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U.S. hospitals struggle to match Walmart pay as staff flees omicron -- (link) - ty97 Jan 7, 06:05 6
- "“What used to be an $8 job now is $15,” said Bruntz,... “That’s the only way we get people to come to work.”" - Krusty Jan 7, 06:15 2
  - $8/hour was "okay" in retail *30* years ago. C'mon, people. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 7, 06:22 1
    - Yup. Companies cry about not finding workers while refusing to pay them enough to live on. It's amazing how easily some companies found workers when - Krusty Jan 7, 06:26
- Related: My brother had to let go some staff who refused to vaccinate. -- nm - loosilu Jan 7, 06:10
- a different thing, but apparently our school board's director had to get pulled in as a sub in the week before Christmas. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 06:08
- ^This is criminal^ -- (edited) - Will Hunting Jan 7, 06:08
Labor market is nuts. 199k new jobs … ADP says what? And unemployment drops from 4.2 to 3.9% -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 06:04 4
- They seem to always revised the previous months upward to little or no notice. Every month it's a disappointing number. - Inigo Jan 7, 06:12 3
  - Sure but on Tuesday, 1 guy says +800k…on Friday, one says +200k. That’s a really shaky foundation to count something as important. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 06:16 2
    - I think a lot of it is the seasonal average adjustment the Bureau of Labor applies that the ADP doesn't. - Inigo Jan 7, 06:22 1
      - Except in this case the non-seasonally adjusted bls number was even smaller -- nm - znufrii, exceeded expectations Jan 7, 06:25
Wordle brag: 3 steps. spoiler -- (pic) -- nm* - loosilu Jan 7, 06:04 8
- I got it in 6 after pretty much giving up after 2. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 7, 06:53
- In 3 - rollo Jan 7, 06:38
- i did it in four - Andie Jan 7, 06:22 1
  - Ditto. -- nm - TWuG Jan 7, 06:23
- ACTUAL SPOILER ABOVE. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 7, 06:05 3
  - I removed it. I didn't realize the ST rules for it. Sorry! -- nm - loosilu Jan 7, 06:06 2
    - There an export feature. -- (link) - Tim Jan 7, 06:14 1
      - that's really cool -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 06:16
The owner of the company has requested a meeting g with me alone at 11 this morning. I am either getting fired or promoted. - Andie Jan 7, 05:57 13
- It will be well deserved. - spamlet Jan 7, 06:21
- Be sure to return the Everlasting Gobstopper -- nm - Baron Enero Jan 7, 06:20 1
  - *chuckle* -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 7, 06:22
- Yay! (NM) - Marlowe Jan 7, 06:13
- Go Andie! -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 06:06
- isn't this the job you kinda took for something to do like years ago :) -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 06:06 1
  - 10 years ago. and yes. -- nm - Andie Jan 7, 06:15
- give 'em hell, kid! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 06:04
- “In reviewing the state of the company, I’ve decided to promote you to CEO with me moving into a quasi-retired Chairman role.” -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:59 3
  - "Bye-eeeeeeee! *swoop*" -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 06:17 2
    - Andie, sits at CEO desk, opens top drawer. *finds 5 winning tickets to the Canadian lottery and immediately triples company revenue* -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 06:18 1
      - This. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 7, 06:28
- 🤞🏼 -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:58
You may remember I mentioned about a week ago about my sis' NYE from hell. - Marlowe Jan 7, 05:52 1
- Glad both are recovering well. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:57
So, as mentioned, I have to replace my video doorbell (1080p Wired Eufy). I have these options -- (edited) - oblique Jan 7, 05:44 4
- (is this pronounced "you-fee"?) -- nm - prayformojo Jan 7, 05:56
- CES had a door manufacturer with a built in smart lock and doorbell. Imagine having to replace your door because one failed? -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 05:51 2
  - is there a good place to catch up on all CES news? -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 7, 05:54 1
    - I just saw they had a traffic jam in the Musk Tunnels. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:56
Does this work? - ty97 Jan 7, 05:40 4
- Mine - Shaun Jan 7, 05:45
- who knew we could paste like this? - amanda jeans Jan 7, 05:43 1
  - I could swear I tried before and it didn't work. -- nm - loosilu Jan 7, 06:08
- I guess I could have looked at kilbo's post and I would have known the answer! -- nm - ty97 Jan 7, 05:43
Wordle - oblique Jan 7, 05:33 12
- Three as well - mafic Jan 7, 07:06
- 6 today but 3 for 3 so far -- nm - Strongbad Jan 7, 06:22
- 4 for me. 2 for 2 so far!! -- nm - Shaun Jan 7, 05:44
- Got it in 3 - spamlet Jan 7, 05:40 2
  - mine (icon) - loosilu Jan 7, 06:07
  - Mine - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:43
- How do you all get the icon picture? The site I go to doesn’t have that? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:34 5
  - It's the share button from your results. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 05:36 1
    - oooooooooh. -- nm - loosilu Jan 7, 06:05
  - I'm playing it here -- (link) - oblique Jan 7, 05:35 1
    - Somehow I missed that. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:41
  - This is the site I use -- (link) - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:35
“shoot to kill without warning” -- (link) - mud Jan 7, 05:31 1
- That'll engender love and devotion! Just like in Romania! -- nm - Mop Jan 7, 05:52
The NFT market is incredibly small and concentrated. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 7, 05:25 1
- and profoundly stupid. -- nm - mud Jan 7, 05:27
Ringer on Wordle. May be interesting to some of ya'll. -- (link) - Volnelk Jan 7, 05:13 18
- *updates the Krusty variable in the ST Predictive Model to +1 curmudgeon* -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 7, 05:26 1
  - :-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:50
- People always take things too far and using a program, even one you created, is cheating. Not everything has to be a contest with everyone else. -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:21 15
  - I get where you're coming from but it's programmer thinking, which is useful - Reagen Jan 7, 05:24 14
    - I see it as a brain game that's a fun little challenge. To make a program to give you the best possible next word is very much like using a program to -- (edited) - Krusty Jan 7, 05:32 12
      - if *you* make the program, that's you solving the puzzle, just efficiently - Reagen Jan 7, 05:34 11
        
