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I ordered a particular type of Hanes boxer briefs that are made from a breathable fabric and hold their shape really well. Instead, I got a pack of the roughest, lowest quality material boxer briefs, the likes of which you wouldn't be able to buy in the dollar store.

I'm pretty much done with Amazon. They're betting against people actually getting frustrated and leaving, but I haven't ordered in a few months and I will get rid of my prime membership.

I received an email earlier this week from Meetup. It was an email from the CEO asserting Meetups commitment to the community. Now this. The timing is certainly a commitment alright.

I’d love to build the replacement for this site.

I wonder if bank staff are in on it sometimes. I once was at a bank branch and had the teller pick up the phone, call another teller and tell her my balance in a foreign language that I happen to speak fluently (but don’t look like I should).

I wanted to ask her why she would be doing that, but I was a bit more meek in my younger days.

This was the one and only thought that came to mind when I made an attempt to read the article.

I do wonder if it's just a question of attention span. Does the author ramble or am I just incapable of following along on a long form article? Would I have read this article before the internet? I truly don't know, but I do know that there is literally a nearly infinite amount of material to read (relative to my time remaining in life to read it) and I can't waste time on writing such as this.

They are 6 years old at this point so we are past the point of banking sleep, for the most part. Scarily, they also had different sleep schedules and one had colic and the other one didn’t (fortunately). It was difficult, but we had help so I can’t complain in earnest.

I’m not sure how anyone could defend this part without cringing at the implications for privacy.

As the parent of fraternal twins, I can say this was the biggest surprise. We have two absolutely and incredibly different children in one delivery.

I guess the other lessons learned were:

- as soon as you get comfortable with a routine, it changes

- they come into this world as their own people. You can guide them to find their strengths and weaknesses and give them tools to work with those, but it really is nature at the core and nurture only helps them to be better versions of who they intrinsically are

I feel bad for your friends. They come to you often for good steakhouse recommendations and instead of pointing them to the restaurant with the best food and great service except on Valentine's Day, you send them down the block to the mediocre place in an effort to pay this place back. One of your friends might catch on and stop asking for recommendations, or worse, start giving you bad ones as well.

As for your second example, I don't find this to be good customer service. You paid for an upgrade and didn't get it. It's not just about the incremental upgrade. You could have booked elsewhere and the upgrade was part of that decision. The sum of the parts is greater than the whole sometimes. They could have done better than a refund on the delta and some booze.

It’s really quite simple. The author of the post, CTO at Mindright in the Audible building in Newark, was staying with a friend who is a leader of the leadership team of Mindright who also happens to rent his bedrooms out on AirBnb. That friend had a guest who overstayed their welcome. This happened in Brooklyn at 4pm, but it wasn’t until 1am that the police removed the guest. Four cats remained in the rented room and we aren’t sure what happened to them as of yet.

IC?

Personal training changed my life (and possibly saved it).

Also, AirPods made a big difference in dealing with my commute. The wires on my other headphones got in the way all the time and seemed to get tangled just by virtue of existing.

For someone who played muds less for the grind and more for the discovery aspect, I could see this being an entertaining experience.

I really enjoyed reading the article, btw. The writing was great, almost as winding and random and dreamlike as the subject matter.

This is a success, actually. You know what the problem is and you are doing something about it. One day at a time.

I was drinking to excess in the past few months. Didn’t make it home one night. It’s way more trouble than it is worth and I plan to change my trajectory.

I can relate to this. I look back on all of those projects and I do see the basis of the learnings that really moved me forward in terms of technical skill and reasoning. School was horrible for teaching practical knowledge and if I had simply followed the patterns that were applied at work, I would be no better than I was 15 years ago.

So yes, probably some level of time wasted, but best to take some of the learnings from that and count a few victories however small.

I am having trouble getting through this book as well. I had hopes, but I may have to “lose” the book on the train.

Visual Studio Code has what you are looking for. Worth a shot.

When I bought my Windows 10 MSI gaming laptop, it ran horribly and stopped booting up after a week.

For some reason I just exchanged it for the same model. This time I reinstalled the windows image that came with the computer with no add-ons or extra software.

I’ve had this laptop for 2 years and game on it regularly.

So my advice is: make sure you have a clean version from the start.

I agree with any or all of these. Part of my fascination with living in Japan would be in being completely alienated. I currently feel disconnected from American culture and though I "blend", I feel the distance. I think it would be good to feel what that is like when it is overtly apparent.

We adopted a declawed cat. He died at the ripe old age of 16 and gave us as many years of joy and happiness, but it was true that he was particularly skittish even around us who he had known his entire life. It was clear he was traumatized in some way and that may have contributed in some way.

> We'll still release quite a lot, and those releases won't look any different from the past.

I don’t mean to parse your words, but will you continue to publish using the same exact criteria as before or will there be a new editorial filter?

Thank you.

No matter where you go, there you are.

It is a funny article, but this line puts things in perspective:

> Out of the million or so Japanese tourists that visit Paris each year, about 12 will fall prey to Paris syndrome.

First job?

Career advice: never bad mouth a former employer. Consider the perspective of the person sitting across the table from you. Would you want to hire someone who is negative?

Another piece of career advice: saying someone went 'retard' is not really appropriate.

I just finished a short story ~30 pages that I wrote as a gift for a friend.

I also work out about 5 days a week after some time off for an injury. I’m starting to see some of the results from that so I am getting more and more motivated to do that. My goals there are weight loss and strength building. I’ve lost 25 lbs and hope to lose another 10-20 to reach a point where I feel good about how I look.

Similarly, but not exactly the same, I go walking a fair bit.

I also have kids and all of the associated activities that come from parenting.

I would assume it is not going to materialize and continue the job search. It could be nothing but the silence you are receiving from all parties makes me think the position is no longer yours. Don’t torture yourself by trying to figure out why.

I am a developer in NYC. I am seeking cofounder(s) for two ideas:

- One application is an information portal that will feature B2C ads from financial institutions. This application is built.

- The other idea is an application that would help people give to charity.

Expertise that would be helpful is interfacing with institutions and SEO/marketing to drive users.

Contact info is in my profile... partisanyc at gmail.

Since you’ve given enough details to identify yourself, I would go ahead and pull the trigger on the Facebook offer as promptly as possible.

After you leave your current job, people will look at your empty chair for several weeks and shrug. After 3 weeks, there will be someone new sitting there. After 6 weeks, you won’t be mentioned. After 6 months you won’t be remembered. After 6 years, you won’t remember them either.

I suspect the same is happening here in the US as well. There’s a growing “incel” population who are shunned because they don’t meet standard definitions of beauty or social fitness. The problem compounds as men become less and less confident about their prospects which leads to behavior like the one described in the article.

“Everyone” is too large of a group. And way too anonymous. The group would be one in which you value your membership and the opinion of others.

In the past, it would have been a church, a social club, or in a small town, the town itself.