Know how many times you’ll find yourself out and about and suddenly needing to perform an emergency, involuntary vasectomy and then discover you left your tin snips and turpentine at home?

Only once. You only make that mistake once. Keep it in your daily carry.

I suspect the real solution is somewhere between that and corporate land acknowledgements.

If the part of an iceberg that’s exposed to the air is hacked away, the rest of the mass will float up and a new section will be clearly visible.

This process can continue until there’s no ice left at all.

I’m only talking about ice, of course.

“PRs are always welcome”

Pretty much. It’s a tired analogy, but the “unawakened” people in The Matrix come to mind. They’re not helping the cause, but it’s not right to declare that they’re evil or deserve hate like OP was suggesting.

They don’t know any better but that doesn’t mean they deserve ire. They’re reasonably reacting based on the information they have.

The difference between a wanted murderer and an unsung hero depends a lot on how much, and which, media a person consumes.

I like to assume the average person is apolitical and pays only a passing glance at headlines.

“You use Arch, now, btw”

Really? I backed it what feels like over 10 years ago and still don’t have a finished game.

Chris Roberts is the Elon Musk of game dev.

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I’ve never been prouder of that time I rolled 2 dice and got 12. A breathtaking, crowning achievement where all my years of hard work or education or whatever paid off.

“No, no, dig up, stupid!”

I’ll talk all kinds of shit about that movie, but I’ve watched it end to end more times than most movies I’ve seen, and it’s never been a hate watch.

That is absolutely false.

Corporations can only donate on your behalf, so they get no tax benefits whatsoever. They cannot claim the money you donated as income nor can they donate it under their own name. The only thing they can do is use it for PR and tell the public “they helped raise $x for this cause”.

That said, if you donate a non trivial amount to charity, you should do it directly with the charity so you can get a tax receipt and write it off on your personal taxes.

Is this still available?

It’s the same picture.

This could be as innocent as “hiring manager was on vacation and we still have some interviews planned” or “our interviewer was caught fornicating with a chicken and we’ve had to make some internal changes”.

I would take it as a positive sign that you’re still in the running, but like others have said, I wouldn’t pause my other job searching tasks to wait for this one to play out.

Kobo works fantastic.

If you have the ability, set up calibre and calibre-web and you can configure your Kobo to use your ebook library as the “store”.

Kobo also has at least one plugin/mod that replaces the whole reading UI with one with more features. Check out KOReader for that.

Apart from that, though, it makes little difference what ebook you get. If it allows you to load your own ebook files on manually (afaik they all do), you can do whatever you want.

And then, surprise! It’s a UK company so they artificially put it at the TOP of the alphabetical list, but you didn’t notice it before you scrolled everywhere else first.

I think I’m at my wit’s end with “smart” things.

Roomba? It takes less time to just vacuum the place than it does for the fucking vacuum to realize it’s been humping the same chair leg for most of its battery charge.

Assistants?

“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”

“Sorry, that device hasn’t been configured yet”

“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”

“Sure, turning 2 lights on”

“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”

“Sure, opening the blinds”

In places with marginal tax brackets, no. The numbers are different where I live, but the principle (hah) is the same:

If you earn 291k a year, the first 191k is taxed at 24%. The money left over (100k) gets taxed at 32%. So if you get a raise or bonus, the “tax problem” is only that your extra money is immediately taxed at 32%.