We had a guy and the pizza shop I worked show up and ask for a job. He had just driven from New Jersey to South Florida to set up a new life. He wanted full time, a privilege that was rarely awarded. But he gave full availability and showed clear dedication to the job. He got the job. He was our best and most energetic employee for over a year.

Then one day he said “alright guys it’s been real, but I want to move to California now.” And he did, the next week. I feel like that guy will do well no matter where he goes.

Agree that it weakens certain things, but I don’t see how we can overcome that. It’s great to have a knowledgeable GP as your doctor, but their breadth of knowledge causes them to fail at a deep knowledge of specific disease states. So he might be able to determine you have cancer, which then causes him to send you to an oncologist who specializes in that area.

Basically, there is a limit to the volume of information a human can hold. This was partially what AI advertised it could help overcome, but it’s so much worse than expected. If we could somehow increase the volume of information a human could hold and process, you’d be in much better shape for those doctor visits that end in “well, I guess this symptom is just you getting older” when really it’s SOMETHING but the doctor completely lacks the knowledge of that area.

“Trump kills children to hide trafficking and raping children.”

To add to this, I gave my card in one of those black books and paid as normal. We don’t go out to eat much, or use this card much. But a couple days later someone had that credit card number and was making purchases. Of course it COULD have been some other usage weeks earlier, but the timing makes it suspicious. I believe there was either a skimmer placed on the restaurant’s machine, or someone in the back was just stealing credit card info.

It’s now much preferred by me if they either let me go pay at the front, or bring one of those scanners to the table like in Europe.

We need some sort of cleverly worded campaign to say “without Ranked Choice Voting (or similar), there can be no true democracy.”

I’m sure some grassroots stuff could get off the ground for that in many states. Just need people to understand WHY it’s so important to leave First Past the Post behind.

I’m really surprised no one photoshopped in a Mario with the fire flower

Sorry, you are thinking of a tuba and a piano. Easy mistake.

Meanwhile, I got written up for using more than 4 days in a year

I grew up with the calendar as shown here. Like bookends on a shelf. The week “ends”.

My wife’s work insists weeks start on Mondays. This allows them to schedule her differently and not get overtime according to their scheduling.

Mine does the same, but insists the week starts on Saturdays.

I don’t know why the world cannot decide a proper schema for this.

Not that I disagree but, have you seen how low effort all of this has been for them? It wasn’t some sort of complicated pizza code like maga thought Democrats were doing, it was literally just emails like “when is the wildest party on your island?”