Whaaaaaaat?

Yep, exactly. Which is always why I take the side of the patient in these things.

You won’t let my patient call in a day over a cold? Ok, well it’s a 10 day illness, how does a week off sound? You don’t want that much off? Ok, when’s your next scheduled day off: here’s a long weekend.

My dude with chronic pain needs to be able to switch from sitting to standing as needed, can’t lift more than 10 lbs, needs to take unscheduled breaks as needed, can call out up to 3x/week, and can’t work more than 8 hours a day. Maybe you should have just gotten them the chair?

People tend to underestimate what their actual limitations should be with their medical conditions, so I’m usually putting more restrictions than they actually ask for.

Everyone’s just telling you he sucks, but he was actually quite popular back in the day. I loved his music in high school but grew out of it as an adult.

He was considered innovative in that he tried to bring rap and hip hop conventions into rock music: especially spoken work lyrics, sampling, collaborations, a distinct persona (“redneck pimp” - yes, really, etc.

Spoken word by itself became a whole subgenre in the late 90s/early 2000s: Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit followed by POD, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, etc. This subgenre as a whole has aged rather poorly, with even the better bands like Linkin Park being a bit hard to listen to now IMO. However, spoken word sections have persisted in rock and this is perhaps his strongest influence.

What really grew me out of his music was realizing that the stuff I liked was mainly stuff he’d sampled, and what I actually liked was the originals. For example, I liked American Badass until I heard Sad But True and realized he took a great song and made it mediocre.

If you’re really interested, listen to Bawitaba and Cowboy as his two big hits. If you want to hear his sampling, Only God Knows Why, American Badass, and All Summer Long should all be recognizable. But again, he very much is a relic of a genre that itself has aged poorly, so don’t expect to actually enjoy it all that much.

Actually, strike that, just watch the American Badass music video.

It has:

• Singing about how great he is and how many albums he’s sold
• Sampling
• Singing about Detroit
• Pimp outfits
• Women
• Confederate flags
• References to other rock musicians, by just listing a bunch of them
• References to his other songs, mainly by just saying the title in his lyrics

It’s basically the Kid Rockiest Kid Rock song.

Gotta be AI. Just generated some wires and put random numbers on all the houses.

Watched the clip and… is this some arcade game from 2003?

Any company that issues its employees credit cards with six figure limits will have no issue reversing the charges trying to sue Google.

Democrats should counter that they’ll pay double whatever the Republicans pledge (min $10k, max $30k), paid entirely by a wealth tax on assets over $1 billion if they win a filibuster-proof supermajority.

Billionaires actually have enough assets to get to $30.6k per person, so Democrats wouldn’t even have to tax their assets above $1 billion at 100% to get there.

President Donald Trump has promised a $5,000 payment to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress in the November midterm elections, a proposal that could cost the federal government about $1.3 trillion.

Just to be clear, the $1.3 trillion won’t come from the payouts, as they obviously won’t actually happen. It’ll come from Congress being run by Republicans.

Wrong community. This is just /c/infuriating.

That begs a larger conversation about what is and isn’t ok to say informally at work.

Certainly “wheelchair” is not itself malicious and is less likely to be mistake prone than Seat 34a, especially if there’s only one patron in the room seated in a wheelchair. At the same time, the affected person might not enjoy being referred to by their disability.

I’m honestly not sure what the best solution is. Certainly, “red sweater” is less likely to cause offense than “black dude,” and 99% of the time these won’t be customer facing. I’m torn on whether the mistake was purely in writing it in the wrong location vs. whether the company as a whole should do better.

I know in the corporate world you typically don’t write down anything you don’t want read back to you later, and the fact that they realize the patron could be offended suggests that maybe they should adopt a similar policy of “never write down anything you wouldn’t want a customer to see.” At the same time, I’m aware most restaurants are not corporate culture and aren’t trying to be.

That’s just standard hub and spoke shipping.

Why? Lack of knowledge? With mine, I use it regularly on the highway outside of heavy traffic. It’s very nice, actually.

Huh? Regular cruise control works just fine for that. Where adaptive shines is heavier traffic and off-highway driving. I basically use it everywhere: just set it to the speed limit and let it go.

This is not as crazy as it sounds. Most people’s net worth is in their house. A white median net worth of $550k reflects white homeowners. A black median net worth of $7800 reflects black renters.

This is directly due to US policies post-WWII that directly benefited white homeowners and helped them build generational wealth. 80 years later we are still seeing the effects.

Even if all current racism magically ended tomorrow, we would still have a ton of work to do to undo the lingering damage of historical racism.

The article has nothing in it. The company says, “We could have totally charged more, but we’re only charging you $80. And $100 for premium.”

The twist would be that someone without a sense of humor takes the joke seriously. Hader, Parker, and Stone thought for a moment about who doesn’t have a sense of humor.

“And in unison we all said ‘Kanye West,’” Hader recalled.

[. . .]

West, in real life, apparently did not appreciate the episode, rapping in his 2010 song “Gorgeous” about choking “A South Park writer with a fish stick” and bringing the subject back up in 2021 on “Life of the Party,” 12 years after the episode was released, with the lyrics “South Park had jokes about fish sticks/ ‘Til this day the whole team can kiss this dick.”

They weren’t wrong.

The extended look will also be available at 9pm ET on YouTube, but for six hours, it will essentially be paywalled behind a Netflix subscription.

Um… ok

1. Who cares? It’s a trailer.
2. Most of the people complaining probably already have a Netflix subscription
3. It’s 6 hours after you’ve already waited 4 years, chill out
4. Someone’s going to rip it after 10 minutes away
5. Vice City was the most fun, SA broke your childhood, IV had the best story, V had heists. There’s no way VI is going to top all those, we’ll be lucky if it makes top 3.

Good. Hopefully reddit will get worse and drive more people to Lemmy.

Sir, you’re on Lemmy asking if anyone’s on Lemmy.

This is exactly what she voted for.

Scientists: We did a buttload of studies looking at millions of children and conclusively found the MMR vaccine does not cause autism.

CDC: But what if it does?