"What do you mean? Covid happened under Biden, as did anything else bad that happened during Trump’s presidency. "
Unironically have had to walk people through the timeline because they seriously believe covid entirely happened during Biden’s term.
I still use a customized mouse on my work computer.
Supposedly I’m up to over 400 games on Epic without any purchases through the platform AFAIK and I’ve probably played like 10 of them.
Right now, yeah? I’ve last time I did it, I took a short break lying on the side of a stroad, then biked to a nearby abandoned park and lied there for a while, and then went to a non abandoned park and walked for 3 hours catching beldums in pogo I think. Then biked home.
It can just mean physically exhausted. Like, if I ride my bike for 14 hours at a reasonably fast pace, I’m going to be tired. But that doesn’t mean I feel like i need to sleep.
Be careful about claiming it to be war. Certain people do want to be able to declare martial law and be even more masks-off with mass kidnappings/killings.
I was just the quiet autistic weirdo. Never had any issues with it, but I do feel like I inadvertently to the point that I hollowed out who I was without realizing it. Of course I would have certainly been seeing as an outcast and gotten much more negative treatment had I not done that, but that’s mostly separate from being autistic.🤷♀️
In case you wanted the explanation from a 1993 Nirvana T-shirt: “Ever the trendsetter, the sea horse is the sole animal known to man which the male of the species endures the privilege of childbirth. Following a length courtship, a male and female have intercourse during which the female enters the male and lays as many as 200 eggs which are fertilized within the body of the male. After a 5-week gestation period, the male gives birth.”
Not scared enough if they haven’t resigned.
Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job
I think you missed the key line. Perhaps they care about the optics of it and include that as part of the paperwork (granted, that’s perhaps a holdover from previous administrations), but they don’t actually care about how you fill it out (or in this case, not fill it out).
Here’s sort of the punchline near the end:
“Please note that this is a TENTATIVE offer only, therefore do not end your current employment,” the email instructed me. It then listed a series of steps I’d need to quickly take. I had 48 hours to log onto USAJobs and fill out my Declaration for Federal Employment, then five additional days to return the forms attached to the email. Among these forms: driver’s license information, an affidavit that I’ve never received a domestic violence conviction, and consent for a background check. And it said: “If you are declining the position, it is not necessary to complete the action items listed below.”
As I mentioned, I’d missed the email, so I did exactly none of these things.
And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later. “Thank you for confirming that you wish to continue with the hiring process,” it read. (To be clear, I had confirmed no such thing.) “Please complete your required pre-employment drug test.”
The timing was unfortunate. Cannabis is legal in the state of New York, and I had partaken six days before my scheduled test. Then again, I hadn’t smoked much; perhaps with hydration I could get to the next stage. Worst-case scenario, I’d waste a small piece of ICE’s gargantuan budget. I traveled to my local LabCorp, peed in a cup, and waited for a call telling me I’d failed.
Nine days later, impatience got the best of me. For the first time, I logged into USAJobs and checked my application to see if my drug test had come through. What I actually saw was so implausible, so impossible, that at first I did not understand what I was looking at.
Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job.
According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was “EOD”—Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period. I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared. “Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!”
I clicked through to my application tracking page. They’d sent my final offer on Sept. 30, it said, and I had allegedly accepted. “Welcome to Ice. … Your duty location is New York, New York. Your EOD was on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.”
By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.
The Border Patrol agent said that while a significant minority of his colleagues agree with him, they are not comfortable speaking out given the political climate.
There’s also this important qualifier that its just a minority according to the person interviewed.
Not scared enough yet.
Samsung was the manufacturer for the RTX 30-series chips. Then groups like MSI package them for consumers (doing things like adding cooling and outputs).
You even have in-building views for some places.
It won’t get signed even if it passes the house and there’s not enough votes to overturn a veto. So, why even bother filibuster? If there was enough votes to overturn a veto, then they’d just be able to end the filibuster too.
Not all games make it easy for people to get access to old versions via the beta system. Some, you just have to go the appid for the specific version and access it via the steam console. It would be nice if this encourages more game devs to enable beta versions for at least the most commonly used versions for mods.
I get the vibe that Gregor Mendal probably was autistic. Likewise, Da Vinci probably was ADHD.
I forgot about the O’Reily clip. Impressive levels of cognitive dissonance that people go through to justify their feelings on events. I’m still baffled that people can misremember basic timelines facts involved with one of the biggest disruptions of people’s lifetimes that only had happened a few years ago. Realizing how fictional people’s memories were about even recent major events made it a lot more understandable how people were so easily manipulated in to thinking a billionaire conartist was somehow going to try to help them this time.