I wonder if there’s a bit of not wanting to believe what people can accomplish if a massive number of us all teamed up to do something.

Because then they’d feel guilty for not getting up out of their armchair and going to support whatever cause they claim they’re supporting from the comfort of home.

Oh noooo it’s old no-one should like stuff that’s old only new things are cool

You know, one day the stuff you like will be old too.

Also, Star Trek been around a long time, yeah, but it’s still going with new content.

Those are jesses used to let the handlers keep ahold of the bird while on their glove, as well as tether the bird to a perch. So basically the bird version of a leash.

A fool and his money…

What I was describing was something many people who are happy to work from home have said about their jobs. Others cite their terrible commute as the reason they love not having to go into the office.

If you don’t want to give up a part of your home to your job that’s totally fine. But don’t go around saying that everyone should do things your way. Many people are quite happy working from home, and cite having more time for their family and hobbies, and never having to deal with annoying meetings or commutes.

You can see many examples in the comments on this very post, as well as the sheer number of people quitting when their jobs tried to force them back into the office.

I’d say it depends on the job and the person. If it’s the sort of job that can be done remotely, and the office culture is such that people are constantly getting interrupted by people ‘just passing by’ and ‘oh one more quick question’, and/or dragged into hours-long meetings that could easily have been a quick email thread, then it’s not a stretch at all to see that WFH has improved their productivity.

Well, good news—Macy’s has brought them back.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ― Susan B. Anthony

Polite counterpoint: ‘echo chambers’ are more than that, I feel. It’s not that they are a group of like-minded people, so much as they police groupthink and don’t allow even moderately dissenting opinions.

See: r/conservative, and them permabanning anyone who so much as hints at a different mindset.

I’m a little confused by you trying to compare human intelligence to animal intelligence, even though they are very different things.

My trick for gnocchi? Ziplock with the corner cut off.

It’s hard to say. The historical person, St Nicholas of Myra, was probably of a lighter complexion, given he was a native of Greece.

However, in traditional Catholic art, he is depicted as anywhere from pale-skinned to dark-skinned depending on the location of the images (Bari in particular has many paintings of him with darker skin, possibly to show that they were cool enough to be able to attract a ‘foreign’ saint).

So given that even the person who is the origin of ‘Santa’ is depicted with many different skin tones, I’d say Santa can be whatever skin color people want him to be.

Yeah, about that… ever heard of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?

Some people are just born weird.

The difference between intelligence and wisdom I suppose.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.

-Mark Twain

It depends on the variety. Some sheep do need to be sheared, but others shed naturally and their wool can simply be combed out.

That seems to be a Republican thing. Remember that whole Rage Against the Machine nonsense?

I’m not sure if it’s just total lack of self-awareness/thinking the stuff the song is about are good things for some reason, or if they just aren’t listening to the lyrics.

Speaking from the West Coast, no you absolutely cannot. Plenty of places have terrible to no coverage once you’re out in the hinterlands.

Given how far the Grinch’s cave was from the town, that must have been some prestigious noise.