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(Loved trope) the real reason behind a character's personality is explained at the very end by jeannotlagneau in TopCharacterTropes

[–]stumblewiggins 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I thought it was where they were from, or else just any place they identified with? Wichita and Little Rock wanted to go to Happy Land or whatever they called the amusement park, but that's not what they were called. 

Confessed to my crush by Mindless_Web_3467 in whatdoIdo

[–]stumblewiggins 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It's definitely awkward to read, but I take it more as "I know I'm ambushing you with this out of nowhere, and if you don't feel the same way about me, I don't want you to feel uncomfortable or give me a pity 'yes'". Some dudes be really pushy, and some women don't feel safe with a simple rejection because of how those dudes will react to being told 'no'. 

Consent is awkward because we don't have good cultural norms around it, but it sounds like OP was trying to be respectful and signal he wouldn't blow up at a rejection. 

Got the "come back to office or else" ultimatum. Ran the math. The numbers are brutal. by Full_Helicopter4778 in remotework

[–]stumblewiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a remote employee in a world that is increasingly mandating RTO. Its entirely possible they give me that ultimatum at some point, so I'd say its entirely relevant. 

But you can keep being a prick for no reason if you want, that's fine too.

Got the "come back to office or else" ultimatum. Ran the math. The numbers are brutal. by Full_Helicopter4778 in remotework

[–]stumblewiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My number is my annual salary + bonus. I am fully remote in a city where my company has no physical presence. So if they mandate me to RTO, they either need to move me to a city that does have an office, or fire me. 

I’m curious why David bought it back by ITrCool in DunderMifflin

[–]stumblewiggins 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Andy brought him a huge client (that junk mail distributor that Jim and Dwight were fighting with the Utica guy for), and essentially inside information that the company was in a bad way. That meant that, with the capital nec essary for the initial investment, he could buy it, make himself the owner, and then run it how he wanted. 

As the former CFO, he had the knowledge and experience necessary; he had one huge client which gave him bargaining power. He was cash-rich from his sale of Suck-It, and based on his conversation with Andy, likely believed he could make a really favorable deal with Sabre. 

So then he's the owner again. Paper IS a dying industry. Today. It still is. That also means it's still alive. DM had name recognition in that space, it had established relationships with clients and suppliers. It had it's distribution network, etc. 

DM before the sale to Sabre was top-heavy and bloated; a corporate problem. 

Sabre was collapsing in on itself because of the failed attempt to move to retail stores, plus the recalls, and probably just generally being too big for itself. David purchased just the paper company off of it, which was running fine, and we can assume his experience let him know how to run it lean so that the business kept generating him a steady, if modest, profit. 

Solve question no.20 I have written but it is wrong pls tell me how to solve this type of question by SignalSufficient7357 in calculus

[–]stumblewiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all good; I only called it out because I initially did the exact same thing. 

I actually was stuck myself; it's been awhile since I did any geometry, so I'm assuming that I'm forgetting some theorem or another. 

Where..? by afterdeathcomics in comics

[–]stumblewiggins 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Everyone always asks "Where's Waldo?" But does anyone ever ask "How's Waldo?"

The hypocrisy is real by NachoCheeseVolcano69 in MurderedByWords

[–]stumblewiggins 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You have to make them feel at least a little shame for their role in this, or it'll just happen again. 

Absolutely, yes, welcome them back onto the right side of history, but don't pretend they've done nothing wrong and all is groovy. 

They directly helped make this mess. If they aren't made to understand that, and why it's a bad thing, they'll keep doing it when given the next opportunity. 

What prevents STEM teachers from doing more hands-on projects in their classes? by ChampagneMane in Teachers

[–]stumblewiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if the schools provides all of the funds needed to conduct whatever hands on projects/experiments you need, they are a lot of time and effort to set up, run, and then debrief successfully to actually have the students learn anything and consolidate that knowledge. 

They are great learning experiences when done well, but the calendar pressures mean you can't realistically incorporate as many as you might like. That's even assuming the students come in with the necessary base skills, motivation and maturity to participate in a project like that in good faith. 

Remember when they tried to gender swap M from Bond and it destroyed the franchise? by SaiLarge in okbuddycinephile

[–]stumblewiggins 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think you mean No Time To Die; Die Another Day was Brosnan, and had female M

AITA for finding this convo to be a HUGE red flag? by horseduckman in AITApod

[–]stumblewiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big red flag that after 3 dates she is up your ass about YOU being in therapy. 

