This has become a common strategy for large businesses to cull their employees - “return to office”, relocating HQ; it’s done in hopes most of those employees opt to quit so the business doesn’t have to fire them / give them a severance or whatever.

Sounds like in this case the bluff was called.

“Born to Liberate”

Probably wondering why their date is taking a picture of the charcuterie board.

Which other Sim games are you eyeballing? I’ve been craving a good non-EA Sims game.

The emperor is back, somehow!.. again!

This feels like a dumb question, but I’ll ask it anyway - Why not just mix red & blue dyes?

Hi everyone, OP’s either a troll or a poorly guided person. Exclusion has never worked. Safe spaces are not about insulating yourself from what you don’t agree with. Safe spaces are where you have support and protection from people who’d do you harm.

Exclude straights? What about bisexuals? What about bis in a hetero relationship? What about women, are you going to card them to see if they’re straight or not? What about hetero-presenting gays? You see how this works, right?

What about the “straights” who might be gay & are looking for support? OP apparently doesn’t support any LGBTQ+ person unless they fit their idea of what “gay” is. More than incisive, it’s absurd. Bordering on hilarious.

Something specific has clearly upset OP, and it’s not literally every heterosexual in the world. Heteros should be welcome in LGBTQ+ environments, and if you’re not into that kind of inclusion I’d like you to take a moment, suck a dick, and remember you are also responsible for creating a safe space for other LGBTQ+ people.

Pretty sure he says (and the article quotes him)

“I want to wish you all a happy Father’s Day, but please, please, please wear a helmet. If I didn’t, honestly, I wouldn’t be here now.”

Holy nuts that bruise is a beaut! https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/1a06/live/a42086d0-2b5e-11ef-bdc5-41d7421c2adf.png.webp

Damn I forget the name of the episode! New girl moves in next door and Bart’s smitten with her. This is the scene where Moe runs to the Simpson house to murder Jimbo.

My favorite bit in the episode is Homer going through the neighbors garbage & downing expired medication like it’s candy.

The marketing spin calling LLMs “Artificial Intelligence” doesn’t help.

lol genuinely misread you there, however if you read the rest of the comment that typo makes no difference. I’ll correct it

a lot people haven’t stored music locally for a decade or longer

Yeah, digital sales have greatly outpaced physical, but more people are discovering how little control they have over “their” music library.

The alternative to “building a library” is to stick with services that will constantly increase in price & decrease in quality. You have no control over whether your favorite band(s) are available, and no recourse if their catalog disappears for whatever reason. You will be forced to scroll through “suggested content” (ads) regardless of your subscription, and the musicians see depressingly little of the money they make for the service.

“Building a library” can be as simple as buying an album based on a song you enjoyed on the radio. There’s no “lock-in”, there’s no always-increasing monthly bill, and there’s no chance of the store saying “uh you can’t listen to that anymore”. It’s dead simple, but certainly not as flexible as streaming.

Side note - I’m absolutely the type of person who would take the time and “re-build” my library, but I acknowledge I’m in a small minority of people, there. I also love shuffling through playlists which is impossible to do with physical media. Until I find a magic answer I’m right here with the rest of you with a streaming service.

but I want music streaming

Hey, that’s fine & I get it - so much easier to shuffle a playlist than figure out which album you won’t mind hearing front-to-back again. I’m eyeballing old iPod Classics for that - I’ve seen folks mod them with sizable drives and better batteries. Dunno that I want to put in the effort, myself, but I love the idea of “upcycling” old tech.

Getting back to my original reply: my main point was you don’t need these conveniences, much less having them built into your phone. Yep, music streaming is wonderfully handy & I use it every day, but practically speaking there are other methods.

Without knowing anything about you or your habits, I’m going to offer a counterpoint -

I’d suggest you don’t need music streaming, email, or a fitness tracker built into your phone. “Back in the day” we’d have a small collection of tapes / CDs in the car for trips, most (all?) email providers offer decent web apps, and while I agree it’s useful to track steps and food intake and such - anymore I’m not sure I trust the makers of these fitness apps to not sell my health data.

Personally, I’m trying to move towards a “dumb phone”, but like you I use my phone for a lot more than just social media & I’m finding it very tough. I think a phone with just a decent web browser could do the trick.

Wait… so it’s just a hardware middle man for Do Not Disturb?

You can leave the key behind

Fun idea until I’m out and about & realize the one app I locked would be useful.

Happy one-year! I’m a b-movie newbie & I love these posts.

“Typing Pool of monkeys” was a missed opportunity

I wish somebody WOULD cut his head off…

The Telltale Head

Really enjoyed this series. My only quibble is it felt like Steve Pemberton & John Robins were playing to win, versus the rest of the cast who were there to have fun. It didn’t “ruin the game” or anything, but I was certainly more entertained by the antics of Sophie, Nick, and Joanne.

Excited to see who they grab for the next series. Also curious to see how the show progresses now that the “meta” is more common knowledge - “look under the table”, “check the room”, etc. I don’t envy the task writer lol

They get sore before it rains, now