I thought she was Italian?

To answer your question, yes, you did. You’re welcome.

Moist, as in “moist oily ointment.”

the right handers still suspect nothing of our, ahem, sinister plan

Physiotherapists can pick out those forced to switch: apparently musculature around the upper thoracic (?) spine develops based on handedness as baby first starts grasping things, and this development is (was) still visible decades later. You get comments like “I thought you said you were right-handed…” out of the blue.

Lol, I was born left handed and was forced to write right handed in

… the third grade. If you picked secular/public elementary school in flatlander Canada, you’d’ve been right. Not having a coastline makes people stupid and crazy, I worry

how much the US would save

Absolute speculation in response to a question about current state.

Intellectually dishonest post. It’s expected though at this point, coming from the left.

What does Confirmation Bias mean, again? Speak up for the cheap seats.

There is nothing this person writes that isn’t caused by the current administration and its rabidly bigoted xenophobes, no economic problem not exacerbated dramatically by the cruel and stupid decisions made by those in power, and no promise reviewed that wasn’t made during campaign and repeated a thousand times.

Surely you can sue Samsung here? […] if he’s American

You said the same thing twice.

Oh, the damage will be severe. Google ‘de-gloving’.

Some of them require a subscription to access all features AFTER paying $300-500 for the ring

The ones with the subscription scam on top of the huge price-tag are simply offensive and predatory.

I have had an Oura g2 since it came out, so for about 9 years. I’ve enjoyed the smart-ring, but I kinda want the company to die since they got addicted to the subscription pork; and their app updates are just a little worse each time.

Over here in Germany where everybody has at least 3 weeks paid time off (being ill does not count to this contingent btw), it is common that leaves are planned in the beginning of the year for larger vacations, so there are no collisions.

Also, if you have children you have priority during school breaks for paied leaves.

This concept could be copied by us employers also, I wonder why not? Maybe because this way you can pressure your employees with your vacation as leverage

And in this system, it is common courtesy to make effort to make sure your team has as few problems as possible from your absence. Of course it is also common courtesy that you are not contact for anything work related during your vacation time.

All of this is possible in North America, but you need a union job.

My day-job is a unionionized Managed Services gig subsidiary of a larger company. The rest of the company fits a stereotype we see in the deLoittes and IBM Pro Servs of the world, but the union contract gives us a sane bit of breathing room:

• 9x9 ‘compressed’ time so you get one day off each week regardless
• statutory holidays are sacred
• OT for weekend work, but it quickly goes double-time so it’s rare; and holidays are 2.5x quickly
• standby time is paid. Call-outs are paid.
• mandated remote work capability. It’s in the union contract, guys, so we can Work From Home Office or Work From HQ as best suits us

The combo of compressed time, stats and careful placement of my 21 vacation days this year will give me 7 carefully-placed weeks off; it’s not contiguous, but it’s really great.

As a former waiter, I have a counterpoint:

• I can’t carry that wobbly precarious mess you’ve made, and it’s easier to disassemble and reassemble it because I know how to do this.

Thus, you’ve created work for me.

Thankfully I haven’t been a waiter in - oh look! - 30 years.

western Canadians

Hey now. You’re only in MID-Western Canada.

I’d like to agree with you. I’d like to not be told 150 years isn’t enough but 13000 is both magically valid and oddly accurate for ‘time immemorial’. I’d like people to agree both groups came from away or didn’t, because it’s hypocrisy otherwise and I don’t like believing our 3rd-phase immigrants are being natalist about our 4th-phase immigrants.

the government is set to shutdown

1. Set to shut down (verb)
2. Set for shutdown (noun)

You need to pick a lane. Please tell me time.com editors have at least the brains god gave a gnat.

on tow

What dialect says ‘on’ vs ‘in’, as in “in danger”, “in mind”, “in case”, or “in hand”? Is is the same people who say they are waiting “on line” instead of “in line”?

What’s the one that looks like a red A flossing its ass after a shower?

Nope. Windows on launch was a pale copy of xerox and friends.

Look under “historical factoid”.

Use the zoo languages, expect a cage.