In the Zoom era, you also need to feel free to call on people. It’s much easier to socially loaf when you know you are just one block in that wonderous wall that is ‘gallery view.’ A lot of the social cues that have spurred involvement in the past don’t work online. 

It’s literally their job to set and maintain this boundary. It’s part of the process. Ask them whatever you like. 

NFT art makes me certain I’m now an old. I really feel like I understand the minutia of what it is, how it works, and why the people who think it is valuable and going to stay valuable are of that opinion, but no matter what I read or who I talk to I can’t get past my aging-millennial response of ‘yeah, but that’s…

This is nice and all, but in my entire life I don’t think I’ve met someone who cited the founding fathers in the way your describing who actually wanted an honest discussion.

I had a friend who was bipolar (as am I, we met in a group therapy setting) and she used to hate the term ‘sex addict,’ because before she was medicated, or if her meds were ever less than spot on in her system, she would regularly have a manic episodes, and in her case that tended to lead to a lot of sex that she…

Exactly:

Used to do a job where I had a certain amount of power to negotiate and there were two things I always hated.

Remember landlords are a leach on the planet earth, so it is your right as well as your moral responsibility to let shit that is their problem legally stay their problem.

I tend to use an auto-style bondo for this sort of thing, but it needs to be painted and since the tone of the article was ‘have something white, jam it in the hole and hope for the best,’ I figured I’d skip that advice. But yeah, it’s easier to apply, and it’s easier to create a textured like surface if the wall you…

Video did a great job of showing just how cr*ppy the ‘hack,’ versions are. Just hit the hardware store and get the right stuff. It’s less than $10, easier, doesn’t look like heck. Skip the toothpaste and the soap.

Or spend $20 on one of those hook things for behind the door, or get a valet, or donate a drawer to the cause and have it be what you throw clothes into and out of.

I’ve never met someone who gave a job title that seemed ambiguous who didn’t want it that way. As you say, it’s not an accident when someone says ‘Entrepreneur.’

. . . after the last 4 years I’d be freaking thrilled with either . . .

Zoodles are like veggie burgers, they just suffer too much from the comparison.

Right, I don’t think any sane person’s bar would be ‘no risk,’ but COVID has already acted super weirdly. Long-hauler here. Given that about every 3 weeks we are surprised by another way COVID worked that was exceptionally odd, all I want is a couple of well done studies saying that risk is in line with what we expect…

Her real problem is that she’s in a relationship where she messaged lifehacker rather than say ‘hey, here is my goal when I order takeout, it’s not working because you like your fish dish, lets just each get our own thing.’

This is a really, pardon the pun, $%^&ty take.

Meh, I understand how that could be your takeaway, but having read it again I still think a lot of people are going to use it as an excuse to head out Christmas Caroling or having dinner with different relatives every night of the week. That doesn’t seem to be what they are trying to indicate is safe.

Love toys! I’ve got the Rubik’s cube along with a couple others at my desk right now, but might I suggest doing something slightly more valuable?

Apparently a lot of people think like you. A company vaguely related to a family member just gave us like thirty pounds of essential oil infused puddy/dough, when they went out of business.