        I don't agree at all. The program is doing something you couldn't do without it. It's giving you help. I don't see the point of playing these games -- (edited) - Krusty Jan 7, 05:38 10
        
        because it's a different puzzle to those people. - Reagen Jan 7, 05:43 9
        
        I understand what you're saying and I still think they're cheating. -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:50 8
        
        They still only get the same 6 guesses as anyone else. It's no different than figuring out that the outside 3 is the best shot in basketball - Reagen Jan 7, 05:52 7
        
        I get it and if they're happy with how they're playing good for them. - Krusty Jan 7, 05:56 4
        
        From the article, one guy who perfected his silver went back to playing it normally. - Roger More Jan 7, 06:00 1
        
        I get the desire to figure things out or solve a problem. If that's the case, I'm cool with it. - Krusty Jan 7, 06:17
        
        I think that we can agree that using someone else's solver is low-down dirty rat behaviour. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 05:58 1
        
        Agreed! -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:59
        
        Such a programmer thing to say “the most efficient opening word is TARES”. Stare, rates, tears are all right there! -- nm - Roger More Jan 7, 05:55 1
        
        word endings and letter positions! - Reagen Jan 7, 05:57
    - (today's seems designed to frustrate most of the common starter words) -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 05:27
Happy birthday, Zork! Woo hoo!!!🎂🥳 -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:02 4
- Happy b! (NM) - Marlowe Jan 7, 05:39
- cheers ! -- nm - mud Jan 7, 05:28
- Happy BDay -- nm - budice Jan 7, 05:07
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 05:04
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Jan 7, 04:12 [Attachment] 5
- DON CRONUT - The head of the hybrid bakery mafia -- nm* - Reagen Jan 7, 06:05
- TURNCOD - a fish that betrays its school -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 06:04
- Dr Count - after receiving his honorary PhD from MIT -- nm - VMan Jan 7, 06:04
- ToddCourt - the place to settle disputes among all Todds. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 04:38
- Turn On No Count—the not so subtle code, implanted in voting machines - Flavorize Jan 7, 04:20
David—look away—Ridley and Falcons could be looking to part ways. His base salary jumps to $11M, next year but then he’s a FA in 2023 -- (edited) - Flavorize Jan 7, 04:11 [Attachment]
TV PSA: Smackdown, Penn & Teller, Shark Tank, Undercover Boss, Gold Rush, Magnum PI, Nancy Drew, Blue Bloods, AEW Rampage, Search Party, RuPaul, -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 04:10 3
- UK has Would I Lie To You, Death in Paradise, Graham Norton, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 04:46 1
  - Sweet! -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:23
- Amazon: The Tender Bar, The Expanse ; Hype House (NF), Figure Skating, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 04:12
A second tennis player has joined Novak Djokovic in immigration detention after having her visa canceled -- (link) - Beaker Jan 7, 04:08
Everyone can stop trying to write headlines now -- (link) - Reagen Jan 7, 04:05
Heh, email from our bookstore president - she 'forgot' today was Thursday and she was supposed to be in the store. I can actually relate. - Meg Jan 6, 22:50 1
- The two or so weeks around Christmas were a blur of never knowing the day of the week or the date. - Dark Callisto Jan 7, 06:18
why didn't Star Trek Federation ever develop cloaking tech when half the galaxy had it including dumbass klingons -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 21:31 8
- I accidentally went to my first Star Trek convention dressed as Chewbacca…. - Flavorize Jan 7, 03:45
- many leaders of Star Fleet were idiots. if you look at early published blueprints for the Enterprise & other ships, NO BATHROOMS. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 6, 22:28 3
