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Cake day: January 3rd, 2025

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  • I’ve always heard the circle beard called a goatee too, but I think I heard Bill Simmons, of all people, mention that goatee is supposed to refer to a beard that hangs down from your chin, like a goat. It makes sense as an etymology. The circle beard is essentially a goatee + mustache.




  • “Lack of urgency” - I mean, they control zero houses of congress or branches of government, so what exactly is expected from them? I actually think it would be a mistake to blow their load by raising the alarm too early. You can’t make every single thing trump does require an urgent response. He’s gonna do worse. Pick your battles.

    Not that I don’t think the Dems haven’t had massive problems of leadership, but most of it seems to come down to “leftists, progressives, and liberals all kind of hate each other but they all need to vote the same way to keep Republicans out of power.” Coalition parties are hard and forming a new viable party is nearly impossible. Or at least I think so, prove me wrong.





  • The underlying assumption here seems to be that white people don’t listen to hip-hop, which I don’t think is true at all. I think Superbowl audiences just span several generations and Kendrick, while pretty popular, isn’t so famous to be known by a lot of old people. This has been an issue with Superbowl acts for a while now… there’s not as much of a monoculture with pop music as there used to be, and so musicians aren’t reaching the same status in pop culture as they used to.




  • On the one hand the way corporations expect loyalty and devotion all the time in return for a very small percentage of their profits being paid out to us as salary sucks. On the other, having to work if you want to eat is just kind of…life? Not saying we couldn’t work on something better as a society, but there’s been very few people at any point in human history who didn’t have to work hard to survive. I’m glad that I get to at least do soulless work in an office which is mostly just boring instead of hard labor or something actively dangerous.


  • A lot of people with poorly developed social skills like to pretend that poorly developed social skills don’t make them a bad coworker. I don’t think I agree with that. Your job isn’t just the stuff you like. Organization, prioritization, collaborating and interacting with your coworkers, attending meetings and making useful contributions, just generally not being a dick…all of those are your job. Interviews often take place after they’re already convinced that you have the required background, so they’re largely interested in discovering whether you’re a good chemistry match for the team.

    Can’t really speak to grueling tech interviews though. That’s a whole different category of thing.