I live in an apartment building on the ground floor, I always tape a sign to my decorated window to inform people where to ring for trick or treating. It works quite well for me, and groups know immediately who is willing to give out candy

Eh, that might cause location based discrimination. Maybe make it so that companies have to pay for gas or public transport of their employees instead

Shoutout to the 3DS custom theme shop for having a Tuxkart theme

Cryptozoology, you know like Cryptids

You literally put the money + a piece of paper with your account number into an envelope and mail it to them

Nice to hear you take proper precautions. Second hand smoking gave me a chronic bronchitis and my cat asthma, so I’m more than aware of the risks.

Unless you can walk away 10m+ (depending on if kids are there) you might want to reconsider smoking at all in those places

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-023-01435-9

Those who continue to do business with them will be punished

Most AI models used Books3 as part of their dataset which is a collection of pirated books. Here are a few articles talking about it:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224450/anthropic-copyright-lawsuit-pirated-books-ai

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-29/australian-authors-copyright-books3-generative-i-chatgpt/102914538

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/

Networking in DC is an extreme sport

Am I the only one with adhd who’s good at and enjoys networking? Most of it is just asking specific questions based on prior information you’ve been given by the other person.

Really important is identifying a topic the other is passionate about, maybe it’s not even work related, but a hobby or a travel experience they’ve had. Then you get them to “teach” you about it by asking them to elaborate and maybe even explain specific parts of their hobby, and voila you’ve succeeded in networking.

People are passionate about their skills and hobbies, and most love to elaborate and explain the specifics of it, especially when they usually don’t get to do it.

Remember those “Joe is forcing us to see his travel pictures” joke? This is basically that but you’re actually interested in the pictures. Listening to someone being passionate about something is a lot more fun than others lead you to believe, give it a try, it’s basically nt infodumping.

Maybe it was “The Thought Emporium”? He made two vids on it, one being a follow-up

The average tansport van is about 18ft long. And the standard U.S. parking space is also 18ft long, this means the average van will still slightly stick out no matter what, but by no means as much as a 22ft beast on wheels.

There are also older model vans, which are more common, only reaching 16ft in length, so those will be able to properly park in standard parking spots.

Your note part could be interpreted as that, but that would require someone to interpret it in a vacuum without the surrounding sentences.

Just because you think it’s a given doesn’t mean people will be of the same opinion. You have to remember, ‘the norm’ is different everywhere, and a lot of places still have problems with the whole “women being the same species as men, and not some weird mysterious creature” thing.

Trust me, this happens even in civilized places like Germany. Just last Christmas someone who I considered to be a very good friend at that time tried to chat me up by asking to return me a book I’ve never lend him. Turns out his gf broke up with him, and he thought as long as he could get me to meet up with him, he could trick me to agree to be his new gf. He sincerely thought I wouldn’t be suspicious of him trying to meet up for such a weird thing, because in his own mind he simply couldn’t comprehend that I had the “rational thinking” to catch him in the act. We’re both university students btw.

I do get what you’re trying to say, but trust me, people are stupid, and will interpret your words to their liking, and they will usually not give you the benefit of the doubt.

Love your enthusiasm, but slight problem in your argument. Women (or men) might not want to be stuck with the household job, maybe they want to do a different job themselves. Solution? Both partners should ideally be able to work part-time and take on half the household

We have game theory as an a elective at my uni, the amount of people who signed up for game theory instead of game design is staggering

Dude, my driving instructor charged less than a Taxi and that guy was charging in the triple digits per hour, it is insane as to how Taxis are still in business. Who the hell pays those prices?

Fellow Zer here, my elective IT class had grading done depending on how well you could use the computer:

‘A’ if you could do everything perfectly well, ‘B’ if you needed some help from the instructor, ‘C’ if you needed a lot of help, ‘D’ if you couldn’t even get past the login screen on the windows machine.

We had a lot of people who got a pity ‘C-’