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morgan423

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  • how do I grow a thicker skin and change my reactions to adversity?

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  • My personal target is 105% of the performing mark, when I'm in a churn and earn job somewhere that I don't want to promote.

    That wiggle room is enough to keep me above the performing mark if there are any productivity impactors outside of my control that my company refuses to adjust for (that has happened to me in jobs before), and it also keeps me off of bottom-performer lists when layoffs roll through. And it's barely more than the bare minimum. Win / win / win.

  • Not long ago Data realized he could have something better in his life. And what did he get? Why, a big boost of confidence, a little more self-esteem, and a very happy misses at home.

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  • Off topic, but this scene always struck me as "we're watching Take 217" because no way were these actors not snickering on every take for hours.

  • YSK: How to interact with US police

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  • Also, never answer the question, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" with anything that sounds like an admission. They're fishing and looking to have you confess to a traffic violation.

    The honest answer is "No, I'm not sure why you pulled me over," because it's true. There are a million motivations they might have come up with to pull you over, and you're neither psychic or telepathic.

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    Did Trump's executive order just make everyone in the U.S. female?

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  • Hey, I guess this means that my wife and I will be celebrating our first anniversary as a lesbian couple this month!

    What a fun world we live in now.

  • Biden pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Milley, Jan. 6 committee members

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  • Blame Ford, he started it when he issued pardons for any previously-committed but uncharged crimes done by Nixon.

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    YSK that if you weren't raised as a child you could ask ChatGPT about the things you were never taught.

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  • Somehow, the thought of someone raised by AI being the modern day version of "raised by wolves" is hilarious to me.

  • Trump Sentencing Megapost:

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  • Listen really closely, and you'll hear the gentle whisper of the slight disturbance of the air as he gets his gentle, barely-touch-skin wrist slapping.

  • Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"?

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  • Correct, I wasn't saying that they'd put it in one spot.

  • Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"?

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  • No. Every single one of them could pull $100,000,000 out of their personal money circulation and just store it in various stupidly safe places that barely return the rate of inflation. For all I know, maybe they all do that.

    They have so much money that it'd be almost impossible to lose it all, but if they managed to do it somehow, then they could pull out that safe nest egg and still have more money than they could ever need in a lifetime. There's almost zero chance that they'll ever be poor.

  • Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space?

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  • "Today I embark on my preparation for my future astronaut career."

  • Are we remembered forever?

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  • You could argue that no one is ever truly remembered. Even people who are mentioned in history books and have their specific deeds remembered and preserved...

    ...within a couple of hundred years, there are no other humans left alive anywhere on the planet who personally knew said famous person. No one who knew them on any personal level, any more deeply that the handful of cold facts written down about them on record.

    We are meant to be forgotten. Just another thing we have to come to terms with regarding our existence.

  • How to deal with Mom who CANNOT learn how to use a password manager, but demands I "fix it"

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  • What about a password type? Like the password has the same format, but is different for each site? Like if her birthday is May 25 and her favorite dog's name is Bunny, she can start it with that and then finish it with a differing sentence?

    0525BunnyThisIsMyAmazon! 0525BunnyThisIsMyBank!

    ,,, et cetera.

    It's not the most secure, but at least it should keep it from being brute forced and give her things she can easily remember. And if there's a leak and they have to be changed, you can just change the front part.

  • Judge rejects Trump's bid to delay Friday sentencing in his hush money case

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  • If he pronounces no sentence except for sticking the felon branding, then it isn't even a slap on the wrist. It doesn't affect him in any way whatsoever, even after his term is over.

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    How can I help get my friend clean from DRUGS?

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  • Person who had an alcoholic / addict father here. Speaking from my experience in what I saw in his world growing up. Both him, and in his world of helping / sponsoring others during the last couple of decades of his life whilst sober and recovering.

    For some people... an intervention can actually cause them to see the severity of the issue and be the catalyst for a motivation for wanting to change. It is a very small percentage, though, and it sounds like you've already tried or are already past that point.

    Sadly, for the overwhelming majority, most alcoholics / addicts have to hit a rock-bottom epiphany experience (which will vary person by person) to get them truly into committing to recovery. Nothing that anyone else says to or does for them is going to flip that switch.

    They have to flip that switch internally themselves. Once they do, they must also realize that every single day is going to be hard, and they will need to stay motivated.

    My dad once told me that even after being sober for almost two decades, he still had somewhere between 3 and a dozen serious cravings a week that he had to work himself away from. It gets easier to talk yourself down over time, but... the brain wiring was changed in addiction, and the temptations themselves never go away. Staying sober is a life of constant vigilance. You have to be committed, forever.

    Like for everyone afflicted, I hope your friend reaches that point sooner rather than later and moves into recovery. Best of luck to them.

  • Seeing your other half happy

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  • Cartoon guy is oblivious. Dude, she's telling you... she likes to watch.

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    Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company

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  • I haven't seen actual articles talking about this... just people tweeting about it.

    But if this event actually is what's being reported on the surface, then this is the most constructiest dismissal that ever constructively dismissed.

  • What's your thought on AI generated content?

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  • I like it as an idea flow starter. I've used it to generate stuff like site profile logos (like my little ghost in baseball cap here) and screen savers. I've used it for minor tasks like coding Excel macros and such.

    But would I say it's a major life impactor? I'd have to say that even though it saves a little time here or there... no.

  • The whole world population dead or only 99% dead (keeping the wealthy 1%). Which do you choose and why?

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  • How did everyone die? Assuming that you were the rich person or the indentured servant of a rich person, it would depend on that for sure.

    Was it a horrendous, highly contagious mega-pandemic that no one is immune to, and you survived because you billionaire-bunkered the moment that news reports started to hit? I'd think you could resurface sooner rather than later, and there will be places you can travel to that aren't really contaminated by the dead (like places that had low population before the outbreak).

    After a few years, you could branch out to wherever (not that any single place is really that much better than others in a nearly empty world), likely the plague will no longer be virulent among the dead. You could quickly carve out a decent life for yourself, though you'd better get self-sufficient fast, without the support structures of the old world being there to do everything for you.

    But if it was nuclear apocalypse? You're going to be bunkered for a long time, with little company. You'd likely end up envying the dead.

  • TIL that this exists: "JusChek SARS-CoV-2 And Influenza A+B Antigen Combo Rapid Test (Nasal Swab)"

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  • Already done.

    Getting flu and covid jabbed is just an October tradition at this point.