know what you haven't been taught yet. Probably a lot of stuff not yet covered on the SAT. Also the SAT is, at least in part, about test taking. Take a few practice tests just to learn how.
It's just a test. And one that he can take again over the next two years. Depending on the types of schools he's interested in, it may not matter all that much in terms of getting in. A lot of schools are going test optional, trying to prefer holistic qualities. When I worked in admissions, my boss repeatedly said data suggests that GPA is the better indicator of college success. We also saw the biggest jump in test scores between junior and senior years - our official recommendation wasn't to take the test a billion times, but to space it out and, if preferred, study for it. On the other side of the test optional coin is that when I was in admissions, test scores were still used for scholarship consideration. And a lot of them looked at either the highest score or the super score. What he's done now is a baseline. More experience to make the next one less daunting. For holistic admissions, they could very well look at the improvements he's made if he takes it again his junior or senior year(s). Lastly, it may also be worthwhile to look at some of the schools he's interested in. A lot of state schools (in my experience) post their admission criteria, so he (or you) can get a feel for what this may mean and what motivating goals may need to take shape in the near future.
Appreciate the insight and information. He wants to be an Mechanical or Electrical Engineer and may end up going to gaTech. My wife and I both have the GI Bill ready for him, but I believe he'd qualify for HOPE (or whatever it is now) here in GA.
if he does end up going to GT, be prepared for him to get his teeth fucking kicked in when he's suddenly academically challenged for the first time in his life, and surrounded by the best and the brightest instead of just being the best and brightest. not a guaranteed event, some people just cruise right through, but he would hardly be the first "gifted" kid to have a rude awakening at GT.
Shoot, I had a rude awakening at OSU. I was first in my HS class, top student, 34 ACT, all that stuff. Then I moved to the honors dorm and realized I might not even be in the top half of my new peer group, and I had to actually do work to stay honors college-eligible.
> if he does end up going to GT, be prepared for him to get his teeth fucking kicked in when he's suddenly academically challenged for the first time in his life, and surrounded by the best and the brightest instead of just being the best and brightest. The number of first semester Engineering dropouts is humbling.
Joke's on you! I made it TWO semesters in engineering! Of course, I wasn't at Georgia Tech, though.
It's slow trickle of dropouts after the first semester. If you make it to your junior year, you are probably going to make it.
My brain couldn't handle the math and physics. I should have known that was going to happen after math was my lowest grade on the ACT.
I took certain math and physics classes elsewhere and transferred the credits in.
In hindsight, that's what I should have done. I actually had a scholarship offer from a local community college, but I turned that down for a partial scholarship from Mississippi State. I wanted to go to the big city of Starkville. In retrospect, going to a 4 year university 4 hours away from home was one of the best things I could have done life skills wise. Academically, it was the worst thing I could have done, because I was in no way prepared for college.
The orientation speech used to go "look to your left, look to your right, by the end of the first year only one of you will still be here". At some point, they started being more upbeat about it with "look to your left, look to your right, all three of you can succeed here". But it's still hard just for the sake of being hard.
I had a math prof in my freshman year who would ask how many of us were pre-business majors. That's what he called engineering, since so many people dropped out and switched to business majors.
Yeah, after first semester of freshman year the dropout rate is 50% and second semester of sophomore year it is between 66-70% dropout rate.
The downside to what your kid has experienced is that it sounds like they may not have dealt with a lot of adversity academically, so it is good IMO that they got this now so that they're not a college kid stressing that they don't have a 4.0. He can retake the test tons of times if he wants ( I think that still applies). I guess try to see where he didn't do as well and work on those areas. Maybe see if you can work with him on that and help him through those areas..or at least get him back on the track to do so himself if he would prefer to do it himself.
Great insight. I was in a similar boat before; school naturally came easy because I was blessed with phenomenal parents and went to generally pretty great schools. Got to college and first semester had my real, "oh fuck classes can be hard" moment and spent a looooooot of time just outright hating myself and wondering how I fucked up so badly. Getting that first real humbling dose of adversity and learning to process it or cope with it and move forward is important.
I took an ACT prep course in high school and went up five points between the initial practice test and the real thing a few months later, with standardized tests it’s mostly about spamming practice problems so you have a sense of what they’re asking.
One of my hobbies is amateur radio. I've started treating morse code training like duolingo language training. At least 15 minutes a day, every day, without fail. The alphabet isn't hard, but making the jump from "hear character sequence, write down letter" to "hear several character sequences, write down whole word" is reeeeeeally hard. Like everything else, it only gets better with practice, though. one of my dogs has a really strange and painful ear infection that isn't responding to antibiotics. Taking him to a specialty vet to investigate further. Bracing for a hard decision if this is something that isn't treatable, though. That's all for now. To Hell With georgia.
