Kansas City…a city full of fantastic BBQ.

There’s the one place with trash BBQ and no customers. I always wondered…

That used to happen to me. I found I could only listen to audio books if I was doing something else to use up some extra “processing resources.”

I would describe it to other people as an overloaded circuit. If I applied all my brain power at the book, it would overload and shutoff.

If I was doing some tedious task that required some attention, but not too much, I could divert some of that excess energy away without overloading it. So for me that was, stocking shelves at work, doing the dishes, folding laundry, etc.

Driving wasn’t enough so I couldn’t listen to the book. (Though, later, I did train myself to and now I can do it fine)

Futurama!

Thanks!

I think about this quote daily as I read the news.

Ah bummer. It’s from an audiobook narrator. He’s doing a cat who thinks she’s royal. She doesn’t know what a gillie suit is

Relevant.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjr34DBW/

This was my favorite number until recently. I had no idea. Fucking nazis ruin everything.

Now, I’m horrified at all the times anyone might have asked me to pick a number between 1 and 100 before I knew.

Veep stopped making episodes because he’ll headlines in the 1st Trump administration were crazier than what they could write.

I just check email all day. Like that’s 80% of my job. My entire job could be done from anywhere. I don’t do as single thing that isn’t in my laptop. But I still sit at a stupid cubicle.

This is why I love Halloween. Some kid wants to be an umbrella. Another wants to be a tornado. Then, Yoshi to shows up to get candy, but right behind him is his little brother dressed like the elderly ghost of Tupac. Bro wut.

I fucking love it.

Damn you’re right. We have been outsourcing more work to Accenture.

My office transition from WFH to Hybrid. A lot of people quit over the last year. We’re severely understaffed and we have had trouble hiring.

We had our worst internal survey results for the entire 10 years of my employment.

Management doesn’t seem to correlate the RTO rules as the problem though. 🙃

I’ve been trying to quit too, but I haven’t be able yo find a job yet (i was trying to change careers)

And yet the stock is up in after hours trading. So fucking dumb

Yup. Duh. Studies show that when tariffs cause foreign product prices to rise, rather than leaving their prices the same, US brands raise theirs to match because they don’t want their product to seem cheaply made. (But also price gouging)

I tried to find the video I watched about it, but I watched it pre-US Election. The internet is flooded with more recent tariff videos.

I think it was by Vox Media and it was specifically about tariffs or inflation, more generally.

Yeah I read the post and didn’t take the intended lesson. I said “oh! I can make that!”

No. Stop treating people like livestock.

I suspect if they did, they’d be in trouble for defrauding investors.

But do laws even apply anymore?

Agreed! But for me it’s not all that often, luckily.

I don’t recall where it came from. I definitely read it somewhere and didn’t come up with it on my own. Probably here on Lemmy or on Reddit before that! It was the first example I saw that was able to articulate why it doesn’t feel right to say “female” as a noun when referring to a person.