ElfinTrousers

You know, we could save a lot on consultants if we had LLMs write the BS reports.

Alternate headline: two ostensibly smart people waste time on nonsense.

I feel ridiculous having to explain this, but it's possible to know the name of a place and still get it wrong when you intend to write it down, or overlook a mistake when reading it over.

It's not, it's Business Insider. It's journalism-flavored entertainment.

If you're surprised to find occasional micro-aggressions in small towns, well... bless your heart.

There's reasons plenty of people prefer cities over large towns. At least in the city, people will have the decency to just directly tell you to go fuck yourself. Saves time.

BREAKING NEWS: Small town Germans not effusively welcoming to representative of foreign military, yuppie wife who expects place to work like California.

Or perhaps, just spitballing here, we could find something actually useful to do with the excess energy.

Only if you expect people running large companies (tech or no) to not be uptight control freaks.

I'm sure the failson/daughter is a phenomenon with literally ancient roots. To paraphrase the Bible, the rich will be with you always.

No kidding, this review made me very interested in reading the novel. I wonder if something about a depiction of anxious, uptight, pretentious and rudderless hipsters struck a little close to home for the reviewer.

Do human editors catch every mistake? No.

It was sure a good stress test for my eyes.

I tried too. Awful. And the biggest chumbox I've ever seen in my damn life at the bottom.

To be fair, the US doesn't have everything, but it does have a lot, so I can see how you could get this idea if you weren't a particularly imaginative or curious person.

The real reason is #4: it's simpler for the school, as they don't have to run several different bus services.

I would guess that most people from outside the states are familiar with the geographical size of the country

If they do they don't act like it: my experience has been like the OP's, in that non-Americans tend to assume our society and culture is a lot more homogeneous than it is.

It's pretty cool though how other people went out of their way to say how bothered by it they weren't, congratulations guys, you're all real champs.

I see huge meme potential in the statement "we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro". What do you say, should we make this a Thing?

Someone violated Bell's Principle (take no notes when conducting an alleged criminal goddamn conspiracy).

As some put it, if you can't trust your staff to work remotely, you can't trust them to work.

I guess I'll just reverse-engineer the binaries and patch it myself. If you want something done right...

I did once and I liked where I ended up.

Almost as if they were flailing.

Where do we submit change requests for People 2.0? I found a bug where people crash after roughly 60-80 years and can't be rebooted, they're just plain bricked.

Hadn't heard, but nice.

Power and lying to the press, then. Still in AI's wheelhouse.

We can't afford to do this: it would put too many coke dealers and mistresses out of business.

Amazing, how are you posting from 20 years ago about today's events?

I'd say not so much because of the timing but because JS was only meant to be a crude stopgap: the scripting language they'd use for a year or two and then replace. The rest is history, the history of a huge sector of our industry built on a hilariously inadequate foundation.

In practice my favorite perk has turned out to be working without a shirt on hot days. WFH for life it is, then.