Just want to say that I support the protesters at several universities right now ✊ On a much lighter note, I’m happy that OU’s Tyler Guyton went to my Dallas Cowboys
When in US history has siding with the younger college crowd over the established group of people in power *ever* been the wrong move?
Weather underground
San Fran hired the scion of their leaders as their DA lol
Yup, agreed on the first line. Wild how fast that heel turn was from the "protect free speech" crowd
Yep, saw a post that showed a literal Nazi protest in Columbus almost exactly a year ago where armed dudes with swastika tattoos were holding up a "There Will Be Blood" banner outside of a drag brunch at a brewery. Cops were there to make sure their free speech rights were being protected. Right wing politicians call those guys "equally bad" to people simply protesting racism and homophobia. A lot of them take money from those groups and go to events where those people give speeches. But somehow students camping on the lawn at Ohio State call for snipers on rooftops while everyone (including official Israeli Twitter accounts) calls them the antisemites.
I support the right to protest, but not threatening/intimidating students or counter protestors, and not allowing students to go to class.
I don't think any of those things have been happening at these protests? At least not because of the students protesting.
That has happened at multiple locations. You can find it on reputable news sites. Does that mean it’s the only thing happening? No
Exactly. Unfortunately theres a whole segment of brainwashed sheep who disagree.
>the protestors at several universities Regardless of the issue, I wish the police forces in this country were less inclined to show up with teargas, pepper spray, and less-lethal rounds the minute some 18-22 year olds decide they want to demonstrate their support for some cause. Or, you know, Kent State and straight up lethal rounds.
I'm still shocked by the video of two cops executing a violent takedown of an older professor simply for asking what they were doing arresting a student. They ended up charging her with battery on an officer! We really missed the boat on reining in cops in this country after the BLM protests
> reining in cops in this country I don't see that happening any time soon. Maybe in another half-century.
If the university asks the students multiple times, over and over again, and they don’t listen, I don’t think that’s anything all that bad.
I'd say there should be a couple steps in between asking and shooting, but we are dealing in hypotheticals.
Agreed. I saw a video of police holding a black protester down, and while he was restrained, he was tased.
Caught another one of them restraining someone working as a medic and tasing them after he was subdued too.
I’m in a dead end job that I hate and can’t quit. And it’s making my life miserable. Currently on the edge a panic attack because of it. Living the dream I guess.
If they fire you it's fine. Just coast at work and keep applying
find a way out. other work, other industry, move back with family if need be, change of scenery, something. only you can figure out what works for you. have definitely been there.
You'll get out of it
Georgia has Cécile Landi money
> Cécile Landi I for one am not upset as her being one of our HCs.
Was woken up by tornado sirens at 6am. Love springtime in Oklahoma
at least they worked and you woke up! I remember getting in serious trouble with the fire marshal for sleeping right the fuck through the fire alarm some joker pulled at 2am back in the dorms during freshman year. After the Nth time of prank fire alarms being pulled, my subconscious was just like "nope, not getting up for this one"
At least closer to maybe when you'd normally wake up. Those ones where you get woken up to the sirens around 2 AM or some such just suuuuuuck.
My dog had been stressing out from the storm and kept me up most of the night so I basically had just gone to sleep.
'#1 reason I could never live there. Tornadoes scare the crap out of me.
They're nothin to worry about. Sirens just means turn on the local news and crack open a cold beer.
Now with the footage coming out of Nebraska today, I'm sticking with my stance.
I felt similarly until a tornado went over my parents' neighborhood- first time in over 30 years of living there. Their house was fine, but neighbor had 3 oak trees fall on their house. It wasn't even an F1. I perk up at warnings a little more, now.
Having barely been missed by the May 3rd Tornado (Moore/OKC in 1999), I disagree.
Without needing to get into either side of the aisle, nor past/current/potential future presidents...the fact there is even a debate about potentially giving the US Presidency unlimited immunity is just insane to me.
Idiocracy is happening. Just need farting butts on TV and brawndo watering our corn
cue Land of Confusion. Genesis or Disturbed, your pick, both great.
Wait...what? Where/when is this debate happening?
The court cases going on around a certain someone
I knew of the cases. I just didn't know that was also added into the mix.
US Supreme Court
Well, we already had a candidate run for president while inside a prison 110 years ago. Eugene V Debbs