T.C. Aurelius
Failed academic, software developer, cat person, parent of children, maker of pizza, pro-library partisan, Guardians enthusiast, skeptic of your philosophical system
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- Wasn't there a Quantum Leap episode where Sam has to kill JFK?
- Me, unaware I'm going to have to go on camera and introduce myself at the annual town hall, hadn't showered, fixed my hair, or changed out of the navy blue "RITOS" shirt I slept in.
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View full threadApparently snack chips are a place where it's common... but they have to pump more air into the package to preserve the volume.
- Shrinkflation and inflation all in one package
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- I have a "smart" outlet on the space heater in my bathroom so that it can turn on before I get up in the morning. We have to have an oldstyle analog timer switch but the first one kept losing time and the second one caught in fire so I moved into the 21st century.
- They just changed the label and put less soap in. It would be wild if they made an entirely different bottle, that isn’t generally how shrinkflation works
- I usually have seen it where there is an entirely different bottle - peanut butter, orange juice. But those are things with transparent containers and people would notice if there were less in it.
- Gotta love the simultaneous flash and bang of a thunderstorm overhead. And by love, I mean “jump scare.”
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View full threadOur cats are remarkably thunderstorm resistant (they tend to stay in their window perches during hail storms, even) but that one made the cat in the room look up and open an eye.
- Yeah, our cats don't care.
- I work in the basement so I found out about our thunderstorm when the dog (who is Spouse's and indifferent to me) came down and hid under my desk.
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- Clark has Bruce's lawyers DMCA any influencer content capitalizing on super rescues and Superman's near invisibility on social media creates the Gem Z belief that Superman is a hoax created by a Metropolis tourism board.
- This is an amazing read that also gets at the root of why I don’t discuss the details of my old career with my new coworkers. It’s too much work to make it legible to them; when describing the career travails, they almost don’t seem to believe you because it doesn’t seem logical.
- 7 years ago today I testified in front of a NYC judge + jury how widespread ignorance of how academia works helped a murderer kill a promising scholar vulnerable only because he wanted a stable job. Things have only gotten scarier. Please share: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/historian-mu...
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View full threadIronically, I’m one of the people who probably could keep teaching and researching in an adjunct capacity because I have a stable income now and theoretically enough time but I don’t value it anymore.
- I used to teach programming to adults in the evenings and I really enjoyed that, but Girl Develop It imploded into a cloud of racism, and I would need a Masters to do it at Columbus State. Also I have kids now and no time.
- Almost everyone who seems like they have it together more than you do, just has more access to money and can smooth out their issues with it.
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- True.
