Mushguffler
1mo ago
Yeah, I thought it was interesting too, I wavered on what they might be looking for. I thought maybe marking all the positive words would be a strike against me, so I only picked like a five or six kinda similar ones, like "industrious" and stuff. I didn't get the job, but I don't know why or what would have been better.
Mushguffler
1mo ago
I applied to one recently that had a long list of adjectives, like basically any adjective you could use to describe a person. There were hundreds, maybe a thousand, and you had to mark all the ones that describe you. From "industrious" and "punctual" to "gregarious" and "sanguine", it was ridiculous.
Mushguffler
1mo ago
ensure someone picks up the phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help
This is utter bullshit, I had student loans. Nobody picks up the phone.
Mushguffler
2mo ago
There's also the Space Force, but they're just nerds. They only exist so the other branches have someone whose lunch money they can steal. Might as well be Coast Guard.
Mushguffler
3mo ago
I use Self-Control, which lets you block websites for a length of time. You can block all websites but allow a whitelist, or block only a few websites. That doesn't prevent all internet connection though, just browser use.
Mushguffler
3mo ago
Maybe arsons in less-flammable times don't result in newsworthy conflagrations. Nobody cares about the fires that remain small and burn themselves out quickly. During fire-prone times, any arson is liable to become a big deal.
Mushguffler
4mo ago
My understanding is that back surgery is very rarely helpful and usually makes the pain worse. People are always upset to find the surgery is not covered, but there's a very good reason for it. It doesn't work.
Mushguffler
4mo ago
"Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson is a great book-length example of that.
Mushguffler
4mo ago
they’re not fossilized because they have bird like bones that aren’t very robust the fossil record is incomplete etc.
Bird fossils do exist.
Mushguffler
5mo ago
For Coke and Pepsi, advertising is defensive. If you aren't wooing your fans with ads, you're losing them to upstart companies that are. It's not possible to bank supporters, not for brands and not for political parties.
Mushguffler
7mo ago
Lol, that makes more sense than shirking Puerto Ricans, which was the only idea I came up with.
Mushguffler
7mo ago
and can I shirk another PR, having made it 3 years into my career only ever having done one
What's "PR" in this context?
Mushguffler
7mo ago
Horseshoe crab
Mushguffler
7mo ago
I Love "Into the Woods", it's the best musical.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
Honestly, Trump should just keep saying "she was the official border czar, and she failed". The Democrats will feel obligated to engage in constant semantic clarifications instead of actually campaigning.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
The 2032 Olympics have been awarded too, to Brisbane.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
Seems to me the obvious explanation is that they are worried this will look racist. Rejecting a redneck might have been fine, but you can't reject a black person for wearing the wrong clothes without getting sued or boycotted. The only resolution is to not have dress codes.
Mushguffler
10mo ago
I've also never met a man who was upset about a woman not cleaning the house enough, with the exception of a couple Niles Crane-type obsessives who married the same. Literally the vast majority of straight men I know would rather their wives spent less time cleaning. If pressure from husbands could affect women's cleaning, it'd make them clean less.
Mushguffler
10mo ago
That's kind of a Latin American thing, right? electing outsiders. Fujimori in Peru, Bukele in el Salvador, I think some others I'm forgetting. They like electing ethnic outsiders.
Mushguffler
11mo ago
Yeah a prostitute without a pimp or someone similar is gonna get stiffed by customers all the time.
In case anyone's wondering...
1: Pest-control companies said they didn't know which pesticide they used because they hadn't diagnosed the problem yet. They hadn't chosen a pesticide. (edit: or, more likely, the person on the phone isn't an exterminator and doesn't know)
2: The company that didn't say she had to wash all her clothes, etc. just skipped that step to get a customer. The moths will likely be back within a year, because they laid eggs in the folds of old clothes or stacks of cardboard or ruffles on the edge of a couch cushion. I realize it's a pain, but it's the only way to solve the problem (thereby minimizing the total number of "murdered" moths, the cost of treatment and the amount of pesticide used).
3: This seems more like burgeoning OCD than legitimate animal welfare concerns. Switch to hardwood floors, synthetic fabrics and no whole cereal grains if you really care so damn much about moths.
4: Carpet moths don't eat carpets. They eat human hair, insects and animal leavings, etc. Actually carpet moths don't eat, but carpet-moth caterpillars do.
Mushguffler
1yr ago
I read recently that cats have been evolving to be less friendly to humans, at least in the West, because friendly pet cats are spayed or neutered, as are strays that are caught by people. The cats that are reproducing are strays unfriendly enough to avoid animal control. Seems plausible the same effect is occurring for dogs.
Mushguffler
1yr ago
Do you think any new countries will become independent in the next twenty or so years?
Mushguffler
1yr ago
Not to nitpick, but isn't Thursday the 15th?
Do y'all think we're likely to see any new countries become independent in the next, say, twenty years? Just curious.
Mirrors are shockingly uneducated in homophones.
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