I’ll second the vote for Kingdom.  Let me tell you, K-dramas aren’t really my thing, and I think zombies are totally played out.  But somehow Kingdom managed to keep things fresh, and I wound up binging both seasons.

I’m not changing for anyone. The end. There’s a reputable study out there somewhere that says men’s quality of life and life expectancy go up when they are married while women’s go down.

Now if only I could find Cadbury Crunchies or Violet Crumbles that AREN’T $4.50/ea in the little ‘import’ section of the candy store...

Also, anyone involved reserves the right for the middle armrests to be placed down.

I’ve been telecommuting full-time since last March. Though my electricity bill (AC) and natural gas bill (heat) increased marginally year-over-year, that difference was minuscule compared to how much I saved on gasoline alone. I would’ve had the same internet service and thus the same expenses either way, so there’s…

Exactly.  A manager who isn't insulating his people from the bullshit rolling down the hill isn't really doing anything of value. 

My mother has been working part of the week from home before COVID and full time after. She has “face-time” with her boss and coworkers weekly. They are constantly emailing, instant messaging, voice or video calling each other throughout the day. The have weekly meetings and monthly reviews. My mother is saving…

Agreed. My company has a lot of “middle management” types but none of them have required butts in seats since the pandemic started. And even before then it seems we mostly did it that way just because it was how we always did it.

I think there may still be a place for good managers, the kind who take the heat off their individual contributors, back them up when that’s required, and plow the road when there are obstacles to getting things done.

Midwest bar culture is different just better than in other areas I guess.

From Reddit:

“Thanks for bringing my attention to this - it looks interesting. I did a bit of googling in Japanese. Wikipedia explains that the 2011 performance of the stage play was adapted to film as part of the “geki x cine” project in 2013 (it goes for around 3 hours so I doubt much was cut). I believe that is most…

It’s the I won’t vaccinate any future kids things that gets to me. You can be dumb but don’t bring the kids into it. 

Also, the HBO doc Crime of the Century. I was so furious after watching it, I couldn’t sleep. The companies and their sales forces deserve drawn-out, agonizing deaths. 

Orrrr- he just needed to move on from his marriage and he was unhappy.

Full disclosure: I have an unexplainable, long-rooted visceral dislike of Olivia Munn. And until now, that black hole of scorn has been light-years from the luminous love I feel for J. Mulaney.

“Shows such as Suits led John Lambert to believe he could ‘practice’ at being a lawyer by performing tasks that he believed would be beneficial to his customers without significant risk, just as the character ‘Mike Ross’ in ‘Suits’ practiced law without a law degree or license and kept that secret without penalty,”…

I had a dream job at 24k in 2010 and I could only pay the minimum on my student loans. The principal ballooned by thousands in just a year, so I switched back into teaching in private schools because they paid me 60k. It was a really soul sucking transition—my parents and siblings didn’t go to college let alone…

I never understand that thinking. I had a boss call me a bad person who only cared about money because I was departing for a higher paying job. I was like, dude, I can’t live off of 12$ an hour.

My dad made 4.25/h in the early 80s, but had amazing benefits and a pension. Twenty years later I was making 8.33/h with no benefits or pension.

I got offered close to my dream job in 2018...for 25k...in Boston. I turned it down and went back to school instead. I actually made more as a grad student, with better benefits, than I would have at that job and that's saying something.