Aye, and 2 seconds is the bare minimum. A company I have worked for wanted 4 seconds between you and the car in front. That always felt a little much, but it definitely helped prevent wrecks.

I was being facetious, and using odd phrasing to emphasize it. Yes, the typical terminology would be ‘quite dead.’

Maybe I’m just grumpy, but by the time the potatoes are finger-licking good, you’ll be quite unalive. Even if the potatoes were boiling first before you went in, you’re still going to have an impossible time not screaming and flailing as you suffer third degree burns in fractions of a second.

I’m just gonna do the English thing and mix my Latin and Greek without carrying about form or origin. We can settle for Atlapodae, or Atlasae.

I still keep a state map stowed in the pocket behind the driver’s seat. You know, just in case.

That’s pretty much how I do it. The interstates in the US make it simple to get to just about any major city, and friends might boggle a bit, but they can tell you what the minor highway/street you need to look for and give you a landmark.

…It really drives home how the old horror movies weren’t unrealistic in folks getting lost randomly.

Aye, going into it now with the knowledge of where most stuff is has definitely taken some of the shine off. I’m currently playing it again though. It’s a bloody black hole that I can’t escape from long term.

Wasn’t it another cartoon fandom that literally called porn of their show (or the actual sexual organs) “plot” because of this?

Bah, bullshit. Businesses are the oppressors. Morning people are just the victims who get whipped less.

Meanwhile, night fucks folks are the cool kid clique not allowing anything fun to happen until the rest of humanity is struggling to not die.

Aye that’s part of what I was saying. Now, the argument could be made that if the octopus is smart enough to have the goal of moving through the tract, they could muscle open the sphincter. I haven’t ever tested an octopus against a sphincter. The controlled variable would have to be octopus size…

Off hand, I think the sphincter would win out until the octopus is too big to fit through without rupturing other areas.

No, it’s not. I’ve had three dogs in my life, and been at plenty of houses with dogs. I’ve never noticed an odd smell that comes from their feet, and I have a horribly sensitive sense of smell.

I mean, some octopodes are pretty small. The real issue is them moving through the GI tract. They might be flexible enough, but propelling themselves forward consistently would be the real feat.

Oh, just insert whatever you remember from reddit. Replies that are obviously jokes but off topic, mimicking a meme or such; doing the ‘follow the link’ meme (though I only remember that one popping up once or twice); sounding out a sentence one word per reply… I saw all of those get panned or promoted. Some people screamed about leaving such habits at reddit, others thought they were the height of humor.

That’s been a welcome change in the last ~6 months. It was a fire hose blast of people going back and forth on whether a ‘thing’ was brought over from reddit, and whether or not it was welcome.

For anyone not believing this, go to https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/consumer and do that consumer report. They are (depending on your state) required to tell you everything they have on you, and they include where it came from. It’s eye-opening.

Sure, facebook has been doing it for years. They build shadow profiles on people, allegedly ‘only’ (massive air quotes around that one) so if those people ever join they’ll have links and photos and such already waiting for them.

It definitely counts as an unreasonable change. If you quietly accept it, or quit due to it, you won’t get the help. If you set things up in your favor by replying to the mandate with language along the lines of ‘such a significant change to working conditions requires a renegotiation of my contract’ then you’re placing yourself in a good position to say that you were constructively dismissed, not that you quit.

A change from working wherever you are (which could be hours away if you were full remote) to the office is just as significant as being moved from one metropolis to another.

You forgot the ‘lots’ portion. It was not a small amount of liquid.

Holy crap, 3500 games‽ I thought I was bad with 1/10 of that and mostly low play hours. I wish I had your organization, because my factorio layout is so bad that I just gave up on trying to be small and well designed. Everything must have miles-long conveyors!

Full body workout, yes, but also a really good stretch when you want to let the other guy have his fun.