moobythegoldensock

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That begs a larger conversation about what is and isn’t ok to say informally at work.

Certainly “wheelchair” is not itself malicious and is less likely to be mistake prone than Seat 34a, especially if there’s only one patron in the room seated in a wheelchair. At the same time, the affected person might not enjoy being referred to by their disability.

I’m honestly not sure what the best solution is. Certainly, “red sweater” is less likely to cause offense than “black dude,” and 99% of the time these won’t be customer facing. I’m torn on whether the mistake was purely in writing it in the wrong location vs. whether the company as a whole should do better.

I know in the corporate world you typically don’t write down anything you don’t want read back to you later, and the fact that they realize the patron could be offended suggests that maybe they should adopt a similar policy of “never write down anything you wouldn’t want a customer to see.” At the same time, I’m aware most restaurants are not corporate culture and aren’t trying to be.

They’ve officially labeled it pre-alpha.

Right now, it’s a basic simulator set in our solar system. They haven’t really added many gameplay elements yet: for example, they just added the ability of high g-forces/impact to destroy ships/cats (just disappear, no explosions, no incremental damage.) Fictional solar system, resources (money, xp/science, etc.), missions/objectives, etc. are still a ways off.

They’re currently testing a Steam-like game client that will allow game updates without manually reinstalling every time a new version is released, so I plan to at least wait for that.

This is not as crazy as it sounds. Most people’s net worth is in their house. A white median net worth of $550k reflects white homeowners. A black median net worth of $7800 reflects black renters.

This is directly due to US policies post-WWII that directly benefited white homeowners and helped them build generational wealth. 80 years later we are still seeing the effects.

Even if all current racism magically ended tomorrow, we would still have a ton of work to do to undo the lingering damage of historical racism.

The twist would be that someone without a sense of humor takes the joke seriously. Hader, Parker, and Stone thought for a moment about who doesn’t have a sense of humor.

“And in unison we all said ‘Kanye West,’” Hader recalled.

[. . .]

West, in real life, apparently did not appreciate the episode, rapping in his 2010 song “Gorgeous” about choking “A South Park writer with a fish stick” and bringing the subject back up in 2021 on “Life of the Party,” 12 years after the episode was released, with the lyrics “South Park had jokes about fish sticks/ ‘Til this day the whole team can kiss this dick.”

They weren’t wrong.

The extended look will also be available at 9pm ET on YouTube, but for six hours, it will essentially be paywalled behind a Netflix subscription.

Um… ok

  1. Who cares? It’s a trailer.
  2. Most of the people complaining probably already have a Netflix subscription
  3. It’s 6 hours after you’ve already waited 4 years, chill out
  4. Someone’s going to rip it after 10 minutes away
  5. Vice City was the most fun, SA broke your childhood, IV had the best story, V had heists. There’s no way VI is going to top all those, we’ll be lucky if it makes top 3.

Yes.

Israel’s existence is a massive fuckup and part of the multiple failed partition experiments of the 20th century. But it’s been a real country for the past 80 years and there’s no way forward to undo that now.

Palestine is also a real country and Israel doesn’t have a right to genocide. The US likes to pretend otherwise so it can exert more control in the Middle East, but all they’re doing is making things worse for everyone.

As much as people on both sides may hate it, a two state solution is really the only viable solution at this point.

Not sure why everyone wants to shit on Mark. They laughed at him for the metaverse, but who’s laughing now? And now he’s working on his new innovation that could be just as big, yet no one seems to believe in him.

Edit: Apparently y’all need a sarcasm tag, so /s.

Trump gutted the department whose job it was to track this parasite.

Just like he gutted the pandemic response team before COVID. And the team that followed screwworm before the screwworm epidemic.

He’s time and time again showing why these departments exist, by releasing the face-eating leopards and then acting shocked when leopards started eating faces.

According to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, Elon Musk’s estimated net worth began the year near $630 billion before the SpaceX IPO frenzy briefly pushed his fortune above $1.3 trillion. As SpaceX retreated, that paper wealth evaporated just as quickly. By Friday, Bloomberg estimated Musk’s fortune at approximately $718.8 billion, representing a decline of roughly $600 billion in about a month.

Ok but he netted nearly $90 billion. By comparison, if he gifted that to a random American, they’d be the 16th wealthiest person in the US.

I guess this is news in the sense that the only thing to take from Musk is his precious trillionaire label, but his failure still made him richer by an absurd amount.