How is that unclear?

Falcom usually doesn't disappoint.

Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but "stable" is certainly not the first word I'd use to describe it.

What kills me is when people will mix the two in a single context.

"Between eight and 13 percent"

NO. If you're writing one number in digits, you need to write them all the same way.

Statistically speaking, Republican party voters are more white, more male, less poor*, less educated, more rural and older than Democrat party voters.

Making an effort to reduce a certain demographic's ability or willingness to vote will necessarily affect one party more than the other. As an example, if you add hoops to jump through, people who are already at their limit, working a zillion hours a week, are unlikely to do it, while the average retiree will probably not mind.

*It's complicated. Republican voters tend to be middle/upper-middle income, while Democrat voters tend to be lower/lower-middle income OR high income, leaving the middle for the Republicans.

They mean swords. They must be talking about swords, right?

What would be a solar eclipse though

I do know a few devs who prefer 5 days in the office. But they're absolutely the minority.

Personally, I try to go once a week, but I usually don't because I dread having a day with 50% my normal productivity.

It's just so noisy all the time in there. Open space and really high ceilings for "collaboration"...

Colon Q exclamation point? 6 keystrokes to leave? Sheesh.

Oh yeah, definitely very old stuff, huh.

I regularly say "from the 20th century" when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.

I don't know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I'd say "not sure, mid-20th century I think".

It's a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.

Although in a more rude manner I'll also say I don't care about some 20th century movie or something.

Well they don't know know, but there are signs. For one, we fill in timesheets, and lying on them is a no-no. I could probably get away with stretching the truth a little, but if they notice I only commit between X and Y time, or that I'm seldom available for developer questions at a particular time, they might get suspicious and investigate my hours.

As for overtime... Well I think how companies handle it is they don't actually ask us to stay late; they just give us unrealistic targets that kinda require overtime unless you're a god if we ever complained they'd say they never asked for us to stay late.

We used to be able to accumulate time indefinitely and take time off according to the bank of extra time we'd worked, but once, someone accumulated hundreds of hours and just left on an unplanned vacation for nearly a full month and they really didn't like that. So now, you need to work your quota (which you can have them adjust to your capabilities; 30, 35, 40...) on average every month. So, sure, I can work only 20 hours one week, but that's 15 hours of extra time I need to do within that month.

And if you have extra at the end of the month, well, that's lost.

Which sucks, because I used to use those as sick days over the legally required two paid ones we get per year; my health isn't exactly resplendent.

This is so common in Quebec that I have trouble believing it's illegal. I think it might be a loophole.

Oh yeah I pick up stuff with them sometimes but I wanna try the monkey experience lol

I've got a feeling we'll see Bush v. Gore style recount shenanigans or worse. Trumpist "stop the steal" people have begun to infiltrate the election process, right?

I have a salaried position. I don't clock in. But it's typically only used to deny us overtime pay. If I work 35 hours a week, I'm paid 12.5% less than my colleagues who do 40. And if my lunch break is too long, I'm expected to stay late sometime within the month to compensate.

And while I do have a shit job (save me) I've never seen someone whose employer didn't mind their hours as long as they got shit done.

Huh. The person was off-frame. And I'm pretty sure i retroactively chose a color for the ball.

I think I might have a black-and-white imagination.

Eh, not sure it's got anything to do with the political spectrum anymore. At this point I'm not sure what to call it but the US and allies' obsession for maintaining ties with Israel no matter what feels divorced from... Well, a lot of things, really. But among them the left/right spectrum.

I can't talk much. Canada is also selling Israel the supplies they use to do their mass murdering.

That post's gotta chill with the personal attacks, geez.

The US has two parties: center-right and far right.