“I’m an Atheist; How Do I Talk to My Kids About Religion?”

I work in IT, and we’re considering transitioning from RingCentral Meetings to Google Meet in Google Chrome because we’re already a Google Workspace shop, but my coworkers and I who test and trial Meet are endlessly shocked by how many audio/video issues we have on Meet versus RingCentral Meetings, which has been…

There are quite a few tools out there that let you edit and recreate PDFs, some of them free, just like Acrobat Pro. 

“this is gold, considering the only advice I ever gave on this thread was to add “see a therapist” to the list of things mentionned in the article.”

“With interest rates as they are today (assuming a credit rating such that you have any business buying a new car in the first place), paying cash for a car that is more than beer money is really rather silly. Invest the cash, finance the car.”

I need to tether my iPhone to my Win 10 laptop often, and I always prefer to do it by USB instead of wirelessly when I can to extend the phone’s battery life, and it’s just so much easier when iTunes is installed because it also installs the USB driver.

Good grief... Now we have toxic positivity too? So we have toxic negativity and toxic positivity? How about toxic overanalysis? Do we also have that?

“You may get a rough idea by multiplying your gross income by 10-15—and adding $100,000 for each child’s education.”

This post would be so much better, and more convincing, if it provided specific examples to demonstrate each of the types of conversations at work.

Here are my recs, sorted by price, with the most expensive option being best:

Here are my recs, sorted by price, with the most expensive option being best:

“It’s not really a software/hardware issue. Those aspects are cheaper than the real problem, the licensing cost to use the patents involved.”

Sigh.... This new world order is so depressing.... Because of a few bad apples — yes, a small percentage of people — we aren’t able to say that a member of the opposite sex looks nice today without running every compliment through a filter and parsing our words. That’s sad, isn’t it?

“There were A LOT of things that led to the 2008 collapse - many of which aren’t factors today.” 

“Honestly this crisis won’t be the one.”

“LOL. You bought in 2009. That is so cute.”

“The generation that had the misfortune of being born after our predecessors that bought their houses at rock-bottom prices...”

“I’m sorry, I give up. I’ve been trying to buy a house since 2013, waiting for prices just to go down even a little. Yet somehow a global pandemic with an unemployment over 20% is still not enough to make the fucking housing market dip. There is no reason why this thing hasn’t popped yet, and I’m convinced it never…

“Though forgive me if I have less empathy for your predicament because the hills that make the best wines outside of New Zealand block your TV.”

“Hrmm, usually when people say they can’t get service its due to man made line of sight transmission issues https://www.antennaweb.org/ < have you tried this?”

“And here’s the thing - once you start shopping for food online, it’s actually harder to bring yourself to go into a supermarket to do your weekly shopping.”