Do you ever wear neatly crisply pressed and ironed business-formal shorts to work?

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I don’t know where you’re at but I got an eyeful in New York City a couple years ago.

People walking to work in the morning on Manhattan — women sheer and braless and obviously on their way to an office job. Multiple such women. 🤯 This is not how people dress where I come from but apparently it’s a thing now at least in The City.

Also men wearing shirt and tie and leather dress shoes with no socks and a kind of garment I can best describe as “office shorts.”

I learned on that trip that I am not a fashion person.

Edit: also this user violet08 appears to talk mostly about sexy shit so 🤷

High something Not Rich Yet — people who have a shit-ton of income but blow it all on whatever instead of hoarding it properly

Well, it’s 100% linked to your contacts in one way or another because when you install it Signal will happily alert you to which ones of your contacts are already using Signal. I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.

The new amazing efficiency hotness is … going back to propellers??

The only EV I can currently find on the market that lets you turn off telematics is by BMW.

There’s an EV that lets you turn off telematics??? Which BMW is that? How verifiable is it that they’re actually turning off the signal?

Man that video at the end of the view of the axle from underneath while driving — two separate fan enclosures with small sheet-metal straps and fiddly little electronics-case screws, all facing down toward the road and right behind the wheels?

This is not a place where you put fans, or big openings into the kind of electronics you need fans to cool, if you want them to keep functioning while driving through salty slush and mud.

Seems perfect for Southern California

• 300M half axles with 930 CV joints

!!! That is WAY TOO MANY half-axles and CV joints! You need to tone it down guys, TWO half axles with TWO CV joints each is plenty!!!

No wonder it costs so much….

“Read the room” is not a rule. “Read the room” is a skill of knowing how the people in the room are feeling.

The rule that skill serves is, “don’t say things that people in the room can’t handle hearing right now”

Obvious example: avoid chattering happily about your recent raise in front of people who are miserable they just got laid off.

Usually, people dismissively saying “read the room” mean, “I know that you are capable of feeling and understanding other people’s emotions, would you please fucking pay attention to that skill right now?” (This is plenty common even for not-autistic people) But of course for autistic people that assumption is just incorrect. People saying that to autistic people need to read the room.

USA perspective: I have a relative with that name (short for Clifford) who died in the ‘60s. Good name. Not common any more but ready for a fashionable comeback.

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I’m telling you there are teachers out there who are amazing because they approach teaching without regurgitation and grade based progress.

And you have to tell us that, because mostly we haven’t seen such teachers and wouldn’t otherwise know they existed.

Do you have a link to:

It’s all on the Canadian immigration website and pretty easy to do

? The current info I have says to apply using the old forms requiring first-generation Canadian parent, wait for your rejection, and hope for an invitation at the discretion of IRCC to request discretionary grant of citizenship based on descent.

No forms for this new process appear to exist and I’m not bloody likely to achieve a certified long form birth certificate for my great grandmother born in the 1800s so it leaves me feeling pretty uncertain about what documentation exactly is or isn’t good enough.

Where are you going this stuff from about extra steps for adoptive parents? I was just reading the CIC summary of new guidelines and it said adoptive parents count the same as birth parents. You just need to get a certificate of adoption or other proof that the adoption happened and proof that the adoptive parents were Canadian citizens at the time

And now we do this?

I don’t think it was a choice exactly. The news I was reading said the Canadian Supreme Court rejected the first generation limit as unconstitutional.

No source today, sorry. Brain is exhausted from documenting my Canadian ancestry in exhaustive detail all weekend.

Yes, and yes.

At this point my wedding ring feels like a part of me. When I take it off and especially if I hand it to someday else that feels weird and alarming.

I have plenty of FireWire cables but I gave away all the computers that they plug into. Now I need a Lightning -> Thunderbolt -> FireWire 800 -> FireWire 400 -> iLink adapter chain and it would be cheaper to buy an old FireWire computer instead 🤦

Presumably if there’s a switch to turn it on then there’s also a switch to turn it back off again.