informality within a formal structure

People who know things about economics: why are the costs of services exploding but real wages barely even rising? Is it because it’s harder to hire and keep people in jobs? HR/admin getting more complicated? Nuances of what “real wages” actually measures?

Shunning as a Service

when they discover I do a little trolling

help my sweetened condensed milk is too delicious

There’s no such thing as an anti-vore vore story

There’s a lot of individual variation in how strongly people respond to massage. On avg it’s great for “you’ve been wearing a heavy backpack/heels this week” and meh for emotional/traumagenic or postural muscle pain, unless masseuse also works on root cause

I moved to a place with laminate floor after having carpets for years. I thought this would be easier, but it actually sucks--dust is so visible, sweeping and mopping are harder than vacuuming, and my vacuum does not work well on the floor. Is there a better way to do this?

Why do people keep ruining delicious gummy candy by putting a mid drug in it?

Imagine you’re a sandworm and you hear someone walking to cbat

the prestige whore to actual whore pipeline

If we really internalized that you can choose to distance yourself from anyone at any time for any reason, people wouldn’t have to claim every bad interaction is “abuse.”

BREAKING NEWS: Porphyry Vladimirovitch has gone “goblin mode”

This is not good. Hachette Books, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Wiley have won their case and their books are going to be removed from the Internet Archive. If you still want or need to get their books for free, use libgen and Anna's Archive.

If a Craigslist plant seller knows what kind of plant they have, they’re ran through

In 50 years we will all be wearing climate controlled stillsuits with a liquid cooling system powered by our piss

At what temperature (Fahrenheit) is heat an acceptable, non-flaky reason to cancel something

Dreamt that there was an alternate set of “inverted” astrology signs, associated with “dark jester” personalities…

Now that my work is more coding and less math I can post as much as the average tech employee with an addy scrip. But will I