The frame stutter issue that progresses throughout a session until it renders the game unplayable can apparently only be fixed by downgrading steam to a version from 2024?? crazy that that sort of thing can just happen and there's no recourse. Although maybe if I play it on a powerful enough machine I can just brute force past it?

I had to travel over twice my normal commute to get to the location of an all-day event which is highly unusual for me. Now our finance person is saying I "don't get paid for travel", which I would agree with if it was my ordinary commute and not over an hour! Funny thing is I usually get reimbursed for ride share (except the tip 🙄) but I opted for public transit this time because I didn't want to bother with the reimbursement process and half expected them to stiff me...

Mostly just venting, but if anyone has a legal source more directly talking about this under FLSA that would be swag. A lot of stuff is couched in "travel to another city" which isn't technically true in my case

(making a dedicated post since this doesn't exactly fit with the mega's trans joy theme)

I asked my sister if I could come over to her place after my doctor's appointment to do therapy. She then lets slip to my mom that I've got an appointment. I've basically told my mom everything about my health except the whole trans thing so me not telling her obviously sets off alarm bells. She knows when my last check-up was and it wouldn't make sense to go to this doctor for a work mandated test. Worst of all since I reset my phone I had read receipts on so she could tell that I read her initial message and didn't respond, so I couldn't take time to think of a casual excuse.

I eventually told her that I was trying to introduce a little privacy in regards to my health thanks to work I'd been doing in therapy, which is true on a variety of levels

Was not expecting to have to deal with this. I'm still waiting a little longer to tell my mom but now this is hanging over me

This one just got updated to account for OBBBA and such. Silliness of deficit hawking aside, I always get a kick out of them because of how easy they end up being. Slash military, raise taxes on super wealthy and you're pretty much there. I can fit public option, free community college, and universal pre-K in there and still hit their arbitrary thresholds

Like I know I shouldn't, the process of US tax filing is silly and unnecessary, etc.

but I feel so responsible!!! I do them as early as I can, like as each document I need becomes available. Shit rules

The source is this paywalled report, the headline of which notably doesn't go as far as the techpowerup one, though that might just be to bait people into buying access to the full report.

I know very little about fabrication itself, but it seems like the gist is it's impressive, but pretty expensive and pushing the limits of what's realistic with DUV. I wonder what the plan is if China still can't source (or develop) EUV tech soon?

- me after having lunch

My apologies Michael I was unfamiliar with your game

lil bro was crawling towards me on my bed while I was talking to my therapist. I excused myself and almost caught it in a plastic bag before losing it, then severely crashed out about that for 15 minutes with my therapist, then spotted it again and nabbed it. Weirdly pleased because at least I know for sure now.

Good news is it's the landlord's responsibility to take care of, bad news is I'm the one who gets screwed if they do a bad job. I've been doing a healthy amount of research so I know the protocol but if anyone has any hot tips I won't turn my nose up at them

Saw this mentioned in the news mega but was having trouble finding the original source, which appears to be this press release from Maine's DHHS

Suppose that following the resignation of a W-2 employee, the employer replaces them with an independent contractor. The contractor does the exact same work the W-2 employee was doing. Would this be a clear-cut case of employee misclassification? Is there any obvious caveat that would prevent it from being so? For the purposes of this hypothetical, assume it occurs in a state with fairly strong labor laws.

Thank you for participating in my thought experiment!

Bro is gonna become a waiter at the table of success