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For some reason Ravens fandom produces a samey brand of brain rot. We're all on the path to bird watching.
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Pouring one out for those brave Russians who died trapped in a Subway at the bottom of the ocean.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 19:48 |
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Skwirl posted:Just the shear audacity of thinking you can tell someone "no, you have to stay trapped in the sub shop over night," is jaw dropping. Yes, but did you think about the door?
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 19:51 |
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yes, but did you think about the door? I'm thinking about it right now! Specifically, how much fun my crew would have turning it into a pile of scrap!
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 19:55 |
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Watching the Nope trailer, I feel like Jordan Peele may be attempting the M. Night Shyamalan career speed run. I don’t have good reason to think it will be stupid, but my Spidey-sense is tingling. General Dog fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Feb 13, 2022 |
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[Insert “is that what they’re calling racism these days?” joke here]
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:01 |
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:The OIC for that crew was generous in giving the boss the opportunity to open it. I'll tell you now that everything was on camera. Also, I'm a little sus on that there's no back door for the food service part of the store. Everywhere I worked and everywhere I visit on the reg has a separate back door just to move the trash out of the store without going through the shopping area of the store.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:01 |
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The Puppy Bowl posted:For some reason Ravens fandom produces a samey brand of brain rot. We're all on the path to bird watching. I know, I can feel it slowly happening. You could even say it’s pathet- Oh Oh god
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:04 |
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I have been watching a lot of Ask a Mortician videos on youtube after my folks died and I gotta say it's been a weird, morbid comfort to me.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:04 |
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:The OIC for that crew was generous in giving the boss the opportunity to open it. I had the same thought. The one common personality undercurrent in all firefighters is an appetite for destruction. Their eyes light up every time I ask them to cut a car to pieces.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:09 |
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General Dog posted:Watching the Nope trailer, I feel like Jordan Peele may be attempting the M. Night Shyamalan career speed run. I kind of feel you on this. Peele has been putting out a weird energy with his work. Get Out was great. New Twilight Zone was awful. Then there's Us. Is Us any good? I've seen the movie but for some reason that didn't answer the question for me.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:12 |
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Us gets kind of muddled towards the end, but I also think I like it overall more than Get Out, just because of the greater level of ambition.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:For some reason Ravens fandom produces a samey brand of brain rot. We're all on the path to bird watching. Hell yes, birds rule. The Audubon and BirdNET apps make it so much easier to identify something than 20 years ago when it was looking it up in one of two books depending on which side of the Mississippi you were on. Saw a little guy on the side of a tree when I was filling our feeder yesterday, and thought it might have been an immature Nuthatch by the side and behavior. Told the Audubon app it was small, brown, and tree-clinging, and it was like, oh, in Minnesota in February? Nah, that's a Brown Creeper.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:21 |
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Brilliant moments, ambitious scope, great acting from everyone but the kids, and I even loved the hands across America bit. For some reason none of that added together for me as a coherent whole. It's been a few years so I should probably just watch it again and see if the audience was the problem.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:23 |
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https://i.imgur.com/6DFXiaS.mp4 Swim swim swim
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:34 |
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I have a phone interview with a company that's ESOP. It's the first thing mentioned in their "about us", so I'm guessing it's going to be presented as a selling point. Is it actually something I should be enticed by?
