While admitting that my recollection is flawed as hell, I remember it being the case that you couldn’t get a full 40 hours, but that you could easily get 30+ hours so long as you didn’t hit 40 enough times to count.

I’m not trying to agree with OOP that the ACA ruined everything, but it is a truly bizarre and flawed alternative to universal healthcare.

Working two jobs can be difficult to impossible. The schedules usually aren’t fixed and cause frequent conflicts. A lot of places aren’t even willing to hire you if already work elsewhere because they don’t want the hassle.

I agree with you in general, but 2m isn’t wide enough for fire truck access. Some regulations are based on the prevalence and nature of natural disasters in a given area.

I’m also not sure about your 20 meters figure because I can’t find that there is a federal minimum. 20 feet is the minimum for fire trucks though.

I can’t recall the details because it’s been too long since I worked in the States, but it was something like if you work more than 30 hours per week the employer has to pay certain benefits. It’s cheaper for them to hire two 20hr workers than one 40hr worker, and then the two employees aren’t seeing any of the benefits they’re supposed to be getting. I assume that loophole is by oligarchical design.

When I worked in California I had to turn down raises/promotions because they would have knocked me past the cutoff for socialized healthcare, and the increased cost of mandated private health insurance would have been a massive pay cut.

It’s an RPG more in the JRPG sense, so it’s not like Baldur’s Gate or Dragon Age. The story is very good though, so if you don’t like the gameplay I very much recommend watching an LP by someone you find engaging. It’s not like Undertale where being the player meaningfully affects the experience of the narrative.

I think it’s designed that way on purpose to not obscure what the objects are.

The thing I love about Walter is that in his head he’s this hardened criminal genius, but in reality he waffles between being a bland nothingburger of a man and a huge asshole. The sigma Heisenberg character is a completely fictional alter-ego that he consistently fails to embody. It’s unfortunate that there’s such a widespread culture of seeing toxic characters as aspirational badasses because characters like this should be a lesson in being more self-aware about your own moral code and how your behavior affects others.

Kim Wexler is a decent human being and she’s not boring.

But if you related to her then maybe it’s a matter of taste. I don’t tend to like very realistic stories because I think they’re boring. Like I can’t get into the Wire even though everyone else loves it.

What kind of health features does she want? Garmin doesn’t sell your data, and they actually make the best hardware when it comes to fitness watches, but their app is kinda bare-bones. (Which is a selling point, imo.)

There are also FOSS options on F-Droid if she wants an app only (I think some can sync with branded watches?) And there’s also the Pebble watch that I see threads about sometimes, but I don’t know anything about it personally.

I saw a clip the other day where Wesley refused orders on moral grounds and Picard was like “rawr authoritarian bs >:|”, and it made me rethink my childhood impression of the series. I might like Wesley, and I might hate the Federation. I haven’t gone back to watch it for fuller context though.

Please feel free to correct me because it will give me new details to watch for when I eventually binge the show again, but I don’t really like Skyler because she’s boring. Like I get you with people hating her because they think Tyler Durden is the hero of the story, but she feels like a serviceable cardboard wife to fill a niche in the plot.

Marie has fun details like her entire life being coated in purple for absolutely no reason, or how annoying she is. Lydia has anxiety, cowardice, and a lack of morals to make her interesting. So why did they make Skyler so boring? I have to assume it was on purpose because they can obviously write women.

Weren’t they intentionally written to be hated though?

Back in the day your identifier was whatever name you typed in. On IRC you could put a password on a name to claim it so long as you didn’t go inactive for too long (and then it would be free for anyone to take), but you didn’t have to, and on many web chats you didn’t even have the option. It was very common for people to change names frequently for jokes, RP, or setting a status. You didn’t have a profile picture or friends list or any of that.

If you know you’re being filmed, you usually modify your behavior accordingly. You can actively participate in whatever’s being filmed, double-check your posture, cover your face and walk away, etc. Not everyone wants their image spread online, so it’s important to give people the opportunity to avoid being filmed.

Yeah, but usually you know you’re being recorded because you can see the recording device. I think it’s fair to film in public, but not secretly.

Not saying thank you isn’t having a meltdown or making a scene, nor is it analogous to unsafe driving practices. Are you thinking this up just because they said they’re autistic?

My advice is only to not be passive-aggressive when people don’t behave the way you think they should, which is pretty low-effort.

I think it’s interesting to dream of “before we were gendered” when Wendy is so heavily gendered despite being a non-grown-up child the same as the others. None of the boys are expected to assume the role of mother, and none of the boys have been conditioned by society to accept it as their place.

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I agree that we should all work on ourselves to the best of our ability, but I think the point I’m sticking on is the idea that this person deserves to be punished with revenge rudeness if they fail to perform politeness a specific way.

I don’t think “cease interacting with humans” is the best advice.