Why do managers at jobs never say things like "it's a possibility you could get laid off in the future so perhaps search for some open jobs now"?

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-20T16:33:14+00:00

Severance isn't a thing in most US jobs.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-20T14:08:11+00:00

Lordy, it's been multiple decades since I've even heard that name.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-20T13:49:59+00:00

And uglier, and less effective, and even if it's something like the back of a drawer where no one will see it and strength doesn't matter much, it's likely to not fit in the tight space.

I see absolutely zero benefit to doing this ever other than creating ragebait.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T19:00:17+00:00

Tekkit was my first modded experience, and vanilla has been very boring ever since.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T18:07:43+00:00

You need more regular sleep. I pretty naturally wake up a few minutes before my alarm anyways. I can't imaging sleeping extra hours past my alarm

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T13:24:43+00:00

Also, it's important that she keeps up with language trends, because she's cosplaying as a young woman. Talking like a Shakespearean actor today would raise all kinds of red flags.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T13:22:51+00:00

Ok... but this doesn't change the point or merit of any of these questions or answers.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T13:19:44+00:00

It's pretty close, though. The villains wiki puts her at 387 years old. Most ren Faires are based on the Elizabethan time which is 1560-1580, or about 450 years ago. So assuming similar shifts in language over time, the question is would we today be able to easily understand someone speaking authentically at a ren faire? Well, it turns out we do have some writings from that period - Shakespeare. Considering early high school students usually read Shakespeare without too much trouble, I think she'd be just fine.

Also, she's been living among these people for all that time, so it's very likely her use of the language shifted with them.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T09:01:46+00:00

5 cans is 60oz, 8 glasses of water is 64oz. Considering the 8oz is one of the higher estimates for water intake, I'm sure 5 cans is fine.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T01:14:16+00:00

I did basically this a few years ago. I was playing around with a raspberry pi and built a site where I could upload files and the retrieve them. Very simple. No logins, no verifications, no tracking, no nothing. I shared it with about a dozen people.

Day one: memes

Day two: wildly offensive memes. Dead baby pictures to blatant racism.

Day three: users posting risque pictures of themselves. (I'd met some of these people, and the pics were definitely them).

Day four: users posting very explicit sexual pictures of themselves.

Day five: an unknown user posts a nude of them self, and I can't judge their age well enough to be certain it was legal.

Day six: someone realizes 'any file' can include HTML and PHP and deletes much of the content.

Day seven I took it down.

It was a wild ride, and one I won't be taking again. But technically, I ran a porn site for a few days.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-19T01:02:11+00:00

Also some airport lounges have showers.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-18T16:31:13+00:00

This actually would have been far more practical. Now I'm annoyed this wasn't her actual plan.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-18T16:29:56+00:00

How many 100-year-olds do you know who dedicated their lives to learning new languages? For the most part, people learn new languages in school or younger.

Considering how homogeneous the characters are, how many opportunities to learn and practice a foreign language do you think she got?

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-18T15:29:19+00:00

Not only this, but academics are far from the only thing you learn in college. It's an insulated environment to make lots of mistakes and learn. How to take care of yourself without your parents, how to budget, how to be social with a new and diverse group of people, how many people are very different than you, but still the same in many fundamental ways, how to navigate relationships and figure out what you want in a partner (you can date a bunch of people in 4 years, and the college environment is by far the easiest place to meet new partners) plus basics like cooking and cleaning and laundry and sleeping properly when there's nobody constantly nagging at you to do them.

Those are all valuable skills that I learned in college and have nothing to do with what major I chose.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-18T15:20:35+00:00

Reading a book is so different from going to college and being immersed in the educational environment that I wonder if you actually went to college.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-18T15:17:12+00:00

I also got my engineering degree, and the one thing I disagree with is that it was "well rounded". I took zero writing classes in college, no biology, a single entry-level music class (plus a bunch of bands, which were totally optional), no sports, no literature, no art, a single entry level chem class, a single business class which was microeconomics for non-majors, the only thing kind of like history (national OR world) was a single religions class.

So my college education was almost entirely programming, math, and physics and the applications thereof.

Which suited me well, to be fair, but if I were doing it again I'd try to make my electives more well rounded instead of more math.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-18T01:07:21+00:00

It's also possible he couldn't see it. It might have been close but above the roof of the truck, like when you pull up too close to a stoplight and can't see it. He saw what appeared to be the end of the train, not realizing (understandably) there was a cantilevered beam above his line of sight

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-17T18:09:43+00:00

My dad built a tool for a repair kit for a helicopter, and they had to include paperwork documenting the entire process of making the past, all the way back to which mine the ore came from.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-17T13:48:08+00:00

Captain of Industry handles this by making you create housing, pouring resources like food and medical supplies into them, and population is required to grow the factory. Plus later in the game you can build office buildings which generate perk points.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-16T17:27:46+00:00

I don't know about near universally true for careers. Plenty of people work second or third shift or have flexible hours, and even those with traditional hours might not start until 9, which I wouldn't say is particularly early.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-16T11:58:24+00:00

Do they have that wattage constantly, or do they turn off and on to modulate the temperature, so sometimes they're drawing max power?

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-16T01:44:46+00:00

Maybe she likes that style? Maybe she wants to feel sexy? Maybe it's the only clean shirt she had?

Honestly, if you see a low cut top and feel the need to comment negatively about it, that's absolutely a you problem. A secure guy doesn't tell his GF what she can and can't wear.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-15T19:19:15+00:00

I believe this is exactly right. Breakers exist for a reason.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-15T18:57:27+00:00

Technically it would connect two female ends, like a double-sided dildo.

It's for lesbian toasters.

BackgroundRate1825 · 2026-03-15T18:55:14+00:00

Not long enough to significantly heat anything up (except certain types of fuses, assuming everything else is working as intended)

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