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They’re going to be super embarrassed when they show this misuse of homophones at the trial for terroristic threats.

My brother and I both independently came across this technique before running a fun 5k in December. The 5k was straight out n back and, without talking about it beforehand, we both BARELY convinced ourselves to not try it, for the first time, in a very public setting. The running world is simply not ready for my slightly overweight, 41 year old, mediocre running self to fall ass over tincups trying to shave 0.3 seconds off of my 24 minute time.

This is how it plays out locally: I live in a low cost of living town in Northeast PA. Our area has historically not been very diverse. Over the past 20 years they’ve ben building a lot of huge warehouses and distribution centers in our area to take advantage of the low cast of living. The industrial parks in the area all competed with each other to land these “job-creating” warehouses, and they competed by offering tax-free deals for x number of years.

So they build these warehouses, and when they hire, everybody apart from the 4 managers are hired part time, and can only work up to max of 28-30 hrs per week, to prevent the company from owing them any kind of health care retirement. Mostly, the only people desperate enough to move here for those jobs are immigrants, and since there’s no attachment to one warehouse or another, as soon as there’s slightly better offer, they move right on out. Our schools are getting hammered because their tax revenue hasn’t increased, but instead of of 1-2 new students per year in a grade level, they’re dealing with 5-6 new kids per WEEK, and a good number them come in with little to no English. Frequently, the families have to separate to get here, and that just makes everything even harder.

Now, if you’re not paying too close attention, you look at the area compared to 20 years ago, and think,

1. There are more immigrants
2. The school have less money and test scores are down
3. Crime is worse
4. Wages are unliveably low …
5. Immigrants did it

The “nice” thing is if you own a warehouse, you don’t even need to spend any money “convincing” people to blame immigrants, you just make a bunch of money, pay them as little as possible, and watch the nightly news talk about all the danger and crime in the area.

If you’re stuck in a parking spot, and you can’t seem to rock your car out, turn OFF your traction control! (It should be a button with a car and wavy lines that you probably have never pressed before). The traction control takes power away from slipping wheels so if they’re both/all slipping, you get wheels that barely move as you’re stepping in the gas.

Just remember to turn it back on once you’re free

I hadn’t done a bath in years, but at one point we were fixing some of the tile in our bath/shower. To minimize how much water got into the unprotected wall, we had to take baths for about a week.

It was inefficient for time, but maaaaan was it nice. I promised myself I wouldn’t allow myself to lapse like that again. Unfortunately I don’t think I’ve done a bath since.

Was the appeal like a “I didn’t say what you thought I said?” Or was it a "ok I definitely did that but I’m sorry and I super-promise never to do it again if you just give me one more chance? "

Do you mind sharing what you said that put you in reddit-jail?

Ah yeah that solves it quite definitively, thanks.

Even if I couldn’t find a good reason for optimism Nationally (which I would never admit to due to the the credible threat of getting my house burned down), I know that I can make an impact on the people I love (friends family and strangers) that are directly around me.

I’m not quite familiar enough with Dilbert to be able to tell which “defining detail” was fucked up. Any hints?

We’ve considered home-schooling. I’m not concerned about the educational side of it. I know that 1 on 1, or 1 on 2, I’d (we’d) be able to teach our kids WAY more than they’d pick up in a classroom full of 30 half-paying-attention kids.

My biggest concern is the socialization. 2 families we know home-school their children, and, don’t get me wrong, between home school co-ops, activity groups, and programs with the local public school, they DO get a lot of chance to socialize with other kids. I just think there’s a lot of character building in being forced to sit in a classroom with 30 kids you may or may not share a lot in common with, and having to deal with some lessons that move too slow, and some lessons that move too quickly, etc.

I get that sometimes the school environment can be so hostile as to create real problems for some kids, but that’s a bridge we’ll have to cross if we ever get there. (Our oldest is not yet in kindergarten)

When my printer showed up on Linux my first thought was, “hmmm I guess when I reformatted the hard drive and installed the new OS it saved my printer settings…neat”. Eventually, I figured it out.

This is actually good news to me. I assumed the AI bubble was WaAY larger than the dot com bubble already.

Scuba Diving. I’m lucky if I can go twice a year but just thinking about scuba diving feels like a full-time hobby

It’s made from the blood of orphans but still worth it for a good B.M.

Aw man! That’s by far the least interesting.

I was hoping for “Nate n”, “nation”, or multiply them together to get “9 n”

Yup, good read, she’s grandmothering BIG TIME.

My Mom was recently diagnosed type 2, but I think she was completely asymptomatic. I mean, she’s 71 and has lots of symptoms but also plenty of other causes to attribute all of her problems to. When her routine blood work came back with a type 2 diagnosis she said, “shit, I probably should’ve seen that coming. Damn now I have to get really serious about losing weight. I don’t want to be diabetic by this time next year.”

I was 100% in the same boat as you, but it’s worked out awesomely so far. For me the biggest thing was that every time I was completely stumped by something randomly not working even though I was following internet instructions pretty closely…it was a freaking permissions problem. Random shit with no clear error message, just shit not working.

Dive computer plugged in and turned on, but not connecting? It says “timed out” but what it really meant was"this program doesn’t have dialout privileges, so even though it looks like we’re trying, we’re actually not letting anything go through until you add it to the right group"

Plex library showing empty even though you just spent hours transferring stuff over? Plexmediaserver isn’t being dumb, it’s just its own user, and even though YOU have access to the library folder and can point Plex there, that doesn’t mean Plex can see anything in there.

I could go on but you get the point.