I remember taking the glass-bottom boat tour in Silver Springs as a kid. Was amazing. Do not recall monkeys, if there were any at the time.

Well they are both wrong. Just different degrees of wrong.

The correct answer is hating the bad things that people do. This doesn’t require hating the people who do those things.

Yeah well you quoted me then directly misused what I said. So I’m not sure what I can do with that.

#BlackHogwarts is a real treat

Create a filter that automatically deletes any e-mail they send to you. Easier than dealing with a relentless salesperson.

Ugh insurance companies.

So after having the wife spend 5 weeks under mandatory bed rest at the hospital, having a premature birth and having the baby in the NICU for 5 weeks we get an insurance notice that they're not covering the last day in the NICU because they determined it wasn't medical necessary.

The letter is an obvious form letter but it's darkly humorous that it's addressed to our weeks old son. Paraphrasing "Dear X, you were admitted on DATE. Diagnosis: Premature Newborn"

ahahahahaha



Warning: NSFW link

Talk about burying the lead.

I'm glad everyone is out of the hospital and hope all is well and congrats.

Yeah you can’t worry about pissing off sales people. They mostly know they are too aggressive and pushy plus what are they going to do not sell to you if you change your mind?

Ignoring them flat out is fine and most expect it from a large number of people.

I used to think sales people were way overpaid (often highest paid people in medium sized companies). No ****ing way, that's a miserable way to live. Even "good" sales jobs are soul crushing.

using outlook? right click email, send to junk & block sender

The people who are good at it don't have their souls crushed by it.

fixed that for ya

Seems like allowing the jails to keep any money they don’t spend on actual food is top notch legislation in Alabama. Nothing could possibly go wrong with such a plan.

https://amp.thedailybeast.com/alabam...ving-prisoners

My daughter's Jr High puts on two plays per year. The last play was Alladin, in which the genie is trying to assure Alladin he gets the full three-wish package. He says, "Don't worry kid, I can't quit my job... [looks at audience] unlike the entire White House staff!"

Last year they did Into the Woods and Addams Family, both with political jokes inserted. Waiting to see what they do with Oliver.

California

So proud to live in Texas.

Texas house passes legislation requiring women buy rape insurance if they want to have an abortion.

http://news.groopspeak.com/texas-hou...e-insurance-3/

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...x-temperature/

Sounds like dental nursing in college.

Its highly unlikely the boy's parents are in the local city. This boy is from Yunnan which is a province on the border with Myanmar. While on a map it appears to be south/central, its the outskirts of Han China and thus considered southwest. Without more information I'd guess his parents are most likely working in the Pearl or Yangtze River Delta regions (ie in or near Guangzhou/Shenzhen or Shanghai).

China is essentially divided into three parts. There are the relatively prosperous areas which pretty much stretch from Guangzhou/Shenzhen/Hong Kong east and north up until you reach Beijing, the areas inland and northeast which are still predominantly Han and then the areas in the far west and north which--at least outside of the cities--are largely inhabited by ethnic minorities (Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia).

The economic differences between these three regions are enormous (although the urban/rural divide is also hugely significant).

The "left over" children of parents who go east to find work is a big issue that's frequently in news stories (although within China its generally propaganda about teachers or others who seek to help them). The province where your parents' ID is registered is where you are eligible for subsidized education.

You know, I’ve never thought about having a 116 way. Who knew turtles were kinkier than man?

FISA court vote is very interesting. Republican mostly voted yes, but there were a lot of no votes and Dems split pretty evenly.

I started developing a drinking habit about 4 months into my first (and hopefully only) sales jobs. Felt like I was in Glengarry Glenross.

never been a better time to be a male turtle

Whoever picked the US Ambassador to Panama in the Survivor Pool, congrats.

Yeah, couple of the ones I know are senior enough that some lackeys do all the cold calling and then the top guys get to follow up on the warm leads. Get to bank several hundred k+ per year with no cold calling.