they’d say hours were normal but they might need extra hours during “crunch time”,

I always had this arrangement at the companies I worked for, except the "normal hours" were actually me doing next to nothing, and the "crunch time" was me genuinely busting my ass for a few weeks nearly every waking hour to get the software finished and out the door. It was nothing more than an extension of how I handled college rather than some arrangement that the companies intentionally offered. Management was always just so utterly fucking clueless about anything related to the technical side of software development that it was easy to fool them into thinking that my way of doing things was just normal for the field.

We need to leave ... now.

Also nonsense at the end ("serving a 37 year sentence").

I wouldn't want to be bicycling around that motherfucker, either.

I think that at some level they understand how easily their own views are shaped by the people around them and by the media they consume. So they assume everyone is like that and that if you're gay or trans it means you've been manipulated into it by external forces. It's weird to me to imagine being so malleable to social pressure that you would undergo trans surgery because of it, but conservatives really think that's what's going on and it's because they are that malleable to social pressure.

Nobody ever made fun of my dancing. Women even complimented me on it a lot. I thought I sucked and that's what mattered.

I like your graphic.

In ancient times (with some exceptions) the elites preserved their monopoly on organized violence and did most of the fighting themselves. Then they helped themselves to the young women without any regard for what the poor young men thought about it.

I was a teenager/college kid in the '80s. I would occasionally go dancing with friends but I never enjoyed it because I thought I was bad at it. Turns out everybody was a terrible fucking dancer then. Go look at any video of kids dancing from that decade and you'll see what I mean. I've never seen a more definitive example of '80s dancing than this video. I wish I had known had bad everybody was because I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

No, they want the kids to know it's coming.

Only things that have changed are the social control technologies and the mustaches.

I found a 5 pound slab of skirt steak for about $6 a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was hallucinating.

I'm on .world and I see .ml stuff.