Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”
Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”
I love militant descriptivists
It’s a variant of Soup Time: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soup-time
Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.
sometimes with a better PR team
Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.
Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.
Seven of Nine, Tertiary adjunct of uni(tary) matrix Zero One
The lesser of two weasels
Horton Hears a Who if Horton was the one saying “Boil that dust speck! Boil that dust speck!”
Bit hypocritical of the US when they themselves recently passed a divest-or-ban law against a speech platform citing foreign influence and also uses police to violently disrupt protests
ℕ₀* is ℕ with 0 without 0
That’s not how it works. I’m a door dash driver. We get a base pay, (usually $2-$3 per order but can be more if it’s peak hours) plus tip. The base pay isn’t affected by tips.
We see the total (base pay plus tip) when we are deciding whether to take an order. Orders without tips are rejected by most drivers.
I lay my shirts flat on a side table. Much quicker than hanging or folding, and still prevents wrinkles. Socks, underwear, and jeans I don’t fold, but I separate into different piles that go in drawers and shelves.
In my experience exhaustion makes the dread spiral worse
I’ll take “IQ is a flawed measure of intelligence, but intelligence is probably still normally distributed”
grabs popcorn to watch inevitable argument about mean vs median
I love militant descriptivists