My union has negotiated what amounts to unlimited sick days. You can take up to 5 in a row without a doctors note (though the doctors note thing is only there if people are abusing it I think - I’ve never had one asked for), but other then that there are no restrictions (at a certain point it becomes short term…

Circular polarizers are one of those things that subtly change a picture and can take it from good to holy shit in the right conditions. Especially if you have blue sky anywhere - it goes from sort of a light blue to that deep dark blue that makes everything pop without jacking up the color saturation. Anything that…

Conservatives supporters aren’t blameless. I don’t have to know every single conservative voter to know that if they are supporting things like concentration camps for children that they are bad people. Don’t want to be labeled a bad person? Don’t support the people putting children in concentration camps and firing…

When people actively vote for and support a party who has done these things, even after they have done them, then yes I will judge the ever loving shit out of them. You are setting up a false equivalency between “Conservatives are doing evil things” and “Thinking conservatives are doing evil things makes you just like…

I think that stopped being a thing when conservatives in power started imprisoning children (and then losing the children) of refugee seekers and also started firing chemical weapons in to foreign countries at other refugee seekers. OR when they gave themselves a trillion dollar tax cut off the backs of everyone else…

It seems a bit unwieldy to say things like “Hey could you grab the peas/steak/etc with frozen water in them from the freezer?” instead of “Hey could you grab the frozen peas?”

If you pull out a steak from the freezer - would you say that steak is frozen?

Cool - thanks!

How does DuckDuckGo make money? I know google and facebook are selling my data - but what keeps DuckDuckGo’s lights on?

Guns aren’t cheap, nor is the training on how to use a gun (be it instruction or just time at a range). Also, owning a gun immediately puts you at higher risk of dying by said gun. Also also, (mostly non-white) women are often convicted of felonies when using a gun to defend themselves - even in states where stand…

That is.. a lot of work for 1 day of decorations.

Yeah - my only hope is that there is a run off and that it’s run in a slightly better fashion with the eyes of the entire nation on it. It’s barely a hope in hell but it’s there.

You might be on to something..

Oprah is going to actually get annoyed and buy them out of every platform but whatever the poorly-built, ransomware-ridden Klansman version of YouTube is.

This. I live in Manitoba (now) and I constantly see people wearing a light jacket when they go out because they’ll be in their heated car and then in a heated store/house/etc. Except when it’s -30C that jacket is barely better then being naked and you can die in a few minutes of exposure so if your car breaks down at…

Sure did!

If someone accidentally hits you with their car and all they say is“I didn’t mean to hit you” or “Sorry you were in the way of the car” (which is what “sorry you were offended” is) instead of just “Sorry I hit you” - that’s not an apology.

When learning algebra and graphing functions I was always taught that you can’t draw a line through 1 data point. Adding a second data point would let you draw a line, but if you made a mistake on either of them you wouldn’t know it. When you get a 3rd data point.. then you know you’ve got an accurate trend. It’s…

“Just ignore it and move on”

Nothing they’ve said to explain their actions has ever actually apologized. “We didn’t mean it like that” isn’t the same as “We’re sorry”