Sorry, I was still talking about Wyll!

Yeah, he ended up hornier than I expected despite me denying all of his romantic advances. Getting his ending with Karlach made up for all of his annoyances in the first act.

I was in a similar spot as a manager for years. You can't fix everything but you can improve the conditions for your workers and in my experience, this also was the key to making our store the top in our entire state. They will not always ingratiate you with the higher-ups, but if metrics improve, they will notice and at the bare minimum tolerate you.

A few good things you can do:

• Write glowing recommendations and beg for raises every year. Also make a point to do mentorship to help each worker build their career and skills in the ways they want. You don't always have to put all of this in a review, but if it looks good and they make progress, do it.

• Spend that team building budget every month. Tell your team what it is and ask for their feedback on how they want to use it.

• Ask for input from your team and listen to what they have to say. Be transparent about what is going on, what your goals are, and what limitations you have, then try to find a way to find a place of compromise between those limitations and the feedback your team gives. Again, be open about this and ask what they think of any compromises. They'll often have a better idea of what will work to improve conditions more than you will, particularly if you are open with them about goals and limitations.

• If it's reasonable and safe for you to do so, encourage them to organize themselves into a union. You probably cannot join this, but you don't need to tell your bosses they are organizing until they have done it. You can act as a screen to their efforts until they have the power to demand recognition.

I had a similar thing happen with an ex when we were dating as teenagers. She had one of her friends call and leave a voicemail pretending to be a nurse telling me my SO had died as the result of an accident while visiting friends in another town. They left me believing this for days.

These types of people are best to cut from your life and avoid at all costs. This is only the beginning of their torturous acts.

I'm loving all the orca lore! The more fish memes posted, the deeper this rabbit hole gets and the more likely that I wind up doing some weird shit with fish that I'll never be able to adequately explain to outsiders.

Seems like a good idea except for how often these states already force their own spyware and backdoors onto projects. Ideally, the state would fund it, but given their history, I'd prefer costs were covered by user donations as the interests of the users are the only interests I trust. We are the only group that is truly independent of competing interests.

Crowd funding and donations obviously have their own drawbacks. Maybe we can find a work around to avoid the privacy violations of states in the future, but I don't have a simple answer for how to accomplish this. The way the FOSS community operates is currently the best alternative I've seen, but I'm sure it's not always lucrative for developers. People need to be compensated for their labor and our current systems tend to put development interests at odds with user interests.

I support this. If you're going to fluff a paper with a load of bullshit words and clunky phrasing, it should at least be fun.

As an addendum, I would like to abolish the use of the word "herein."

You're confused because they don't know what they're talking about.

Nominees are the candidates selected by their party. Candidates are those who are campaigning for a position. Neither term is conferred by actually appearing on the ballot (a nominee can drop out before the election), but being officially nominated by their party is how they will get on the ballot.

We get progressively less library subscriptions each year. I can't legally access some of my old papers via our institution subscriptions anymore.

I've been struggling to make sense of it. The white queen is the Roman goddess Fotruna and the only depictions of her with a bared breast I've found are modern art. Usually a bared breast is either meant to represent nurturing/charity or an indication of sexual violence.

Sure, it could mean be a symbol of her being nurturing, but in the context of this set, I wonder if it is a reference to Nazi depictions of ancient mythology such as the Night of the Amazons where they used a warped image of the mythology to display women naked amidst their "master race" propaganda. Fortuna was also popular in Germany at the time given Carmina Burana was written in the 1930s.

Ultimately I came to the same conclusion about decadence as you, but I'm not sure if there is anything more to the symbolism than that.

This generally works for most house plants, particularly the ivy-like ones.

Still, by itself, it didn't change the political landscape!

What? You can't just look at the operation by itself, you also must consider what led to that point and what happens after. You pointed out the impact Oct 7 had yourself.

These events do not happen in a vacuum and should not be considered so.