The New Coffee Room

Let’s hope we have 1/10th his sense of humor when we’re staring death in the face.

Check your PMs. If you know how.

I didn’t know about the split either. There’s a newish Aldis a couple towns over. I should give it a try. I’ve been shopping at TJs for 20 years. In Brooklyn it was my primary store, here it’s an occasional stop for some favorites.

None surprised me but if given a test I would have gotten 2000s right and probably 1960s (though I might have said 50s for the old fashioned)

Yes.

The original version was just for email. The first time o saw one was in 1999 at Nasdaq. Their CIO carried one. He was always testing new technologies. I remember they had a pilot project where they sent stock quotes over TV signals using the channel designed to carry closed caption information.

Me neither but it’s interesting to see betting markets thinking so.

Biannual redistrciting. Yay.

The ‘expectant widow’ thing was a bit too on point, but this was filmed well before the event.

I’m at the airport and a woman fainted at baggage claim and fell onto the carousel.

But she’s slowly coming around now.

Well yeah you lived in a 3rd world country.

Actually we had party lines but they were mostly gone by the 60s.

He'd miss a GOP senate when it came to appointments.

Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.

I recently started doing real pull-ups and dips. Previously I only did the assisted kind out of fear that I'd injure my shoulder (torn rotator cuff in 22).

I've been trying to do 3 sets of 5 (up from 3 sets of 3). I can do that with dips, today I hit 5-5-4 on pull-ups. Still need to improve my form though.

@Mik said:

Not quite sure how that works...

It's a trap bar. You stand inside it to do deadlifts. Usually they're closed on both sides. I use on at my gym. I find it much easier to lift with my legs rather than back with the trap bar.

Wow. Our leaders have been asleep at the switch for 20 years.

This is funny up and down. Hat tip to our illustrious president, had he not said Kimmel should be fired for this I never would have seen it.

https://x.com/NotAvgLiberal/status/2048116481674576230/video/1?s=46

@Doctor-Phibes said:

I'd rather hire somebody who didn't write like he'd swallowed a thesaurus and then when you met him in person couldn't make eye-contact and kept checking his phone during the interview.

The question is whether that person would even get in the door of HR or a recruiter filters your candidates before you even see them.

@Horace said:

A refusal to use AI is a luxury few in the job market can afford. Anti-AI attitudes will be remarkable in retrospect for how hot they flamed up vs how short lived they were. AI luddites are going to be a laughable species of human sooner rather than later.

I sorta think they already are.

And so many of their complaints telegraph that they haven’t used any of the modern models.