This always happens.

A company that acts without empathy for their customers will invariably act the same towards their employees. This is because the behavior is usually driven by personalities in leadership that (dis)function this way rather universally. Add the fact that empathy limits one’s ability to make money (in this economy), and that psychological modeling is a thing in the workplace, and it’s easy to see how we keep getting into trouble like this.

There really isn’t an “at the right hand of the devil” scenario. Everyone is in his path, especially if you’re close.

Do they put a seam or darts in to intentionally pull it into the crack?

Yes. That and the garment might be undersized, while taking advantage of the high lycra/spandex content of the material.

I was gonna say. We’re all in the back seat of a car because you’re not running from that thing with knees that old.

I would love this to be an unintended outcome from all this. However, I don’t think that’s where we’re headed.

I, for one, think there’s a lot of slop in and around the engineering of phones. We might see a lot more software, storage, and overall activity crunched, compressed, and crammed into our portable devices instead. And with more stuff in the cloud/SaaS realm, they can also become (even) thinner clients at the same time. :(

It’s “heavier” gear like laptops and desktops that’ll probably get pushed into the pro and “prosumer” market.

Oh, we don’t do compassion and positive reinforcement around here.

I would have sprung for a professionally made sandwich board or spinny sign.

I really hope this guy got some high-fives for his trouble.

I’m calling it now. Streaming services are going to continue to double-down on artificial scarcity for flagship shows until we 100% converge on cable. They’re going to reinvent broadcast schedules after slow-drip weekly episode rollouts and half-seasons (you are here) don’t get the results they want.

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

To be fair, this bus is always on time.

We should have taken this sentiment for the (industry) warning it was.

I really don’t like where all of this is going. All the integrated pay-to-use, cloud-enabled, surveillance (and surveillance-adjacent) tech was bad enough. Then there’s the runaway average pricing for cars and increasing loan terms. And now we’re getting AI foisted in while we’re at it? At what point does it implode, with everyone just sticking with older tech and sticking to the used market?

Shit. They’re going to make old cars illegal, aren’t they?

I had teachers like this. Let’s just say I keep coming back to less than nice things to say about that kind of behavior.

The flash-card thing is kind of cursed anyway because multiplication is commutative, and you really don’t need the cards for zero, one, and ten. If you can add anything to itself in your head, throw out the twos while we’re at it. So you really only need 40-ish cards to do the job, not 144+.

or even moving ahead to more advanced math concepts.

Yeah, can’t break the class up into multiple lesson plans. Gotta move with the herd.

In a just world, you’d have been bumped up a grade, moved into an advanced track, or given time in advanced sessions with other gifted students. That said, your teacher would have been responsible for making those recommendations. FWIW, I did get into those advanced sessions but only after contact with a teacher that wasn’t projecting, envious, or an authoritarian blowhard about this kind of thing.

you can’t punish someone out of having ADHD

I just want to say that, not only does this resonate with me, but it’s one of those things that you’ll never un-think or un-see. I have a lot to reflect on, as this simple insight will help me tremendously. Thanks.

Re-parenting yourself “through friendship and fatherhood by proxy” has to be one of the most brilliant ways I’ve heard of doing that. This has to be miles easier than doing this solo. Nicely done!

Eh, that’s the system so I can’t fault you. But specialty electives like that usually have limited seats - your seat may have displaced someone much more enthralled with the subject.

I’m sorry, but what about this cube is “population sized”?

Well, if you liquefy the entire human race, it would fit into a container with roughly those proportions.

I was gonna say. Complaining about Apple not working well (or at all) with 3rd party hardware and software has always been an exercise in futility. Like since the late 1980’s, always.

Long ago they positioned themselves as a premium brand with an image to maintain. Can’t let the plebs skate by with cheap add-ons.

Also how is Tetris counted, because there are multiple Tetris games.

I think Tetris is in its own cateory here. We’re talking about over 40 years of re-licensing the same thing to nearly every platform in existence, short of a number of 8-bit computers and consoles. And all that happened under many different publishers, sometimes multiple times on the same system. Added up, it’s no surprise that it’s in the top spot. Nothing else on this list even comes close to having numbers like that.

Meanwhile Minecraft and GTAV are closing that gap in a fraction of the time, on a fraction of as many platforms.

It only just dawned on me that it’s possible to eat (grocery store) chicken your whole life and never actually see a live one, anywhere. If nobody told you what a chicken looked like, you would never know.

I don’t think there’s a more appropriate time for this parody: “The bad guys won”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-IoVDygU98&t=6s