There will be games in Canada and Mexico too, consider going to those instead. The cup is in July, so due to height of summer I would be looking at Canada, personally.
I’m seeing friends cancel vacation plans and work colleagues cancel work trips to the US and I don’t blame them. If I didn’t already live here, I wouldn’t be looking to travel to the US without really good reason, and a sport tournament would not be enough for me.
People getting CEO jobs aren’t hanging with working class bros. They either never were working class or they shed those connections on their way along the corporate ladder.
Forget the fingers, look at that wrist with the bracelet cutting off circulation.
AI or are her fingers fucked up IRL?
JFC, what a psycho.
Kudos to PM Takaichi for keeping composure. Her eyes bugged out a bit but mine would have popped straight out of my head.
I did tier 1, 2, and eventually some 3 support back in the day for a software company. I liked how they handled it.
Customer called in, reached a live person doing intake. The intake person noted their question and callback number, helping to scope the problem if needed, and entered a ticket into the queue. The intake person gave the caller an expected wait time for a support tech to call back, pointed them to online written help documentation, and ended the call. Then push the ticket to tier 1, 2, 3, or “urgent, need to call NOW” queues. Depending on tier and call volume and time of day, they’d get a callback from a tech anywhere from immediately to the next morning.
Support techs like myself were coached to help over the phone, but also to point out the written materials and encourage their use. I would commonly say, “sure, that’s a problem we can fix, go ahead and go to screen x, click on button y, etc. By the way, you’re not the only one who had had this question, we even have an entry on this in our support documentation. Let me show you where you it’s at so you can get to the fix even faster than a phone call next time”.
Having the intake person take numbers, then techs call back later saved customers from having to wait on hold for lengths of time. We had very few cases of irate customers stuck waiting.
My shittiest experiences are the companies that don’t do any intake and make all tiers of calls wait on hold in the same queue. Luck of the draw if the tech you end up with is a tier 1 still in training pants or a tier 3 pissed to be walking a customer thru updating their password for the millionth tim.
Water and a solid wooden bat helped too.
Backpacking this weekend, first weekend of legit spring weather. Someone else is planning food, I’m planning the booze, a third is picking location.
Pretty much the 2026 I’ve been looking forward to most. #1 is one of very few movies I’ve re-watched 3+ times.
I wasn’t “allowed” to watch it, not because my parents had a problem with it but because we didn’t have cable TV. I miss some references other people make about SpongeBob or other Nickelodeon / cable TV stuff, but I’ve never felt like I missed out much. Especially now as an adult, I just get to ask people about something they’re nostalgic for from childhood and have interesting conversations.
I did see half an episode of Nickelodeon Guts once and would have watched the heck out of it if we’d had cable.
I only get dishwasher safe coffee tumblers and I wash them daily. I have enough respiratory goo without adding mold to the mix.
I like that the two in front spread out their fingers so you can count them and see the lack of gross deformities. That’s the good AI stuff.
Eh? They have to watch the movies. They can only vote in a category they’ve watched all movies in. It’s an honor system though so I assume some lie about what they’ve watched.
This is newer, not sure if it changed over the last year or earlier. Previously it was even more honor system “vote in the categories you feel qualified in”.
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I try not to enrich creators who are bad. Like Polanski and Weinstein and Whedon and Besson and Rowling and Gaiman. I might watch/read old stuff, but I’ll avoid spending any money on it.
Then there’s people who aren’t rapists and abusers and virulently homophobic but are still not great. I’m thinking YT creators who pull dumb and mean pranks, or just revel in the more negative aspects of human nature. I don’t watch them, but mostly because I don’t enjoy that sort of content. It makes me depressed and sad. Since I don’t like that sort of content anyway, it’s hardly an effort. Same with MAGA bro podcaster types; I don’t enjoy that garbage so “boycotting” it really just means going about my life per usual.
Still excited to see The Bride!. The negative reviews aren’t turning me off, I assume a good portion of that is because it has feminist themes and the rest is because it’s not a simple monster flick like G Del Toro’s. I know what to expect from a Maggie Gyllenhaal film, plus Jessie Buckley and Ethan Hawke? Sign me right up.
Also looking forward to Sheep Detectives. I love cozy murder mysteries; Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson are perfect casting.
Robert Eggers Werewulf.
(US context) The advice I got was that every marriage has a prenup. If the couple doesn’t write it, it’s just the default prenup their state wrote and it’s going to be crap for both people.
I love data, but I stopped to think about what I would actually do with the data Whoop provides. I wouldn’t use Whoops workout recommendations, I wouldn’t alter my training plans much off their derived metrics. I decided a far simpler watch with heart rate monitor and zone would be plenty. A monthly subscription and the amount of data shared with them were also strong disincentives. I don’t need yet another company tracking me and selling my details off to who knows who.
Well. That’s an interesting entry into film acting. I wish her the best but I think that’s a steep uphill battle.
I was super good at recording the local music radio station to a cassette tape to minimize the DJs chatter. My brother would pay me to catch songs for him. Too bad he had awful taste.