Dejected Warp Core

Amusingly, you could probably get numbers for straight:straight if you specify that the activity is strictly dating, and the relationship is platonic.

I wish more people knew about this. This opens up the plugin ecosystem for mobile browsing. Mine is running adblock and tampermonkey. It’s still Android, but it’s miles better than Safari or the stock Chrome browser.

They do and my roofing contractor did this very thing during cleanup this year. Had three of them.

There were still some small pieces of trash here and there, but nothing egregious or metallic.

I’ve often wondered about this. I’d like to think I’m really darn good at English as it’s my only language.

If I moved somewhere and had to start over, it would probably take years before I learned a fluent vocabulary. Even then, I’d still be miles away from being able to write good poetry or craft pithy jokes.

I have to ask: is that a translation error or a really colorful German idiom?

This one?

I’m in this picture. Early career, getting into industry was brutal to say the least. After I worked my way in, it became obvious that a degree was used as a proxy for socioeconomic class and IQ in a lot of places. These days, I suspect a degree is also being used now as a proxy for “loyalty” just by how much debt it puts on your credit record.

That said, there were and are places that will look for other factors when hiring. I’d be willing to bet that those opportunities are also in the small corners of the economy that are nowhere near Fortune-500 scale. But you’re going to have to get hired on referral, as having someone vouch for your character and work-ethic are things HR cannot figure out from a resume. As far as hiring risk goes, those two factors alone are massive advantages if you have a strong recommendation or two.

Anon missed the biggest sin of all:

Monetizable, but only at two or three orders of magnitude less than automobiles.

TL;DR: “He’s cheating because he’s not spending as much as I am.”

They’re cheaper in every conceivable way than cars, and that’s why the worst people out there hate them. Once you see the systems in place to equate personal validity and social values with what wealth may be extracted, it’s impossible to look back. Bikes are effectively a form of protest by way of scaling back one’s economic interaction, because of this.