My least favorite task working at Circuit City was switching out the price tags, my store's managers cared a lot about it and made sure it got done. Automated solutions fix one problem but make worse things possible. Apparently dollar stores don't care.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

you’ve inspired me to grab some Rocky road, it sounds both delicious and appropriat

You want a psychologically safe culture? Don’t let people get away with making it unsafe. A high performing culture? Don’t let people get away with poor quality work. etc.

That's life expectancy at birth, the average life expectancy for a 60 year old male is ~81.

Obviously, the idea that Article II contains an unreviewable human trafficking power to send people, without charge or conviction, into indefinite involuntary servitude in any foreign land willing to receive them on those terms annihilates the remainder of the constitution.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

4. A government where people are afraid to criticize the policies of its leaders, fearing retribution, is not characteristic of a democracy. The right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is enshrined in the Constitution.

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After sunburns a few days in a row we realized the sunscreen we were using was defective. Switched to a new bottle and no more burns :(

He throws up a nice straw-man. Whether or not MIT considered Wikipedia as a reliable academic source or not has nothing to do with one’s responsibility to properly attribute their sources.