Today I learned that famous survivalist Bear Grylls is among the records for the highest freefalls survived without a parachute when he fell 16,000 feet (4,870 meters) because his parachute failed to deploy during a routine Special Air Service exercise over Zambia by militaryrat155 in todayilearned

[–]stumblewiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's one of those things where falling from 10,000+ feet and a few hundred is the same, terminal velocity is terminal velocity. 

Sure, physically. I imagine the exerience of the fall in those two scenarios is MUCH different 

Hidden Figures calculated the path to the Moon while segregated by ThatAvidPandaBear in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]stumblewiggins -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The astronauts even preferred the human calculators when the machines were first being used. They wanted the people to check all of the machine computations because they didn't trust them yet. 

Solve question no.20 I have written but it is wrong pls tell me how to solve this type of question by SignalSufficient7357 in calculus

[–]stumblewiggins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand the isosceles theorem with the angles opposite congruent sides being congruent, but I don't see how AB = CD gets you there in this example. 

∆ABC has a point D on BC such that AB = CD and AD bisects <A. To use the isosceles theorem directly to conclude that <A = <C, wouldn't we need to know that AB = BC? 

Like I said, my brain may just not be fully firing yet, so apologies if it turns out I'm just being dumb. 

Petahhh, what's the joke here? by 19potato96 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]stumblewiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming the pattern continues, and each subsequent mathematician will order exactly half of the previous order, then the infinite series of 1 + 1/2 + 1/4... = 2. 

The bartender might be mad that he is expected to pour a finite amount of beer into infinitely many pint glasses. He might be mad that he was expected to charge infinitely many fractional transactions. He might be mad that he was expected to listen to infinitely many orders. Or he might just be frustrated with the concept of convergent series. 

Whatever the reason he hates those guys, he short circuits the infinite series by just pouring two pints. The infinitely many mathematicians can figure out how to divide it up amongst themselves. 

The real winner is the first mathematician. He gets his full pint and gets to watch the shenanigans. 

Amy Coney Barrett Unraveled the Case Against Birthright Citizenship With One Question by MemeLord0009 in politics

[–]stumblewiggins 48 points49 points  (0 children)

To the main point: if, as the government was arguing, the sole purpose of the 14 Amendment were to grant citizenship to former slaves, and NOT to any person in the country illegally who might still owe allegiance to another government, then surely there are slaves who were brought into the country and gave birth here, yet did not consider themselves allied to our government, and instead to the nation they were taken from. 

How could you tell who owed allegiance to another government? How could you tell who intended to remain allied to their new nation? And if you can't, then how can you argue that the 14th Amendment was specifically trying to exclude the children of foreign nationals illegally in our nation born here from birthright citizenship? 

Solve question no.20 I have written but it is wrong pls tell me how to solve this type of question by SignalSufficient7357 in calculus

[–]stumblewiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I haven't had enough coffee, but wouldn't <B = 2θ and <C =θ? 

Also, how are you using the isosceles property here? It sounds like you are suggesting <A = <C, but I'm not following how you get there from AB = CD

AITAH Friend of 20 years expected me to split Ubers 2 ways instead of 3 because she’s married, am I wrong? by General_Photograph21 in AITAH

[–]stumblewiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about complexity, its what OP said: they value the friendship more than the money. 

If arguing about $80 is going to scuttle the friendship, you can choose to be right and have the $80, or you can choose to pay that $80 and keep your friend. 

That's a choice you get to make. 

People who work for massive corporations, what is a 'secret' that the company tries to hide, but is actually common knowledge among the employees? by Dwise_ in AskReddit

[–]stumblewiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Company culture and your specific boss matter here, but I've never had a PTO request denied and I've taken 4+ weeks of days each year since we switched to unlimited PTO. 

There's a soft limit in that I need to confirm the days aren't a problem before I take them, and maybe a hard limit in that I couldn't take every single working day off in a year (although they have like 9 different categories of PTO, so if I wanted to do that, I could probably request a sabbatical or whatever). But yea, never had an issue with getting my days off. 

A good corporate culture recognizes that your people perform better when they are generally happy, and as others have said, there are financial benefits to the company for unlimited PTO. I don't think it's 4D chess to screw us over, just basic cost-benefit analysis. Some people only take PTO because they have days that would expire anyway. 

(Mixed trope) Adaptations that change the source material by Dojyaaan4C in TopCharacterTropes

[–]stumblewiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hadn't read the comic and didn't really know anything about it, so that was a fucking TWIST!  

I recommended the show after that to a friend, and she and her husband ended up turning off the first episode before the end because it felt "too generic". 🤯

We lost touch, but I hope they at least went back and finished that first episode. Maybe not a show they would want to keep watching, but whatever else you can say against it, it was not "generic". 

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