Erika

My grocery store job tried to mandate memorizing customers names and that just made everyone uncomfortable. I cant imagine this policy is going to do better.

“It is science” === “definitely not grounded in science or fact or reality”

Still beats my local morning newscast that just said ‘shots fired at ICE. Agents in Chicago’ with no context or follow up. Sports scores get more context. 🙄

I was wondering that. Is there an area effect pepper spray? If it’s direct spray that is significantly worse.

I guess the judge is going to have to use small words and patience to explain that infants are not credible threats, just like Halloween parades of children are not acceptable targets.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

I didn’t live in corn country as a kid, we had straw bale mazes instead. Allergy nightmare but very sturdy.

Harder to make the case to bail out the product that no one wanted.

We need banks, we don’t need a hallucinating theft machine that sexually harasses users when not inducing psychosis.

The sun is also pretty lovecraftian. It’s an unimaginably large burning orb that is constantly screaming but we can’t hear it. Looking directly at it causes blindness and too long under its rays can burn the skin.

We need it for life but it doesn’t need us.

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."

To be fair, it keeps surprising me too. I keep managing to convince myself that the last flare up was the last ever, and my non-flare functionality is my normal.

I’ll just pack my schedule to catch up from the last flare and I’m sure that will have NO CONSEQUENCES whatsoever.

Damn it.

Honestly, I’m just happy no one decided to gender-swap the characters and turn it into a story about autistic children. Or infertility.

You know there’s a script out there.

So “raises legal questions” now means “is obviously illegal”, right? I haven’t seen it mean any version of “geekiest of legal scholars excited” for years.

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

Kinda surprised there weren’t more child related headlines.

I got the ‘too mean’ in a software engineering job - telling (mostly) men that the code they gave me didn’t work.
I tried being more polite but then I was ‘mean and sarcastic’.

There is no positive, uplifting way to deliver bad news.

Agreed! Especially about air safety.

Any other job and no one would blink if you left after years of understaffing, months of layoffs, weeks with mandatory overtime and no pay.

But if your job is keeping aircraft up then you are ‘abandoning’ and ‘strained’ not abandoned and put under strain.

Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

‘Close some airspaces’ - I really don’t see how that would help. I don’t think you can shuffle ATC to new airports that easily, so you get more airplanes at fewer, still inappropriately staffed, airports.

Unless it just meant as a general ‘we will target blue states’ threat which is sadly possible

The only solution is to mock them more. Continuously.

Mockery is the best weapon against tyranny - if their solution to looking foolish makes them look more foolish then they lose.

I wonder whether the ample video footage of the event would help memory or not? I guess the video would replace actual memory if you watched it enough.

I kinda wanna hear from the Louvre’s insurance company. I feel like they are probably inventing new stages of grief and also fantastic new swear words.

Nah, nothing they’ve come up with has the ominous overtones of a/s/l?

They are just faster.

The quote is “if we thought it was unsafe …” but it’s absolutely unsafe and also there is no way he would shut it all down.

Non-commercial small planes were grounded nearly a month after 9/11 so I could see that happening again. I don’t think it would help ATC much.

White short haired cat in a fluffy cat bed stares into the camera with sharp yellow eyes. She is either about to pounce or about to flop over and snooze.

Timeline cleanse. Monday is rough.

He is the autopen.

Put paper in front of him, aim camera at him, paper will be signed.

I could believe he reads his own posts aloud to an empty room like he’s working a Shakespearean soliloquy.

I absolutely believe he is not prepared for when this curse returns to him three-fold.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Climbing up stuff is an entirely different hobby than climbing down stuff.

The theft and the violence isn’t enough, he has to go for psychological warfare too.