Still waiting for Love Dump by Static X to be in a hyper aggressive commercial about laxatives for couples.

Putin is what I imagine it would be like if a Bond villain won.

What about “special military operations” which is what Putin was calling his invasion of Ukraine?

His words are worthless.

In no particular order:

• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• Elf
• Scrooged
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Star Wars Holiday Special (I know. Please don’t judge too harshly)
• Violent Night
• A Christmas Horror Story
• A Christmas Story
• At least one of the Rankin/Bass stop motion christmas movies
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

Plus others, but those are the ones that tend to get played every year.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

– Vernon Law

Fanta pissed me off with their ads 20+ years ago. I have not had a Fanta since.

My SO’s company asks for presentations if a candidate for certain high-level positions make it to final rounds of interviewing. It’s pitched as being a “high level overview to start a conversation, not a TED talk”. They also pay the candidates for the time to put this presentation together. I think it’s something like $200, but I am not sure.

Being asked to put together a presentation is not necessarily bad, but being asked to put in your personal time without compensation is a red flag. It speaks a lot to their culture and expectations of personal sacrifice the company likely asks of their employees.

I’ve actually been in this situation when I was working as a sys admin at a webhosting company. First I played a lot of games. Once that started to get boring I taught myself how to code which set me up to transition from sys admin to development work.

Just guessing here, but I would think it’s for for clarity and brevity. West and South are shorter to say and distinct enough to avoid being easily misheard causing somebody to go in the opposite direction than intended.

I hear it when it’s playing on a car radio or in an ad or on some show, and I acknowledge how music can spur an emotional response when used effectively, but I don’t regularly listen to it.

I’m assuming everyone here listens to music somewhat regularly

As somebody who does not regularly listen to music, I am curious why you would make this assumption.

sigh Another narcissist CEO who cannot grasp the idea that “life”, in this context, is just an employees working for themselves and pursuing their own interests instead of working for others to pursue corporate interests.

Is it less common than it used to be or are you just becoming more aware of it?

If I were to guess, I would say early 30s.

Overheard a conversation a few years back where a group of guys were talking about how they didn’t know how to cook or do laundry because that was woman’s work and how they expected their mothers and / or wives to do that for them. It was so pathetic how proud they were that they could not take care of themselves.

Forgive, don’t forget.

Forgiveness is for you. So you can let go of the negativity and move on. It does not mean pretend that it never happened.

Assuming that I am aware of the perfect predictability machine and it’s affect on the situation: I move to the other side of the lever and push it. They predictability machine would be correct in its prediction that I would not pull the lever and nobody has to die.

Voltron?

One byte at a time?