Are you considerimg turning down a promotion (with more pay or progression to more pay?) because a couple of coworkers talk too much?

I would rather space out while they gossip and daydream about all the extra money I’m going to make.

I would absolutely not raise this concern with my boss. Since my job includes needing to work well with all kinds of people, raising your concern would be career limiting, for me.

When unsure of what the Captcha is trying to learn from me, I find “Kill all humans.” is a pretty good guess what the Captcha is really after.

“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”

Bosch has a lot of goodwill. Interesting how they decide to spend it. Also Consumer Reports needs to start considering Internet connectivity, because the risks from Internet connected dishwashers are real and scary.

Is flying too risky for me?

Sounds lile “Yes.”

I’m going to be flying over the ocean most of the flight, and all my Epi Pens do is give me an extra 20 or so minutes to get to the hospital.

I hear you saying that if the airline or a random passenger screws up, you get to die horribly.

I wouldn’t risk it.

I want to encourage you that you have every right to say “that doesn’t feel safe” rather than risk it.

You don’t have to risk it if you don’t want to.

I generally don’t take any “I might die horribly” risks, myself, when I can avoid them.

Im in disguise now

I don’t follow either closely enough to make a rank list or anything.

In the same ballpark as some moments that Torvalds has apologized for. Milder than Torvald’s worst, but also unrepentant, as far as I’ve seen.

its lead dev is a bit socially awkward

Heh. You’re being gentle, and that’s good. But that’s maybe understating it a bit.

I’ve seen the GrapheneOS official Mastodon account being an antisocial uncollegial mess.

It’s okay to acknowledge that we wish some of our open source contributors were better community members.

Deep down, aren’t we all…Charles?

It’s okay. We can take turns being vigilant, as each of our mental health allows.

Our billionaire overlords are incredibly powerful, but there’s a shit ton more of the rest of us, than there are of them, even counting their many paid cronies.

The billionaires are also the ones pushing the around the clock burn out news cycle, to wear us down.

Take time for your mental health, and trust random folks like me to be vigilant while you rest.

They want us to forget that we’re in this together.

This is a great point. If we only have bandwidth to listen to a single news source, we could all do worse than choosing the ACLU or the Electronic Frontier Foundation!

Are you a rich, white, straight male?

Good list. Need to add “healthy” to it, too.

Good recommendation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb also has a bunch of useful writing on taking risks that applies very well to financial choices like investments and career choice.

It’s the vape pen of the soda world!

They have my permission to use this, heh.

Windows 11

They are not all the same.

Measure the diameter of the hole at the bottom of the water holding tank. It’s the main difference between older and newer toilets in the US.

Any US toilet repair kit should list what diameter(s) it supports.

Depth of the holding tank will vary as well, but most repair kits account for this. Some kits may require using a hand saw to cut some plastic tubes to fit smaller tanks. Other kits have an extendable or collapsible tube.

Where would I even start.

There’s a lot of good information provided video game reviewers. I tend to start there, when looking for something new.

In particular, I’ve learned about entire genres such as “cozy games” and “couch co-op”, that way. Then, once I know what the genre I’m in the mood for is called I can search for “best cozy games of 2020”, to find ideas of what I might like to try.

In order to not worry about whether each game will run, I feel that the SteamDeck is the current nicest all around game console available, followed by the Nintendo Switch.

They are solvable problems, and many have already been solved already in some countries.

This is a great point!

Yeah. At least until his yes-men high five him and slap him on the back on his way to board the deep space or deep sea vessel that he designed himself.

But losing 75% of population, I can see some nuclear war breaking out

Seems pretty likely (eventually). I take hope that I’ll be in the direct blast radius, and not a mutilated horribly scarred survivor.

I choose not to think about this one much because it’s well outside my circle of influence.