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Today was apparently gay porn hall pass day for conservatives on twitter.  Some Democratic staffer got banged in a Senate hearing room and they got to post pics.

4 hours ago, best3444 said:

 

Jesus. Those are my exact symptoms right now. 

Swab that nose dude.

33 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

The theory is that Musk might have taken on Jones’ debt.

Is Musk going to pay off the 85 million dollar settlement offer for Jones?  He lost the company 75 million dollars in a little over a month by simply endorsing a single neo-Nazi post.  Jones has a judgement for slandering the parents of murdered kids.  Something Musk apparently cared about a short year ago

I guess that jobs report means that economists will talk about more "tough love" for people.

12 hours ago, brucoe said:

I hope not. He's disliked by both the left and the right.

There's been this weird pile of whataboutism surrounding his ouster from the goofy sides of the House along with a chunk of the right.

There is a barred owl that hangs out in the trees across the street all summer here that I've thought about ending.  Not really, I couldn't kill anything, but it can be annoying, that same sequence of hoots all night.

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"Everyone realizes that we need to enjoy the products that are safe for us. But also, in many cases, not to have sort of unfair discrepancies with respect to geographic boundaries that families don't care about."

30 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I mean sure, but as someone who “learned” by having flash cards drilled into my head until they were indelible (when I think of basic addition in my head, I STILL see them in “colors” that correspond to the different colored index cards my parents used, 3+4 = 7 will always be “blue” to me), I just don’t think I’m in a position to know which approach is best. Again, unless I’m remembering things incorrectly, a lot of these methods are based on what’s used in other countries that typically have better mathematic achievement than the US.

 

 

A lot of this is failure of on the job training and enforcement of norms. If I hadn’t worked in a regulated environment my whole adult life I wouldn’t be inclined to write dates in the DD MMM YYYY format, which is the only way to be clear, I wouldn’t be inclined to use strict folder structures to be able to support find documents if sponsors or the FDA come knocking, etc. And all of that are things that need to be beat into people’s heads and even in those contexts, people just… don’t care unless they’re constantly monitored. Every desktop is a digital hate crime, every browser is a mass grave of tabs, people with access to PHI regularly leave their workstations unlocked when they go to get coffee or piss, etc. I just don’t buy that Gen Z is somehow “worse at working” than other generations when it comes to technology, they’re just more likely to see shit for the first time in a university or professional setting then people my age. And my guess is way more than half the boomers or millennials can’t work the fucking scanner or printer either, they just try to get someone else to do it for them.

I kind of wonder if it's the destruction of the entry level job.  I started my white collar career as a clerk, I had to be the person to manage the amalgamation of trash and hellfire that was the Xerox Workcentre along with the shitty "Only works in IE6" data warehouse for my department.  Thanks to automation clerical work and data entry aren't really as prevalent as they once were so there's no real onramp to develop the soft skills of the modern workplace.

It also could just be journalists looking for a story, I've run into plenty of people in the middle or latter part of their careers who learned how to set up a meeting in Outlook from me for the first time.

1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Those are just some examples - it's come up before that Gen Z has struggled in the work place for not being acquainted with older office tech, orders of business, etc. at smaller and mid-size businesses. It's called "tech shame". This is stuff their parents should have taught them.

 

‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’ | Technology | The Guardian

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They may be digital natives, but young workers were raised on user-friendly apps – and office devices are far less intuitive

 

What Exactly Is Tech Shame, And Why Does It Impact Generation Z?

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Tech shame can affect anyone, but Gen Z workers are often targeted because they are expected to be tech-savvy. However, even Gen Z workers can struggle with older technology.

 

Tech shame explained: Everything you need to know

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Learn more about tech shame and how younger generations are facing embarrassment from older colleagues using office technology.

 

And an interesting additional morsel. This is also why gambling addiction is such a problem with Gen Z as well.

 

Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

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The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

 

Fuck printers, if a third of the population can't figure out how they work then maybe Cannon and Xerox will update the UI that they paid a retiree $50 to create in 1997.  Those things cost like $25,000 a piece, their primary job is to melt black powder on paper and they can and will fail at that spectacularly and often.  I was a clerk 2011-2012 and I don't blame anyone for not knowing how to make their way through the nested shitpile of menus to do basic things that make up the office document center.  It was a joke 24 years ago in Office Space "PC load letter, what the fuck does that mean?" and those overpriced piles of garbage haven't gotten better.

Them falling for scams more is a bummer though, is there like a curve for that where boomers get scammed online, Gen X and millenials do better, then zoomers loop back around to being susceptible?

8 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

Phones and the pandemic are just explanations that exacerbates this problem. It sounds more like Gen Xer parents of Gen Zer's are simply not doing their job as parents as watchful parenting of your kids' academia would immediately resolve this problem. Parenting isn't easy, especially in this day and age, but that's the job.

 

I remember seeing a stand-up bit by Lliza Schelesinger I think and she was going off about how dumb Zoomers were because they didn't know how to operate fax machines or write checks, etc. Analog-type tasks everyone should know how to do as an adult. And I was like: "shouldn't you Gen Xer parents have been teaching them this stuff?" They've been kids most of their lives.

Those are a couple tasks that I feel like not everyone needs to know.  I write like 3 checks a year max and the only people I've seen use a fax machine in the last decade or so is the medical industry.  Like we sent and received faxes of medical records at my time at anthem, but even then we used a cloud fax service on our end.

