That huge raise: 1.5%

Same thing happened last time. I switched jobs. I was like “I’ve been telling you all the problems with this place for 2 years. Why are you even asking now?”

Yeah I don’t care about the reason. They’re making more money than God. They can figure it out.

Funny you say that. I never touch media player because vlc exists but on my work pc I tried to play a video file someone sent me from their iPhone and it defaulted to media player which promptly demanded I pay 4$ for a codec. I just closed it and opened the video in vlc instead. I could understand not including codecs for some weird formats but it was a fucking iPhone video.

Windows asked me what app I wanted to open a .jpeg with last week… Just fucking pick one, it’s a jpeg.

Yeah, agreed. That’s what I was trying to get at with the last part of my comment. As time went on my circle widened and I got to know more diverse people the candidates getting recommended to me became more diverse. DEI, even the boogeyman version people like to complain about makes that happen much faster rather than organically.

It’s not always about racism. I preferred hiring people that I knew were good workers or were referred to me by people I trusted to have good judgement over someone who was maybe better on paper. An unfortunate side effect of that is my social circle early in my career was mostly other white people but I never rejected or thought less of someone because of their race. It was just that the places I worked always made it a pain in the ass to reopen a position when someone quit or was fired and I couldn’t afford to gamble on an unknown. If no one was referred to me then whoever I hired was based off qualifications and how they interviewed. As I got older and met more people of different backgrounds those recommendations became more diverse.

All that being said DEI policies do solve the problem (other than the having to hire an unknown that would be hard to replace if they don’t work out). It would be better for people to expand their social circle and meet more people on their own but I don’t know how you would enforce that.

99% of the time do cool ninja shit. 1% of the time get kicked in the face by a turtle man. Worth it.

One of the best fight scenes in any move too.

I have dreams where I end up shirtless (or worse) at various places I’ve worked in the past pretty often. I don’t think being naked in public would even really bother me anymore because of that. Other than the criminal charges of course.

At least control panel is better than “Settings” trying to find shit in that is hell.

From that picture it looks like the weak jet stream is the problem. We just need to build a ton of wind farms across Canada to blow it harder so that it becomes more powerful. Easy.

Behind the Basards, History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan, Hardcore History.

You can have your SD card and headphone jack, or you can be secure*. You can’t have both.

What about either of those compromises security?

I’ve needed my phone to be water proof exactly once in the 20ish years that I’ve had one and that was in 2006. I think I’ll manage without it. I use my headphone jack and SD slot every day.

I don’t want to have to carry a dongle around to use things that should be built into the phone.

I would include any phone that doesn’t have basic features like a headphone jack or a SD card in the “shitty phone” category. Pixel phones come to mind.

Yea, it was one of the last things I watched off a streaming service when I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel before I cancelled them and I was surprised to find it pretty entertaining.

Not a pet but a couple weeks ago I had a big fly buzzing around my room and annoying the shit out of me for like 4 hours while I was working from home. Then I heard it buzzing against my window in a weird way and I turn around and there’s a big ass jumping spider just murdering the shit out of it. I’ve never been so happy to see a spider in the house. It hung out in the corner of the window for like an hour after that and then it was gone and I haven’t seen it since.

10 is tolerable at best. Still get annoying notifications about shit I haven’t asked for and nag screens about how my PC isn’t compatible with 11 and what I need to do to update. Also the settings menu is dogshit compared to 7.