[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago

I didn’t feel like I was creating enough shareholder value to justify my existence there.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Do they assume that? I have an appointment scheduled tomorrow and plan to wait in their lobby.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

If brown is dark orange and orange is red+yellow, the difference probably has to do with the amount of red in the particular shade.

It’s really hard to say without reference colors to see what you’re thinking of when you say “light brown”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Foster

He voiced the little boy in the famous 1969 Tootsie Pop commercial Mr. Owl "How Many Licks Does It Take?", often miscredited to fellow child actor Peter Robbins

Bonus “Mildly Interesting”: I don’t think I’ve ever seen the full version of the commercial before.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s Jodie Foster c.1981.

John Hinckley Jr.’s motivation for the attempted assassination was to impress Jodie Foster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan#Hinckley's_motivation

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

You might be thinking of primaries; not mid-terms.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Sadly seems to be one of this subs main functions

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

The thing about political violence is only one party has been advocating for it so I’m not going to feel too bad when they get what they want even if I never wanted it in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Not saying it’s what you’re doing.

Really just trying to say some folks are being more gentle than they should and over correcting.

As usual, the best way is a middle ground but the internet rewards extreme positions.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

I agree with you, however denouncing political violence doesn’t need to extend to fawning.

This is my favorite proposed response I’ve seen:

If I was a Dem asked what I think this would be my short statement:

History has shown us that political violence like this is a hallmark of authoritarian states.

That it turned against the man inciting it shows how slippery and dangerous our current moment is.

Come November we have a choice -- an America where a man like Trump, who believes lynching his political enemies is fine, sits in the white house while fires of political retribution burn across the nation; or an America where our fragile democracy rests in less unhinged hands, safe for the moment.

https://sfba.social/@DeliaChristina/112781894739327584

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I assume OP made a mental math reciprocal error 😄

w*t(2/1) vs w*t(1/2)

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

In most states, only party members can vote in their party’s primary elections.

Minor point of clarification:

Pennsylvania is one of only 14 states with closed primaries

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TL;DR: Inshore commercial shrimp trawling is devastating our marine fisheries by causing by-catch (untargeted marine animals trapped and killed in the nets) at a rate of 4 to 1 by weight.

North Carolina is the only state that still allows inshore shrimp trawling.

Here’s what the North Carolina Wildlife Federation has to say on the topic. It bugs me that they’re framing it as the loss of recreational flounder fishing being the primary consequence, but I suppose whatever brings more attention to the issue is a good thing.

The NC Wildlife Commission is holding a meeting Tonight at 7:00pm at the New Bern Community College

  • It’s worth noting that the linked article is to WCTI which is a Sinclair station.
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Is there a hard threshold? Do high risk investments such as penny stocks qualify as gambling? Do low risk investments? Annuities? Bonds? CDs?

This comment got me wondering.

Is it more to do with the venue? Stock markets and real estate vs casinos and the lottery?

Were the MIT Blackjack Team gambling or investing?

Or Jerry and Marge Selbee?

Is this just another semantic hotdogs are sandwiches discussion or is there an agreed threshold?

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Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds

300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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This is kinda blowing my mind right now.

I know generation bounds can be inconsistent, but I’m using this as the guideline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_generations

That puts Clinton, W, Obama, and Trump all as Baby Boomers and Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and HW all as Greatest Generation.

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