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:37 |
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I strongly suspect that depends on the particulars. Get as many details as you're able about their plan then hit up the long term investing thread.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 20:53 |
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One of the most annoying things about a lot of different apartments that doesn't get talked about enough imo is having coax ports in the exact wrong spot so it fucks up what should be the ideal furniture arrangement and makes wiring everything a pain in the rear end. God, hiring movers was such a good decision though.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 21:07 |
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Manoueverable posted:One of the most annoying things about a lot of different apartments that doesn't get talked about enough imo is having coax ports in the exact wrong spot so it fucks up what should be the ideal furniture arrangement and makes wiring everything a pain in the rear end. I solved this by running my own coax along the baseboard to where I wanted it, and putting down a cable protector along the threshold where it crossed in front of a door.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 21:13 |
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CannonFodder posted:That's actually a part of the book. Lol, I’ve actually been reading through Moby Dick lately as a don’t-just-read-junk/minor New Years resolution effort, it’s way more readable and entertaining than I would’ve assumed. Not exactly light or quick reading, but also fairly accessible and engaging, and the occasional awesome bit like “chapter all about how whales are incontrovertibly fish and not mammals, as demonstrated by my presenting the opposing arguments to my two random buddies and letting them decide”
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 21:41 |
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Manoueverable posted:God, hiring movers was such a good decision though. I say I’ll hire movers every time I’m about to move right up until I get a quote. Then I’m like, gently caress it I’ll just do it. Then I am exhausted and spend the entire time hating myself for being a stubborn idiot. If we move again though, that will be the time.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 21:53 |
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Blowjob Overtime posted:I have a phone interview with a company that's ESOP. It's the first thing mentioned in their "about us", so I'm guessing it's going to be presented as a selling point. Is it actually something I should be enticed by? All depends on how it's paid out. If they give you a five year vesting period then I'd say no. I'd want that poo poo immediately in my hands or at least no more than a year (since you probably wouldn't be looking for a new job before then anyway). My old company had ESOP and we couldn't touch it unless we worked there 5 years. Not a percentage every year, but literally if you leave before 5 years every penny they have you is gone. CannonFodder posted:Also, I'm a little sus on that there's no back door for the food service part of the store. Everywhere I worked and everywhere I visit on the reg has a separate back door just to move the trash out of the store without going through the shopping area of the store. This doesn't surprise me. The Subway in my local Walmart is at the front of the store and doesn't have a "rear entrance" so to speak.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 22:08 |
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5 years vesting to obtain ownership of employer contributions is all I've ever known. It sucks but seems to be the standard. I've only worked real jobs in the public or pseudo public sector so maybe that informs my experience.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Brilliant moments, ambitious scope, great acting from everyone but the kids, and I even loved the hands across America bit. For some reason none of that added together for me as a coherent whole. It's been a few years so I should probably just watch it again and see if the audience was the problem. It's an ultimately flawed and plot hole type concept but it's pretty well executed even if it does come apart a little at the end. It's still pretty entertaining and genuinely creepy in bits. Peele's probably in that place where a lot of writer/directors end up where they break out with some good stuff and then the leash comes off and without that little extra control keeping them reigned in they get a little out there with their product and it ultimately suffers. Looking at Christopher Nolan here. That said Nope will still probably be pretty cool. Also after seeing a lot Daniel Kaluuya lately in various things I've come to the conclusion that rather than him being an effective if understated performer the dude actually just can't act.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 22:41 |
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Stock options should always be considered a possible bonus and not part of your actual compensation calculation. Same with stock purchase plans. If you're happy with the salary, health plan, retirement plan (401k etc.) and other benefits, then stock options could be a differentiator vs. some other company with the same compensation but no options plan. But don't actually accept less money or benefits just because there's options. I had PUPs (not really options) at my first company; it went busto and I got nothing. I had actual ESPP options at my second company, which was already post-IPO when I got hired. The company stock languished, and ultimately during negotiations to be acquired, my company issued a new batch of class A shares to the execs (diluting the common shares) and then accepted a buyout that mostly paid off the class A shares and the common shares went for a small premium over current market value. I had exercised in-the-money shares, paying $1.25 per share at a time when the stock was higher than that (that was the benefit), but I wanted to hold them for at least 2 years because at that time, you paid income tax on the discount you got for the shares if you sold them within 2 years even if you sold them at a loss and by the time the company was acquired, the price had tanked and I received $1.03 per share. So I lost several hundred dollars, and only lost that little because as a lowly jr. level tech writer I hadn't had a very large grant. Lost of my co-workers lost thousands. Congress eventually fixed that nasty catch-22 years later, now if you sell your shares at a loss you don't have to pay tax on the difference between your purchase price and the market price at the time of the grant, even if it's been less than 2 years. So don't worry about that bit. Instead, just be smart and immediately sell any shares as soon as you exercise in the money. Your employment is already tied to that company, don't also hold significant amounts of their stock long-term. The double-whammy if they crash & burn is unemployment plus a paper loss on your stock, and that sucks real bad! I've been at my current company for nearly 18 years. I don't participate in the rather lovely ESPP, I recently got a vesting stock grant as sort of a reward, which is nice (I'll gradually vest some shares over the next 4 years) but I wasn't counting that as part of my salary and still won't when it comes time to ask for the next raise.
