There was a long time when 4pc was on a dollar menu but 6pc was something like $1.65. So three 4pc was cheaper than two 6pc if you wanted twelve nuggets.

Thanks!

Cincinnati Mayor closes at 7:30. J.D. Vance’s brother is running and will likely lose (hopefully!)

He already got it covered up. He did so as soon as he learned about the nazi association.

I’ll say that I don’t know every hate symbol out there, and I know tons of people that get tattoos without any deeper meaning than “I think it looks cool.” I can believe that he genuinely didn’t know what it was and got it corrected once he found out what it stood for.

I mean, I love that this happened, but it was at 1 minor US airport and 3 minor Canadian airports (non-TSA). From the article this doesn’t seem like a widespread thing, unfortunately.

And alcohol interacts with it and increases the risk. So, 2.5g + alcohol is enough to kill you.

The problem is that this person is proud to be a racist. He literally calls these tweets ‘expert racism’

His politics got worse as he got older, but the early works by Mario Vargas Llosa are some of my favorite things I’ve ever read. The green house, the time of the hero (la ciudad y los perros), and conversation in the cathedral.

I recently read The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz and it was excellent.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/10/dei-enola-gay-wwii/

Shocked by this. The pastor seems like a great guy with totally normal opinions.

He’s a relative of the Allende family. He spent his childhood as a refugee after the US installed Pinochet and his family had to flee Chile. Idk why his anti imperialism would shock anyone.

Yes, I agree that this was most likely written by an AI and not a person. I was exaggerating a bit. But I do think it’s possible we’ll start to see AI speak leak into real conversations soon enough. “Text speak” is very common irl now. And at work I already talk like a corporate robot when discussing innovative solutions for issues we’re poised to face in Q4.

The man in this article spent 300 hours with an AI in just 3 weeks. He wrote 90,000 words, and read over a million from an AI. Listening to a new language for ~1500 hours is enough to start being able to speak it. I’m certain that there are people who are starting to pick up AI “speech” patterns

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html

When I read a lot of certain authors, my internal monologue starts to take on their voice. When I hang out with people from other countries, my speaking cadence and word choice starts mimicking theirs.

This person has a bond with his AI daughter. He is constantly talking to an AI “person” with enough frequency that he has become emotionally dependent on it. He is probably brain-rotted enough to start writing like an AI.

I liked it, even if the characters weren’t great. I liked book 1 in kind of a detective/mystery novel kind of way. The first book is very different from the next two, which is where I think the series really starts to address larger questions. It’s still kind of flimsy and the characters might get worse, but I like some of the questions and hypotheses about the universe that it addresses. It gets into a more philosophical approach to the universe and how other species may interact with each other, mutually assured destruction, and how the human race would react to a sword of Damocles hanging over our head for 400 years. It’s told from a Chinese perspective as well, so it was interesting to me to see how he thinks these might play out as opposed to my assumptions coming from a western perspective.

I think the dark forest hypothesis as an answer to Fermi is reasonable, and I like a lot of the big picture ideas.

But yea, it’s not really a character driven series.

https://xkcd.com/1389/

Isn’t this what Glassdoor started as? I remember it was a place to look up companies, find out how they tested employees, get interview tips, get salary ranges, etc. Then it got rid of anonymity and sold out and now it’s just propaganda for the companies that it initially meant to review

Work is transactional. I show up, they pay me. What else would it be? This is not how I view my life outside of work, my relationships, or my friendships. But work is 100% a transaction.

Missing time with your family for work is an awful precedent to set. A lot of people don’t give a shit about their work and don’t care to let it take away from their life.

If I am interviewing, I’m going in with the mindset that I am selling my body/mind to the highest bidder for 8 hours a day, every day, for the foreseeable future. Any time outside of that, I am not thinking about the employer at all. If you and your company aren’t the highest bidder, you aren’t worth my time.

Ah yes, “nobody wants to work anymore, and I know that because these entitled college grads decided to work a different job instead of the shitty one I offered them.”

If people are going through the effort to take an interview (usually multiple rounds) and go all the way through the process until an offer is made and then still don’t accept the job, then that is 50% on the hiring manager not being upfront about working conditions, pay, and other benefits throughout the process and 50% on the company for not offering adequate pay and benefits that match the work. This is 0% on the person who had their time wasted by the interview process. They were obviously worth more than what they were offered as evidenced by receiving a better offer somewhere else.