There's nothing else about the reproduction of labor firms currently want to do — no kind of training, less and less promoting from within, long days and unpredictable schedules for everyone. Employees/citizens are going to have to demand it. Again.

Did you tell them you've been turning down offers because you value their leave policy? Have you told coworkers? Seems like some judicious self-aggrandizement, honestly framed as praise of company and coworkers, might do some good.

Ideally someone else will say `unlike hotshot guy!'.

Serial Gynecologist as opposed to USB Gynecologist.

No dongle needed.

Is a party piece a memorized poem, a shiny gun, or something EVEN MORE EXCITING?

Reminds me of the double standard about breasts — we aren't allowed to go braless because someone might see the *actual* shape of our breasts, but it's Very Important to wear a wired padded up to here bra so everyone can see the *artificial* shape of our breasts. I suppose partly it's that nipples are currently Not…

I once in a tiny way managed to cross-organize with someone who was underrepresented on a different axis than I was — I could mention the entry-level people who were `like him' and he could mention the ones `like me'. And in both cases we were only pointing out new hires who really were doing well, to the benefit of…

Someone got distracted in their lit survey course and didn't notice that it was *Southern* Gothic.

Yes, but can you bind the blade on your circular saw just enough to get those poetic scorch marks?

I'd be totally okay with advertising based on `useful, beautiful, made with decent labor and environmental standards' even if the stuff wasn't to my taste. (And even though I think we'd have a greater increase in justice if we maintained protections for non-artisanal, non-college-educated people, in the US and outside…

This is a job for MC Generator!

Some of it is luck with the metabolism, some of it is putting everything into the freezer in small parcels, some of it is eating the baked goods *instead* of everything else. Lots of nourishment in eggy custard.

You don't have to listen to the specific music that your boss thinks of as `training montage'. Just invoke the precedent (and have headphones that don't leak).

Tying it to some task that everyone knows needs extra concentration is a great idea. Maybe a reference to movie or game music for the training montages? Athletic teams' pump-up anthems? Etc. Something that makes it about the work.

What do you think it's a strategy *for*, though? It suggests to me that the decliner didn't expect pleasure out of the sex, so declining it is sensible.

Yes. Now, personally, those conversations always feel like work to me...

Two separate issues, at least:

Oh, I feel bad for him too, even though if I had to bet I'd bet small money that he's whiny on the approach and bad in the sack. Who wants to be like that? I hope he doesn't have to be like that and in a happier relationship he won't be.

Unfortunately I don't think this bit of Internotoriety is going to be, mm,…

Everybody earns sex by making sex desirable to the other party or parties. There are many strategies for doing this. Pestering is a strategy, but not a good one.

One of my grandfathers offered us, as wisdom from the far side of 90, that 'sex is overrated and pissing is underrated'.

You pay taxes based on what the polity you live and vote in does. The other way, people keep trying to live in high-service, high-tax regions and shop in low-service, low-tax ones.

The store pays property taxes and its income tax based on the polity it's based in.