“You can’t put your hands on the students”

“Okay”

Oh they respond to that stuff fast. But generic dimming lights, in a neighborhood built in the 1960s with old wiring… The frontline customer service staff almost surely thought it was generic complaining about something like a large power draw starting up in the home, like the AC kicking on and dimming the lights just a bit for a second. Not an actual power infrastructure issue.

That assumes no one did. Utilities in my area don’t give a crap as long as service is still functional.

We had to call and complain about lights dimming for over a year before the power company actually sent someone out to take a look. The guy climbed the pole to look at the transformer and came back white as a ghost. The transformer was right next to a massive nearly dead tree, and he had some sort of bar in his hand and explained that it was supposed to have bumps on it, but it was smooth, melted, and it had been so hot he had to let it cool down before he could remove it. He said it could have exploded at any point, probably taking the entire neighborhood with it given the rural area with a lot of natural desert brush. Said he was glad we kept calling and insisting about the issue.

A box hanging around without affecting service is almost aurely a low priority item.

Harbor Freight is awesome, but as with everything else, you should know what you’re buying, and know what you actually need.

Most people don’t need to pay a premium for something they’ll use just once, or maybe a handful of times, and never touch again.

For most people, they don’t really know what they need, so buy Harbor Freight the first time, if you use so much it breaks, then buy a quality replacement, because you proved you actually need it.

Rise! We protected the group from wild animals for centuries as they slept! We allowed them to sleep peacefully, without fear.

A great example of why you should never trust any story from a single source. Traditional journalism ethics requires multiple independent sources. Modern organizations don’t give a shit about that anymore, it’s just about the clicks.

“There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying.” - Robert Evans

Probably someone trying to use the meme in a Halloween-specific context.

Ah that’s true. Hadn’t considered that it would be pulling from before the latest election cycle entirely.

This is true. But it also is stating that it knows Trump did not win a second term, insinuating it has data past the election.

There needs to be a lot more transparency in what the models are actually based on and what is being artificially filtered or limited.

And their app is just a wrapper for a webpage anyway.

No one knows. I honestly can’t believe the original post isn’t intended to point out the absurdity of these anti-DEI assholes.

The “fixed” version also looks transmasc, not that that’s a bad thing, just ironic if the post wasn’t intended to be a caricature.

Normally I’m with you, but I won’t deny this one happened. There are two different reasons though.

1. He was fucking with them.
2. New Yorkers are crazy. And the ones willing to stop and talk are obviously even more unhinged.

Sugar itself doesn’t, I’ve never seen a study showing an actual link between the two. It’s instead excitement to getting something special, not the sugar causing a chemical reaction. Causation and correlation are different.

There is actual evidence of some dyes causing behavioral issues in some children.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9052604/

Fuck those type of people. Not much worse than the people who think they’re better than everyone else, yet objectively are shit.