Yeah, unfortunate. Even within Cali, it’s not like they went the way of the In n Out, I see them close down more than open up. It’s too bad, they’re the OG blended ice cream, apparently making the Twister back in 1946.

That’s how I felt regarding LA. There’s something profoundly upsetting seeing people lie with AI about your neighborhood being on fire.

Nah, for the obvious gas reasons. Now, is it was a Foster Freeze… still nah, but I’d certainly consider it if I had other business in that town and could get a Boss burger alongside it.

What a weird max score… as someone who grades, you generally want it in a way that gives a clean percentage, mostly for transparency and tracking for students. My class does 500 total points (thus a 5 point quiz is 1%, 100 point exam is 20%, etc.), which is what previous instructors did and helps students figure out what is needed for an A.

But 59/59? Thats confusing af. Bet it’s out of some arbitrary total, too.

Reminds me I’m currently writing up new stuff on my course syllabus regarding LLMs, not because of the rampant cheating but because when they use them they usually get terrible grades. I already had rules, but I’m trying to rework the assignments so they either can’t really use it, are allowed to use it with guidence, or graded in a way that minimizes those scores so they get the hallucination F they deserve but have a chance to ultimately redeem it.

Teaching sucks now, HAL. :(

Interestingly enough, I only got my PhD because the job market sucked after Bush’s recession and I was promised 5 years of funding. I did get some great data analytic skills out of it, but academic positions are indeed far and few between.

One of the main factors after my graduation a few years ago was that professors just refused to retire, leaving very few faculty positions open; that changed slightly right after my kid was born but by that point I was and am ok with an adjunct part time and homemaker full time situation.

Now it’ll mostly be a lack of funding, though, unless I leave the US. Meh.

Plus all the rain those previous years lead to a ton of growth. Then just one dry period was all it took to cause those horrible fires earlier this year. Inconsistency is kind of a big problem everywhere when it comes to climate change.

My thought, given I’m by the coast and it’s only 85 here right now. It’s actually been weirdly cool up until August, actually, for a lot of CA. Everyone else was borrowing our summer heatwaves.

That was my thought. The bible is weirdly pro-genicide, too.

Yes… flexibility…

People giving you trouble cause he’s only 42 haven’t seen how miserably useless some grown men are when it comes to household stuff. I did similar for a while to save up for a house, but in my case he was also an alcoholic so it’s doubly difficult. Having moved out, he’s struggling to feed himself though.

I think caretaker is the right term, though. House-anything is weird sounding, though (housewife for instance is out of favor for more gender neutral terms).

Good argument for low-flow toilets (which my water company literally offers to pay for lol)

I usually liken it to video games, ya. Is it worse that nothing? Sure, but that flight or road trip, etc, is a bigger concern. Not to mention even before AI we’ve had industrial usage of energy and water usage that isn’t sustainable… almonds in CA alone are a bigger problem than AI, for instance.

Not that I’m pro-AI cause it’s a huge headache from so many other perspectives, but the environmental argument isn’t enough. Corpo greed is probably the biggest argument against it, imo.

I thought it was gonna be a shadowdrop to, but yeah that makes sense. Two weeks might as well be today given how long we’ve all waited!

That was my initial thought, but I thought about downward force vs. the force it deals with when towing. Still would probably take a very hefty force, but the image of very large men jumping from hitch to hitch is too funny to pass up.

They are… unwell. Although I can’t really blame them too much, dating real humans does indeed suck and it’s no accident that it seems these are women wanting a guy who is actually tende, kind and willing to listen?

In 2025, given the “manosphere,” it feels rarer than ever (although let’s be honest, it’s always been bad).

Visibility when pulling out, which is ironically because so many fucking trucks block your view. I don’t rear in, but I’m literally blind trying to back up when flanked by these monstrosities (and I drive only compact cars, park in compact spots, and still get surrounded by trucks).

Actually that sounds a little fun trying to parkour through there, maybe snapping off or bending a couple of those in the process?

Why not all four?

“Sir, there’s a dead body in my soup. I’ve investigated and found the culprit. It was me. You’re next.”

So, life of a humanities major like my wife. Actually, most majors that weren’t STEM.

If it helps anyone in this situation, you can try to bank on other skills. My wife is doing great now but got her start because of her bilingualism, and even that was only 35k a year. My sister did a little better with her music degree by pivoting to community manager, although in her case she had experience modding for a well known streamer. That was pretty good money right out the gate.

Point is, programming isn’t your everything, even if you’re leveraging something from your personal life.