Corn is the fanciest grass

Because zero is an even number or because they have an even nonzero number of carpals?

Looking it up, the latter (or I guess both)

I love working in retail. I was a contract analyst for some years (very boring, highly paid and painstaking insurance work), now I work in a bakery as a barista, and I’m dragging my feet about finishing my masters because I don’t really want to stop working there.

Sometimes people are shitty, but it’s clear work that doesn’t stress me out at home and I’m glad to provide my community with bread.

I can’t really imagine plumbers hate being plumbers- it’s work that they train years for, with very transferable skills if they wanted to switch to anything else along the way. Do you have any evidence that plumbers hate their jobs?

I know it’s not really your point, but I don’t think this is about homeowners. I’ve never paid for water (or behaved like this) in a rented apartment. Unless you have a well, you often do have to pay for municipal water if you own the property. Even with a well, you’re paying for any filtration based on usage.

During the years when Steiner was best known as a literary critic, he published a series of articles attacking various manifestations of antisemitism and criticizing some of the most prominent anti-Semites of the time as “barbaric” and “enemies of culture”.[329][330] In contrast, however, Steiner also promoted full assimilation of the Jewish people into the nations in which they lived, suggesting that Jewish cultural and social life had lost its contemporary relevance[331] and “that Judaism still exists is an error of history”.

This bit feels very reminiscent of the “kill the Indian to save the man” type of racism that led to residential schools. Sure, he may not have thought there was an immutable negative quality associated with race, but he seems to have been a cultural supremacist.

Given that we now know that race isn’t real, I struggle to see the actual difference.

You just made me remember the smell of the Christmas decoration boxes we had growing up and now I’m tearing up. It was very slightly musty, newspapery, piney, and they always smelled (and were) cold.

Tbh, transforming your talents into money is also a skill that some people have in spades and some people lack entirely. I’ve actually always bristled about that skill specifically, because I think Kim kardashian is an absolute phenom in that area and it always rankles when people say she’s stupid. She turned: a moderately famous but deceased and no longer relevant dad; relatively very high wealth (but not comparable to her current estate); an assistanceship to Paris Hilton; and a sex tape into an absolute empire. That’s a lot of points in her favor, but she makes the best possible decisions so consistently, she’s got to be one of the marketing greats.

Tbh, I always assumed that handle was for children and kidnapping victims. I guess it’s just intrusive thoughts.

It sounds like he got into the trunk and shut it himself. I hope he’s just incomprehensibly stupid and not trying to ambush people, but it’s really hard to believe.

I was already wondering if they were picking up on differences in Asian nutrition and the effects of increased tofu consumption, and then this link was mentioned:

“While moderate coffee drinking appears safe, very high consumption may not be ideal, especially for women who drink alcohol,” he says.

When I think of beverage-related ways to isolate western women, coffee and alcohol seems like a good combination, though you miss the UK, Ireland, and part of the population in other commonwealth countries.

Reading the study, however, it followed primarily white women, so that’s probably moot. The article should definitely mention that the research relies mostly on white women though. I hope further studies look into more diverse subject pools though.

Your honor, I was on 4chan for my mental health, I swear!

The last one is irrelevant, but the fact that he felt he had to disclose it is fucked

My favorite food as a kid was cauliflower and my family didn’t even make it nicely, just steamed with a little butter. I still love vegetables, but I don’t think I’ve ever steamed anything but fiddleheads and dumplings.

Having a 9-5 is such a trap for me. I excel as a waiter or barista, where I can manage lots of high priority/low importance tasks (I’ve been in customer service too long to really consider anything that happens in a cafe important, unless something’s on fire. The other important thing would be serving someone unsafe food, but I don’t fuck around with food safety), but just can’t make myself do low priority/high importance tasks with any regularity. I used to have a job where I was legally required to do things within 30/60/90 days and I regularly pulled all nighters to make up for weeks of inaction.

I would really like to earn more money than customer service yields, but it’s hard to find something that fits. I’ve started teaching, which is new and therefore not a problem, but I can already tell that I’ll let corrections go longer than I should once the shine of teaching wears off

Those hacker news comments are rough

It’s not named after Nancy Grace, don’t worry.

Roman’s namesake—Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer—made it her personal mission to make cosmic vistas readily accessible to all by paving the way for telescopes based in space.

What?

Edit: I can’t tell if you’re being bigoted because I’m an immigrant or if you just hate my OTP Garashir

Well you don’t die of sexual dissatisfaction, so there’s at least one key difference

Diminishing returns like crazy though

This reminded me to call my bank, thank you