It’s a fair point, but I think I gained some empathy and perspective on my own problems. Maybe it does something dark to a person but I’m definitely fairly confident.

I get to look at my phone and read interesting things/do Duolingo. The stress of a car would be similar or worse I think.

Humanity is interesting, warts and all

Waiting for a matatu and one dude starts beating the shit out of another. Two separate times.

Cool dude gets on near Bakersfield, sits next to me, drinks a 12 pack and tells me how he murdered people in prison.

Various people smoking crack, meth, and fety on trains and buses

Dude gets asked to turn his music down, goes on escalating and frankly impressive rant for 10 minutes about how he’s going to cut the guys head clean off with his machete

Various guys jacking off

Various rants against every race

Spent 90% of my life taking public transit and I love it. Big public transit fan and I wish people would intermingle more in general.

But, if you talk loudly or listen to music on the tinny speakers on your phone, you are the scum of the earth in my eyes. I’d rather have a dude strung out on heroin on the train than you, absolutely no hint of sarcasm.

Sure! Thanksgiving is principally a national holiday in the U.S. that traces its roots to religious and historical traditions from England, particularly during the early 17th century colonies in the New World.

It’s meant to be an autumn harvest holiday. The apocryphal story is that Puritans sat down with Native Americans to feast and celebrate goodwill between their respective groups but the evidence for this is suspect at best.

Over time, Thanksgiving became more popular and involves heavy travel during the (pre-) holiday season. It’s a chance for families to enjoy each others’ company before Christmas and feast on roast turkey and a variety of vegetable dishes.

Hope this helps! Go with God.

Acceptable only when accompanied by whimsy

This is a new pattern that I am seeing. C suite is required to launch AI initiatives because of market expectation, tech staff expected to launder their work through Claude

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Skipping and whistling are necessary, but not sufficient, components of frolicking

I used to get mad at these but it unironically sounds like a nice open culture

The constant distraction and availability resonate with me.

The main thing is to put in systems where you don’t need as much effort to handle daily business. Usually you can engineer your way out of high touch, multi-step process glue.

In my youth working manual labour jobs I was full of vinegar and wouldn’t wait for the trucking dolly. Older workers taught me to slow down and I took that advice into software work.

Thank you for a thoughtful and interesting reply.

The public health angle is interesting. I know noise pollution has a measurable negative effect on quality of life.

I bet making the signs bigger would actually have some effect in that it would socialise the message to control volume to the public in general.

I suppose I don’t mind quiet conversations taking place but when I can hear it from five rows down it grinds my gears.

Been better lately about getting up and moving when someone comes in and sits down making noise but I sometimes need to go two three cars to get away from that.

Anyway cheers

As a Californian, I don’t like a California burrito unfortunately. Not sure if fries belong in a burrito, but potatoes in a breakfast burrito most definitely

Exact same thing happened to Feinstein

San Diego burritos are phenomenal and often don’t contain rice

Hey, I spent some of 2009 and also 2013-2014 in Kenya working alongside USAID folks

Not calling you a liar but could you please educate me? My experience was that the goal was the opposite.

Now, wading through shitty opportunistic local capitalistic scumbags was an issue, but a separate one.

Is that what the three seashells are?

Bravo but can we not put big-ass stickers on the windows please

Aw rats.

I feel like most accusations of bad QA have their roots upstream of the QA department (or lack thereof)

Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.