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I basically never see people fired for their performance (but, this is probably biased by the fields my friends work in)

I realized when I worked in sales that there was no way they would fire me--the scoldings were meaningless

Kid English word of the day
mangnetiles
≈ magnetiles

It's like, 90% likely rn

I'm looking at July. Will you be around?

Trying to find a summer race.
Should I sign up for the Pikes Peak 50K?

It has less than 10,000 ft of elevation gain. 💫

The thing is, I read that marathoners seem to finish marathons and then their watch will say they have done *less* than 26.2, not more.

I did a mountain half marathon where I ran 15 or 16 miles, but that's because it was over a mountain in the dark with a headlamp—everyone was missing the trail.

I'm looking at my race PBs—

At the RAK half-marathon 2020, my chip time was 1:40:38, but my watch says I ran a half-marathon in 1:31:58 (close to a PB for me).

Does anyone know why my watch would be that much faster than the chip time?

I feel like this year I'll run some azing PB's

OR I'll get injured badly

From Qatar to US was the same, they used to scan you AGAIN, check bags, get rid of liquids (!) and then you couldn't leave the gate which had no space and no chairs.

Do they usually have graduate degrees?

I was at a meeting the other day and I whispered "there's a lot of Americans here" and nobody laughed and I was like shoot, I am in the wrong place.

I think in Egypt it might be impolite there if you go outside without having a business conversation going on on speakerphone

If I made $250k a year, I would still go to Sri Lanka but instead of the $2 biryani I would buy the $2 biryani AND $1 fresh juice.

homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field . Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is slowly backing into a hedge

... I still didn't say much, though, when I was travelling in the mountains one time, and it was put up as a serious point of discussion whether the earth was flat or round.

I find this an important difference in social situations. If I think someone is intransigent or spouting madness, I tend to keep my counsel out of politeness; but I've learned that with Arabs, if they say something I find really insulting, it's really better if I say why I disagree.

A big mouth billie bass (an electronic decoration released in 1999) playing Green Day's Basket Case in a crappy audio resolution, in a studio surrounded by real audio equipment.

TIL that in 2024, Green Day rereleased their 1994 album Dookie in 15 "Demastered" formats meant to be inconvenient and even poorer in quality than the original.

Formats include a Game Boy cartridge (system not included), an answering machine, & a Big Mouth Billie Bass.

What a stupid, genius idea.

Arabic proverb of the day with pretty exact parallels in Irish and Latin:

"Silence is the sign of consent"

الصمت علامة الرضى

al-ṣamt ʿalāmat al-riḍāʾ

Irish:
Con·éitet nád fúacair.
"Whoever does not denounce accepts"

Latin:
Qui tacet consentit.
"He who is silent consents"

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Bill Swerski's Super Fans: Da Bears in the Indy 500 - SNL

A famous example of this in a regional dialect is the "Da Bears" sketch from Saturday Night Live (May 18, 1991).
youtu.be/NhMqjHEDmcU?...

George Wendt was born in Chicago.

As a kid, I only knew this type of devoicing through this sketch. We loved to imitate this accent in Alabama.

This makes me so uncomfortable.

cover to Eiffel 65's single BLUE (DA BA DEE) with three men on the front smoldering at the camera—two very serious 1998 haircuts and one bald guy. Only their heads are really in the frame and they are super serious about their song BLUE.The guy in the middle kinda squints at you like he is about to do a sick snowboarding stunt, at least that's my impression. The guys on the right and left have those tiny European goatees that barely show up in the low-resolution image of the cover that I got from Apple Music. What are these weird black and white coats they are waearing? Are they special suits or something? I do not know, they are barely in the frame. In the background on the right you can get a jumpscare from the little blue guy who appeared in the music video, if I remember correctly. Side note: I keep trying to get through the YouTube 10-hour version of this song but it keeps resetting me to the beginning. :(

*puts on serious face*
*bro is on my left, other bro is on my right*
*all caps*
*deep breath*
DA BA DEE

يا دكتور، سامحني
إذا قد نُشر المقال باللغة العربية، فليكون النشر من جديد ضد قواعد المجلة، صح؟ ولا فيه ظروف مخففة؟
www.nature.com/palcomms/jou...

"Village cartographer"! 😂

If you're cold, they're cold

My absolute favorite thing is when someone starts an online conversation by disagreeing with me, then says "sorry I don't have time to talk rn"

Flag: DON'T TREAD ON ME BUT DEFINITELY TREAD ON PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ME

Screenshotted tweet: (Guy with a Punisher skull tattoo and a Dont Tread On Me flag on his truck): he should have complied with them

AI-generated image of a grim dystopian police state with tracking cameras everywhere and a guy grins and says to another "we sure owned the libs. lol"

My Facebook feed is nothing but memes pointing out the hypocrisy between January 2021 and January 2026. I thought these were pretty good.

I have not. I saw a clip from Harry Potter where he was shouting in Latin, and I had the not-so-novel thought, "What makes Latin so special?"

I meant to say "Omani Arabic".

It would be fun to look for specifically *Omani* borrowings in east African languages.

In the case of darīča making its way to Somali, there are probably other explanations. There are even Balochis in east Africa, so ..

At first I wrote "Omani" but then I think it's used in Yemen too (but I don't remember) ... so it could have travelled to east Africa from Yemen ... and then I just gave up and wrote "Arabic"

I didn't want to list all the dialects but it's used in the Gulf states and Oman, and Oman controlled Zanzibar for a while, so it could have gone from Omani Arabic to Swahili ... but there may be some other explanation