They are well taken care of. There are tons of thistles and sunflowers on the other side of the fence.

Or they'd be pushing paper somewhere else.

I'd believe that, if they weren't already paying the architect salary to have us do interior design. They hire us, then shackle us.

I love cats, but I'm even more wildly allergic to them. I not allergic to horses and to sheep, and that's about it. But it takes more than a wish to own either of those.

That doesn't mean if you get rid of insurance jobs, they would be nurses.

Haha! Exactly! I do some coding, too, but I can't think like a UXer and a dev at the same time.

It's the "making it pretty" part that makes me bitter. That is the LEAST part of what we do.

It's like asking an architect to come in and fix the building after it's already mostly built. Bad PMs insist on seeing us like interior decorators, but we are primarily architects.

Speaking as a UX designer, probably because some "product manager" decided it was too expensive to override the auto- sort that was applied before the designer was brought in to "pretty things up."

There is no tone of bitterness in my comment, honestly there isn't.

I'm pretty sure there was an ancient story about this being a very bad idea. Something about languages....

As a UX designer who decided not to be a doctor though I could have, I don't think this is how it works.

This is anecdotal, but I've loved animals my entire life. I was going to be a vet, but changed careers because my internship made me afraid it would ruin my love of animals.

I've had a very rough twenty years. I was married to a man who turned out was abusive to animals, so I gave up my dream of having pets. When I bucked my entire culture to divorce him, I fought my way back to enough financial security to own them again.

My first pet was 5 when I got him. I had three years of his endless health problems, but I loved him and he died. Then I got a couple of puppies and I love them, but...I don't think I'll own any more dogs. Dealing with other pet owners has been a nightmare. Off leash, poorly trained, outright dangerous dogs everywhere.

But even more to the point, I'm a terrible owner for them. I'm allergic, so I only play with them before my shower. And my mental health has me barely able to function some days. And I'll never be able to own the property they need to truly flourish. They deserve better than me. So I agree. Poor mental health can be exacerbated by pet ownership.

This is exactly what I meant!

Thanks.

It is amazing how politics can be so affected by a border change.

Plants also react to being harmed, so it's arguable they don't feel pain.

Males tend to get better quality and fit than women do, though.

@Little8Lost Don't worry, there are miles and miles of walking/bike path nearby that go through as many weeds as your heart could possibly love.

To be fair, most Christians are that style.

This is rather like asking Asians why they all eat white rice when brown rice is healthier.

Not all Christians believe either one of those things. And for those that do, the answer is generally that trying to follow God and be obedient to His will is a sacrifice of gratitude to Him for His sacrifice of salvation.

Words can't express my fury. What can be done about it?

He's basically saying that the dignity and life of the potential to be a man is more important than the dignity and life of a living woman.

After all, how dignified is it to birth and raise the child of your rapist, or your brother?

Probably because it became less about getting food (where gatherers provided the bulk) and more about protecting the land you have (which required strength.)

Agreed. If we don't call out the problems, isn't it tacit approval?

Yeah, that's the point I stopped reading because it went totally off the rails. Women have a pretty good handle on what men find attractive. They tell us incessantly. We just don't care, most of the time, because we are born how we are born, and eat how we eat, and care more about being comfortable in our own skin than with what men think of us.

I don't have an issue with men writing it, but I do have an issue with the patronizing attitude, the condescension. These guys still don't get it, and if they simplified on purpose, they took it too far.

I filed for no-fault divorce at the advice of my lawyer, despite clear evidence of abuse and infidelity. It hurt, emotionally, because it felt like a lie. But now I understand my lawyer was looking out for me. I would have been in much more danger publicly calling out his behavior.

Sadly, this is paywalled.

But I'm guessing we haven't seen the end of awful consequences of the government getting this involved in medical decisions.

My favorite has been the Deque training.

I wonder if you could automatically reverse generate a description using AI.

As a UX designer with a specialty in accessibility, I'd break up requirements even smaller. Accessibility is an ongoing process (like security,) not an achievement.

A dev can get pretty far just using Lighthouse to audit code, then running through with a free screen reader and with keyboard only. But accessibility can seem daunting if you try to make it one huge ticket.

The best way in my mind is to build basic accessibility testing into every ticket, the way you should do with security concerns, and then have a designer or QA run periodic audits to generate specific update tickets.

What he didn't bank on is a lot of power users were already getting sick of wading through ads and dealing with mass idiocy. I mean, mass idiocy will move with the masses, you can't really get away from it. But add a power-hungry megalomaniac to the mix of an already irritated user base, and it's not pretty. Frankly, Reddit can keep the kind of users who are willing to stay there. Hopefully that will keep other communities cleaner.

His fat mouth got me to download a Chrome extension for the sole purpose of excluding Reddit from my search results. Even Pinterest didn't get me that far.

CEO stands for Cock Excavation Operator.

I did it, albeit a very small community. I cared enough about the topic to give other people dealing with similar things some space to build a community. Mine was luckily mostly dead, since I don't care about building a base or keeping it going, but it served well for its time. Anyone who thinks modding is anything but a labor of love doesn't make for a very good mod.

Oregon Trail.

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I'll show myself out.

Agreed! You can make money and not be a donkey poop about it.

* MySpace has entered the chat*

Take deep breaths. Mostly, remember that you are interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you. Having a crappy job is just as demoralizing as having no job.

You got this.

This is so terrifying. I'm glad they are cracking down.

Yeah, if he really believes that, where's the campaign for CEO?