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  • Same with "the customer is always right" having "in matters of taste" added to it as the alleged full version around the same period.

    Not only is it wrong, it ignores the entire narrative that led up to the original saying. Retailers asked their front-line staff to tolerate customers's unreasonable behavior to increase sales. That's it. The revision shifts the blame to the customers, who should be civil regardless, but would be more likely to be so if acting otherwise didn't have few consequences and the possibility of greater material gain.

    /rant

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    I support this

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  • I can't fault you. At least we should organize into groups of 150 or less, the theorized maximum number of people that your average hairless ape can comprehend compassionately.

    I propose a cell-based or council-network system that uses directly overlapping membership via 25 member subgroups, with each person a member of two groups. It maximizes empathic reach as members would better empathize with members of their two groups while increasing the likelihood members would empathize with members of a different group through the connection of another group member.

  • excel as an relational database

    That reminds me of a story. I used to do IT consulting, years ago. One client was running their 5 person real estate office off a low quality, consumer grade, box store HP desktop repurposed as a server. All collaboration was through their U drive, plus every profile had their desktop folder redirected there.

    The complaint was the classic "everything is slow", which turned out to be "opening my spreadsheet takes 10 minutes then it's slow". Yeah, because that poor little "server" had a single 100 Mb jack and the owner had a 1.5 GB excel spreadsheet project where he was trying to build a relational database and property valuation tool. Six fucking heavily cross referenced tabs, some with thousands of entries. He was so proud when I asked him to explain what was going on there. He fired me when I couldn't fix his issue without massive changes to either his excel abomination or hardware.

  • This is smart. My partner has changed their name three times in three states due to two marriages. They've had to substantiate the entire paper trail each time they've done anything relating to official identification, security clearance, or background checks. It's an additional layer of complexity that can and has caused additional complications.

  • ~2002 through 2007. I was a student at the U of I.

  • Hey, me too! I also lived in Moscow for a time and during that time went all around northern Idaho. I encountered plenty of your standard issue Idahoan dipshits but never any overt neo-nazis.

  • Trump is a horrible disease.

    QED

  • We're all Buddha as we're all born with Buddha-Nature. Even Donkey.

    Even Farquaad.

  • Same with my partner and me. We met through mutual friends when they were visiting our area as they lived literally thousands of miles away. We hit it off and hooked up that night. We agreed nothing would come of it - we even shook hands on it!

    Four months later we were a couple. A year later we relocated and moved in together. Now we've been married for 12 years.

    Worst one night stand ever.

  • I really hope they make a Croque Monsieur with this pig.

  • It's discussed in the article. It's driven by deforestation and what you suggested, forest degradation.

  • I can't tell if you're joking or not. Unless a home is small, effectively airtight, filled with people, and the doors and windows are never opened, oxygen concentrations aren't going to fall enough to be impactful.

  • The Dinka of South Sudan, likely the tallest people in the world, average just over 180 cm, so I wouldn't call a 180 cm woman average, no.

    Morticia Addams from the Addams Family comics fits the requirements of the post's hypothetical goth girl save for being estimated as about 5'11/180 cm, much taller than the listed 5'3/160 cm. The comics and Carolyn Jones's portrayal (dating myself harder than C-14 here) are also where a very young SoleInvictus first realized they have a thing for pale women in elegant dark clothing with eccentric personalities, hence her being my gateway goth girl.

  • It's Morticia Addams, my gateway goth girl.

    Edit: oops, she's like 1.8 meters tall.

  • It's sampled from The RAH Band's "Message From the Stars" and sped up a fair bit without pitch correction. It was used like that for a bunch of The Boys memes and others on Tiktok a few years ago.

    Original: https://youtu.be/LfX6JxfND44

    Personally, I think it's fire at 110-115% original speed.

    Edit: The RAH Band's "Producer's Choice" album has it at about 110%. Great album, pick it up!

  • Same! Mine have a passthrough mode that pumps through what the microphone picks up but lets you select how much. I leave a little on because I feel weird if I can't hear what's happening in my surroundings.

  • Cheaper manufacturing costs with the added "benefit" of making it hard to repair so users buy another one if it breaks

  • We're definitely peas in a pod. I don't really care what my diagnosis is, I just want to get more information about my inherent and learned behaviors, plus any preconceptions based on those, so I can be a better person for myself and others.

  • That makes three of us now. Someone linked me to the RAADS-R yesterday, where I scored highly. Now I get to wonder all the same things.

    Ultimately, does a particular diagnosis or set of diagnoses matter? I'm trying to figure that out too.