YES. I’m piggy backing on your post to drive home why you keep your receipts.

I was fired for performance issues after a little over a year of employment. They claimed I was working at a level lower than an entry level new hire. This was a big surprise to me as my most recent review was glowing, my expertise was carrying the department, and no one ever mentioned any concerns. The company was having issues, though, and I was the highest paid person in my department.

Unbeknownst to them, I keep a work journal. I spend five minutes at the beginning of each day reviewing what I did the day prior and what needs to be done that day, then recording it all in a little notebook made exactly for the purpose (I can link anyone if they’re interested). So I spent about 20-25 hours over my time there doing this and had meticulous records of the entire time.

What’s fun about my termination is I was out for 2 months recovering for surgery from a work injury. They fired me the day I returned for unsubstantiated performance issues that I can refute by the day.

Guess who is getting a $150k settlement.

That little notebook, on top of keeping me on track and making work easier, earned me about $6000/hour.

Totally understandable, and I apologize if my comment felt like I was inappropriately making light of your opinion or feelings, or the situation. 100% not my intent.

My comment was based on how easily “authority” figures are emotionally escalated by doing to them exactly what they’re doing to others. The hypocrisy is mostly sad, but to me also quite funny - laughing at and getting others to laugh at bullies is my go-to method for dealing with them. It’s also why my nose veers off to one side: I was in a lot of fights when I was younger.

Can confirm. It’s fucking hilarious and requires almost no brain power, a big plus in a stressful situation.

I’m there with you. Where I live, I’d probably bump into at least one other person doing the same.

How weird! I ran two Windows VMs with USB and GPU passthrough as my work and gaming daily drivers for about six years. Now I run Mint and Bazzite with the same setup. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t have issues, both Windows and VM related, but I never saw one even vaguely like that.

I just checked. It’s not.

I had never heard about temp tracks, but this makes so much sense. That’s a powerful homogenizing force.

Do you mean the pistil? The stamen is the part of a flower that creates pollen.

Assuming yes, it grows a tube down the pistil into the ovary, then sends sperm to fertilize the flower’s ovules.

Yep! Pollen are haploid, but technically they’re actually monoploid (or equivalent, depending on polyploidy) given they’re a fully functioning organism.

This is surprisingly common. All the pollen, male bees and ants (and actually a bunch of males in the order Hymenoptera grow from unfertilized eggs), and algae, for example. Certain fungi go through most of their lifecycles haploid and have a brief diploid phase, which undergoes meiosis to get right back to haploid, albeit for gametes this time. Tons of stuff! Nature is fucking wild.

Edit: haha, I just saw my Dad pun.

I always thought that was funny. Same with cheap, stick-built apartments with only the wood studs and two layers of drywall between them, the hallway, and other units, but tenants massively fortifying only the door.

Under a Democrat, ICE would stick a rainbow flag on their vests next to the POLICE patches.

I was about to respond Jarvis to continue the chain, then realized the name sounded familiar. Yep, right in the comic.

It’s me. The comic is about me.

Ask me about microbes!

Totally. Each pollen grain is a more or less self-sufficient organism, at least for its task, which is being transported to another receptive plant, then producing sperm for fertilization.

The closest analogy would be if humans had loads of tiny testicles that they sprayed everywhere, hoping one would hook up with a female so it could produce sperm in them for fertilization.

I think people get shy because they are afraid they’ll end up on a list. Just like in an abusive relationship, they self censor out of fear for their well-being. I get it, but I’m probably on a list already, so oh well.

But what does it say?

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

Blåhaj zone is best zone.

Do you think they actually care about the long term results? I see these grifters the same as CEOs: maximizing immediate returns so they can get rich and fuck off, leaving the mess for someone else to clean up.

I dunno, does it mount vertically or horizontally?