rubber_chicken [he/him]

Put that on a poster in a barbershop and watch everyone request it.

Copy-pasting Libertarian Guys with Asian Wives posts is cheating.

I suspect but don’t know how to validate that it’s the Indian firms overselling the savings. They could get extremely competent people by charging 60% of a western salary, paying 40% and pocketing the difference. Instead, they lowball those numbers to the point where their teams are stretched thin and don’t know what they’re doing, yielding bad results that are on par with all the other Indian firms doing the same thing. If capitalism worked as advertised, somebody could found NonGarbageCorp, set more realistic expectations around cost savings, attract the most competent technical remote workers, deliver great things and become immensely rich. But it would take a serious investment of capital and time to establish a reputation while western firms suspect them of secretly being GarbageCorp32849327, so the people who could pull off NonGarbageCorp just launch GarbageCorp32849327 instead.

I had a lion’s mane taco for lunch. Great flavor. Would do it again somewhere that knows that that much stuff should go on three tiny tortillas instead of one medium one.

I don’t have the mental resources for that sort of second-track thought stuff. Maybe, maybe towards the end of a detailed technical explanation, I’ll think “that was way too fast, apologize for the speed, ask for questions and give them a decent window to respond.” But no, squeezing words out of my thought-mash is generally too much of a task to allow for a getting-nervous task to run at the same time.

Hate to recommend for anything, but the digitalnomad sub has had a lot of advice for people in precisely your situation.

I’m not in that situation, but can remember a couple of tips: keep your machine on your would-be location’s time because some popular app will leak it and make sure to not reveal the position of the sun where you are by taking video calls in a room with windows.

Wouldn’t a truss also be imperial? Or maybe not because the sun finally set on that shit!

Another dimension like in the sense of the 90s show Sliders universe where the other end is the corresponding point on Earth in a recent-ish fork of the multi verse? So my poo goes through alternate rubber_chicken’s butt and his through mine? Kinda a prisoners dilemma there. I think I’d eat healthy for a week just out of courtesy. If ARC eats garbage in that interval, I’d just assume we’re cool and go back to my usual diet. If not, I’d do a garbage meal to test the waters and wait a couple days. If I get three horrendous poops in response, I think I’d just back down and eat healthy long term, at least until I can figure out some sort of communication protocol.

Bit account?

Tendency of the rate of profit to fall. When you hit the wall in terms of how much you can make on Halloween or from impulsive people at the checkout counter, you have to try other shit, no matter how ridiculous. It was this or the Twix coin and that won’t be far behind once this flops.

$80…

$80,000,000

That’s photons. Protons are massive particles, in the sense that a double-digit percentage of your weight is proton weight.

Mine was in the 90s! Can I sue? Willing to settle for a dicktowel.

I used to do a temporal sandwich where I’d eat a slice of bread, other stuff, and then another slice of bread. I can’t seem to place what the middle was. It may have been goldfish crackers.

273.15 K

I can’t wait to get a tooth fixed so I can chug ice-cold water again.

Most successful eminem fan.

With the exception of the mobility scooter bug, I’m not sure how much sympathy I can muster. People drive like dickheads. They do this everywhere; it gets you where you want to go faster and outside of the stray honk, there’s typically no penalty. The result is a society where people are deathly afraid to bike and thus continue driving, exacerbating the problem. I don’t see the problem as a handful of dangerous drivers, which in this case means dangerous beyond the backdrop of widespread dangerous driving that insurance companies have already factored into their rates, being found out before they kill somebody. I see the issue as almost other dangerous drivers getting away with driving dangerously until they kill somebody, and often beyond then.

Project A-Ko

Marvel/DC

That’s actually a really good question because there’s no way, even with 100% of the sun’s mass going into the effort, that we could actually zap everything in the galaxy to death. We’d have to instead have a signal so depressing that, as soon as a species decodes it, they’d be guaranteed to start sending out a similar signal and destroy all life within zapping range. A sort of interstellar bird box, written and directed by Todd Solondz.

What part of “America” don’t you get, tankie?