Sundae posted:

Very true, but sometimes that's all you can get people to play. Either I'm Bad With Friends, or it's impossible to get people to sit and learn Dominion or Pandemic.

Nail Rat posted:

Not that I think any of these games are the greatest game ever, but man people who play board/card games a lot really hate board/card games somehow.

Nail Rat posted:

Numbers aren't really subjective like games though. I can't just have an opinion of what my net worth is

monster on a stick posted:

Real men play Diplomacy.

Modest Mouse cover band posted:

Our president says otherwise

Nail Rat posted:

Numbers aren't really subjective like games though. I can't just have an opinion of what my net worth is

Nail Rat posted:

Numbers aren't really subjective like games though. I can't just have an opinion of what my net worth is

curufinor posted:

Numbers are always nondeterministic in this real life

There is a radical inequality in nondeterminism

Like, even hundreds-of-years-old-and-rock-stable currencies like the pound can have discontinuities over political brexit poo poo

Sure, the number is a number but in order for that number to have worth you have to, eg, be able to spend it, be assured that it won't inflate much between now and when you spend it, make sure that facts about the world don't conspire to make it so that you can't buy the poo poo you're looking for before you're buying it

I mean, the system underlying it is very developed but very old and occasionally very fragile

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

Cards Against Humanity is responsible for the hardest I've ever laughed in my life.

Playing it with people you don't know very well is a goddamn minefield though. I've been in groups where the most sexist and racist poo poo is getting thrown out there, but someone played the Six Million Jews card and that night was OVER

Accretionist posted:

Special Rule: Most benign answer wins

Subjunctive posted:

I had someone unironically propose CAH for a work offsite activity.

Mercury Ballistic posted:

Dunno if it has been brought up, but CFPB.gov has a treasure trove of public complaints between people and lenders. There is some depressing stories, but it give one a look at how evil the system can be as well.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Find some good ones. We desperately need a diversion from board game chat and I'm on my phone right now and can't be the hero we need.

Subjunctive posted:

I had someone unironically propose CAH for a work offsite activity.

crazysim posted:

Ooh, maybe a few pages from now we ought to take a revisit to the security clearance appeals page if there hasn't been one recently.

quote:

Applicant had debts discharged in bankruptcy in 2007. Since then, she has accumulated 37 delinquent accounts totaling more than $58,000, which are unpaid. She intentionally failed to disclose those delinquent debts when she completed her security clearance application. She did not provide sufficient evidence to mitigate the security concerns under Guideline F, financial considerations or Guideline E, personal conduct. Clearance is denied. CASE NO: 14-03943.h1

BraveUlysses posted:

edit: beaten

more security clearance fails please

quote:

Applicant attributed her financial problems generally to being periodically unemployed and recently added the fact that she is now a single mother. She offered no explanations as to why she had so many automobile loans, credit cards, and charge accounts with clothing stores and jewelry stores. She did explain why she had multiple cellular telephone accounts for the benefit of various family members, but she failed to demonstrate what actions she has taken to obtain the necessary funds from them to pay her accounts. Applicants delinquent student loans were placed into forbearance until December 31, 2015. Applicant has offered no documentary evidence of a good-faith effort to resolve any of her other delinquent debts. She essentially ignored them, and seemingly continues to do so. When she was still employed, she had a monthly budget deficit of minus $211, but now that she is unemployed and has a new child, her financial situation has deteriorated. There appear to be clear indications that Applicant's financial problems are not under control. Her actions under the circumstances confronting her do cast doubt on her current reliability, trustworthiness, and good judgment. Eligibility is denied. CASE NO: 12-11067.h1

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Applicant—in reaction to learning of his wife’s infidelity—demonstrated questionable judgment by engaging in a pattern of odd if not bizarre conduct during 2002–2004 that, while falling short of the criminal offense of attempt, consisted of preparatory steps (for example, buying a firearm and digging graves) to carry out the murder of his wife’s paramour.

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Buying the firearm was part of a revenge fantasy of taking action against his spouse’s paramour that preoccupied Applicant for the next couple of years. In addition to buying the firearm, it included grave digging (two graves located in the woods), buying a cutting tool, and buying a canvas to wrap the body.

Applicant’s digging took place, weather permitting, during the months of about May–September on Saturdays when his spouse was at work. His spouse was aware of his digging activity in general because he bought a collapsible shovel for the task and he would put his dirt-covered clothing in the laundry.

Applicant was careful in selecting a site in the woods where he thought his grave-digging activity would not be detected. Likewise, he brought along a book about fossils in the local region to use as a cover story in case he had to explain his digging. Toward the end of the first summer in 2002, he had the impression that someone had discovered the hole, and so he found a new location in the same woods and began digging a second grave. His digging followed the same pattern in 2003 and 2004, when it ended.

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His activities were not isolated, short-term events, but were sustained and planned actions (for example, using the book as a potential cover story). His conduct, even though it took place some years ago, continues to impugn his trustworthiness and good judgment. The same may be said of his masturbation in locations where one may not expect privacy and there is a risk of exposure.

