Tar_Alcaran

All the other stuff in the drink might lower it a bit though, especially the 14% (!!!) sugar. There’s a sugar cube in every shotglass.

Is Jägermeister really that green in the US?

It’s reddish brown everywhere else.

“we deserve non-squeaky brakes, and I won’t use the squeaky ones!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_culture

I used to cheat the credit system by taking mind-blowingly easy exams from management courses (they’re literally all the same) or from business studies (half of them are like maths for dummies). Weird minor courses were extra fun, and sometimes actually interesting to do read a book for.

Zero studying, just sign up for the course if it doesn’t have an attendance requirement, take the test, free credit! Sometimes you could even shape those wildly unrelated courses into a Minor, which I how I have 4 minors on my diploma (1 normal one, 3 Frankenminors I assembled myself out of whatever I had already).

I used to do that with a few friends, and we almost got in trouble once for telling the truth (“no, showing up to class isn’t mandatory and we’re pretty sure we can pass the exam with zero effort”). There were zero rules against this, and the only harm was to the professor’s egos, but I did get several stern talkings to.

“how many languages are there” is the same kind of question as “how many colours are there”. It doesn’t work like that, you can group stuff into as many or as few categories as you like.

The only real answer is probably like “at least three”, for both.

Friend: “that armor looks so cool!”

Me: “well, if you hate bending down, or lifting your arms higher than horizontal, I guess…”

I will accept “would ve” before “would of”

This is how you’re supposed to do it in Dutch.

The teacher said “silence!”.

Vs

The teacher said “silence”!

Mean something completely different. Although a few large literature publishers do punctuation before bracket because of translation ease, and novels almost never contain partial quotes anyway AND they include the optional comma at all times, which causes

“Silence!,” said the teacher.

Shudder

Friends are people I like, share hobbies and interests with and want to have around me in my life. I picked my friends myself and I’m proud and happy with them.

Coworkers are people I’m stuck in a room with 40 hours a week. Of course you should be polite and friendly, because you’re stuck with them. They got foisted on me and dealing with is part of why I get paid.

There’s a huge difference between “not a living hell” and “sharing my private life and feelings”. If everyone is professional and polite, that’s great, but I dislike quite a lot of the people I work with and wouldn’t spend 10 minutes with them if I didn’t get paid for it.

You could only get away so much with job hopping.

Really? Because that’s not been my experience at all. You can even come back to the same company multiple times. Sometimes it’s even easier since you “know the company already”.

adjusting to new working culture and environment can be challenging and eventually drain you as a person.

I guess that’s a personal thing. I don’t experience that at all, but if you feel the need to personally reconnect to all your coworkers, I can see why it would be very draining. If you see your coworkers as coworkers, it’s a lot easier.

They’re basically several terabytes of memory cards with a really really really good casing, locator beacon and a big battery.

Storage has improved hugely, but they also went from storing a hundred parameters once per second to storing a few hundred thousand parameters in pretty much realtime. Dozens of terabytes of data is already going in there.

On the other hand, we can basically realtime encode video nowadays, so I don’t see why another 100gb would be a problem.

You should watch Starship Troopers.

No, the correct reaction is “I do not know the Jah-Oi of which you speak. What is this art form that I have never heard of?”

Exactly! And not just doing it, but sticking to it AND vulnerably admitting to struggling.

If only more people could do it.

I’m self employed, which means I get to avoid the vast majority of these events. Unfortunately it also means that them inviting me is a Big Deal, and saying no isn’t really an option.

One company did a quarterly outing to a brewery. Now, ignoring it’s a bad idea to get drunk with coworkers (and then drive home), they only had IPAs, and I loathe IPAs. And they had “BBQ” which rivalled the mediocreest microwave leftovers.

And they claimed to love it. Either they’re huge liars, or have horrible taste. But I did note only about a third of their employees were there at the time.

Also, building a work friendly relationship with coworkers will pay off when you want to get promotion or recognition, because you will get good word of mouth from colleagues and thus build a good reputation.

Haha, yeah, and just look them in the eye and give them a firm handshake!

Meanwhile, in modern life, the way to get promoted and better paid is job hopping, or starting on your own.

Obviously don’t SAY that out loud.

Not really. For a great reply, check out the only other answer in this post.

In the 1990s, when the Taliban was formed and the US had an arms embargo on Pakistan?

Having an arms embargo doesn’t mean you don’t sell them weapons, apparently. It wasn’t a whole lot of stuff though…

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-06-mn-3321-story.html

But just score free points in this quiz, the answer is “China, but they developed a pretty major arms industry themselves during the embargo”