I don’t go around saying this to random people and I wouldn’t have to in polite society. It was with respect to her belief that hospitals were paid extra for people who died from COVID.

You have to understand, my entire family, siblings, parents, nephews, cousins, are all functionally illiterate. I’m literally the most intelligent person they know.

Place me in an APS conference and I’m probably the dumbest person in the room.

I need to restart this game… Started it ages ago, got caught up in life, and now I’m pretty sure I won’t even remember what mission I’m on, lol.

I recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet while explaining why her conservative beliefs are dumb as shit and she defensively asked what my IQ is…

I was no contact for the past eight years or so and it was at a family reunion that we saw one another.

I don’t know my IQ, I’m actually a pretty slow learner, and I have horrible test anxiety. But as a polyglot physicist with a dash of perpetual autodidactic inclinations, I’m pretty well informed and I don’t know if intelligence can be measured, but I know it when I see it.

It’s funny that conservatives think quick wit and fast words equate to intelligence without ever stopping to think about the substance.

No one tell them.

I really wanted to like Mr. Robot, but stopped after the cafe shooting part. It was moving away from the anarchy hacking and more into a drama at that point.

I think that’s clear to anyone that’s tried to dissect a file tree you didn’t create from inside a terminal. The skyscrapers and the searching aimlessly felt like a great analogy.

You can stretch the ketchup at the end if you add a bit of water.

God, I remember when that meme was so fun to use.

To be fair, 100k 40 years from now will have the spending power of about 50k. The real power is in continuing to save as it compounds.

If they’ll outsource the workers overseas, instead of hiring citizens, that would go against their pushes to get everyone to return to the office.

Doesn’t that contradict their requirement to be in the office??

Which was my original point. Nurses especially suffer in states like Florida, where they can get away paying them $30/hr to take on 7 high acuity patients, because if they won’t work for that, the hospitals just bring in H1Bs.

I think that’s a good thing, right? They’ve been using these to under pay people for ages.

I still have Apple TV and Crunchy Roll… Should Apple be cancelled for this?

Pixelfed

“The inn keeper said he saw the bandit who killed your brother on horseback at a dead gallop heading South. He reckons their camp is in the outskirts of the Jaded Forest or the steppes of the Dreary Mountains. There’s one main road south and each site is led to by two smaller ones after a fork.”

Players: We’re going North.

“Yeah, but look at America!”

I mean, they literally join the clergy and protect each other.

I think it’s worth noting, these were basal cells, the “good” kind of skin cancer.

Also rated the worst place to live as a woman for over 10 years. They use statistics about pay inequality, violence, and overall happiness. Utah ranks lowest in the nation.