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Update: Scorigami! https://twitter.com/SBNation/status/1492983946287763459
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LeeMajors posted:I say I’ll hire movers every time I’m about to move right up until I get a quote. Then I’m like, gently caress it I’ll just do it. Then I am exhausted and spend the entire time hating myself for being a stubborn idiot. "How hard can it be to move a 2 bedroom second story apartment" my now wife and I say to each other ~ 10 years ago. It took about 18 straight hours of moving, pulling an all nighter because that is how long we had the Uhaul. We got to watch people come home from work Friday night and then head to work Saturday morning. We made a resolution to never do that again. Leperflesh posted:I've been at my current company for nearly 18 years. I don't participate in the rather lovely ESPP, I recently got a vesting stock grant as sort of a reward, which is nice (I'll gradually vest some shares over the next 4 years) but I wasn't counting that as part of my salary and still won't when it comes time to ask for the next raise. 18 years is pretty impressive, my record is 5 and it feels like forever. ESPP can be pretty good, depending on the conditions. I have seen companies that sell it to you at 85% of the lowest price in the 6th month ESPP window, so as long as you sell the shares immediately when you receive them you are guaranteed to make a profit. I have never worked anywhere that had the lowest price of the 6 month window, most were the cheapest of the first or last day of the window, but even then as long as there is some discount on the price you are still guaranteed to make money. If they don't give you a discount then it is probably not worth doing.
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Any of you guys played Olli Olli World? Man I love this game. Really been enjoying Sifu and Dying Light 2 as well, that's my trifecta. Fifty Three posted:I just snagged flights and an AirBnB for the tail end of the Isle of Man TT and I am beyond stoked that's cool af Silly Burrito posted:Update: Scorigami! awww man I missed it I hope they put it up on youtube later. some say this is the real super bowl
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 23:54 |
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I was put on Jurassic Park after the last one, but bringing in the OG cast has got me right back.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 00:32 |
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The last movie was incredibly bad but this one looks fun enough
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 00:52 |
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swickles posted:I was put on Jurassic Park after the last one, but bringing in the OG cast has got me right back. The t rex has been in all the new movies I don't understand
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No Butt Stuff posted:I cannot imagine being passionate enough about television to post this. It's really being passionate about star wars and Disney has put it in the shitter. There isn't anything inherently wrong with fan service, unfortunately in this instance it's all hollow. Im not being a dick, there is like inherently a group of people who will always defend the wall so to speak for Disney and for some reason people take legitimate criticism these days as just being a divisive hater. Also we all post in here obsessively about football and other sports, what does it matter if breaking down cinema is something else people are passionate about lol Marvel is kind of in the same place now too. Everything post end game has been terrible, except for Spiderman and Sony produced that. Someone else brought this up but the Disney + stuff is too Disneyfied. The Netflix Daredevil show was so good and they would never do something like that now. Same thing for The Punisher. Nodoze fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Nodoze posted:It's really being passionate about star wars and Disney has put it in the shitter. There isn't anything inherently wrong with fan service, unfortunately in this instance it's all hollow. Im not being a dick, there is like inherently a group of people who will always defend the wall so to speak for Disney and for some reason people take legitimate criticism these days as just being a divisive hater. Star Wars has been in the shitter since 1999
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 01:26 |
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Mando was the funnest Star Wars property since the Clone Wars series I realize that isn't saying much
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Intruder posted:Mando was the funnest Star Wars property since the Clone Wars series Mando is the second best thing Disney has done other than Season 7 of Clone Wars but the bar to clear over the sequel trilogy, solo and rogue 1 is basically under ground. It's pretty mediocre but compared to the rest of the Disney stuff it seems amazing because the movies are so, so bad Its Rinaldo posted:Star Wars has been in the shitter since 1999 The prequels are not without flaws but they are all better movies than any of the Disney ones and it isn't even close. Nodoze fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Its Rinaldo posted:Star Wars has been in the shitter since 1999 I mean if you go read some old usenet, it's been poo poo since they landed on Endor.
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Kalli posted:I mean if you go read some old usenet, it's been poo poo since they landed on Endor. Return of the Jedi just kind of had the unfortunate position of following Empire. I mean, the Ewoks stuff is pretty bad don't get me wrong, but the ending is so loving strong. Empire is basically an all time great and following that is just hard
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Its Rinaldo posted:Star Wars has been in the shitter since 1999 1997 was when the special editions were released. Terrible CGI and Han shooting first did not improve the movies.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 01:35 |
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Much like Indiana Jones, Star Wars is a trilogy.
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Made a last minute call to smoke some wings today. Tossed them in some butter and frank’s and they turned out great.
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