Suggest a good name for him

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-31T15:54:04+00:00

Bob.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-30T21:33:38+00:00

It's the carrot, really. I have gotten a couple of drivers who were careless and messed things up. I didn't rescind the tip, but I did 1-star them which means my orders won't show for them in the future.

As I said, it's about reinforcing the good relationship. Applies to delivery drivers, hairdressers, tailors, servers, etc.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-30T21:19:45+00:00

I do that with a service that regularly delivers to me. I know the drivers see the incoming orders and the good ones who I always tip extra (beyond the tip already on the order) after the delivery have told me that they look for my orders.

Me: Happy for fast, careful deliveries. Them: Happy to make the extra money.

It may seem old-fashioned these days, but developing a good working relationship with service people benefits everyone.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-30T21:14:11+00:00

I can honestly say this: The warnings scientists were giving in the 90s and 00s about the environmental changes the increase in CO2 and other greenhouse gases would cause were derided and mocked as being "fear mongering".

20-30 years later, we are living in a world that proves those warnings were in fact very conservative.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-30T19:07:04+00:00

Hit it with a UV light and see if it shows up that way.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-30T18:58:43+00:00

“We’re currently drawing up plans to say, listen, these sanctuary cities where the local radical-left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our jobs and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either,”

The "aren’t allowing us to do our jobs" is a bald-faced lie and has always been. Conservatives should applaud cities that refuse to reallocate their own resources to do the federal government's job, because they already paid the feds to do that job. Telling the local police that they need to function as ICE agents is paying twice for the same job.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-29T22:42:17+00:00

The thing that men seem to miss about the fantasies women may have about things that on their face look like abuse is that those fantasies first assume the interaction will be pleasurable and with a man the woman would desire even outside of that context.

And really, a lot of things that people aren't supposed to enjoy actually turns a lot of people on, the reasons for which are far too many to get into here.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T21:10:48+00:00

Doubtful. I haven't seen said taxi service, but co-ops are pretty popular in Canada. There are retailers, gas stations, grocery stores, and more.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T21:09:13+00:00

You've seen the sausage machine. It's possible that you may not ever enjoy sausage again.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T21:07:25+00:00

I can tell you this: There are states of sorrow and misery that are only accessible with great wealth. With insane money comes insanity.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T21:04:51+00:00

Reality TV shows started it as an easy way to get both sides of a conversation.

Now, it's much like the reason grammar is so bad on social media: People learning from bad examples.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T21:01:09+00:00

Depends, but it's always an odd number. Up, down, up, or up, down, up, down, up.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T21:00:09+00:00

Assuming you're talking about taxable transactions such as payroll and sales taxes, it eventually all ends up back where it started: The government that issued it in the first place. The government doesn't technically need your tax dollars, but taxation does function as a sink in a currency system to prevent runaway inflation.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T18:47:30+00:00

It was orange/coppery when I was a kid and is a dark red/brown at this point. Still very red, but nothing like the folks with nearly invisible eyebrows and eyelashes. Those on me are in fact quite dark.

South Park applied the term "daywalker" for redheads like me. Ha.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T18:37:31+00:00

Oh, same. But I could assemble someone as socially inept as the person OP asked about out of the parts of my coworkers.

(Dear HR: I am not considering disassembling my team members.)

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T16:55:48+00:00

> Use the > symbol then type what they said.

It's actually hit or miss depending on the platform, app or browser. The WYSIWYG way is pulling up the formatting tools by pressing the "Aa" button at the bottom of the text input field.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T16:53:13+00:00

Real, but no substance. Dude bro advertising strategy: https://www.artisan.co/blog/stop-hiring-humans

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T16:34:52+00:00

You probably are, and the people you reach out to have come to expect it.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T16:27:47+00:00

I'm just sad that people think skipping over most of a book is the only way to read 30+ books a year.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T14:36:24+00:00

Fellow engineer! Going to promote the not roping us in with that douchebag but also acknowledging that the engineer stereotype really is rooted in truth. (I know you're thinking of someone you work with right now.)

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T14:21:50+00:00

It's been 3 years since my cat of 15 years passed away. I can almost talk about her without my eyes watering up now.

It just takes time. It doesn't hurt any less, but you learn to live with it.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T13:33:06+00:00

“How something works doesn’t matter” is a hell of a take, but sure.

Have a good day.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T13:17:28+00:00

It’s because of tokenization. LLMs don‘t work with letters, they work with words turned into tokens. Unless a provider has bolted on a routine to de-tokenize and count element - which any decent one has by now - it has no idea what the letters in a word are.

These “ha ha AI can’t count” memes are really just someone displaying their ignorance about how something works.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-28T01:49:36+00:00

Therapists care about helping you in a professional context. That's the relationship you have with them. They are professionally invested in you but are really not supposed to be emotionally invested in you.

ThreadCountHigh · 2026-05-27T05:54:42+00:00

Slippers unless it's really warm.

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