At least you went, my guy. You can, without a doubt, say "that's not a thing I like". I have never done a cruise because I don't think I would like them, and don't want to be stuck in a boat for 3 more days after I find that out. Will I miss out on cruises? Probably not. Will I talk myself out of other things I might have actually enjoyed? Almost certainly.

It's important to push boundaries and try new things, but it's important-er to learn from those experiences and grow, even if the only "growth" you get here is the confirmation that trying a new thing might suck, but won't kill you.

My boy Aristotle thought men had more teeth than women, and whatever testable hypothesis he created to prove that fact didn't include, you know, counting the teeth of men and women.

Don't get me wrong, I love the guy, and will agree that "classical elements" is probably the dumbest thing to accuse him of being wrong about. Hell, I have considered getting a Bekker number tattoo, but he was definitely full of some shit. It's okay to acknowledge he was right about some things and wrong about others. That's the whole point of this thread.

People hanging Christmas lights do the whole house and when they go to plug it in, they realize they have the female end by the outlet, not the male end. "Fuck, I'm not gonna redo the entire process" the idiot thinks to himself, I'll just get a male/male adapter.

It's not sold because as soon as you plug in the side to the house, the other ends become live, and touching them means "big ouch".

"That's okay, I'll just plug the end into the lights, and then into the house, problem solved" the idiot thinks.

Except the far end of the lights has a male adapter and that end is still live. Plus, anyone who doesn't know about your deadly modification is in danger of hurting themselves because they don't realize the hazard.

There are exceedingly niche applications where these cords are used, but those applications only come up for trained electricians who know how to make one of these cords, and use them responsibly. If you're asking the minimum wage guy in the blue vest, this sign is for you.

There are two routes to go here:

Science route: kidney stones are largely made of calcium, oxalate, urate, cystine, xanthine, and phosphate in our world. Presuming dragon physiology is roughly the same as our world, there's nothing inherently special about these elements in game. Short of "reliquary" type of usages (think finger bone of a saint), there's no reason to think it is special. Considering dragon scale is used in armor, I have to assume any less exciting dragon "parts" would pale in comparison. Might have value as a trade good or interesting conversation piece to the right collector.

Fun route: this chunk of phosphorus can be used 1d8 times in place of normal phosphorus from your material components pouch, upping the damage die of any [fire] spell cast using it.

High fees, inconsistent/false advertising, burdensome chores? When was this article written, 2017? This has been the state of Airbnb for half its lifetime. There was a year, maybe two, at the very beginning where it truly was "crashing at your friend's place", in the same way Uber was "getting a ride from a friend". Both have become full time corporate institutions with wage slaves pushing a product that's somehow worse than the original problem (generally due to the lack of regulations around these "gig economy" alternatives), at the detriment of communities and others who attempted to make a living "playing by the rules".

At this point, if you're using Airbnb, not only are you impossibly ignorant of the problem, you're actively contributing to it.

Evasion plus, on average, a better Dex save than armor class.

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Started a job in July I was 60% qualified for. By December I had made enough changes to the job description (by adding things I was able to do that prior people couldn't), my manager decided to reclassify my job. New title, new description, new salary pay band. Manager hands me an envelope with my new title, description, and rate of pay. I say "thanks, but we just created a job that I'm 95% qualified for. I expect to be in the 95% qualified section of the new pay band, but this rate is for the 60% qualified. We go back and forth for three months. With 1 hour notice he calls me into a phone meeting with his boss where I can state my case for a proper raise to reflect my new duties.

Big boss says "we don't negotiate raises, you were hired at 60% qualified, you'll stay there, and get 1-3% raises annually based on merit. If you want a raise, find another job." I did.

Last I heard my job was filled by one of my subordinates who was maybe 30% qualified. The good news is the job was kind of a joke, so I'm glad one of my old reports was getting a huge raise to do essentially her same job, because even my boss didn't understand the changes I made, and they were instantly forgotten when I left.

I don't think the US is a lost cause. I think about 80-90% of the US shouldn't be the focus of smarter urbanization efforts, but that's because 80-90% of the US is sprawling farm land.

I'm seeing sentiment shift around cars, bikes, and public transit. I had a discussion at work the other day and three of five people said they would much prefer public transit or biking to work, it's just not viable with today's options. I think local effort can and will spread the message. "If Springfield can do it, Shelbyville can do it better" needs to be our aim. Things like national high speed rail networks are just too big to start until the ball is already rolling.

I can fathom no world where you'd want to trade away a multi billion dollar brand for a new brand you literally can't SEO. What, you think your brand is gonna be more impressive that the generic variable, and a part of the alphabet?

"Follow me on Twitter" becomes "follow me on X"? "You should tweet that" becomes "you should X that"? The little blue bird on every shop window, website, and business card becomes a stylized letter that, hopefully, doesn't look so threatening on the next iteration?

It's a textbook case of brand destruction. I almost regret never making a Twitter in the first place, just so I could quit today, or at any of the hundred days in the past year where it got inexplicably worse without reason.

My man has a date with an Ace later and he wants to be an ally, but he wants Chicago style pizza more.

I've worked places where fixing what's broken was actively frowned upon. Short sighted employees will confuse "why do I have to learn X" with "I'm making more work for everyone" instead of realizing "doing X will take 10 hours to learn, but save one hour a week forever".

These are not places you want to work. You're lucky to be free of them if this is the situation you were facing.