krayj

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[–] krayj 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The only negative of going in for me is the commute

That's a pretty HUGE negative. Calculate how much time is wasted by your commute, calculate how much your transportation costs are, and then use that info to recalculate your compensation.

For me, commuting is aprox 1 hour each way (I'm only 27 miles away, but traffic is bullshit), and it costs me about $8 per day (that's the cost of driving to a nearby park&ride and taking public transportation the rest of the way into the city & back). That's 44 lost hours of free time EVERY MONTH, plus $176 lost out-of-pocket each month just to commute (this is based on an average month with 22 work days). And don't even suggest I move/live closer to work, cost of housing grows exponentially the closer you get to the city.

I don't understand how anyone can be in favor of commuting in to a job site if it isn't absolutely essential for the type of work being done.

[–] krayj 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The most plausible path forward would be to pass the 2023 Medicare for All act (introduced by US representatives Pramila Jayapal, Debbie Dingell, and Bernie Sanders).

link: https://jayapal.house.gov/2023/05/17/jayapal-dingell-sanders-introduce-medicare-for-all-with-record-number-of-house-cosponsors/

[–] krayj 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a designated-remote job, but I'm also in a role that's periodically customer-facing. For accounting purposes, the time I spend working from home in my home office is considered 'remote' and my time on-site at customer premises is considered an off-site event. Not sure how they do it at Dropbox, but that gives you an idea of how the time categorization goes.

[–] krayj 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only way this wouldn't meet the definition of 'execution' is if it were an accidental shooting, which I find hard to believe when it involved 2 dead. Are you confusing the word 'execution' with 'assassination', which would imply there was both planning and pre-selection of the targets? No one is saying this was an assassination.

[–] krayj -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The first two sentences of the article:

Two people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels on Monday evening, police have said.

The gunman fled the scene and is still at large. Prosecutors say they are treating the shooting as terrorism.

Does a gunman shooting and killing 2 people not meet your definition of 'executed'?

[–] krayj 4 points 1 year ago

On the surface this comes across as SciFi, but it's a true classic horror with a scifi backdrop. It's essential watching for any horror genre fan, IMO.

[–] krayj 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All of the Hellraiser movies (some are great, some are not so great, but it's worth it to work through all of them in order). The newest was kind of a re-imagining and you can start there if you want).

The Thing - the 1982 film is a classic, but the newest one is a prequel that came decades after the original movie- I'd recommend watching both, starting with the original.

All the alien movies. Some don't consider Sci-Fi horror to be true horror, but these are essential watching. I consider it to be the best complete horror series of movies ever made.

Vampire's Kiss (Nicholas Cage) - this is truly bizarre and if you are a Nick Cage fan it should be considered required watching.

Barbarian (2022) - simultaneously mind blowing and absolutely terrifying. Probably the best horror of the past 5 years.

The Mist - and mainly just for the ending which was a total mindfuck.

Train to Busan - This is a Korean made film (with subtitles) in the zombie genre, and is absolutely riveting.

World War Z - an outstanding zombie genre movie - one of the first zombie movies to feature fast moving parkour capable zombies as opposed to the slow moving classic zombies.

American Psycho - scary because this could (and does) happen and you could be standing right next to the next American Psycho right now and not even know it.

Maximum Overdrive - doesn't get recommended a lot, but it holds up and is a great machine-uprising type of horror.

Event Horizon - propped up as SciFi Horror but this is a classic true horror just with a scifi backdrop.

I WISH there would be a modern remake of "Scanners". Scanners is great horror from decades past but it just doesn't hold up well to modern standards-it desperately needs a modern remake.

[–] krayj -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You seem to be implying you think this is faked because it doesn't comply with how you expect the documents to look. It took you less than a couple hours since this was posted to think this conspiracy theory up. If these documents were faked, don't you think the Israeli intelligence community would also have considered the same issues you raised and properly dirtied them to make sure they had the necessary dirt and blood to meet your specific definition of 'authentic'? The ultimate implication here is that you think you have thunk up a gotcha in a few hours that Israeli Intelligence were incapable of thinking up. That's very arrogant.

[–] krayj 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This article desperately needs video.

Here's the official video from Adobe. Bump to 45s into the vid to see the dress in action:

https://youtu.be/EvGquKkSFMM?si=_yo33O7N6VhFxYQO

[–] krayj 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To keep the analogy going, they would have to have raped and beheaded the occupants of the death star before actually blowing them up...and the Death Star would have to have been an Imperial tourist destination with not just Imperial citizens, but also visiting citizens from all across the galaxy..but if that's what George Lucas had filmed, I think there would have been a lot less sympathy for the rebels.

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