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This is getting a little catch-22. If white women don’t say anything, you say they’re being complicit in their silence. If they say things, you say they’re being ignorant, self-centered, and obnoxious. Could you template exactly how you want people to say things so that they’re not met with constant complaint? How…

Excellent essay.

“Do AI Therapy Chatbots Work” says the HTML title of this article, and the answer in my mind is a resounding “no.” My mother’s side of the family were computer programmers in the early ‘80s, I remember my grandmother booting up Eliza and everybody having a hoot bickering with it, but the insight it seemed to generate…

This is probably the best driving BMW 5-series since the e39....and I owned an e39 m5 and e61 535 wagon. I give BMW credit for making a seriously good driving executive sedan.

Bigger, you say?

It is impossible to take a photo that shows things the way you remember them from real life, because humans and cameras see the world very differently. As soon as you start to understand what a camera is actually doing, you realize that what comes out of it is an impression of reality rather than a recording of it—and…

A few people in my open office area who don’t have offices themselves claim to love open office arrangements. Every time they’d wax rhapsodic about it, I’d point out the obvious: they are people who are in meetings 90% of the day and are rarely at their desks, and they are also people whose work largely involves…

I’m confused. Only middle seats will go away? Even if so, the aisle and the window seats aren’t six feet distant. More like..... 1.5?

These guys have the right idea

Former grocery store worker here. Yup, people are disgusting. I’ve seen them sneeze on, cough on, and lick food. You never, ever saw employees get lunches from the salad bar. The hot soup area was used though(but we never got the bread rolls, only the sealed crackers). We also had to boot a guy out of the store…

The last time I went to Wegmans prior to the pandemic shut downs, I was in an absolute panic and desperately needed food and went to see the hot bar option.

Converting from “serve-yourself” to “you-can-have-as-much-as-you-want-but-we’ll-serve-you” would have been prohibitively labor-intensive. Some cruise ships operate that way- Celebrity and Holland America - and the benefit is that the great unwashed public doesn’t ever get their hands on the tongs.

Can I just have one goddamn thing to potentially look forward to 

Squirrels are natural hoarders. They will empty the feeder over and over and store the seeds in their home or storage places (squirrels keep many caches of food). Squirrels will take so much food from places that studies have shown they can’t remember where they keep 90% of it. You will be refilling your feeder…

I’m not sure Mites are the ideal thing to name your small van after. 

There might also be some more general issues going on that might make sports cars a hard sell.

Reminded me of this VW video from a while ago

just be careful who you push up against your car around.

me too. i’m an expert at soldering ps4 hdmi ports and growing weed, although i’ve yet to actually try either.