The closest I’ve got is Neal Stephenson, specifically his System of the World trilogy vs the standalone Cryptonomicon, both set in the same larger context, and even with a character that shows up in both.

I loved the standalone, but I’ve tried and failed multiple times to even make it through the first of the trilogy.

E•M👁️•TION

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!

One Dog Goes to Heaven

Man in Tight

Yikes! Stripes. :'(

I agree with the sentiment, but acktshually… https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html

Lots of people get by without wearing glasses too, but that doesn’t mean that my blind eyes don’t need them.

Lots of people get by without a therapist, but that doesn’t mean my crumbling mental health doesn’t need one.

Everyone needs different things to lean on – don’t shame others for having their own needs, even if you don’t understand what it’s like to be in their head. :-)

Cums with the territory.

Tanking Janet Jackson’s career and slut-shaming Britney. Both were accepted behaviors at the time, but IMO that just makes it worse, he never even had to really account for it.

I think you have the vaccine part backwards?

In this case, the sweeping 64-page bill also dealt with city and county governance and banned COVID-19 vaccine requirements for public workers in Missouri.

The court struck down the law that banned mandates.

🎶 Down in the workshop, all the elves were making toys…

I mean, strictly speaking, are not all abbreviations unnecessary? Sticking-my-tongue-out ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange symbol face.

Donnie Darko

28:06:42:12

…fair enough. :-| Didn’t read it that way but I can see it.

No. The court is ordering the state to allow the necessary medical procedure, NOT mandating to the pregnant woman that she must have an abortion. You either need to read the article more closely, or stop changing the words into different meanings, whichever is relevant.

As an engr manager, I’ve often seen disparity as a result of being hired during good years vs bad years for the company. Or when someone gets a better offer to leave, the company may change their pay but no one else’s. Or hiring externally vs a transfer from another internal team. Or whether the team is coding for frontend web vs dev tools, even if using the same language. Or if female.

It’s always a challenge for one person to fix – with HR, with the department head, with yearly budget. And sometimes fixing one disparity means not having the sway to fix another as well.

Which is to say – pay transparency and unions are good for everyone. And if the company can’t afford to treat the employees equitably, then the company shouldn’t exist. (Or it should reduce its avocado toast budget.)

The trick is to carefully check underneath the ice dispenser.

🎵 And Alice’s Restaurant. 🎶

toothpaste back in the tube

Well now there’s an apt metaphor… :-P

Objectively, it sounds like it’s an innocent tradition and a healthy charity.

Subjectively, it’s tone-deaf af, when the rule-makers perform superstition for such a massive world-changing problem. Basically “thoughts and prayers.”