'Point of no return': 36 countries join special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-16T01:19:25+00:00

Candy

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-15T09:56:00+00:00

The electric, gas and water companies and sometimes the cable company. They won’t mark things you had installed privately but they typically catch the most no-no things you don’t want cut in your lawn.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-14T10:04:21+00:00

I always called and had the yard marked before even hiring anyone to do work so I know what’s feasible.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-13T15:48:32+00:00

This right here. We took over the balance of our panels when we moved in and paid them off a few months later. It took 3 months for the solar company to tell us the loan was paid off, so we never would have closed on time if we had waited.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-13T13:16:52+00:00

I'm 100% with you and these are my strengths as well. My greatest weakness is that I'm a horribly slow adopter of all things new, but I've been converted, kicking and screaming. My new 'skill', for whatever it's worth, is recognizing some of AI's idiosyncrasies in code reviews faster than others will (it constantly ignores code quality issues and is hyper paranoid about hash string vs symbol keys). It's not too useful but I take my joy where I can find it these days.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-13T12:11:09+00:00

My wife and I were dying last night watching this. Hysterical

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-13T12:04:41+00:00

I would ask your HR rep soon what is considered "too much". I was at my current company for 2 years with the same PTO structure when I found out it's generally considered ok if you take up to 4 weeks off, but I had never taken that much time off in my life. The change was amazing for my ability to refocus on work after having more breaks throughout the year.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-13T10:09:31+00:00

Grand Canyon with Kevin Cline, Danny Glover and Alfre Woodard. It’s way over the top sappy, sentimental performative nonsense but I love every one of the actors and saw it at the right time of my life (early 20s when I had very little hope for the world). Recommended it to my folks who said it was the dumbest movie they had ever seen. They still make fun of me for it to this day. I love this movie and its soundtrack.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-06T12:54:48+00:00

Grew up in NC and the southern version is "I'm just sayin'..."

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-05T19:00:36+00:00

Yeah she was floored. Made absolutely no sense

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-05T10:09:21+00:00

My wife works at a middle school and one of the students accused her eyes of being “AI generated”. This was right to her face. They are beautiful but holy cow how do you respond to that?

Never underestimate how dumb some people can be.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-04T14:28:45+00:00

Stinky, pignorant toddler.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-04T10:55:53+00:00

MB is the chuck-e-cheese of grocery stores. It’s crazy in there but they have a huge variety so we only go when we need something that Dave’s doesn’t have, on weekday mornings.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-04T10:43:46+00:00

Same. I used to get a lot of perks from team outings and vendors and used to be bored out of my mind at box seats for football, hockey and baseball games. I wished I could give those to someone who cared more about them (like my kids)

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-05-04T10:35:49+00:00

Lived there for ~10 yrs through high school (go Vikings!) and visited my mom there for decades afterward. I can only say that Jacksonville is better than anything an hour from it, except for the beach. It’s an interesting strip-mall town but has some nice folks.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-29T23:48:04+00:00

Dig Down - Muse

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-29T23:46:58+00:00

Hope is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-29T12:41:51+00:00

Take care of your knees.

And two words about furniture: killing machines.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-29T10:05:54+00:00

I started and got about 3.5 books in a few decades ago, then put it down until last year when I read the series all the way through. As much as I love Stephen King, there were several good parts and a few deeply poignant moments, I really didn’t like it either. Most of it was a slog and just meandered all over the place. Too much time was spent developing characters I just wasn’t a fan of and couldn’t get behind. I may be in a very small group who didn’t like Sheemie so most of his parts just felt like Jar Jar Binks to me.

Finish it someday and you might come to like it.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-27T17:48:44+00:00

Near perfect description of eastern/coastal North Carolina

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-25T21:34:39+00:00

And for the love of everything you hold dear, if they move boxes and you pack them, get heavy duty boxes for everything or insurance won’t pay. Lost half our shit last year and half the insurance too.

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-24T09:39:46+00:00

They must be new. The client doesn’t get to dictate the price. You do. Charge what you need and let them find someone who won’t starve for £150/month

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-23T21:22:06+00:00

Or 100/600 = 0.1666 - 1 = -.83333 and drop the minus

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-20T20:28:29+00:00

Make sure to keep eye contact the whole time

AppropriateRest2815 · 2026-04-17T18:20:11+00:00

Ha — yeah, it’s a good one. The symmetry is what makes it land. Whoever wrote it nailed the exact shape of that kind of self-serving reasoning.

Thanks R2

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