  - Star Trek Lower Decks explained that. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 23:20 2
    - Spoilers for the curious - Beryllium Jan 6, 23:46 1
      - Thus, he would boldly go where no man has gone before -- nm - Flavorize Jan 7, 03:43
- Gentlemen don't hide each other's mail. -- nm - Max Jan 6, 22:05
- Two reasons: The Treaty of Algeron and because the time they tried it illegally, they got a starship stuck inside a rock. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 21:37 1
  - right, they were only allowed the 1 on the Defiant to fight the Dominion. Otherwise war with the Klingons and Romulans was a certainty -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 03:56
Poll: Have you ever eaten a coffee berry? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 21:06 7
- In bed -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 21:47
- I've had espresso bean chocolates but never an unroasted berry -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 21:29
- To my knowledge I've never seen one. -- nm - Ender Jan 6, 21:12
- yep. I had an experimental coffee plant last year. it did ok, I'm not sure I'll plant more. also been to a bunch of coffee plantations. -- nm - mafic Jan 6, 21:10
- are you related Bery? will we be in trouble? -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 6, 21:07 2
  - No, no, I'm just curious. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 21:08 1
    - no -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 6, 21:18
WOW! Marines perform boarding exercises with jetpacks and land on a high-speed ship -- (link) - Remlik Jan 6, 20:58 4
- Royal Marines. That’s a UK ship. -- nm - Roger More Jan 7, 05:51
- Adam Savage used those to build himself a titanium iron man suit and flew it -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 21:33
- Not terribly stealthy... -- nm - Ender Jan 6, 21:13 1
  - That was my first thought. Cool, but doesn't really feel like once you land you can move around very well. - Volnelk Jan 7, 04:45
Ooh, this is well done (about "they/them" pronouns) -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 6, 20:53 1
- Yup. I remember being taught to use "he or she" and I'm pretty sure I had to write that way through college. Trouble is, nobody talks that way:) -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 20:59
January 6th birthdays: Gerald R. Molen (87), Trudie Styler (68), Rowan Atkinson (67), Howie Long (62), A.R. Rahman (55), Norman Reedus (53) - Max Jan 6, 20:39
AskReddit's "top" shows that started off promising but turned out to be garbage. I'm enjoying knowing when it's OK to give up on a show. Thoughts? -- (edited) - con_carne Jan 6, 20:05 10
- Misfits didn't become garbage, just not as good as the start but was still enjoyable. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 04:50
- The list of series that finished strong would be short. -- nm - Mop Jan 6, 20:31 1
  - Certainly, but these are mostly mid-show offenders, I think. In fact, I don't even know why I left GOT in besides a chance to be snarky. -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 20:37
- Star Trek Discovery reads your IM and says "Only twice per episode? Are you sure you're OK?" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 20:25 1
  - That comment made me think of This Is Us. They're soaking in it:) -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 20:29
- I totally disagree about Altered Carbon. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 20:23 2
  - S2 of Altered Carbon shouldn't have happened, full stop. -- nm - Mop Jan 6, 20:31
  - Ah, ok. I think that person mentioned something about not liking Anthony Mackie *shrug* - con_carne Jan 6, 20:28
- If you stop after Season 2 of True Blood you don't even get to Alcide! Stop (if you want) after Season 5 like showrunner Alan Ball did. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 20:11 1
  - I wish shows would advertise more who the show runners are. That should be the first name after the actors and creator. -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 20:40