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This case is decided against Applicant.

quote:

Case Number: 14-04839.h1

Financial; Personal Conduct

12/11/2015

Applicant did not mitigate security concerns raised by his past-due debts. He deliberately ignored his financial obligations to finance a lifestyle he could not otherwise afford. He attempted to mislead the Government about his finances during the background investigation. His past-due debts, the circumstances under which they arose, and his dishonesty raise concerns about his eligibility for continued access to classified information. Clearance is denied. CASE NO: 14-04839.h1

Hyrax Attack! posted:

http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/09-04014.h1.pdf

Hyrax Attack! posted:

http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/09-04014.h1.pdf

Hyrax Attack! posted:

http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/09-04014.h1.pdf

Hyrax Attack! posted:

http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/09-04014.h1.pdf

Mantle posted:

How did this fantasy even come up under investigation?

Weatherman posted:

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

100% self-inflicted. WHY WOULD YOU VOLUNTARILY DIVULGE THIS?

CitizenKain posted:

Easy, someone comes in to complain about their phone not working, they hand it across the desk to the clerk and then its gone. They aren't going to send a person to get it of course, but if someone gets a text from verizon to come to the store to work out their bill, they'll do all the work for you.

quote:

And please understand: There have been a fair few orders. We’ve lived in Los Angeles for 1,254 days — and we’ve ordered food from Postmates, Caviar, or LAbite 705 times.

quote:

Adam and I are among that customer base now, though we once lived a more traditional delivery life. During our New York days we were aware that things called “Grubhub” and “Seamless” existed, but we never really considered what those services had to offer. We were creatures of habit. Though we dabbled with FreshDirect come grocery time, we remained content with ordering breakfast, lunch, and dinner from our neighborhood spots. If a restaurant was outside of our delivery zone, we’d eat there rarely or not at all, based on a delicate calculus of whether our desire to sample certain goods or our aversion to putting on real pants proved more indomitable at a given moment.

Local dining establishments became key parts of the fabric of our lives. I’m certain that during our three-and-a-half years together in Hell’s Kitchen, I saw the delivery folks from the regrettably since-shuttered Delta Grill more than I saw every member of my immediate family combined. During our year-and-a-half stint in Battery Park City, we spent more time asking Zucker’s to make the turkey bacon on our breakfast bagels extra crispy than we did planning our wedding (much to my mother’s chagrin). We ordered often, and we found comfort in our routines, yet we longed for the ability to stretch further afield without physically stretching beyond our living room. In New York, delivery made a big city feel small.

In Los Angeles, delivery makes a big city feel boundless; though we didn’t discover that right away. What we discovered on our first night in the City of Angels, at the tail end of September 2013, was fear. We moved into our downtown temporary corporate housing and began dialing nearby joints only to learn that few restaurants were open at what any transplanted New Yorker would consider a reasonable hour and that fewer still delivered. We’d uprooted our lives in pursuit of my dream job, but had we done so at the expense of easily attainable pizza? Eventually we stumbled upon an unmemorable corner cafe willing to bring me a bagel. It tasted like sadness. I hugged my cat, Halo. Adam resolved to find a solution the next day.

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Part of the reason my colleagues are so concerned about our delivery habits is because we frequently have some version of the following exchange:

Well-meaning colleague: You’ve got to try Restaurant Whateveritiscalled.

Me: Oh, that’s one of our favorites! Had it just the other night.

WMC: Did you have any trouble parking?

Me: The only person who had to park was our Postmates driver.

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I recognize that this is not normal behavior, but it’s become normal to me in part because it’s not a purely Epicurean pursuit. We live in a labyrinthian apartment complex that’s defeated its share of drivers, yielding a few “Please come to the front gate” submissions and more calls and texts begging for instructions. Adam is always the one fielding the calls, always the one throwing on flip-flops to rescue the misguided. Like any great love, our affair with food delivery apps has its pitfalls, but when we pop open the lid on the bucatini from Jon & Vinny’s (from which we’ve ordered 42 times, third most among L.A. establishments) it’s a love that’s still too sweet to abandon.

I had no trouble abandoning my post at Ye Rustic Inn in Los Feliz following a post-work gathering in 2015, deciding the moment I climbed into my car that I wanted more of the chicken wings. Did I walk back in and grab a dozen to go? I think you know me better than that by now, dear reader. I called Adam and asked him to look up the bar on Postmates. He ordered immediately, the delivery man barely trailing me on the way home. We’ve ordered 12 times since.

Sometimes, we want to wash down our meals with a snack, which is how we’ve come to place 10 orders from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in Los Feliz. The near-daily sunshine is one of the chief joys of life in Los Angeles, where ice cream is a year-round reality instead of an occasional indulgence. We haven’t sampled them yet, but I hear good things about Milk, and Sweet Rose Creamery, and Carmela, and I look forward to one day asking Adam to tap his phone a few times so that I can receive a carton of their finest frozen goods. There’s something soothing about knowing that in this city, thanks to this technology, there’s so much instantly available to me and yet still so much more to explore.

For now, though, we’re partial to Jeni’s, which Postmates allows us to treat like our corner scoop shop even though it’s 6.1 miles away. The listeria history might scare away some would-be patrons, the threat of meltage the rest. But not us: We’re trying to bring every bit, and every bite, of this massive metropolis into our kitchen, and so we order at least six pints every time.

If you’re wondering why we don’t just fetch our ice cream from the grocery store like almost everyone else, well: I haven’t told you about our Instacart habit yet.

IllegallySober posted:

This isn't as bad as some of the security clearance ones but after the third time my jaw physically dropped I knew I needed to post it here. The whole thing is lengthy but here's some high points.

https://theringer.com/postmates-caviar-los-angeles-32e0edfb4c06#.aniyexhlk

Volmarias posted:

The questioning may have involved a polygraph and many leading, embarrassing questions.