Granted. Pain fills your mouth as your individual teeth begin to fuse, cutting through the gum line held each tooth in its own pocket. As blood starts to fill your mouth you try to spit it out. Your jaw fights to open but the fusion of your the top and bottom rows of teeth holds your mouth shut. The pain settles to a consistent throbbing as the fusion completes. As the days pass, your hunger grows. Unable to eat you become weaker and more desperate. You speak, through clenched jaw to doctors, dentists, endodontists and a spectrum of specialists with impressive sounding titles. They attempt to cut the monotooth, but it always fuses back together before the job is even a quarter done. A feeding tube is installed to keep you alive while specialists are brought in to study your unique condition. Xrays show that the fusion of your teeth goes all the way to the roots which is now just one singular root, winding it’s way through bone and tissue to connect the upper and lower halfs. Surgery is ruled out as it would require the complete removal of your mandible as well as palate, leaving you horribly mutilated, if you even survived the extremely risky surgery. Eventually you are released from the hospital. Papers are written and lectures are given about your case. Doctors have entire careers built on your condition and some even reach celebrity status. But you? You get used to keeping your mouth closed, to avoid gawkers. You barely speak, falling further into isolation. Your only consistent companion is the mountain of medical bills from all of the failed efforts to undo your wish.

Fanta pissed me off with their ads 20+ years ago. I have not had a Fanta since.

My SO’s company asks for presentations if a candidate for certain high-level positions make it to final rounds of interviewing. It’s pitched as being a “high level overview to start a conversation, not a TED talk”. They also pay the candidates for the time to put this presentation together. I think it’s something like $200, but I am not sure.

Being asked to put together a presentation is not necessarily bad, but being asked to put in your personal time without compensation is a red flag. It speaks a lot to their culture and expectations of personal sacrifice the company likely asks of their employees.

I’ve actually been in this situation when I was working as a sys admin at a webhosting company. First I played a lot of games. Once that started to get boring I taught myself how to code which set me up to transition from sys admin to development work.

Just a reminder that additional farm subsidies were also issued during Trumps first administration because of his trade war with China and Europe. They disproportionately benefited wealthy corporate farms over smaller individual owned farms.

This is not a correction this is the plan.

It’s almost like his decision to appoint loyalists and psychophants instead of qualified personnel was a bad decision.

Just guessing here, but I would think it’s for for clarity and brevity. West and South are shorter to say and distinct enough to avoid being easily misheard causing somebody to go in the opposite direction than intended.

I hear it when it’s playing on a car radio or in an ad or on some show, and I acknowledge how music can spur an emotional response when used effectively, but I don’t regularly listen to it.

I’m assuming everyone here listens to music somewhat regularly

As somebody who does not regularly listen to music, I am curious why you would make this assumption.

sigh Another narcissist CEO who cannot grasp the idea that “life”, in this context, is just an employees working for themselves and pursuing their own interests instead of working for others to pursue corporate interests.

Is it less common than it used to be or are you just becoming more aware of it?

If I were to guess, I would say early 30s.

Overheard a conversation a few years back where a group of guys were talking about how they didn’t know how to cook or do laundry because that was woman’s work and how they expected their mothers and / or wives to do that for them. It was so pathetic how proud they were that they could not take care of themselves.

Amid his disappearance, the football team has advanced to the Virginia regional final, scheduled for this weekend, during their 12-0 season.

I can only imagine that somebody asked “How’s the team doing?” and the reporter, instead of getting reactions from the players, just looked up their season performance.

Absolutely. His ego could not accept the loss so he decided to make it his idea, ignoring that he has the power to unilaterally release the files without a law from congress.

But, if there were so many angry Republicans, as the article suggests, their anger is not resulting in a change in behavior and is effectively useless. Even MTG has made her frustrations moot by resigning instead of standing against Trump.

Only after Trump told them to.

Forgive, don’t forget.

Forgiveness is for you. So you can let go of the negativity and move on. It does not mean pretend that it never happened.

Assuming that I am aware of the perfect predictability machine and it’s affect on the situation: I move to the other side of the lever and push it. They predictability machine would be correct in its prediction that I would not pull the lever and nobody has to die.

Voltron?