v_krishna

Colon, Michigan: "Am I a joke to you?"

I'm not a Jain so take this with a grain of salt. Their philosophy of nonviolence believes in two sets of rules - one for ascetics and one for "householders". The former renounce everything in service of nonviolence (they often wear masks to prevent breathing in any organisms, carry canes that they use to tap the ground when they walk, etc). The latter have more "reasonable" restrictions (but are still pure vegetarians, etc). So maybe for the former group?

There are varieties of Jainism that won't pluck fruits (will only eat what has naturally fallen) and many mainstream varieties of Jainism that won't eat any root vegetables (because digging them up would harm insects), or seeded vegetables (eating it harms the plants ability to reproduce).

Live music archive is still down for example 😞

Number 1 that's black beans. Number 2 the punchline is "i dunno but I've never paid $20 to have a garbanzo bean on my face". Number 3 I won't allow my go to joke to be stolen by these fascist goons!

What's wrong with the tongue test for 9 volts? I know it tickles some but is it actually harmful? I've been doing that for over 30 years...

Rand McNally with all the folds

99 in Berkeley right now. My house was built in like 1928 and since we rent obviously there's been no energy efficient updating of insulation or anything like that since maybe the 60s. It's like 94 inside right now. Sitting in front of multiple fans just blowing hot air at me this is the life y'all.

People forget this. Also they forget that until the 90s Taiwan was an authoritarian military state. I've been to Taiwan, it's a beautiful country and the people are wonderful, but it was founded by horrific and brutal men who were rightfully chased out of mainland China (not to mention there were already lots of people living there, who like indigenous people the world around have been made second class citizens in their own lands)

NARC

I have a friend with a PhD in linguistics, worked for years in the SF tech world in i18n, not quite a PM, not an engineer, not a CX person but somewhere between the three. He got laid off and found it impossible to get another role, I think in large part because he's super over qualified by education and years of experience, but in such a niche skill set that doesn't really fit into traditional tech company roles. He ended up taking a job at the airport doing plane loading and such!

I used to read it while pooping as a perl programmer at one of my first jobs