Agree about the hair, though.

I think it would be more interesting if you could change at will. Wake up and pick your gender like you pick your outfit for the day.

Yep. At one place I worked, we did a big off-site disaster recovery exercise every year.

Most of the time it went fine, but there were multiple years where a restore didn’t work due to an issue with one or more tapes. Either the data and/or indexes couldn’t be read, or the tape physically failed during the restore.

Backups aren’t backups unless they’re tested.

Oh, for sure it is. But as another poster mentioned in a comment, it’s not just cookies - pretty much any baked dessert goes well with milk.

That might be part of it. My experience is mostly with the Midwest and southeast US, where there are a lot of dairy farms.

But I totally agree.

I’m in the US. It seems to be pretty common in the Midwest and Southeast, at least. I’m not sure about other parts of the country.

Thinking about the places outside of the US that I’ve been to, I could certainly see it not being that common. Maybe it’s mostly a US thing.

Maybe it’s regional and/or cultural.

If I had to guess, I’d say I’ve probably had milk with cake more often than I’ve had milk with cookies.

As someone who had to carry one of these for work at the time -

One of the most ridiculous things about it, was that you didn’t have to use the speakerphone with the walkie talkie feature. You could hold it up to your ear like a regular cell phone, talk at a normal volume, hear the other person perfectly fine, and actuate the PTT with your thumb (or index finger if left handed) when necessary.

There was zero reason to use it as obnoxiously as most people did.

It works except when it doesn’t.

Our previous cats (who have all crossed the rainbow bridge) were happy to use scratching posts.

Our current cats are a different story. We’ve tried scratching posts with various coverings, including cardboard, jute, and carpet, and even uncovered, bare wood. They all prefer one particular chair, and occasionally the wood trim on one corner of the kitchen.

Shrug

What works for me:

1. Have radar coverage to keep an eye on biter expansion

2. Keep an eye on your pollution cloud, and reduce production (at least initially) if it’s expanding too fast.

3. Build up military tech alongside your other tech

4. Pending 3, take out biter nests that expand too close to the edge of your pollution cloud.

If you can do 1-4, biters should never actually get to your base.

Then by the time you’re ready to go off world, make sure you have a perimeter lined with turrets (and some walls to help protect the turrets), repair bots and repair kits, automated ammo production, and supply lines (belts or trains) to automatically get that ammo to your perimeter turrets.

I think it’s normal.

I made a similar move a few years ago, from 10+ years at the old job. There were red flags that came up a couple months in, but I decided to stick it out.

It took me over a year to really feel like it was the right decision. But the red flags faded as it turned out there were just some growing pains going on. Leadership managed to resolve the major issues and I’ve turned out to be pretty happy in the new position.

I’m not saying the same will be true for you… Some red flags signal issues that are correctable, but others signal toxicity or other things that are unlikely to be fixed.

But IMHO, 3 weeks seems like a short time unless the issues are really egregious.

Also consider that if you go back to your old job, your old boss may treat you worse than previously.

If you don’t like the new job and don’t want to give it more time, consider starting to look for something new immediately (you were headhunted, so your skills are obviously desirable) and continuing to move forward rather than going back.

My 2c.

Is it still considered “testing on animals” if the animals choose to test it themselves?

That’s amazing. I’ll have to look up some current builds.

I managed to finish vanilla pre space age.

After space age was released, I started over again, left Nauvis for Vulcanus and then Fulgora, but lost momentum on Gleba and wound up getting distracted by something else.

I’m sure I’ll get back to it eventually (it’s a great game, but I go through phases).

I’m a pretty casual player, and I’ve never been able to bring myself to up and move when it seems the starter base is good enough.

Occasionally I might pause production to reroute/reorganize a section when I don’t like how its turned out or I need to make room for something. And I’ll bring in more ore by train as my starter patches deplete.

I build my silo and spaceport there and then move on to the next planet.

But then, I’m also not trying to hit 1k spm or more like some of these mad lads. (No shade intended - some of the builds are seriously impressive)

8 is Clean Code by Robert C Martin (Uncle Bob)

19 is Introduction to Algorithms (commonly referred to as CLRS,)

That’s blatant biboscis erasure.

Wait… Semiboscis erasure?

Whatever.

All hail our *boscis overlords!

What’s the phone number of the chicken farm? 4444719

Explanation: Cot cot cot cot c’est un oeuf!

(cot being the French onomatopoeia for a chicken’s “cluck”)

This reminds me of the first time I saw Wall-E.

There isn’t any real dialog until later in the movie, but at one point (fairly early, I think?) it showed a newspaper.

The headline was in French.

You’d think that this would have tipped me off that maybe I downloaded the wrong version from the net. But no.

My wife and I had recently been watching a bunch of indie (and sometimes foreign) films at the local art house theatre. So it was totally plausible to me that it was an artistic choice to have the paper in French. Some comment on the future of society, or something.

And that’s what I continued to believe until much later in the movie when there was full-on dialog in French (with no subtitles) and it finally dawned on me.

Oops.

My toes, Sis.

In 1998, the young lady working the cash register at the taco bell near where I worked told me I have really pretty eyes. So I have that going for me, which is nice.