I don’t think we really disagree here. You’re focusing on what people are. I’m focusing on how they see themselves. They’re not necessarily the same things.
I don’t think we really disagree here. You’re focusing on what people are. I’m focusing on how they see themselves. They’re not necessarily the same things.
Doesn’t mean you don’t call yourself middle class, because at least you’re not homeless. At the very least, “lower-middle class”
20-something years ago PBS had an excellent documentary called “People Like Us: Social Class in America” to show, well, social class in America. If you can find it, or at least clips of it, I’d recommend it. There was one cutscene with a bunch of people being asked which class they see themselves as, and pretty much everyone felt they were “middle class” - but you could tell by the way they presented themselves (clothes, jewelry, etc) that they were all over the place.
Pretty much everyone calls themselves middle class. Outside of the extremes one would expect, there will always be richer and poorer people among you, meaning you’re in the “middle” - whether you’re struggling to make rent or debating whether or not to go to the vacation home this weekend.
Use it or lose it is very common, even in (US) government employment.
It takes less energy to move heat than it does to produce it. A heat pump basically runs an air conditioner backwards, so rather than moving heat from inside a structure to outside, it moves heat from outside to in. With the right units, this works even in cold weather for the same reason a freezer gets warm on the outside - it’s moving heat from inside the (freezing) unit out.
Geothermal energy takes this concept a step further by putting the outside unit underground. Underground temperatures are more stable and moderate, so it’s easier (more efficient) to expel/collect heat, but also much more involved to install.
The problem is, I don’t believe it’s at a minute-by-minute level of granularity. If you’re working several hours a day at tipped minimum, and the rest making well above minimum after tips, repeat the above daily and average at minimum wage for the pay period… That’s good enough.
It’s not the best comic, but I at least understood it once I learned it’s about circumcision.
If everything is running on renewables, cool. Until then, there’s still the opportunity cost.
My dad worked nights and Mom was a SAHM who also did some freelance stuff from home. They basically had a first come/first served system, and honestly didn’t have many conflicts so the second car (usually the one they’ve had longer) was rarely used. That was perfect when I started driving in high school, because I could usually use that car (even if it was a few years older than I was)
My brother talked them into buying a used Mitsubishi Eclipse back when it was still kinda cool (an '03 model purchased in 2007?). Mom ended up really liking that car and it’s not really practical for the handyman stuff my dad does in his retirement, so now they have assigned cars.
I’ll be honest, I’m from Minnesota but haven’t seen TMD. But I love when shows emphasize and feature its location. Even if it wasn’t filmed there, The Mary Tyler Moore Show kept things reasonably Minneapolis-centric. Cheers/Frasier in Boston/Seattle, The Drew Carey Show is proudly in Ohio, Seinfeld in New York, Full House in San Francisco, more recently Breaking Bad in New Mexico… We’ve got a huge country, let’s use its different settings!
Unfortunately so many places are lucky to offhandedly mention where it all takes place, trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator IMO.
Or perhaps the leadership of a project involving such complex mechanics as Nuclear Warheads is not expected to be comically inept with a simple projector.
That was my first thought
There is also some oil drilling near the southeast side of the city, generally along Quincy and maybe Jewell Avenues?
Yeah? That’s where I’d start. Maybe they were at a bank that’s not their own?
I think you helped me figure out where I stand on AI. What is “the thing”? Did AI create “the thing” or was it a tool to help the creation? Part of a YouTube video is a perfect example. If I want music to set a mood, and I didn’t have anything specific in mind, fine. That’s about 5% of “the thing” and I can understand using a new tool for the job. But all the random shitty AI-generated pictures floating around social media where that’s the entirety “the thing”? They can fuck off.
Basically, do things for the human, not the bots or the clicks. Unfortunately I don’t think we’re far off from Dead Internet Theory - we have LLMs creating content for SEO. Basically one bot creating content to please another bot. The human element has become an afterthought.
Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I love how new Teams doesn’t even have a contacts list for chat anymore, it’s just your most recent chats. And if you search for someone, any recent group chats with that person show up first so you may still have to scroll to find that person’s chat. Oh, and we store documents on Teams so if I want to switch between looking through the document repository and chat I still have to do a whole bunch of clicks between the two.
I don’t fault them for when my project manager tags @everyone on the group chat with an important message saying “good morning and happy Monday” though. I wish I were kidding.
Depending on what exactly they’re doing, that could be practicing without a license
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) won the general in a write-in campaign after an unexpected primary loss. But I guess I’m not sure if they have an open primary in Alaska, nor if that would really be the critical qualifier.
Super hard, actually
Yes, I figured as much when you said you voted 3rd party. Unless we get ranked choice or some other form of voting, we are going to get a president from one of the two main parties for the foreseeable future. Until then, a vote for the person who shares 90% of your views instead of 75% will help the guy who shares 5% of your views with you. Not to mention that the 75% candidate had about a decade of being dragged through the mud prior to the election to make her seem worse than she really is.
Vacation time is not the same as hourly wage.