Oh, this really small obscure town next to my parent’s tiny obscure town has a great retro furniture store with a town of nice mid century stuff at reasonable prices.

If I were you I’d try there. Other than that, it’s fast fashion for furniture, and I hate it so much.

Shit, apologies. I see the W now.

As far as I know, pegging isn’t mandatory, and Janesville is not the KKK capitol of Illinois. Benton had a klan rally in the 90’s, though I don’t know how it was received.

I don’t play games, but I recently tried to get this one going for my wife on steam. I ended up getting it to work, but not through steam. She really likes the game, even just the base model that’s free.

I think there is also a lot of modding that’s done, so you could put those in.

The issue I hit was that it also requires the EA app, and I got frustrated putting it on Linux so I just got a cracked version, which came with a ton of the DLC’s. Like, some 74 of them and every expansion.

She says it’s a lot of options to choose from, but works fine after some tweaking.

Yeah, when I got my degree, the coding aspect of it became much easier as time went on. The math and shit gets more complex, and whatnot, but after getting some kind of base of understanding, it was easier.

Now I’ve been doing it professionally for years and can consistently Google how to instantiate arrays in a variety of languages with success.

were cleared by police and volunteers

How and why does someone volunteer for this? Hopefully this means some type of aid organization?

What a genuinely strange thing to read.

And that’s people that drug their asses out in negative temps to caucus. I’m assuming turnout was very low. I had very little knowledge that they were still really doing a Republican primary.

So this is probably just the strangest subset of people that felt compelled to do this.

My interview for an internship that became my first developer job, for sure. It wasn’t a traditionally “technical” interview, meaning it wasn’t the latest trivia ever. They looked over my resume, and asked me technical questions about what I had done, decisions I made for projects, etc. The team just didn’t believe in staring at people trying to code on a whiteboard.

Got the offer within about an hour and didn’t have to interview to sign on permanently. I have subsequently always refused interviews where salary range wasn’t disclosed up front, and if I talk to a recruiter, I have always asked for contact information for a dev on the team.

But, that’s the advantage of having a job I don’t need to leave, and having experience. I’ve heard much worse from others.

It’s probably useful to differentiate between Amish and Mennonite here. Mennonites I know use mad technology for business, including planes. The Mennonite homes I’ve been in (not many, but a couple), did not have electricity in them, and had root cellars, oil lamps, etc.

An Amish dude did some windows for me and I didn’t see any vehicles at his home, and used hand tools, near as I could tell. But idk, this probably changes so much between different communities and shit. Every time I go to town to get groceries, I see Mennonites in aldi. I don’t believe I’ve seen Amish there. The only interactions I’ve had with the Amish I had to drive to them.

Always slightly uncomfortable.

Well said. I live close to some Amish and a ton of old order Mennonites. I’ve seen one too many children’s stools in front of rocket stoves and suspiciously young girls with babies.

Generally seem to provide for the other members of their community, but the organization of that community isn’t great. And that’s what I know about them, which is little given how insular they are.

I did have a sit down meeting with a Mennonite business owner about doing a website for his company, which was one of the strangest encounters of my life.

No electricity in their homes, but I guess for businesses they break that rule?

This really made me laugh, lmao. I’m going to start asking my currently pregnant wife this, haha!

“have I caused a pregnancy?”, I ask very normal as it’s so normal to say.

Beautiful. Reminds me of former libertarian candidate for Illinois governor, Kash Jackson. Brave family court warrior eventually sentenced to prison for threatening to kill the family court judges.

Yeah, that sounds pretty normal, I guess. The time-frame part is probably based on how new you are as well as the nature of the task. I did quite a bit of that type of thing when I started, basically fixing tech debt, and small stuff.

If it’s something you want to bring up, I think you expressed yourself pretty clearly. You could schedule some time with your boss to talk about it.

What would frustrate me would be the rework I was doing. If you could maybe even set up a short weekly meeting? Show your boss what you’re doing and they could tell you if it’s the right track or not.

Total abstinence, yeah, it’s probably a little strange. I know plenty of non smokers who drink rarely, but I don’t know many people who never drink at all.

Really the people I know who fit this are sober, meaning like conscious choice after alcohol abuse.

A large raccoon has really been hanging around the house lately. I have tiny paw prints on my trash can, and it walked right up to me when I was on my back porch.

Kinda cute but it scurried down the tree I was pissing against and it gave me quite a shock. A vulnerable position to be in. A bird feeder is right there, might have to find some different solution.

I have seen a man in leggings and my perceptions are shattered. I’ve heard women say for years that they’re very comfortable, and I always assumed they thought a skin tight garment was comfortable only in relation to their normal clothing, which I believed to be extremely uncomfortable at the cost of looking nice.

Now I simply don’t know. I haven’t felt like this since super skinny jeans were popular on men. Are they actually comfortable? Is it actually an equal balance of looking good and being comfy?

I may never recover.

I’ve heard talk about this for a long time, generally called the Samson option, obviously after the biblical figure. Thing is, it just sounds like a “normal” nuclear deterrence strategy of mutually assured destruction, but I know very, very little about it.

Seymour Hersh has a book about Israel’s nuclear history (called Samson option). I’ve never personally read it, but Hersh is a respected journalist and I’m sure there’s some useful information in it, if you’re interested.

I don’t understand Israel and nukes anyhow. They’re obviously nuclear armed, but also somewhat ambiguous about that fact. So I don’t know how it functions as a deterrent if it’s a secret.

My wife used to be friends in high school with this couple that ended up being super reactionary. The dude ended up getting testosterone because he couldn’t get abs. He’s ostensibly opposed to gender affirming care unless he’s trying to be hotter. I thought this shit was hard to get? Just not for lunatics?

In the story, the cookies in the box are thrown outside to be devoured by birds to spare Frog and Toad the temptation. My youngest loves Frog and Toad. Grandma got them stuffed animal Frog and Toad, very cute.