Their executives have been given military titles of Lieutenant Colonel already! Without any military training or fitness test.

https://defensescoop.com/2025/06/13/army-detachment-201-executive-innovation-corps-meta-openai-palantir/

Refreshingly factual

Guess you’ll have to bring fresh-baked cookies to work then, for cover. And also sharing. Pro tip: make them large, then break a few in half, depending on the gender splits in your workplace. Women who would like a cookie but feel guilty because of norms about dieting will happily take a half. Or maybe break off a quarter. But they won’t break one if none are already broken. Most men will enjoy taking a whole one because diet norms don’t apply to them. A few people will enjoy virtuously refusing them because vegan or keto or something. Nobody will notice you smell like vanilla.

If you’re not a baker, or you have a friend with celiac, Rice Krispy Bars also have vanilla and are gluten free.

Original? You smell like my dad. I’m 65. Still a great scent though. As a little girl I’d dab it behind my ears for perfume.

You guys don’t get it. Those products smell like that to appeal to women. If anyone even notices you smell like a woman, the obvious inference is that you have a girlfriend. Or at least spent the night with a woman. If it’s dilute enough to not really be noticeable, women will just find it appealing. Vanilla in particular is non-gendered, what you smelled like was a cookie!

The Chinese are probably only doing it for profit, but if the result of flooding the market with cheap “honey” is a crash in European pollinator population because of bankrupt beekeepers it could be a problem for agriculture and native European plant species, I guess.

How about putting googly eyes on your nuts and making a video selfie of them to send Facebook?

🏀🍆👀⚽

How about, “For $500 I’ll perform the exam, and for an extra $1000 I’ll guarantee she passes. Because clearly this is all transactional to you, there’s no need to bring truth into it.”

Only one of these things is beneficial for the patient.

So it’s a lose-lose scenario for her, since she’s had no choice of the man and he’s the kind who insists on the test.

You might as well keep going, because it’ll probably be the 200 million worst and most useless people left. Survival of the cruelest seems to be a rule in this world.

No, warm the whole thing to heat the air inside

Put the whole thing in a pot of water and start bringing it to a slow simmer. This will warm the air inside, expanding it and breaking the suction. I got my stuck blender jar open this way, taking it out as soon as the first tiny bubble escaped and quickly unscrewing it before it could cool.

Sure, but: it was right there all along.

Separately, Elon might be on Earth, but he’s also sometimes on earth. Although he’s more of an indoors boy.

A teen watching full length continuous streaming porn? Hope he’s got some Gatorade in there!

Our apartment is in a building on a rise/hill. There’s an elevator to take us up one floor from the street level lobby and 2 floors from the garage/basement/laundry. But at the other end of the building, there’s an exit directly to the street, because of the hill. So when the elevator is broken it’s an inconvenience to go around, but at least my husband can get in and out in his chair!

I am an even older fart, and I TAUGHT cursive. The only “cursive” here is the angry scrawl of someone who’d prefer to be cursing.

Look, for example, at the word immediately after HOLY MONTH. The closest correct cursive letters to fit the scrawl are:

“itreit”.

It’s only by context, and allowing for the angry misplacement of the tittle, that we can read it as “that.”

Seems like you could reply saying

“You are not permitted to keep my data. If you’re not going to hire me, delete it immediately.”

It would burn that bridge, but maybe that’s a good thing.

Oh I agree. It really requires -supported affordable housing. Although the best results come from integrating low-income units into mid-price housing so people can be near jobs and have decent groceries etc. Also mixing mid-price housing into high-end neighborhoods so the people who provide services can also live near where they work.

The real problem is landlords who’d rather sit on empty homes than lower the rent. And collude to keep rents inflated.

I’m pretty sure this is what you were listening to, and yeah it’s a pretty bleak situation:

2024 saw one of the slowest housing markets in 30 years. What will 2025 bring? https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5240991/2024-saw-one-of-the-slowest-housing-markets-in-30-years-what-will-2025-bring

The only glimmer of hope seems to be in cities that have put effort into building more homes. Capitalism isn’t going to solve this, because it only gets “luxury” housing built for the Haves.

One thing that is helping in California is the Builder’s Remedy Law projects, where, in cities that haven’t come up with a legit plan to create more affordable housing by the deadline, (usually because they don’t want Poors living there) developers can create huge new projects that don’t have to conform with the existing (overly restrictive and often based on redlining) zoning laws as long as they include 10% low-income units.