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moakley

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  • Crockett leads Talarico by double digits in Texas Senate poll

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  • On the other hand, appealing to the center hasn't been working for Democrats lately. If Crockett energized the base, the numbers could be there.

    Plus a lot of us aren't comfortable perpetuating the racism/sexism by caving to it.

    I'll vote for either candidate, but this idea that it's obvious Crockett could never win doesn't sit right with me.

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • My wife and I just had our third kid. We don't make nearly that much, but we're quite comfortable.

  • The script is mysterious and important.

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  • Keanu was famous, but the way I remember it he wasn't a huge box office draw yet.

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    The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem. How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

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  • The response in these comments is predictable, but there really has been a shift. Maybe it's just an extreme shift in the same direction, but something has changed.

  • i unapologetically love male pits

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  • i unapologetically love male pits

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  • Like a restaurant?

    Um... how many levels are we doing?

  • Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst

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  • Week? Yesterday my daughter and I rode bikes to her school in 30° and rode home in 73°. Choosing her outfits is very difficult this week.

  • i unapologetically love male pits

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  • Yeah, but what if I become famous for writing children's books one day? Then I'll feel like a dummy.

  • Do you agree?

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  • The first place team also had an old woman named Barb who had been on Jeopardy.

    The other top team was one man.

    But we kept coming back. We kept the same five core members but tried a bunch of people for our sixth. Eventually we got a woman who was legitimately a genius. She got a law degree as a teenager, but she also knew more about 90s gangsta rap than the rest of us. She once complimented me by calling me a polymath, which I immediately undermined by asking what a polymath was.

    We also studied. I was always good at music, but my wife practiced and got good. My sister didn't start with a specialty, so she took a little time every week to keep up on current events and pop culture. I studied Shakespeare. We didn't always get first, but we were always contenders.

    We became friends with the quiz master. My wife and I hired him to host trivia at our first baby shower.

  • i unapologetically love male pits

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  • It's mostly visual for me. Like when a woman lifts her arms, it makes other things more appealing, so there's an association there.

    On the lucky occasion I'm with a woman who doesn't shave, I just want to pet it, like if I could pet a squirrel. Like, what even is this? It's so rare and adorable.

    Anyway it's times like this I think I should have an alt account on Lemmy.

  • i unapologetically love male pits

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  • In the shower? One.

    In the bed? At least a three.

  • Get bent, Brenda

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  • Yeah, no, I've been there.

    I started a new job. It was kind of a dream job. Great for my career, 40% pay increase, opportunities to grow my skillset in ways my old job couldn't offer.

    Everything was going great until one day a coworker who was supposed to be in like a mentor position for me asked me to do something. I was on my phone at the time, texting with my wife about my three week old son who was sick with RSV. I heard her request and told her I'd get to it right away.

    A few days later my boss called me into a meeting and said that he'd been hearing reports that I was on my phone all the time instead of working, and that the quality of my work was bad. I asked what he meant about my work, if he could give me specific examples, and he threatened to fire me for not taking this seriously. Because trying to understand how I can improve isn't taking it seriously somehow?

    So I buckled down. I put my phone down every second that I was at my desk. I asked everyone --everyone-- I'd worked with up to that point about the quality of my work, where I could improve, if I'd done anything wrong. Just as I'd already been told, my work was great. I was learning quickly and performing well.

    Then I got called into another meeting. Apparently I was still on my phone too much. I must be addicted to it. I was on it while walking down the hall, and he'd even heard that I was leaving my desk to go to my car and play on my phone. And of course I was on it in the breakroom as well. I explained that I thought checking my phone while walking down the hallway was ok because it wouldn't interrupt my work, and I went to my car because it was a confidential telemedicine call with my doctor.

    So I buckled down even more. I rarely used my phone anymore, took shorter lunch breaks, and kept doing my work. I moved to a different part of the parking lot when I had my telemedicine calls.

    I had two more meetings with my boss. The first one, he told me that my work had greatly improved (it hadn't), and now I was doing great. The next day I asked him into a meeting and told him I quit.

    I took a small pay cut and got a new job working from home. It's not as good for my career. It may screw me over in a few years. But my work/life balance is excellent. I get to see my kids and my cats, and there are no spiteful coworkers looking over my shoulder.

  • Men have lost our sense of style 😔

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  • It's not more comfortable than my v-neck and shorts that I wear every day.

  • Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

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  • Sure, Sony "outlived" two minor competitors that were already failing when the PS1 released.

    Much like how I outlived actor Carey Grant, who was 80 years old when I was born. That's definitely how I'd phrase that.

    But hey, those examples were "just to name a few", so there must be more, right?

    But seriously, the way your original comment was phrased makes it sound like Sony is some kind of console war juggernaut, outlasting its many competitors over decades. The reality is that Sega folded to Sony and Nintendo back in the early aughts, and then it was 25 stable years of having three big console makers, and that's it.

    That's all I'm saying.

  • Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

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  • 3DO and Atari were never really competitors. They were minor players in the console market that were already considered unsuccessful by the time the PS1 was released.

    Sega is one company. Sony has outlasted one competitor, which makes it odd to say "yet another" almost 30 years later.

  • Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

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  • Another?

  • How did Batman know to be there?

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  • Napkin says otherwise.

  • Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine

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  • It's 2026, and you are literally eleven 're's short of the current number of rereleases.

  • Coherent ideology

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    A Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Joke

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    Agatha Possesses an Unreasonable Amount of Fluff

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    Are You There, Godrick? It's Me, Margit. (OC)

  • Bun Alert System @lemmy.sdf.org
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    This bun lives in my backyard. She doesn't even run away from us anymore.

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    Definitely wasn't late to work making this

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    A Comic Wherein Artemis Avoids Mount Olympus

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    A Comic Wherein a Dog Attempts to Remain Inconspicuous (OC)

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    A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the Spire

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    A Comic Wherein an Owl is Also a Ghost

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    A Comic Wherein My Cat and I Have the Same Thought

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    A Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Joke