Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.

Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!

This is hilarious, but I need facts.

All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).

Those are both great questions.

Discworld is ethics and robotics in middle earth.

You just blew my mind, a little. Dang. That’s Apt.

Perhaps ask questions about what they’re into rather than if they’re into thing.

This is great advice! Asking about something specific is off-putting and could lose a great candidate.

Asking an open ended question about their hobbies can get the same positive result, and will catch candidates who wouldn’t have anything to say about science fiction.

For me, the turning point was taking a bunch of classes on public speaking.

Getting in front of people helped me develop “personas” in unimportant contexts.

Now when I feel like I’m being weird, I can choose to retreat into one of my public speaking personas. And I can sort of hide inside the persona until whatever is bothering me passes.

The net effect on my interaction with the opposite gender is that when things get awkward, I become a kind of well rehearsed bland likeable that puts people at ease.

Only the people closest to me know that it’s a mask I wear to cover my own confusion or discomfort. One of the people who knows is my life partner, but of course they like me anyway, now.

Seems like the AP isn’t counting the lights in the official manner. There’s five lights. It’s official. It’s not something there’s any need to stubbornly disagree about, Picard.

Diablo III

That’s pretty cool. Thanks!

I had something intermittent like this, and it turned out that I had a cracked distributor cap. It turned out to be a stupidly easy repair, and not a very expensive part.

Edit: this was a car as ancient as I am. I’m not sure modern cars even have that part, anymore.

Interesting. This GrayJay?

Bingo! That’s exactly their plan. And somehow it’ll probably also have a cryptocurrency money laundering angle as well.

Agreed. And it’ll be more than triple, since all the middle-men who arrange the new contracts will also need paid.

I haven’t heard of anyone taking it around me.

That’s good!

Just to be sure you’re aware, Elon Musk frequently ends up in court trying not to keep promises, notably including severance pay

Holy cow. They’ve done the impossible - they’ve found a way to make a Dodge into a shittier vehicle. I am awestruck.

It’s a big multiverse, and everyone loves fan service, so bet on Sebastian Stan having some cool moments with the shield.

But ultimately, Bucky Barnes is an international man of mystery, which usually doesn’t lend itself well to telling the kinds of stories that writers for Captain America are usually trying to tell.

If the MCU continues to follow the comics, we may see more of US Agent in the costume, than Bucky Barnes.

From a writing perspective, Sam Wilson is the strongest place to start for a classic Captain America story. His entire backstory is set in the United States, or on deployment in the US armed forces. He’s a veteran. And the MCU version of Sam Wilson isn’t from a completely different era of history then the audience.

Oh, neat!

We need a 91% tax bracket on income beyond $600,000. We need some sharp incentive for the wealthiest among us to avoid.

This is a fantastic idea, and it wouldn’t actually require eating any of them, necessarily.

Everyone is going to just tell you to install Linux Mint, and enjoy, but my deeply original opinion is…