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viralfrog

dragongirlbunny

deepdoughbeast

Buster Keaton's spirit is doubled over with tears in his eyes.

beardedmrbean

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com

I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.

microsff

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

lionessfeather

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

beardedmrbean

luprand

I think my favorite part was when it just slurped a dozen raw eggs directly out of their shells.

angry-eevee

when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.

galren

#give us the middle-aged gender fluid Chinese protagonist that we can all relate to and project on (via @mr-and-mr-pavus)

computationalcalculator

funbearer

beardedmrbean

that one is a win win, shaded parking, and electricity production

deepdoughbeast

Hands up everyone who feels like they should have figured this out themselves, but didn't.

ell-does-stuff

shadow quiz is about to go crazy

deepdoughbeast

As if everything on a plate wasn't hard enough!

You Promise?

It's not justifying the paycheck to you, is the thing.

It's justifying the paycheck to HR and payroll, who don't know you from the next guy and may not care. It's justifying your paycheck to the new boss, who just got hired with a fancy new MBA and wants to make some changes around here because he knows how real businesses work. It's justifying your paycheck to your bitter coworker, who wants to know why you're paid so much if all you do is gripe on social media all day.

In each of those cases, you now have a paper trail of what you've done, what you're working on, and why you're worth that much. It's regular documentation for legally covering the butts of everyone involved in terms of both pay grades and firings, and yeah, in an ideal world, it would also be happening in smaller doses at more frequent intervals. (My current boss does weekly one-on-one meetings to catch up on people's lives, see if they need help, discuss upcoming projects or events, and so on.) But it's also helpful to take a look at broader trends sometimes and see if there are any big patterns affecting things.

Basically, it's one of those necessary evils of working in a corporate world, which got worse when a lot of bosses failed to notice the real use of them and started to treat the ritual as its own purpose - or thought "I can ignore them for the rest of the year now that I have these annual checkups!"

(And yeah, improvement goals suck. I loathe them too. Unfortunately, much like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, they are occasionally useful and therefore I have to put up with them the rest of the time. Granted, the owner of my employer is a university research hospital, and constant learning is kind of their shtick, so I try to be philosophical about it.)

deepdoughbeast

We had this at one of my jobs. It was awful. Housekeeping at a Hotel on a University Campus. Run by recent grads from their Business track. If you didn't have a Business degree, your opinion meant zilch. They'd ask us to rate ourselves on a scale from "Unsatisfactory" to "Needs Improvement" to "Satisfactory" to I Don't Remember Past That. NOT. ONE. PERSON. Got a Satisfactory on ANYTHING. it was just an excuse to demand more, more, more and remind us any problems we had were unimportant, meet our targets. (I once stormed into a room I was cleaning, handed my supervisor the remains of a coffee pot someone had made oatmeal in and allowed to dry, and said if she handled that I MIGHT make her magical 30 minute goal. They were really obsessed with every room, regardless of size, shape, number of beds, state of our linens, etc taking 30 minutes. I got more stories of "this ain't getting done on time" if people want.) I am strongly in the camp of "this system might have it's uses, but they are few and far between".

dovvvvv

rolodextra

tag that make me frantically dig my earbuds out of my pocket in this public restroom

beardedmrbean

I get what's going on here, but that doesn't make it look any less goofy.

luprand

And lo, the Angel of the Lord dangled limply over them, and the Glory of the Lord fluttered off to either side of them, and they were sore afraid applauded politely.

deepdoughbeast

I have absolutely no context for this, nor do I want any.

luprand

Here, have some napping Pokémon:

Napping on a park bench.

Napping with the bestie.

Napping by the fire.

Napping with your favorite stuffed animal.

Napping as a roadblock.

Napping in the garden.

Napping before it got all the way home.

luprand

Napping in defiance of the laws of physics.

Napping halfway through a door.

Napping while everyone is so mean 2 me 💔

"Napping" after you fell and hit your head in the shower.

mortalityplays

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

roach-works

it is an incredibly joyous thing to look around at your friends as you're heading into your 40s and everyone is so much more themselves than they were when you were all scared and fragile 20-somethings. we're different genders now, we've gotten out of bad relationships and into good ones, we worked shit jobs and got better ones, we all cook a lot better and we eat better too, we casually pull off the kind of art we could only dream of as kids, we've figured out who we are and we do it on purpose now. the self-harm scars have all faded away and we complain about our bad backs and picky digestions instead.

we still lose at trivia real bad.

howdydoodydodis

“The event was organized by the Care Esports Association, which runs competitive gaming events aimed at senior citizens. The tournament featured Tekken 8 and brought together competitors ranging from their 70s through to their 90s, complete with brackets and live commentary.”

Just to really bring the lovely point home with an example!