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It means "a male working in tech who I don't like"

The first part is important to signal that you aren't just trying to find people to work with, but that you also want to join up in a culture war, and a culture war requires promot…

There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.

Counterpoint comic: https://xkcd.com/224/

We also have virus botnets

Right-handed privilege. But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other…

The people who respond to sales tactics are the sort of people who buy lattes every day, fo rhte same reason.

Buying new saves on the transaction costs of the resale through a dealer and the risk of buying private used. Buying non-luxury cars is NOT expensive. Throwing away a working car i…

If you're good enough to act on Broadway, you're good enough to be a salesperson.

What does private companies' compensation plans have to do with the government or Republicans?

Equifax is waiving the fee since the recent incident.

> I wish I could have 72 hours to review the front of all my snail mail electronically https://www.google.com/search?q=postal+mail+virtual > The post office would still get money/p…

The headline doesn't mention "dollars" at all.

What in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?

Vaping is illegal, but cigarettes are legal? Vaping is illegal, but also taxed?

Those wealthy people can spend some of their wealth to hire reputable maangers, or donate their wealth to communal funds so they aren't a target. Hunger for wealth and control make…

Not to disparage your suffering at all, but jail isn't always so much better. > you broke a written rule and you spend some time for it. Not true. Jail is for people accused of bre…

Defense of self and family is not murder.

Scams and survival of he fittest are the state of nature. It's a miracle the legal system is able to resist it even a little.

Interesting that your aunt cared for their mother for 30 years, drawing a small compensation rate, and your mother just took an interest in grandmother's care decades later when he…

But really, what's wrong with that? Why is someone entitled to control accumulated wealth after they lose their faculty? Most parents live for their children. If a parent doesn't w…

Your body is often sneezing because it has been hijacked by a virus that triggers the sneeze in order to spread infection. Sneezes were evolved before the invention of the handkerc…

People should be able to control all of them, at least for timespans of a few seconds.

"Gesundheit" means "health". Sneezing is an indicator of health risk. It's a tradition, not a superstition.

Do you value grammar over spelling? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grammer