On the other hand, it needs to be made clear to the less tech savvy consumers, and that is sometimes far from easy.

My mother-in-law received a rechargeable electric lighter as a gift. The instructions included told her to use the 5 inch long USB C cable to plug the lighter into her computer to charge.

She doesn’t have a computer.

She does have a smart phone that came with a USB C charging cable and power adapter. It took us almost 20 minutes to get her to understand that she could take the cable she uses to charge her phone and use it to charge the lighter. She was incredibly confused by the concept that a phone could share the same charging hardware as an electronic lighter.

Alternatives:

Shaking a raised fist

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Fingers pointing up, thumb touching nose

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It changed my life. I hate it, but I’d be dying without it.

I will wake feeling rested

Depending on your situation, a sleep study and CPAP could help with that.

University IT for the first two jobs, now healthcare IT.

University is definitely the place to work if you get into the right department. In my first job I was a db admin for a medical research center. Then I moved to a job as IT support for a robotics lab.

Pay is crap, benefits are fantastic.

You’re just a tool of the oligarchy. How proud you must be of that.

Do you understand that the person you’re responding to didn’t suggest that anything AIPAC did was right or that they support them in any way?

Why are you attacking someone who seems to agree with you? If there was some other comment that actually voiced support for the oligarchs, or Israel, or the genocide, you should attack them in response to that comment.

The C-suite boss where I work complained about being in the office at 7 am and seeing empty desks.

This was pre-pandemic.

The thing was, policies in place at the time allowed employees to work from home up to two days per week, and flex hours were permitted as long as the core hours of 9am to 3pm were covered. It just sounded insane to everyone.

I’m Gen X and the last job I had that required me to work a specific shift was in the kitchen of a pizza place in 1988.

In my first job after college, I asked the business administrator what hours I was expected to work, and she was noticeably confused by the question. She told me most folks show up around 9.l, but made it clear that it was up to me.

In my next job, I asked how to request PTO, and my boss told me he doesn’t care about the record keeping. He said just let him know when I won’t be there, and as long as everything keeps working he doesn’t care if I’m ever there.

Even in my current position when they introduced time clocks and we had to clock in before our start time, we were allowed to specify our start time. I chose 10:00am. I normally get in around 7am, so I figured if I’m not going to be in by 10, I’ll just take the day off.

Whip out the red pen, make corrections, and send it back with points taken off.

Freedom

I don’t understand why this hasn’t happened already.

Early in the pandemic, our CEO asked why we paid so much for real estate if everyone could work from home. They’ve been trimming leases as quickly as they can.

We’ve been hiring people who live out of state. They only come onsite very rarely, maybe only once a year.

My parents paid for me to attend a private university in the late 80’s, for which I’m both extremely fortunate and grateful.

I wanted to do the same for my children, but there was no way. I pay half, my parents pay half, and my kids have very small loans.

I was experiencing significant disappointment that I wasn’t able to pay for my kids’ education the way my parents paid for mine.

At one point I used an inflation calculator to get an idea of how much my education cost in today’s dollars, and it turns out that when it’s corrected for inflation, I’m paying what my parents paid. My kids’ education is more than twice as expensive as mine was if you correct for inflation.

My wife is an eye doctor. She’s an optometrist, not opthalmologist, but she would definitely mock me if I got it wrong ;-)

Again, it’s ophthalmologist

That’s pretty optimistic.

I’m descended from an officer killed by the British in the American revolution.

My parents and my brother all voted for Trump.

without it he’d look a hell of a lot worse.

I disagree. He’s old. He’d look old. That’s not worse, it’s just human.

I’ve been to a number of funerals. No one ever looks good. Everyone ends up looking inhuman.

My paternal grandparents were both cremated. Grandfather died first, then my grandmother died a few years later.

They weren’t going to have any kind of service, so there was no need for makeup. However, my parents, siblings and I gathered at the funeral home to say goodbye. The funeral home put the body on a gurney covered by a sheet.

They looked better than any other corpse I’ve seen. They looked dead, but not inhuman.

Trump should fire the mortuary make-up artist he’s been using and just try to be human.

Among the other options mentioned there is also orthokeratology: using a hard lens to reshape the eye to improve vision. It’s a non-surgical alternative to LASIK.

There are also treatment options for some binocular vision problems. Exercises that can strengthen the muscles of the eye to correct alignment issues.

I see that “snitches get stitches” is still in effect in Philly.