Womp womp. My partner and I are in the process of a cross country move (out of Texas! Woo hoo!) and we're supposed to fly back next week to finally pack up our stuff and get the house ready to rent out. It's been sitting on the market for 5 months and hemorrhaging money now that we're gone, so we're finally throwing in the towel and accepting that we're going to have a long-term financial tie to Texas.
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That's not even close to the worst part. After Zwerner reported his "violent mood," two other teachers reported to Parker that students were telling them he had a gun... The first searched his backpack and turned up nothing but believed it could have been on his person (they saw him tuck something under his sweatshirt.) Parker's response was that his pockets were too small to hold a gun. Second teacher had another student report he had flashed them the gun in his pocket. Second teacher wanted to search him, but Parker forbade him because the first teacher had already searched his backpack.
That's pretty fucking bad...
Remember during the 2020 election they were circulating photos of looting and civil unr at in "Biden's America" but they were literally pictures taken during Trump's administration?
No, it's because they don't care.
Pretty sure it's an ADHD thing. I'm like that with people's faces. For a long time I thought I had facial blindness but realized a couple of years ago, I'm just not generally paying attention to faces enough to record them into memory. When I actually learn what someone's face looks like instead of their general shape/hair/clothes/accessories, I have no problem recognizing them in a variety of situations.
Huh? I don't understand this comment. Are you saying you think I'm lying? Lol. I mean more power to you if you've never experienced these self checkout logjams. I'm fine with them in concept, but the way a lot of the stores I've experienced use them makes it kinda unpleasant. Guess it's regional.
The downside is forcing a bunch of people through self checkout who need a cashier. Whenever you all talk about how great self checkout is, I wonder what mecca you live in. My only experiences with it are long lines and long waits caused by a number of factors:
-Many self checkout lanes closed because they think everyone is stealing and refuse to staff more than one person to watch over you
-Old people who can't use technology and don't want to be using the machines
-People who have entire carts and struggle to effectively scan their groceries on the tiny space allocated.
-Machines that scan painfully and artificially slow because they want to weigh every goddamn item to prove you aren't stealing
-Machines that record you and yell at you for stealing if you move an item slightly awkwardly
Yeah, same here. I barely dated before online dating (granted I had a boyfriend for a couple years.) When I found online dating, it felt kind of magic. All of a sudden there were all these men interested in me who were actually cute/smart/funny AND into the same shit as me? It even made me realize what a bad match my ex had been and that some portion of our relationship was just out of convenience because he had actually asked me out. (The men I found myself most compatible with online weren't generally high in confidence and didn't ask many women out.)
Within a month of trying online dating, I found 2 fantastic men I wanted to be in a relationship with (at the same time... Womp womp.) However just within like 5 years of dating one of them, the online dating scene had already felt like it shifted it a lot. It was way more frustrating with a lot more people I wasn't interested in and the really compatible ones fewer and further between (or maybe just harder to find.) I ended up casually dating online in earnest for several years before meeting my husband. It was still easier than meeting someone in person imo (but I'm also a woman) and I definitely understand why younger people might believe in person was better.
Yeah, I understand why it's currently happening like that, but it's still annoying to call at 2am and be like, "they were so hard to get on the phone!" Seems to be a recurring problem so might be worth it to have a contingency plan for winners within certain time zones, even if you just quietly inform them a few hours earlier that they should make sure they're available at that time.
The Nobel committee also hit a roadblock trying to reach Brunkow – both researchers are based on the US West Coast, which is nine hours behind Stockholm – but eventually got ahold of her...
In 2020 the Nobel committee had similar difficulties in contacting the winners of the prize for economics. When Bob Wilson’s phone rang in Stanford in the middle of the night, he unplugged it so the committee had to call his wife instead.
When the committee couldn’t reach his fellow winner, Paul Milgrom, either, Wilson had to go and wake him up.
This is annoying to me. Is there seriously no better way than to call older people in the middle of the night and then act surprised when they are not immediately available?
Yeah, this sure sounds like the "free market" correcting itself as these people love to prattle on about.
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Only reach out to them if you are actually in their state. When they receive a flood of calls from people around the country, it's easy for them to write it off and claim they're just getting brigaded and it's not something their actual constituents disagree with.