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  • Fired for any reason is "at will employment" you can leave for any reason but also we can fire you for anything that isn't protected.

    "Right to work" is even worse than that, it means that you get all the benefits the union faught and clawed for without having to pay dues. As in you have a "right to work" without any pesky interference between you as an individual and the multimillion dollar company

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • I've always had fun trying to say ever letter in most words. Like that french knight in Monty Python, "I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur king, you and all your silly English k-nnnigggets" which is hilarious to me because french words dont use like half the letters in them usually

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • My wife does that, I'll ask what she want to do "next weekend" on like Wednesday but that doesn't mean the coming Fri, Sat, Sun to her, that's "this weekend"
    I can't deny it does make sense to me somewhat, last is previous, this is current, and next is the one after current, but next and this for weekends are the same until you get to Thursday in my opinion.

  • What games popularized certain mechanics?
  • The first Dark Souls was 2011. Diablo was released in 1997. World of Warcraft was 2004 and while you didn't quite drop all your stuff and money you die you did have to run back to your corpse to keep from having all your stuff degrade and cost a bunch of money. The first Sonic was 1991 and getting hit makes you drop all your "money" and have to pick it back up.

  • What games popularized certain mechanics?
  • The first ones I can think of is legend of Zelda and final fantasy, but I think there was also Adventure for the Atari before those even. The first Assassin's Creed was 2007, Adventure was 1980

  • My alarm clock doesn't work right
  • IThere's a pretty simple way to test the alarm, make it go off when your awake and waiting for it. Say the current time is 11:57, set the alarm for 12:00 and sit and wait for it to go off.

  • Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!
  • It's really just poker solitaire with a bunch of math added to flavorful bonus cards, if you're not really into poker, solitaire, or math it isn't going to be the right game for you.

    I have a buddy that hates RNG, mostly plays shooter games, he hates poker in all its forms because of the randomness but I feel like learning to deal with probably and chance are really good lessons that apply to broader life.

  • Australia starts world first peanut allergy treament for babies
  • Nuts used to be a main staple of my diet, until I met my wife. My wife has a severe peanut and tree nut allergy, we have to check the ingredients on everything because anything that says "may contain" or " made on shared equipment" is potentially a trip to the hospital and just not worth the risk. Soft serve is some of the only ice cream she can have when we go out because of potential cross contamination from the scoop. We have to ask everyone what kind of oil they fry in if we go out to eat.

    Mostly we don't go out to eat, we just cook for ourselves and are very diligent about checking ingredients and the allergy warnings. I've bought chocolates and all kinds of stuff, even lentils one time, that I read through the ingredients and didn't see any nuts or anything, but somewhere not near the ingredients is the allergy warnings saying may contain and I missed it.

    It's all worth it.

  • What's an annoying habit your cat has that inconveniences you that you just sorta live with?
  • Two cats, both have their own annoying thing. Black short hair bob tail: will get into any and all food if left out. Has learned to open cabinets and cupboard to get to hidden food. Has chewed through a cardboard box to chew through the bag of dog food, found him neck deep in the bag crunching away. Has chewed a hole in a canvas bag to get to dog food. Oh, and recently started peeing in the laundry. Long haired colorful: gets bored and wants to go outside, will wander the house screaming at the top of his lungs, clawing at every door. Happens anywhere between midnight and 3am, almost every night. Will bolt for the door if you have it open and aren't watching for him. Where does he want to go? Rolls on his back in the road.

  • How did gravity worked on the Death Star?
  • One of my favorite science facts: Because of how the strength of gravity diminishes as you get further away and stronger as you get closer, when you approach to within arms length of another person (approx 1m) the gravitational attraction between the two masses of your bodies can exceed the gravitational attraction between your body and the sun at any given time.

  • Experienced electrical/engineer workers, what kind of jobs would be good for my skill set and experience? Advice on not getting screwed while getting back into a technical career?
  • I'm a welding engineer and in 10 years of working in automotive manufacturing all of the controls engineers I worked with were electrical engineers who did basically ladder logic on PLCs all day every day. PLCs and ladder logic are the back bone of pretty much all industrial automation, of which the automotive world uses extensively

  • Rick and Morty Ruined Portals
  • This is the first time I've seen anyone reference Mercedes Lackey, one of my favorite authors of all time. Her system of magic got it all right as far as I'm concerned, fucking Harry Potter throwing spells around with zero effort beyond the right wrist flick and pronunciation

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