American_Badass

And that's people that drug their asses out in negative temps to caucus. I'm assuming turnout was very low. I had very little knowledge that they were still really doing a Republican primary.

So this is probably just the strangest subset of people that felt compelled to do this.

My interview for an internship that became my first developer job, for sure. It wasn't a traditionally "technical" interview, meaning it wasn't the latest trivia ever. They looked over my resume, and asked me technical questions about what I had done, decisions I made for projects, etc. The team just didn't believe in staring at people trying to code on a whiteboard.

Got the offer within about an hour and didn't have to interview to sign on permanently. I have subsequently always refused interviews where salary range wasn't disclosed up front, and if I talk to a recruiter, I have always asked for contact information for a dev on the team.

But, that's the advantage of having a job I don't need to leave, and having experience. I've heard much worse from others.

It's probably useful to differentiate between Amish and Mennonite here. Mennonites I know use mad technology for business, including planes. The Mennonite homes I've been in (not many, but a couple), did not have electricity in them, and had root cellars, oil lamps, etc.

An Amish dude did some windows for me and I didn't see any vehicles at his home, and used hand tools, near as I could tell. But idk, this probably changes so much between different communities and shit. Every time I go to town to get groceries, I see Mennonites in aldi. I don't believe I've seen Amish there. The only interactions I've had with the Amish I had to drive to them.

Always slightly uncomfortable.

Well said. I live close to some Amish and a ton of old order Mennonites. I've seen one too many children's stools in front of rocket stoves and suspiciously young girls with babies.

Generally seem to provide for the other members of their community, but the organization of that community isn't great. And that's what I know about them, which is little given how insular they are.

I did have a sit down meeting with a Mennonite business owner about doing a website for his company, which was one of the strangest encounters of my life.

No electricity in their homes, but I guess for businesses they break that rule?

This really made me laugh, lmao. I'm going to start asking my currently pregnant wife this, haha!

"have I caused a pregnancy?", I ask very normal as it's so normal to say.

I hate seeing things like, "the royal court: words are sharper than daggers here and you must be more alert than on any battlefield." I like political intrigue, so I get it. But I'm 90% certain most aristocracy was people with seven toes on each foot from decades of inbreeding going to court to decide which son was going to marry their 13 year old first cousin.

I'd like to see it subverted from a left wing perspective.

Beautiful. Reminds me of former libertarian candidate for Illinois governor, Kash Jackson. Brave family court warrior eventually sentenced to prison for threatening to kill the family court judges.

Yeah, that sounds pretty normal, I guess. The time-frame part is probably based on how new you are as well as the nature of the task. I did quite a bit of that type of thing when I started, basically fixing tech debt, and small stuff.

If it's something you want to bring up, I think you expressed yourself pretty clearly. You could schedule some time with your boss to talk about it.

What would frustrate me would be the rework I was doing. If you could maybe even set up a short weekly meeting? Show your boss what you're doing and they could tell you if it's the right track or not.

I don't think it's beating a dead horse, tiny tank. I was just talking to someone I know about this who was on my ass when I said the whole uyghur genocide narrative was fabrication.

It's pretty obvious that had China been genociding Muslims, the US state department would have been supportive of it. I don't see how weird libs whose political identity is wanting to smugly be correct and good don't see how their opinions are always directly in line with the US state.

I do hope it's a radicalizing moment for people,and maybe it is. I don't have a good enough handle on popular sentiment for that.

Total abstinence, yeah, it's probably a little strange. I know plenty of non smokers who drink rarely, but I don't know many people who never drink at all.

Really the people I know who fit this are sober, meaning like conscious choice after alcohol abuse.

A large raccoon has really been hanging around the house lately. I have tiny paw prints on my trash can, and it walked right up to me when I was on my back porch.

Kinda cute but it scurried down the tree I was pissing against and it gave me quite a shock. A vulnerable position to be in. A bird feeder is right there, might have to find some different solution.

I have seen a man in leggings and my perceptions are shattered. I've heard women say for years that they're very comfortable, and I always assumed they thought a skin tight garment was comfortable only in relation to their normal clothing, which I believed to be extremely uncomfortable at the cost of looking nice.

Now I simply don't know. I haven't felt like this since super skinny jeans were popular on men. Are they actually comfortable? Is it actually an equal balance of looking good and being comfy?

I may never recover.