Covers? Luxury.

When we was growing up it was a few moldy newspapers stuffed into a garbage bag.

Context

X factor.

Also, who wants to alpha or beta test products? I’ll take the finished iterations, thank you.

Taking a bullet is much easier than many challenges parents have to face, take on, bear or navigate for their children. A bullet, presumably, would be fast to suffer and/or die from.

Bet me count the ways.

scanning

I would enter “memories of murder”. It goes toe to toe with Rear Window as one of the best suspense movies ever made, and MOM would go on my top 50 in any language any genre.

Go broke or go home

I think “natural” was determined in court to hold jo required quality, or be free from artificial, man-made or modified elements. So wholly opposite the standard meaning of the word.

They always come for language first.

“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.”

All we need is a Superman 3-style plot to collect all the extra inches of fabric at the midsection and we’ll be rich, rich I tell you!

The weight has changed much more in sizing than height is likely to since it’s easy to gain/lose weight compared to gaining or losing height; it’s why I mentioned my percentiles. The links seemed like decently recent data so you wouldn’t expect someone in my percentiles to be so strangely missized unless sizing was just flat wrong or targeted to certain body shapes in the last 10-ish years.

My basic experience and data seems to point to height determining size much less than weight now does, which for those of us not rapidly changing weights puts us in a strange spot. There are also many more different global clothes manufacturers than there used to be I’d guess and maybe the newer ones still have no idea how to size for new geographies/cultures? Just guessing.

Your co-workers are triangulating. It may be for a combination of various reasons:

1. They have tried and failed in the past
2. They are scared of rejection, retribution, etc. consciously or unconsciously and it’s easy to volunteer someone else
3. You are really charismatic and/or great at your job and they think you have new ideas that will work

Triangulation is used to avoid conflict. Many people come to others in life, looking to have that person take on yhrir problems through triangulation. It’s generally not effective: it disempowers the requestor/initiator by giving responsibility for resolution of the issue to someone else, who may not before likely to solve it, and can but actually make things much worse.

Encourage them to see how they can play a role in solving the problem. Do it together if you want to help but don’t be their “superman”.

Yeah this is years old; WA and more recently CA and others have pay disclosure as well. Those same shite employers likely can’t afford not to hire from entire swaths of the country so will retreat back to their idiotic shells and post/hire for any state as “remote”.

Where is our hero robot?

oh tidings of comfort and joy, oh tidings of comfort and joy

And fucking Excel. Better yet teach budgeting and spreadsheet courses in one.

If people had stats, budgeting and excel it would be an incredible improvement.

Budgeting also only gets you so far in our dystopian age when you need 2 full time jobs to pay rent.

Bond.

Half of the plot points from all the movies have been enacted, attempted or discussed in the first year of Trump’s presidency by his cabinet, handlers, backers or string-pullers or funders. Fictional supervillains as entertainment are a distraction, dangerously so when the real thing is happening as we speak.

There are few social spaces where people can meet in healthy ways without having to pay some private entity for the privilege.

The rungs of society have never been further apart, nor has it ever been more transparent.

Education has been systematically underfunded for 50+ years, the economy in accelerative wealth concentration. Adults suffer and the home environments for children suffer.

I can’t stand street racing, and barely drive unless forced to but it’s not hard to understand why many would find a somewhat cheap thrill attractive when their lives are filled with hopelessness or despair.

I think he was making great progress but the capitalists wanted to know where to put the meter and he was a genius among bean counters.

Waterloo.

Napoleon’s tactical errors leading to a ton of his skilled and valuable horse soldiers self inflicting and defeating themselves basically made it easy for wellington to triumph though he did enough to earn the w. That is just from memory 20 years ago when I read from Les Miserables, there is like a 100 page section–maybe 150 just on the battle of Waterloo which isn’t that critically tied for the plot. Victor fucking Hugo, ladies and gentlemen.

Napoleon’s defeat led to alliances across Europe for protection, which led to WW1, which guaranteed WW2 due to unsustainable concessions for Germans leading to Hitler’s rise, which led to USA being gifted a churning economy almost undamaged and populace relatively unscarred by war compared to devastated Europe. Baby boom, relatively equal wealth distribution and a GI bill built the US might that is now imploding under it’s own fetid weight of corruption and ignorance, as many empires fall to, but it’s all pretty linear imo from Napoleon.

I remember learning a statistic in the early aughts that only 17% of US households were married man/woman married with child(ren), when so much of media and societal representation and expectations was based around norms from the 1950s or earlier. Society changed for real in the US mid century, and continued to evolve; single parents, adults with no children, skipping marriage, same sex and/or other sex/gender/orientation households, but the christian-facist propaganda kept up.

Just remember, something as basic as “what is a home or family group”, the “standard” or “normal” is less than 1 out of 5. It’s actually the exception! This applies elsewhere.

Don’t discount imposter syndrome, it’s powerful. We’re all, mostly, normal.