They have to personally attend the insuguration.

There’s no way they personally invade Greenland.

I don’t want you to digitize my handwriting, I want you to convert my handwriting to text.

Just got a replacement credit card yesterday, they don’t even put signature blocks on the back anymore.

To be fair, TikTok is not banned yet. There is no enforcement action against them. They are choosing to do this now to make a point.

Well, that’s great for you! Definitely not the norm though!

Continuing to work for the same company will only provide +2% to +4% per year regardless of knowledge gained. You aren’t paid for how much you know.

To get the large gains in income, you have to re-set your salary by changing jobs, at which point you get one big bump, then go back to +2% to +4% per year.

Hey now, that’s not fair, there’s also…

Films can have the same problem.

Notably the 4th film in the “Divergent” series was never made, although we got the first 3. The 3rd was a rushed failure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_(film)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divergent_Series:_Insurgent
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divergent_Series:_Allegiant

Similarly, the film adaptation of the “His Dark Materials” series sputtered out after one film, Golden Compass:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)

It would take TWELVE YEARS to reboot the franchise as series television for HBO.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians was another notable failure which somehow got 2 films out of a 7 book series:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson_%26_the_Olympians:_The_Lightning_Thief

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson:_Sea_of_Monsters

It also would see a streaming reboot, this time 10 years later on Disney+

Even the perennial classic Narnia books had trouble in the film space, getting quite good adaptations of the first three books of seven before vanishing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_The_Lion,_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_Prince_Caspian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader

It would look like a standard Xbox or Playstation controller, only instead of a right analog stick, there would be a trackball.

“a large, big box retailer”

Why not call out the retailer? WalMart? Costco? Kroger?

Got a bill for a refill on one of my prescriptions… $660 for 30 days.

Yup, which is why I give folks a shot to change it before removing it. ;) Unless it’s clearly from the submitter.

Pretty much!

“My primary care physician retired, can you find me a new one?” that kind of thing.

There is no cease fire… yet. At best it’s proposed until Israel votes on it and even then, wouldn’t start until Sunday.

I’m not holding my breath.

While true, the headline fails to match the article. Please make it match or we’ll have to remove it.

https://brignews.com/2021/06/29/action-between-the-sheets-theory-with-the-greeks-the-8-types-of-love/

A concierge service can be immensely helpful. My company got bought by a giant tech company in 2019, when it happened, a) I was 4 weeks into a 6 week open heart surgery recovery and b) they changed my insurance causing me to lose my existing hospital and all my current doctors.

The concierge set me up with a new hospital and new doctors. When I started having post surgical complications that would have killed me, and the new hospital told me I’d have to wait 3 months to see someone, the concierge got that time cut down to 2 weeks.

I mean, I still almost died, and wouldn’t have if I had been able to keep my existing insurance, but the concierge took care of things that I was in no shape to deal with.

Think of them like the medical version of a hotel concierge. “Hey, can you arrange for a cab to meet me here at 2:45 PM?”

“Certainly sir.”

Surprising nobody. :(

Not at all, I stepped down from a sysadmin gig for a job with less responsibility, more pay and now, after a couple of ownership changes, I’m working for a bigger company than I ever would have otherwise.

Tuk Tuks! Those are awesome! But I’d be soaked to the bone trying to drive one here 10 months out of the year.