Nollij

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's probably wiser if you climb on the 23 year old's shoulders instead. They don't need ibuprofen for back pain yet

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm in IT. It's the advice I wish I'd followed from the beginning.

Once you get comfortable in your job and it becomes routine, you need to find a new one. Keep growing your skill set, and probably take a hefty raise each time.

Don't worry about being a job hopper - it resolves itself easily enough when you don't find the next position for a while.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of people have pretty well covered how to drive in snow and ice, but here's a little secret they won't tell you:

  • Over the summer, the locals forgot how to drive on snow, too.

The first big snow will bring the car fairy to sprinkle wrecked cars along the side of the road. Most of these are given by people with plenty of experience driving on snow.

Stay home that first time. If you absolutely must drive, be the one going too slowly. After that, you can kind of do as the Romans do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

No idea what field you're in, but of course you have to adjust it regularly. This year it's brown m&Ms. Next year it's a bowl of only yellow ones. The year after, it's Skittles (no red ones). Kit Kats already split into individual bars. A bowl of Skittles mixed with corn flakes. Brown m&MS as decoy for people skimming for the clause, then later another one about 3 musketeers at the bar. I could come up with enough for an entire career without even leaving the candy realm.

It's meant to be a very simple, but specific task that is easily performed by anyone that actually read and followed the instructions. It could be a bottle of Dr Pepper (as someone else mentioned), or wearing a yellow shirt upon arrival, or calling the lead "Chief"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Beggar's night is not the same thing as Halloween. Some areas designate a specific date and time for the kids to do trick-or-treat, not on Halloween. This is beggar's night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that happens as soon as you start driving, and having to be somewhere on time (by driving)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I can confirm that All on Sopuli is regularly inundated by suggestive (but usually not outright pornographic) anime pics. Most of these are the "Moe" communities, but there are a handful that specific to the franchise the characters are from.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

SuprNova was the big one for me. Everything else was either redundant (Like RARBG) or just faded away (like my Usenet sources). I didn't have any replacement lined up when SuprNova died.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

There's a certain point where they become abandoned property, and you can just do with them whatever you want. My guess is that it's some point after the existing contract runs out, plus 30/90/365 days or whatever. Possibly requiring a court order, public notice, or something else. This will depend entirely on your jurisdiction's laws on abandoned property.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The weird thing about this claim is that these aren't deal breakers. It's possible to get insurance for exotics like McLaren or Bugatti (although no idea if GEICO does those); it just costs a lot.

I'd really like to hear more about those underwriting standards.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I once heard it described as a "3 day relationship between a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old that left 6 people dead"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Presumably, "other places" refers to other insurance companies. IOW, GEICO is (allegedly) denying them coverage. OP is hoping that Allstate, Progressive, etc will also deny coverage.

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