mastodon 4.7.2I'm a youthfully retired academic living in western North Carolina. Gen X and ‘80s forever!
Avatar: Me in November 1996.
This person on Charlotte Talks describing how to deal with ageism in hiring practices may not realize that they're really admitting corporate jobs are shitty jobs and not worth having. I'm including academic administration because it is basically a corporate job.
I think members of Congress should be required to adhere to the new Medicaid work requirements…and then some. I doubt many of them have real jobs.
Some good news: fewer ants today. I took some measures yesterday and they seem to be working.
The longer we tolerate Fascism the harder it will be for us to exterminate it.
Well, tonight’s gone to hell. The ants are indeed back (one just gave me the finger). I just discovered the horizontal pipe from the left kitchen sink had been detached from the drain for apparently some time now (got a fan aimed at the cabinet to dry it out). I’m drinking. How’s YOUR evening?
I think it's funny to hear about workplaces "requiring" employees to use AI. I was "required" to use Microsoft Office in my former academic workplace and I never complied. I used Star Office (as it was called in those days) and of course LaTeX. I dared anyone to look at a PDF and tell me how I created it. No one ever could, and they hated that. I'm proud of my spine.
The NCGOP also wants to exempt law enforcement agencies from official state procurement procedures. Nothing shady about that. Okay, but also make all educational institutions exempt. Never in a million years. #NCnews
I'm to the point where "punch a Nazi" and "punch a Republican" are synonymous.
The only things I like about summertime are seeing Orion rise at 5 AM EDT at the end of July and seeing my wild morning glories grow and bloom as summer turns to autumn.
Elderly lady made a substantial takeout order. Regular customer Kenny told me to tell the owner to bring him the check. Owner said the lady's order had already been taken care of by another customer. That's how we roll here.
I have never understood, and will/can never understand, the business concept of "here's a job for you to do but I'm going to change things on the fly so that you can never actually do said job much less ever complete it to my satisfaction." I would normally say "make it make sense" but there's no way for this "logic" to make sense in my mind and I'm eternally grateful for that.
Overheard yesterday at the diner: “You ain't seen an ass whoopin' yet.”
Do people really believe that AI "thinks" and "learns" like humans do? I just can't understand how one could be so gullible.
Working in the kitchen today. Heaven help us all.
Today is the day for things to get on my nerves.
Rain sweet rain!
Got more grass removed. That patching compound makes great fertilizer.
I'm tempted to tell people to just stop getting astronomical information from the mainstream press. They're peddling nonsense these days.
My next step in battle with the carpenter bees is thin sheet metal plates mounted to the fenceposts. Surely they can't gnaw through sheet metal.
A pox on my beloved NC-based Lowe's hardware for having no human cashiers available and of all the automated checkouts open only one accepting cash. To Hell with you!
Okay if the carpenter bees can gnaw through 22 gauge sheet metal they can have the damn fence.
Got one long asphalt driveway crack de-grassed this morning. May try to de-grass another before any rain gets here.
I think this crud I've had has become a sinus infection. My sense of smell mysteriously vanished late last week and seems to come and go and I have persistent upper nasal congestion. I alao can no longer type a single post without having to edit it extensively thanks to the algorithms that make space around keys bleed onto other keys. I'm beginning to hate Apple.
The United States of America is too superstitious for its own good, and too superstitious to be a global superpower.
It's amazing how celebrities are worshipped for saying the obvious.
There is no way on God's green Earth I could have survived in the military. I would have been thrown out.
We have more choices than we sometimes allow ourselves to see. Sometimes we are afraid to even admit it, much less act on some of them.
You know, I just can't see paying three figures to a local nonprofit to hear an already wealthy person, a celebrity, yammer on about something or other. Something else I just can't wrap my brain around.
HA! Finally had the spine to silence his Nazi ass! #USPol
Have you tried that Pocket Hose Copperhead product Richard Carn endorses? #PocketHose
The NCGOP is attempting to prevent anyone except for Republicans from winning elections and citizens are just letting it happen. #NCnews
Sometimes I'm driven to question my own intuition and observation of reality. Then there are days like today where I independently discover that my intuition is spot on and my observations of reality are shared with, and confirmed by, others, so it's not just me. Being the newbie with the most to learn, I expected as much, but holy crap...