Maybe, but that doesn’t quite track with what I experienced. It was for a fairly well known company that builds industrial tools and machines, and I interviewed at their HQ, so I don’t think it was an agency building a pool.

The screening part sounds right, but I think these guys were doing it in-house.

I’m here from /all so I can confirm this is happening in non-tech too. Not too long ago, I interviewed to be a product photographer for an industrial manufacturer, and the people who were interviewing me knew nothing about the job I was interviewing for.

They couldn’t tell me what camera they used in house, they couldn’t tell me what editing software they used, they couldn’t tell me about the lights, they couldn’t tell me anything. It’s like if the interviewers said you’d use ‘computers’ but couldn’t tell you which OS they were running.

Freon too?! Some people really want to watch the world burn.

The Aristocrats!

Meanwhile my great grandmother, in her 80s, was able to learn how to boot up Win95 to play some puzzle games.

I personally think it’s because she was never really one for passive entertainment. If she watched television, it was stuff like Wheel of Fortune and she played along. She hit up the library every week for fresh books, and did a lot of crochet and crossword.

It’s similar to how I think her curiosity for life and refusal to be afraid is why she wasn’t a bigot. We have several interracial marriages in my family, and she never had a problem with it, despite being born in 1912.

She lived to be 100, and I hope I’m half as cool as she was.

We’re not any smarter than the fascists

I’ve been saying this for a while. Being ‘on the left’ is no guarantee that somebody is intelligent or a good person that cares about others. Anybody can say they’re a leftist, but it’s gotta be borne out of action or it’s meaningless.

Most of the HOAs in my area are a mix of privately owned homes and rental properties owned by the company that built the neighborhood.

Biden tried, no loans were forgiven, some loans were forced to be more ethical, but nobody was freed from the debt.

Factually untrue. My loans got forgiven.

Yeah, that’s fair. And boomalope farming is certainly… exciting… so it gets very interesting with a large farm.

People (or bots) who go through a thread or comm and just downvote everything without otherwise engaging with the thread or comm.

It personally doesn’t bother me, but I can see why some find it distasteful.

Maybe I’m just old, because I got it right away. Grew up with those ads, so its burned into my brain.

Biofuel refining is mandatory for Mortars

Boomalope farms tho

I haven’t been able to turn up a source for it

Back in my day we didn’t use cars as a vanity, I used a normal vanity at home to put my mascara on.

It’s straight up like a sitcom in parts. Probably for the best that it never made it into the canon bible though.

Rural west coast. It is more expensive here than the midwest states, but the state insurance is fantastic, so the access to medical care is worth it.

Edit: Population of 2k, for the record

Lowkey, we never should have switched from ‘private message’ to ‘direct message’. I feel like the switch in terminology has softened the public opinion towards corps reading your mail. Private messages should be private.

I’m currently living in a slightly smaller house that’s valued at 250k. The roof leaks and the porch is falling apart, but the town has doubled in size since COVID, and so has the cost of housing.

It kept crashing to desktop for me. Literally unplayable.

Your film idea makes me think you’d enjoy the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a book in the apocrypha starring Mary teaching baby Jesus not to kill his classmates for being dumb kids.