Lemme guess, they claimed you were “encouraging violence”?

Hey now, there are plenty of people who continue to call Millennials “kids.”

None of them are using the term correctly, but still.

If all we wanted were short quips without any substance, we wouldn’t be here. We’d be on Xitter or something. As a fellow long-post writer, who thinks reading rants and writing essays is fun, I’d say we’re in the right place. Keep doing what you do - we’re here for it!

Please explain how that’s wrong?

Japanese nouns don’t have grammatical number. The closest you can get is adding an affix like -tachi, but even then it’s almost exclusively for people and means more like “and company” rather than a true plural.

The noun for “city” is 市 (“ichi”), and it can mean either one city, two cities, or many cities. You can specify how many by adding a number, but the word itself doesn’t change.

All it needs is some rainbows coming off the sides of the ledges, like a wall of floating nyan cats.

Right? It’s not like the kid’s soccer game is part of the AI’s programming, it won’t know anything about it that you don’t tell it. It can’t go over who they’re playing against, or give their record so far, or provide any other new information about it, so what exactly is it going to say?

Then the birthday will still be “coming up” every day until the day itself arrives, so what is there to say about that that would be interesting and new on a daily drive?

That just leaves “some news,” at which point you might as well turn on the radio, or put on a real podcast.

When I worked at a place with such a rewards program, the amount of people who put in their number/signed up for rewards was included in our performance metric. It’s so fucked up, because it impacted how many hours we were given. Never mind that if someone only works part time their numbers will naturally be lower than those who work full time, making it a self-perpetuating cycle for those who want to move up to full time.

Anyway, point is - if the cashier cares, it’s because a messed up system is compelling them to. Which is why instead of saying I don’t have an account (which will prompt them to ask me to sign up), I just use Jenny’s number.

Hey, now, you’re both right - the Japanese language doesn’t distinguish between singular and plural.

Oh no, AI slop will be removed from your feed? However will you survive‽

The post appears to be an overall response to the idea that modern society as we know it is “just how it is.” The point isn’t “be like our ancient ancestors” so much as “the system we have now isn’t the only way things can be.” That is, we’ve all grown up in this society with the work grind as our default. Some people will defend the way things are on the basis of it being some aspect of “human nature” to always compete and work hard, but societies of the past survived through co-operation and sharing resources. It’s pretty much the opposite to what is expected today.

What’s a valid argument in favor of today’s system? Wouldn’t that be a recency bias?

It’s wild, they do “batch testing” with samples from many different people in one go, and if anything turns up positive, they discard everyone’s donations. I used to donate plasma, but a batch test revealed somebody with hepatitis. I immediately went to a doctor to get tested and it came up negative. Unfortunately, due to having my sample in the batch test, I was already deferred from ever donating anything in the US again.

Random people have told me there are ways to get back on the donor list, but that’s not what I was told by professionals. So here I am, with perfectly fine blood, barred from donating because I happened to donate at the same time as somebody who was sick. Such a great system.

Wearing a skirt implies consent.

I’m amazed it has to be said, but no, wearing a skirt does not imply consent for anyone to look up it. The fuck kind of rapist thinking is that?

Edit: ITT people with poor reading comprehension skills. “Rapist thinking” doesn’t mean “looking = raping,” it means “the way rapists think.” As in, rapists also think that the clothing someone wears “implies consent” for their actions.

If you’re using the same reasoning as a rapist to justify looking up a woman’s skirt, and you don’t see what’s wrong with that, I worry for the women around you. Be better.

I had a theme for my old dog, but it didn’t have any words to it. It was just a tune I would hum or go “doo doo doo” with.

Though my mom’s dog was a white toy poodle, so sometimes we would sing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for her, except it was “[Dog’s name] is a little lamb…”

You gotta put a \ before the asterisk to cancel out the mark-up, like this: \*

(I used a second \ to cancel out the usual effect in the example. Fun fact, that cancellation is why the “shrug emoticon” sometimes loses an arm.)

Probably an “online convenience fee,” as if it’s more work to have an order print up at the restaurant than to make someone there take a phone call.

I worked at a nursing home at that time. So many people died or were impacted, an entire wing got shut down because of how many patients were lost. It then re-opened to be exclusively for Covid patients.

My grandma died there. I was the last relative to see her alive. The day before she passed, I called all of my aunts/uncles, siblings, and some of my cousins (the ones closest to her) so they could say their goodbyes. As anyone who’s worked with dying patients knows, sometimes people cling on and suffer in a terminal state until they get closure from a relative giving them “permission” to let go. I had to be that person. I told her that it’s okay, that we all love her and we understand. Although she appeared catatonic, right after I said that, a tear rolled down her eye. I think she heard me and understood, though there’s no way to really know. It was a hard day. She passed the next morning.

Interestingly, this can also describe our sensory experiences/sensory filters. Some of us have brains that filter out speech, to the point that we don’t hear our own names being called. Others (like myself) have so little filter for speech sounds that we can’t even hear our own thoughts if someone else is talking in the same room. Or we may not experience pain from something that would cause an NT pain, but things that NTs experience as pleasurable might be painful to us. (For me, that’s tickling. I can’t stand being tickled. Or ASMR, it makes me irrationally angry.)

Your first part is precisely why I sometimes let kids keep toys at their desks when doing work with them. I make it clear, “As long as you answer the questions/do your work, I don’t mind if you keep the toy.” Sometimes a stim toy makes the difference. As long as it’s not distracting them away from what we’ve got to do, it’s fine by me.

Besides, when I went to training for my current workplace, we were encouraged to bring our own stim toys. I used a spinner pretty much the entire time. Another coworker brought a bag of various squishies and pop-it toys to share as well. If it’s acknowledged as useful for us as adults, it should be acknowledged as useful for the kids.

Gay cuddles while watching a scientific documentary. Now that’s the dream.