As far as the topic goes, teaching math is hard.  In school it's just drills of concepts that they don't connect to the reality everyone lives in.  I assume the degredation of reading comes from the fact everything now is absorbed in short bites.

My little Ranger had the spare slung underneath, trucks meant for work are probably going to pick up a nail or screw at some point, so having a spare tire is nifty.  Of course trucks meant for work would also be able to take a bed toolbox.  Just like the trucker's friend, the Tesla Semi and its goofy center cabin seat, gonna be able to hand that paperwork to the guard shack nice and easy, after you stand up and bend through the window

12 minutes ago, Reputator said:

 

Ah yes, the classic "I don't see it, so it doesn't exist" argument.

 

It's time to get out more.

There are parking lots filled with enormous trucks in pristine condition here in Ohio and most of them aren't used for work.  There is certainly a cultural thing around big trucks in the US that's disconnected from any utility, especially out here in the middle of the country.

11 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Most people who buy full-size trucks do not use them for their intended purpose.  I'm glad I traded in my F-150 for a maverick.  It does everything I need it to (even the occasional truck-specific task) while getting good mileage and not being a burden to park. 

 

I'd happily buy a plug-in hybrid truck or even a fully electric truck if they made one that was the size of the Maverick.  Ram is coming out with a plug-in hybrid 1500, but that'a full size, and I don't want or need anything that big.  

I had an '03 Ford Ranger, stick shift. Mechanically not a great vehicle, but a nice sized usable bed because it wasn't taken up by a useless crew cab, small enough not to be a pain in the ass and got good gas mileage.  But at some point the F-150 became the small size for a truck...

https://wapo.st/46BYNV2
 

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The only thing propping up his whole world is Tesla's overvalued stock.  Twitter is a money pit of his own making, SpaceX is still living on VC cash and has blown up two very expensive rockets.  He spent the 2010s playing Tony Stark and generally catching a lot of compliments for his pie in the sky bullshit.  The bill has come due on a lot of that and his pivot to politics has caused him to be ridiculed by everyone but the goofy right wing culture warriors, who no one actually wants close.

Apparently getting booed at Chapelle's show really cut him deep and since then he's definitely been on a more pronounced spiral.  X was supposed to be the everything app and he's probably seeing no one wants anything to do with it.  He should also probably ask Grok for the definition of blackmail, because what he said isn't blackmail.

He’s simply returned to his home in perdition.

Okay what the hell are they all doing?  Trump is polling at like 60% and the rest of them are fighting over what's left.  Neat, the Kochs are backing Haley, maybe with some help she can pull ahead of Desantis... and still fall like 50 points short of Trump.  Maybe if Vivek can fire off some more zingers at the next debate he can add another point to his single digit polling.  None of them are going to be his Vice President.  Are they all just politicians with nothing else in denial that they are part of a broken party now?  Usually when someone is a one term President they go away for a long time, the Democrats weren't looking to give Carter another go in '84 and the Republicans weren't trying Bush again in '96.  But the base of the GOP is sending back the guy who hasn't won the popular vote even once and the party is having a ceremonial primary with a group that seems to think it's a real contest.

Maybe they're all rolling the dice on the Big Macs catching up with him or him going to jail or whatever.

I'm just way past feeling bad when bad things happen to bad people.  Should prison be like that? No. Does it bother me even a little bit that Derek Chauvin got shivved? No.

On 11/20/2023 at 8:09 PM, TyphoidHater said:

Is it weird that Pfizer has been the easiest/only shot available to me all 4 times?  I always hear about people mixing, but I've never even seen that as an option around me.  Maybe a CVS thing?

Pfizer does seem to be in more places.  I got Moderna the last couple times because I went looking for it.  Walmart around me was doing Moderna.

On 11/22/2023 at 2:20 PM, SaysWho? said:

Paris Hilton's entertainment company joins brands pulling ads from X, report says

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Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media is pausing an exclusive ad campaign on X following Elon Musk's tweet endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

 

Didn't their new CEO announce some official partnership with her not long ago?

X CEO Linda Yaccarino announces exclusive partnership with Paris Hilton | Mashable

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Just two tech queens maximizing their #sliving.

Guess Nazi shit is where people draw the line.  Also unrelated, that picture of Linda keeps being used everywhere and her legs weird me out every time... Like she needs leather pants that are colored just a little further from her skin tone than that...

On 11/22/2023 at 4:21 PM, marioandsonic said:

I'll ask again: Is there any country that isn't going to turn to hard-right fascism?

13 hours ago, Ominous said:

Damn, time to change my employer on Facebook back to Taco Bell. I've had it listed as Target since the trans / gay backlash, but I really get more trolls when I say I'm a Taco Taster at Taco Bell. 

Done. I've  moved up from Taco Taster to Burrito Stuffer. 

I was sitting at a gate in the Cincinnati airport waiting for boarding to start on a flight to Newark one weekday morning and some business traveler trying to make conversation asked who I was with.  I said I wrap burritos at Taco Bell, he didn't talk to me anymore.

What do you have to do to get sent for secondary inspection going into Canada?  Last time I crossed into Canada they asked if I had marijuana in the car, I said no, and they let me in...  This was back in June.

Maybe the Canadians were messing with the family

2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

@Bacon - Larry Summers is Bill Clinton's former Secretary of the Treasury (and President of Harvard University) whose solution to the increase in inflation over the last couple of years essentially amounted to "more people should lose their jobs".

I honestly wish he would just go away, but he keeps burbling up from wherever every couple years to be awful.