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I buy myself time by saying “what’s the word for…” and by the time I’ve said that, or perhaps because I primed my brain for it, I immediately remember, and finish by asking what the word for the word I’m thinking of is, which ends up confusing more people than if I hadn’t tried to remember the word at all.

The survey they cite has Bernie at 12%, so I’m not sure what method they did to allow for more than 100% - maybe you could choose more than one answer?

Yeah I work in medical fraud detection, and I think it’s wild that if you only steal a few hundred thousand you buy a car and then get caught and sent to jail, but if you steal orders of magnitude more you get to be governor and then senator of Florida.

I feel very confident in my understanding of random 8 bit CPUs and their support chips, but asking me to center a div is like this xkcd.

I don’t know enough about eyeballs to be able to answer, but 5 leagues is a bit more than 5x farther than eagles can see, and eagles already have larger pupils than humans do.

SSNs are not reissued after death and never have been. I’ve been seeing a lot of people comment this, but I’m not sure where they’re getting it from. (They’re not unique for other reasons, however.)

This is a real incident ticket I saw:

Subject: “broken” Description: “website down”

Given that the website was in fact not down, and they included no details, and they must have been filing it on behalf of someone else as their user-id didn’t have an account at all (it is an internal corporate product), this was a real head scratcher.

He’s been the CEO of UnitedHealth Group for 3 years now. UnitedHealth Care is a subsidiary, their CEO was the one shot. Best I can tell they haven’t announced a replacement yet.

It was a quote from the TV show Scrubs about Arnold Palmer.

Not to argue for creationism, but this argument sucks. Lead can be produced by supernova, not just through decay of heavier elements. But even that’s besides the point, since if you believe some entity created the universe, surely said entity could have created whatever ratio of lead to uranium they wanted. It’s not a falsifiable claim, there’s really no disproving it, unfortunately.

(Not so fun fact: the environmental impact of leaded gasoline was discovered by trying to estimate the age of the earth using the radio of lead to uranium in uranium deposits, but the pollution from leaded gasoline was throwing the measurements off.)

These bans don’t even just hurt trans people. It’s stupidly common too, given that I’d expect the number of times people get harassed for using bathrooms to be exactly 0:

• https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/01/cis-woman-mistaken-transgender-records-being-berated-bathroom
• https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11690234/women-bathrooms-harassment
• https://medium.com/brian-the-man-behind-the-pen/anti-trans-bathroom-beliefs-unintentionally-targets-women-a87f2418da37
• https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/bathroom-transphobia-butch-women

Incidentally, has anyone ever done less to become famous? I mean, yay for me I mixed two drinks together!

For my anniversary dinner last night I wore a cute green sweater and sweatpants and my wife was like, wtf are you doing it’s 104F out.

Anyways, dress for the weather you want not the weather you have.

It looks like the average is 11 PTO days a year according to Forbes, with nearly a third of employees getting zero. I myself get 24 days a year with it going up to 29 in about a year. That said I’m terrified of being effed over by layoffs so I’ve been hoarding them like a dragon for the payout, which is arguably way way worse than having a nice federal minimum of PTO days.

Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)

I have a coworker who swears by it, particularly for C development.

We, a Christian nation, should instead teach Church Numerals like GOD INTENDED! (/s)

Albany identity is not Albany expression

I have one of those. I spent most of my life confused why when I scratched my left ear, it made a waxy feeling in my throat and made a horrible smell, but nothing like that happened with my right ear. After I got married, my wife asked if she could “pop the pimple on my ear”, and she squeezed around that sinus and it oozed this horrible white goo.