Jesus, is it STILL January 6? It feels like today started 2 weeks ago. -- nm - Ender Jan 6, 20:05
Since I finished the Best Picture/AFI list I’m doing rom coms I’ve never seen. Watching Pretty Woman now, it’s great. -- nm - MDH Jan 6, 19:51 1
- Add Man Up to your list. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 04:51
*looks around* ahh, doesn't appear anyone needs me right now, cool. -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 19:26
Oh goodie, sounds like systemic collapse is on the way. Fun. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 6, 19:20 2
- WA state hospitals are expected to go into crisis mode again -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 19:26
- oh, I thought this was gonna be re: The Expanse heh -- nm - mud Jan 6, 19:23
I backboarded to the part where Ty asked if rock music was dead and I got so angry... so so angry. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 19:18 23
- I'm with ty97, I think there are multiple dead genres, and rock is one of them. Same with rap. - MDH Jan 6, 19:59 9
  - You may not like it but it doesn't mean it's dead. -- nm - Krusty Jan 7, 05:04
  - Psst. Qale has this thing called The Twenty.... -- nm* - con_carne Jan 6, 20:12 2
    - Yeah, but the current list is the Top 20 for 2021 and admittedly it has less rock than usual. Though that was a deliberate choice. - Qale Jan 6, 20:20 1
      - But I think a lot of stuff that isn't rock is rock-inspired anyway. If it weren't for this, we'd all still be singing like Doris Day and Al Jolson. -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 20:48
  - It's not that rock is dead, it's that radio is dead. And SirusXM will be next if they don't watch it. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 20:05 4
    - My truck has an XM thingy built in. Have never regularly used it. - Beryllium Jan 6, 20:23 1
      - (Yes, I call my compact SUV a truck. No, it is not a truck, it is just a slightly taller car.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 20:27
    - I can believe that radio is dead. I haven't listed to normal radio in years. I listen to XM regularly though. -- nm - MDH Jan 6, 20:08 1
      - On occasion I'll listen to Octane and Alt Nation and they're doing a modest job at aping what a terrestrial rock station might play. But obviously... - Qale Jan 6, 20:17
- I feel that Foo Fighters is the greatest rock band of all time, and they’re active today. -- nm - Mop Jan 6, 19:39 6
  - ...no. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 01:57
  - I certainly could see a compelling argument suggesting that. Many of my favorite current 'rock' bands are multi-genre. Grandson, Badflower. - Qale Jan 6, 20:05 1
    - I left out a lot of things in my list I would consider "alternative". But worrying about genre is kind of an Old Person thing now. -- nm - Reagen Jan 7, 01:54
  - They're great ... but greatest? I dunno. Close, for damn sure. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 19:47 2
    - Recency bias from both of you -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 19:48 1
      - None of the 80s bands count - Beryllium Jan 6, 19:49
- You can fling him into the Grand Canyon -- nm - Dano Jan 6, 19:24 5
  - Which is my favorite Tracey Thorn song. She is the girl from Everything But The Girl which isn't rock music, but still darn good. -- nm* - Qale Jan 6, 19:29 4
    - Such a distinctive voice. She did the soundtrack to one of the films I worked on (The Falling) which was Florence Pugh's film debut. -- nm - LMS Jan 7, 04:44
    - one of my very favourite tracks is her covering a Kate Bush b-side: -- (link) - mud Jan 6, 19:33 [youtube] 2
      - Oh yes! She really is as underrated as Kate herself if we want to be honest. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 19:36 1
        
        I had a couple friends in Toronto in the 80s, total metal heads, who loved both of them (as did I of course) -- nm* - mud Jan 6, 19:39

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