Trying to explain to a tourist that $15 is not going to get a kids' meal at a non-chain restaurant in #DC... why did I bother.
Jamie Bear@jamie_bear@mastodon.online
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Just booked an overnight trip to Boston. RT flight? $167. Hotel in Cambridge, not fancy? >$500 Boston is the WORST hotel city.
Find it really strange that my "international employer" in science and tech has ~2% at best Asian staff when 35% of the world's population is from China and India alone, and Asian folks have comprised the majority of Dev/IT departments in 2 of my 3 previous employers.
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This recent episode of You're Wrong About on Sinéad O'Connor is worth a listen, particularly if all you know about her is Nothing Compares 2 U and her SNL appearance. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/12624780
Was thinking about the book Sophia of Silicon Valley by Anna Yen, which is a semi-autobiographical book about working as a PR person for Steve Jobs and Elno. Sadly she passed away last year, but you def. see the bad Elno shit cropping up pretty heavily in it already. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sophia-of-silicon-valley-anna-yen?variant=32206178910242
www.harpercollins.comSophia of Silicon Valley
I invested in a new rice cooker with a brown rice setting (pretty much the only rice I eat), and wow... it was really worth updating from my 40 year old rice cooker.
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My phone corrected "Jesus H Christ" to "Jesus H Mart" and honestly this is such an improvement on my blasphemy
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"Things that aren't meant to be offensive can be hurtful." - Stephanie Hsu
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This follows on a listen of an episode of This American Life about a Black American living in Paris and how she finally felt like she was fitting in because neither of her core identities were the norm there.
Just watched Joy Ride and was the sole Asian person in the theater. Great movie, and they handled something extremely cleverly. But being the sole Asian was a mistake. No one to laugh at the Asian inside jokes with and also found myself absorbed in analyzing the things that made the other people laugh.
Also concurrently reading RF Kuang's Yellowface and it is amazing so far, but hard to read.
Wow NYT disbanding its sports section in favor of The Athletic. I have not read their regular sports section, but I have actively disliked the soccer/futball coverage in The Athletic.
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Took a WABA bike class today. I think the
(size small) bike was too big for me, which was pushing my hands into the handles and I was going to develop blisters. Instructor was gaslighting me about my pain: any part of your hand falling off?. No, but I know when I am going to get blisters. He gave me tape for my thumbs but this is why women struggle at the doctor. And scientifically women tolerate pain better than men. (Other instructors were super lovely though.) #dc
Saw someone drive into the opposing lane of traffic on Key Bridge #dc so they could make a U. This feels so DC. Sometimes I really hate this town.
Is there someone who can me #bicycle purchasing advice? I am looking at buying a used one, but have never purchased a bike and know next to nothing about them except that I need an XS one.
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No, recruiters.
I do not want to be part of a "challenging" team.
I'm in my mid-50s. I want to be part of a "mature" team, a "powerful" team with a large and well-managed "throughput", a "structured" team that knows how to use processes to quickly and accurately handle the Same Stuff Happens Every Week so that when someone else comes screaming in with their ass on fire babbling about something someone else broke and We Need To Document This Thing NOW NOW NOW, one or two of us can calmly turn from our current tasks, neatly and quickly handle La Emergencia, and calm the panicked person's heartrate without raising our own.
I'm old. Fuck "ambition". I just want a good paycheck and no dumbass "this REALLY could have been avoided" hasslepanic.
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I worked in a research lab in high school working on pre-treating soldiers for exposure to GB and VX. So it's a really weird and random area of expertise for me.
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There was a time when the US Army was throwing stuff into the ocean because they didn't really think things through. And they didn't really keep track. Not great for the environment either. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4991239
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Mustard is a blister agent that decomposes to a carcinogen that can leech into the water supply. They have mobile incineration units called EONCs that they place the units in so they can basically incinerate them, which is safe and effective.
VX and GB are nerve agents, and definitely way worse, and those don't end up in random places.
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There are still chemical agents in locations we may not be aware of. They were known to be in all 50 states; they were finding mustard in random places what felt like every few months. This included a huge remediation that was done in Spring Valley near American University at a baseball field.
I worked as a contractor on this project. Happy to see the destruction of the known stockpile finally complete 17 years after I left the project. It was supposed to have been completed by 2007 and then 2012. (Delays were due to a lot of environmental groups where I think they requested the use of other methods that weren't necessarily more sound and were less efficient.) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/us/chemical-weapons-stockpile.html
The New York TimesU.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal