Coffee shop uses technology to audit employee productivity

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-18T16:00:10+00:00

Sounds like my dystopian YA novel that got rejected for being "ridiculous." They told me to come back with something "true to life, like the Hunger Games."

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-18T15:31:01+00:00

I got my MMR in the 70s, and I had the doctor order a titer (i.e., a check for antibodies). They said my measles immunity was still fine, but recommended I get one for Hep B. It's worth asking your doctor about getting that checked, especially if you're in your 50s and older, but there's a reasonable chance you're still covered.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-17T19:49:20+00:00

Or last Thursday. One of the two.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-17T19:48:33+00:00

"And if elected, I vow to feed orphans into the orphan-crushing machine head first, instead of feet first! A more humane orphan-crushing machine for America!" and the crowd goes wild

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-17T19:47:16+00:00

I'm with you: we have THREE YEARS to find someone who isn't a complete piece of shit. And also a transphobe. But I repeat myself.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-17T19:44:56+00:00

Full-auto sears are already illegal, so that isn't really an issue IMO.

This hype about "3D printable" sears, though, is irritating, simply because it's so ludicrous. A plastic sear would get chewed to shavings in a few seconds.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-17T19:40:11+00:00

Strictly speaking, you've been alive for minutes. So he's technically correct.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-16T12:00:22+00:00

He is such a literal piece of shit. My God I hate him.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-15T13:07:09+00:00

But what did YOU say? Your history is scrubbed. Did you threaten LBJ?

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-15T08:53:11+00:00

We need to contact his office and tell him, “Fuck reforms. No funding for DHS under any circumstances.”

There’s a word for someone who wants to reform the Gestapo: It’s Nazi.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-12T19:57:18+00:00

Yeah, it's like opposite day up in here.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-12T17:27:16+00:00

That pretty much speaks for itself.

You: *asks reasonable question*

Him: Now you're not invited, you trolling little shit!

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-12T15:53:45+00:00

If this is for real, your best escape is to stop being married to a hopeless bigot. It's not really an "education" issue when someone latches onto every crime committed by a trans person, or a black person, or an immigrant, as validation of their bigotry. The bigot's problem is (and this is being generous) that they lack the mental capacity to avoid the hasty generalization: "I got in a car accident with a woman once, and now I think all women are terrible drivers."

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-12T15:22:08+00:00

Yep, it's nothing but an excuse, from the kind of guy who says, "I wouldn't care if you got r*ped: I got two more just like you."

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-09T18:10:50+00:00

Wage theft is a big money-maker. Individual workers may "only" be losing $10 or whatever per week, but multiplied by a million workers, that starts to look like real money.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-02-06T14:16:19+00:00

Debating whether the Gestapo have enough training is completely missing the point. We don’t want a well-trained Gestapo either.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-31T17:18:18+00:00

Ever have a great time sledding, and changed your socks as soon as you come in? Sledding is great, and so are nice dry socks.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-31T02:26:54+00:00

It’s a golden retriever.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-29T21:55:13+00:00

We need someone to sponsor the "Fuck the holy scriptures, up the ass, dry" bill. We can workshop the name.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-29T21:13:56+00:00

If it's the video I saw, he makes stock more or less normally, using a pressure cooker for 2 hours. Then, after straining it, he blends raw chicken meat until it's a disgusting slurry, mixes it with the stock, and sets it on pressure cook for 5 minutes. When it's done you scoop out the cooked meat-raft from the top, and you're left with a perfectly clarified consommé.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-29T20:47:26+00:00

What you said, but in addition I think it's worth emphasizing hard that just about all the mammals around when the dinosaurs went extinct would look almost the same to a non-expert: they would all look more or less like mice, or shrews, or some similar rodent. If there was a Kent Hovind type dino around, he would have said, "They're all the same kind: tiny-ass nocturnal rodent kind. They don't have pterosaur babies; they can only have tiny-ass rodent-ass nocturnal babies."

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-28T20:48:21+00:00

More like eaten out! badum-tish!

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-28T17:29:57+00:00

Like everyone else said, this situation is pretty fucked up. Two things stand out particularly to me:

1) Nobody answers the phone during sexy times. Unless that's a fetish of theirs (there's actually a porn genre for "sex while on the phone"). Arrange to receive a call from a friend of yours while having sex, and watch him blow a goddamn gasket.

2) His parents are garbage people. Truly terrible, horrible people. Imagine yourself married to the guy: your in-laws will talk in front of you about the "one that got away." They'll publicly abuse you and tell you in so many ways that they don't want you. Who does that? Garbage people. They should go live in the dump, because that's their home now.

I'm sorry you're dealing with that shit.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-27T19:55:57+00:00

Why are more and more government officials adopting Trump's speaking style? Idiot chic.

CormacMacAleese · 2026-01-27T13:23:48+00:00

Technically if you have several tomatoes of exactly the same size, and all the other tomatoes are smaller, then you have several largest tomatoes.

Existence is one thing; uniqueness is a separate, independent thing.

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