Yet one more reason why people in the US are not having kids.

What’s your excuse, Russia?

Fair enough, I support that sentiment.

You know, I would love to agree with you, but that’s just not the case for many husbands in hetero relationships. I watched my wife’s libido fall through the floor after the birth of our child. After years of therapy and communication and commitment to the relationship, we got it back from once every two months to almost once every week, and that’s the max she said she’s willing to commit to at the moment. I’d be more content with 2-3 times that.

Some tropes exist because there’s a bit of them grounded in reality.

There’s three ways to get rid of cancer:

• Poison it. Diminish its numbers to the point where it never comes back.
• Excise it. Cut it away from the rest of the host.
• Do nothing. It’ll die once it consumes the host.

Eating granola and berries or sitting there with hopes and praying for change is option 3. I’m on team option 1. Time to get active.

XOXOAXI

Well yea, when you train the entire 2nd generation of coders on a book that is “For dummies” what did you expect?

A hopeful little W for democracy. A big win for us in North Carolina.

The R’s lost their supermajority in the legislature too, by one seat that was won by a mere 226 votes. What this means is we finally have a moment down here where the two parties have to cooperate together to get anything done….if anything gets done.

Oh, come on and search me (whoa, whoa) I got my problems (whoa, whoa) You got your eyes wide My bags of McDs… And raccoon with a meth pipe

All too well. I moved at 3, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42 and 43.

I’ve been poor, I’ve been homeless and I’ve been comfortable.

Do you know how expensive it is to not?

I do, and I empathize with them. I thought to add it to my comment even, but I decided against it because it garbled my original message. And the message essentially is that the city of San Francisco has basically decided to say fuck you to the people who don’t make 100k.

So yes, you can absolutely decide to stay there, but you need to accept for yourself that cognitive dissonance. Know that you will be fighting an uphill battle. Know that you are fighting against your fellow neighbors and community.

If you exist in that situation, then I absolutely do empathize with you and the challenge you’re facing. It’s up to you to decide if that battle is worth fighting.

The alternative battle I’d instead be fighting is more multi-family housing as well as better hub and spoke communities around the city with better public transportation to the city center.

It’s not boring, it’s location. Controversial, I know, but this is the same reason why Broadway is more expensive than off broadway. It’s the same reason that Monaco is more expensive than Marseille. It’s the same reason why Prada is more expensive than George.

San Francisco is a luxury brand. If you don’t align with luxury or whatever the fuck SF is trying to be, then it’s simple, don’t live there.

So then shouldn’t it be 100%?

Being a US citizen permanently living in a foreign country, paying taxes to that country and not paying US taxes.

I’ve been interviewing folks for an internship position lately. These have been remote interviews. Six things that have made candidates stand out to me.

• Get your camera angle straight. Don’t slouch in the corner. I need professionals so I need you to look like one.
• Hide the weird shit in your backgrounds, unless it’s something you want to talk about
• Have presence / wow factor. I’m interviewing for a position that will sometimes talk to customers. I’m your customer at the moment and I really do want to buy what you’re selling, and will absolutely do so if you wow me.
• Read the job description, I put a lot of effort into that thing (I know, not every company does). Get to know the JD and company website. I had a marketing guy apply and he got through the resume review because he had an lot experience in my industry. Turns out he didn’t and I read right through it. Don’t waste my and your time, neither of us have enough of it on this planet as is.
• Have hobbies, extracurriculars. I get tired of asking the same boring questions to everyone so I may ask you about them. I’m in no way religious but surprisingly, I’ve now had two candidates talk to me about how they’re a leader in their church and that they’re leading groups or projects there. It got them both to the next round. I want to hire a colleague not a robot.
• Have writing and presentation samples prepared. I want to see how you document things I want to see the work you’re proud of. I need dynamism and a diverse team, not all of us need to be customer facing rockstars. A beautiful presentation absolutely can and has won me over on candidates that did not have the interview presence.

Some don’ts

• Don’t act aloof. I’m giving you my attention and I need the same from you.
• Don’t be cocky. I want confidence but not cockiness, as cockiness would likely have my clients calling me telling me to get you off their projects.
• Don’t ask me to rate how well you did at the end of the interview. That’s what practice interviews are for.

A quorum of forums.

Same place as nearly everything else, the Sun.

Why does their joy have to be in guzzling cola? States are already taxing high sugar items on the rest of us ffs, how is this any different?

If they want to buy these items they still can, just have to use their own coin, not ours.

Get on my bike and see how far it could take me. And when I was done with that I would go build bike trails for my community.

You know who doesn’t need Fluoride in their drinking water? People with dentures.

Checkmate whipper snappers.

Utah