MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown

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Random field trips for shits and giggles?. Especially impromptu ones. That’s a bad idea. It’s a recipe for “I didn’t wear the right shoes for laser tag”, or “I don’t want to go see that [event/show]”, or “I have a deadline I need to meet, I’m going to be stressed the whole time”

Field trips should be planned, paid, during business hours, and if not related to business function, optional.

A neutral field trip would be: Hey, we are going to a restaurant for lunch Friday. The company is paying. Your lunch break will be extended, but the extension will be paid.

A good field trip is one you can make relevant to the project, that’s a different story. Say you are working on a medieval/fantasy action adventure: go to an arms or art museum and see all the cool swords, spears, and armor. If it’s a farm sim, maybe tour a cider mill or a historical/working farm: learn about the tools and equipment they use, etc.

Something, something, mechanical Turk

Yeah... We had to bring our peppers back inside for hopefully the last time because it dropped down to 40 over the weekend. The tomatoes were in the ground already but a couple cool nights shouldn’t be a big deal in the long run.

Well, if we are counting all the post launch bundles, then the OG Switch definitely had pack-ins too. I bought mine bundled with MK8DX.

But if you want to talk launch pack-ins, the only ones I know had them for certain were the original NES, Game Boy and Wii. The GBP, GBL, GBC, GBA, GCN, all did not launch with pack-ins The DS technically had a Metroid demo and a messaging app. I don’t think the N64 launched with any bundles and SNES looks like it had a launch bundle in North America only. I’m not sure about the 3DS or WiiU, but the NEW 3DS didn’t even come with a charging cable.

So, yeah. It’s very stupid that Welcome Tour isn’t a pack-in, but it is not unprecedented in the least.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was it because Trump didn’t say “thank you” after the last time Ukraine shared top secret war plans?

The US election was 8 months ago. The operation was probably still in the planning stages. After that day, Ukraine would have known not to share any sensitive info with the US unless absolutely necessary, knowing that a Putin fanboy would soon have his hands on it. Had Biden still been in office today, he may have gotten a heads up before the actual execution, but then again, why would he need it. It is not like that information would have been actionable to anyone except the target.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Inject 9.8 billion into the economy”

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

6b near 6a chiming in. Our last frost date is around Mother’s Day, but it’s been so cool recently that we only put out toms in the ground this week. Probably a little over 1’ tall since we buried a little stalk.

Shout out to Gardening in Canada for pointing out that tomatoes pause growing when the temp drops below 50 F.

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Not “pay” per-se, but it is a roadblock that NYT always throws at me.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The Tillamook cheese factory. So you know they have good taste.
Not to be confused with the Cheesecake Factory

Yes, unvoiced “th” (think, thread, worth, thought) is more equivalent to þ whereas voiced “th” (that, then, worthy, though) is more equivalent to ð.

English is a Germanic language that got French shoved into it while stealing a little Norse. It was introduced to the printing press / movable type in the middle of a major vowel shift, and instead of adapting those tools to the language, major players at the time squeezed the language into an alphabet type that was already available from the continent.

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