So? Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t have the moral intuition that an employer generally ought to keep employing people if it can afford to.

Look at Mr. Part of a Community here strutting his stuff.

My approach to that question is to talk about a skill related to but not required for the role I’m applying for which I would like to learn. I try to present myself as someone motivated to improve his skills in such a way that I would be qualified for the position I’d like for them to promote me to within five years if they hire me.

This one is for screening before the interview rather than the interview itself but it really bugs me: multiple-choice “How knowledgeable are you about X?” Do I have expert knowledge of C++? No, because I have just 20 years of experience. Bjarne Stroustrup has expert knowledge of C++. I’m not sure what these questions are intended to do. Are they just an HR hoop to jump through and I need to say that I am an expert? Or is everyone deliberately trying to be deceptive always claiming to be an expert in everything, so I am supposed to say that I’m not?

I’m rather more libertarian than most but I don’t think the free market, as generally envisioned, implies the freedom to send money to countries that your country is currently at war with.

It’s tragic when people are forced to give up on their dreams and become comedians just to survive.

I wouldn’t want to be one of the dudes in the speedboat though…

Unless the author of the post is tempted to quit her job as a teacher in order to become an ICE agent, her experience is actually evidence that teachers are being paid enough.

Demigods love it when you disturb their tombs.

Well, it is getting ended…

About 20% of Americans are Catholics, so that means that less than half of Catholics follow Catholic doctrine in this regard.

Almond-scented stuff (not almonds themselves - they have no noticeable smell to me).

Pine forests, the sort with lots of dry pine needles on the ground.

He’s saying that because the population of the USA is approximately 40 times larger than that of Israel, the loss of one Israeli life would diminish Israel to an extent proportional to how much the loss of 40 American lives would diminish the USA.

What’s the problem here? This course of events seems both predictable and necessarily permitted by the freedoms that we have as Americans.

I find AI to be a better conversation partner than humans in most circumstances. It’s not perfect but it’s knowledgeable about pretty much every topic and it’s always fully engaged and attentive. Most people, by contrast, aren’t very interesting and most interesting people are busy. Of course I would prefer to talk to someone who was also subjectively experiencing and enjoying the conversation, but I can get a lot out of a conversation even without that.

Device drivers don’t write themselves.

The cargo tracking firm Vortexa has reported that at least 34 tankers linked to Iran have circumvented the US blockade since it began, with 19 exiting the Gulf and 15 entering from the Arabian Sea.

I don’t understand why this is happening. Is the US Navy somehow trying and failing to intercept these ships? (That would surprise me.) Or are they being allowed to pass deliberately?

I wouldn’t mind being able to start my washer remotely - I want it to run while I’m not home because it’s noisy, but I don’t want the wet laundry to sit all day like it would if I started it and then went to work.

The first clip show episode is actually season 4 episode 18, but the framing for the clips is so good that the episode is worth watching.

I consider myself very, very lucky that my ex-wife and I did not have any children.