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My office is moving buildings and they are having an open floor plan. Of course, they are going on and on about collaboration, but they also mentioned that they are getting everyone noise cancelling headphones and will have multiple white noise machines. Dear god how loud do they expect it to be? It sounds like a complete nightmare.

Why do I feel like people bring these posts up so they can feel better about themselves by downvoting anyone who disagrees? Hm..

I guess because you lack empathy and refuse to acknowledge that reality is probably more nuanced than your singular lived experience?

Who is actually trying to make themselves feel better here: the person who's posturing as simply better than others because you don't struggle with your weight? Or the people down voting you because they recognize there are a myriad of other factors that might cause a person to struggle with eating healthy including:

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I saw a video the other day of a doctor explaining early warning signs of dementia and they were basically all just symptoms of ADHD. Things like difficulty managing finances or completing chores lol. So idk whAt that means.

Right? That part took me out.

Only reach out to them if you are actually in their state. When they receive a flood of calls from people around the country, it's easy for them to write it off and claim they're just getting brigaded and it's not something their actual constituents disagree with.

Womp womp. My partner and I are in the process of a cross country move (out of Texas! Woo hoo!) and we're supposed to fly back next week to finally pack up our stuff and get the house ready to rent out. It's been sitting on the market for 5 months and hemorrhaging money now that we're gone, so we're finally throwing in the towel and accepting that we're going to have a long-term financial tie to Texas.

That's not even close to the worst part. After Zwerner reported his "violent mood," two other teachers reported to Parker that students were telling them he had a gun... The first searched his backpack and turned up nothing but believed it could have been on his person (they saw him tuck something under his sweatshirt.) Parker's response was that his pockets were too small to hold a gun. Second teacher had another student report he had flashed them the gun in his pocket. Second teacher wanted to search him, but Parker forbade him because the first teacher had already searched his backpack.

That's pretty fucking bad...

Remember during the 2020 election they were circulating photos of looting and civil unr at in "Biden's America" but they were literally pictures taken during Trump's administration?

No, it's because they don't care.

Pretty sure it's an ADHD thing. I'm like that with people's faces. For a long time I thought I had facial blindness but realized a couple of years ago, I'm just not generally paying attention to faces enough to record them into memory. When I actually learn what someone's face looks like instead of their general shape/hair/clothes/accessories, I have no problem recognizing them in a variety of situations.

Huh? I don't understand this comment. Are you saying you think I'm lying? Lol. I mean more power to you if you've never experienced these self checkout logjams. I'm fine with them in concept, but the way a lot of the stores I've experienced use them makes it kinda unpleasant. Guess it's regional.

The downside is forcing a bunch of people through self checkout who need a cashier. Whenever you all talk about how great self checkout is, I wonder what mecca you live in. My only experiences with it are long lines and long waits caused by a number of factors:

-Many self checkout lanes closed because they think everyone is stealing and refuse to staff more than one person to watch over you

-Old people who can't use technology and don't want to be using the machines

-People who have entire carts and struggle to effectively scan their groceries on the tiny space allocated.

-Machines that scan painfully and artificially slow because they want to weigh every goddamn item to prove you aren't stealing

-Machines that record you and yell at you for stealing if you move an item slightly awkwardly

Yeah, I understand why it's currently happening like that, but it's still annoying to call at 2am and be like, "they were so hard to get on the phone!" Seems to be a recurring problem so might be worth it to have a contingency plan for winners within certain time zones, even if you just quietly inform them a few hours earlier that they should make sure they're available at that time.

The Nobel committee also hit a roadblock trying to reach Brunkow – both researchers are based on the US West Coast, which is nine hours behind Stockholm – but eventually got ahold of her...

In 2020 the Nobel committee had similar difficulties in contacting the winners of the prize for economics. When Bob Wilson’s phone rang in Stanford in the middle of the night, he unplugged it so the committee had to call his wife instead.

When the committee couldn’t reach his fellow winner, Paul Milgrom, either, Wilson had to go and wake him up.

This is annoying to me. Is there seriously no better way than to call older people in the middle of the night and then act surprised when they are not immediately available?

Yeah, this sure sounds like the "free market" correcting itself as these people love to prattle on about.

Seriously, "I don't like this thing, so fuck anyone who does!" Why can't we just be chill with people liking whatever makes them happy (within reason obviously) rather than actively rooting against it?

I got it at CVS in California and it was just a box you had to tick on the intake form, "I am qualified to receive the vaccine" lol. It was in same section that asks the standard stuff like, "are you allergic to stuff in this vaccine?" etc. No conversation about any of it at all.

I am selling my house, giving up my well paying job, and leaving Texas in a week to be with my fiance who has already moved. I am terrified of the house not selling and of being unemployed. I originally graduated into a depressed job market with a soft degree and spent 2 years(!!!) job hunting before I got a job in retail customer service. Somehow over a decade, I managed to claw my way, tooth and fucking nail, into a career I'm proud of. The closer I get to being out of a job, the more scared I get but then I see stories like this and I am reminded why we decided that getting the fuck out of here was worth more than whatever financial security we're giving up, (hopefully just in the short term.) This place is not fucking safe.

Yeah, exactly this. I have a mortgage and a car payment so I've got lots of debt, but I wouldn't consider myself "broke" by any stretch. I don't live paycheck-to-paycheck, I put 10% away for retirement, and I can afford to spend money where I want without stressing about it. Overall, pretty charmed compared to how a lot of folks are struggling these days and it's honestly kinda wild to act like it's comparable to anything they're going through.