Can’t Hardly Wait.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0127723/

Such an alert would mean someone forgot to clock out before a couple days off 99.9% of the time, not that they were dead at their desk.

Everything felt lighter. Depression for me felt like someone had increased the effects of gravity just for me. It took immense effort to get out of bed or to make myself move to accomplish anything. The meds turned gravity back to normal.

I was supervising filling in a pit we had dug on the edge of a forest. We had dump trucks coming in dumping gravel. One particular driver wasn’t great at his job and there had been issues with him in the past.

That driver came in and dumped his gravel, but then he drove off with his bed still raised and almost immediately smashed into electric lines that ran off into the forest. One telephone pole even snapped at the base and fell over.

Within 30 seconds multiple cops came speeding onto the job site. It turns out those electric lines ran to a radio tower in the woods that ran the police radio. The idiot in the dump truck had taken out the police comms for the whole town.

Same. I use mine to log into things that require an email so they can spam you.

Definitely. She’s smart enough to play dumb to get what she wants.

4 week board and train program. It cost $4500.

Our standard poodle is a rescue that was heavily abused by her previous owner. She would get scared and bite. I figured the training would be cheaper than a lawsuit. It’s made a HUGE difference in her behavior.

The Russian judge really robbed Comcast of that gold

Drink a cup of sugar water. Works every time.

Villains by Necessity by Eve Forward. After the ultimate triumph of good over evil, a group of villains save the world from good. It’s a total inversion of the standard fantasy trope. Highly recommend it for any fantasy fan, doubly so for Dragonlance fans.

The company pays dividends. You make money if the company succeeds, which is why stock was created in the first place.

The way it originally had value. You are loaning the company money and betting they are successful enough to pay you back with dividends.

I’m envisioning stock as a sort of non-transferable contract between you and a company. There would be no way to pass the stock to a third party.

Stock trading.

I am fine with companies issuing stock and with people selling that stock back to the company. Everything else should be illegal.

I have to imagine a person in such a situation would experience an adrenaline spike which makes for unsteady hands.

One of my favorite examples of the difficulty in idiot-proofing things comes from a national park ranger talking about the difficulty of designing a bear-proof garbage can. He said “There is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.”

“Man, don’t you know? The law ain’t made to help earthy cats like us. Here on our planet, back in the old days - back in the real old days - it was just every man for himself, scrooblin’ and scrat-scroblin’ for the good stuff, the greenest valleys. And the strongest, meanest men got the best stuff. They got the green valleys and were like ‘The rest of you, y’all scrats get sand.’ And that’s when they made the laws, you see? Once the strong guys got it how they liked it, they said ‘This is fair now, this is the law.’ Once they were winning, they changed the rules up.” —Jake the Dog, Adventure Time, “Ocarina”

This is dumb as shit. Democrats aren’t perfect but they do care. That is why they actively took steps to stop people from dying during COVID unlike the GOP. That’s why they support universal healthcare, unlike the GOP. That’s why they support public education unlike the GOP. That is why they support free and fair elections unlike the GOP.