Plenty of places won’t let you collect unemployment if you get fired, only if you get laid off. People with good income get laid off. Broke people get fired.

This. I was laid off very early in my career from a job that I thought was secure (in 2008/09, Ha! So naive). It’s an important lesson to learn that your relationship with your employer is now and will always be conditional and temporary.

As some who’s been fired more than once, I endorse this.

As someone who was recently laid off, I agree with this. I was at the same company for 17 years (and was happy work there), but I’m glad I’m being forced out of my work comfort zone to look for something new.

Or you could be my ex and stay unemployed for 6 years and refuse to take responsibility for your life!

No consideration of the Bose SoundSports? Same price as the BeatsX and Jabras (sans discount), so I’m curious how they stack up. I use the Bose currently, but would switch when replacement time comes. But to my ears, the SoundSports are pretty damn good.

I do think our current moment suggests things would have had to be pretty damn bad for racism to fade like that, since all it took was a sluggish recovery from the Great Recession for “economic anxiety” to become a euphemism. But the show does hint that it was *that* bad—they could have easily written a few lines to…

This is very good advice, but I wonder...why are some of us this way? Is it something we’re born with? The result of some traumatic incident in childhood? I’d really like to know.

Okay, that trailer has me bawling at my desk. ♥ Like wow, an actual fresh take on a trans experience?!?!? Gosh, there’s sure a lot of dust in here, or something.

What? I taught the default position for Green Tea is unsweetened.

Awww brings me back to 2011 when I was 23 and used to go to EDC and alllll the other festivals like it. Never wore the furry boots, but definitely loved my bandannas, soft things, and a good light show. It’s an easy culture to mock from the outside, but when you’re young and have boundless energy and enthusiasm, it’s…

Now just add “Rescue 911" and “20/20" and my Friday nights from age 11-15 can be complete.

Horror movies have been tackling social issues for over 50 years. I’m glad mainstream media is finally noticing. Maybe now horror will get some attention from the Academy, too.

I read the unabridged version of The Stand in like 7th grade (over 1,100 pages of it). Adults didn’t believe I was actually reading it, mostly just because of the size of it.

Night Shift was my first King book (maybe in 6th grade?), and I read it so many times I feel like I could write down the table of contents from memory. So good, but I’m too scared to read it again as an adult.

Certain of his books are really, really good. Others were written during cocaine and alcohol-fueled binges (Cujo, Tommyknockers) that they really don’t hold up well. King apparently doesn’t remember writing Cujo, since he was blackout drunk during most of the writing process.

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Did you have sleeping issues with Tramadol? I take it very randomly for my Costochondritis and it makes my slight insomnia worse.