Jerk up taxes in order to fund a disastrous NHI (national healthcare), no medical funds etc, and I promise you a lot of people will emancipate themselves and stop paying taxes.
Just let me have a three day weekend for my birthday, OK. 
I agree with Sig that you gotta pick a day though.
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Itâs not the date so much as the false representation of the event. I am seeing so many TV shows and movies being sold as historically accurate (Serpent Queen (great show but has to have been intentionally designed to not be historical it is so far off), Woman King, Lincoln, for example) or faithful to the original story that simply arenât. And not little things, but often complete reversals of the truth. Iâm getting hypersensitive to misrepresentations of the past.
Picking June 6th makes sense, there is a justice to celebrating the day Union soldiers notified the last slaves in the South. It just rubs me wrong that it is presented in a false manner. In a time when there is focus on getting history right this seems blatant whitewashing of history.
Just a thing, not an earth shaker, something that I noticed that irritated me and brought a lot of other issues up in my head at once.
Found this listing on our workplace purchasing website:
For Secret Hardware
Request for secret hardware is only available for employees located at [REDACTED].
There will be a security briefing that will be provided with secret material.
It just strikes me as funny every time I see it.
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This could be interesting. UPS, the big three US auto makers and Hollywood are all facing the likelihood of strikes within the next few weeks.
The actors go on strike as of midnight tonight.
On a different topic, youâve got a good product, looks like itâs got good capacity and I like the logo you chose for your company. But really? Comic Sans for putting your name next to your logo?
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I like comic sans, it helps with my dyslexia. But yeah its an ugly ass font that makes things look cheap.
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I actually use it when Iâm writing. For some reason it helps with writersâ block (at least mine), maybe because itâs less âintimidatingâ than a more formal font. Same reason that when I write longhand itâs usually on yellow newsprint pads.
Iâve heard itâs surprisingly good for dyslexia. Also it may (for writers) basically be akin to writing longhand: youâre not thinking about how the text looks just what it says, which is more important when writing.
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Comic Sans does get derided for not looking good, but I do know that it actually does well for situations like dyslexia. And Government agencies are starting to recommend specific fonts in their documents because they improve readability. It was just seeing Comic Sans next to a professional-looking logo that threw me off.
Hereâs what I was looking at: The Artman 3-slot charger with three batteries. Scroll down to the âFrom the brandâ section to see the logo and company name together more clearly. That stylized A with the lightning bolt is a good logo. Itâs crisp and graceful and conveys an instant message that this company sells power-related products.
Contrast that with the âartmanâ next to it. The first three letters are uniform in height. They line up well and the shapes are good. The slant of the vertical stroke in the âtâ is barely noticeable. So far, so good for their logo.
And then you get to the âmâ. The middle vertical stroke pokes down below the baseline. The shape of the left half doesnât match the right and all three vertical strokes are slanted the left, so it looks like the âmâ got hit by something.
Skipping past the second âaâ, the ânâ at the end is a mixed bag. The right side has a similar curve as the âaâ does on its right side, so that matches. The vertical stroke on the left side of the ânâ starts off with a clockwise curve at the top, goes straight downward and then the bottom tip curves to the right. It kind of looks like the letter was pushed to the left and the tip of the left side got bent in the process. And if thatâs the case, then maybe the right side was also bent.
Combine it all together and itâs just not a good look for a logo. It like a multi-car accident, but instead of the N car at the right side getting the brunt of the collision, itâs the M car towards the middle that looks like it got hit hardest. If all you had were the Windows standard fonts, youâd get better results with Candara, Georgia or Franklin Gothic Medium.
Or, you know, the ownerâs of that company think it looks good, and conveys exactly the image they wanted.
Your opinion, after all, is just that.
I see nothing wrong with the name, except I dislike having a name NOT being capitalized.
Whoâs gonna bastardize âartmanâ and include a preceding âFâ?
More like FARTman, amirite?
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Already been done. Fartman (Howard Stern) - Wikipedia
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Back when Howard was at least sort of funny. Before he became Howard Hughes.
So the ruling party is efficient at looting money, renaming cities, towns and streets, and erecting statues⌠but when it comes to actually governing, they really miss it totally.
The other day I had a head of red cabbage, and made some nomlicious food with it.
Of course I passed a lot of noisy air biscuits.
Then, I watched this
Now Iâm wondering if food like eggs, baked beans and cabbage (and anything that may cause your barking spider to bark its song and pass some air biscuits along) will be verboten food on this starship?
Freaking algorithms. I do 90% of my wifeâs clothes shopping. If it werenât for me she would be dressed like a renaissance fair witch in old tattered rags in various shades of black. I also shop for things for my youngest daughter who is still at home. As well as gifts for the other two girls. My clothes almost always come from Carhartt and the Wrangler outlet store.
So, of course, I must be a woman. While the ladies at Soma know me by name, itâs not because I wear the underwear. Almost all my ads are for panties, bras, nightgowns, smart business skirts, and whatever. And usually in sizes in the single digits. Which is fine, I can ignore ads, but at work itâs annoying to look something up for a customer and have adds for cat suits and bikinis show up.
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Good lord. Itâs been so long since Iâve seen an ad on the internet âŚ