Even if it is a bad choice, I’d rather be part of a bad choice than not.

Using your cooking analogy, what I’m talking about are people who can’t even describe the basics of how to cook.

What ingredients do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

What cooking equipment do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

About how long will it take to bake bread and when do you need to start? I don’t know.

I’m not talking about how to communicate being an expert at a craft and teaching it to someone else, I’m talking about understanding the basics.

Leaving them in place

You’re digging in your heels in that they only can communicate in one medium. You then pick a language which I don’t know what your competency is.

If you can’t communicate an idea in any method of communication at all to a point where an educated person in that field can’t see what you’re trying to communicate, it shows that you don’t understand the idea. This is especially true if you can’t repeat the ideas in the media it was presented.

How else is someone supposed to show how they understand an idea?

Which is why I mentioned other ways to explain things. If you’re dealing with a spatial problem but can’t draw what you are trying to explain, that is indicative that you don’t know what you’re dealing with.

It’s the reason why I mentioned communication beyond the written word.

The USA has been able to pay its debts for the most part since the Constitution has been in place, so people trust the federal government to pay it back and give it one of the lowest dollar denominated interest rates.

The debt has gotten large recently due to deficit spending and low interest rates.

I’m not a stickler for vocabulary when I ask people to explain something. You can use other words if you want, describe it like you’re a caveman, draw a sketch, even explain it with interpretive dance for all I care.

And it is fine if some detail is lost in the explanation. However, you should be able to communicate it in some manner.

The New Year - Death Cab For Cutie

A lot of modern holiday songs focus on Christmas since it is the biggest for songs being played for a large part of the western world. Christmas is a juggernaut that crushes other puny holidays.

Why is it such a common ingredient?

Because it became standard as part of mirepoix, the French base of mixed vegetables for various dishes. As French cooking became highly regarded, it became a standard in a lot of different cuisines.

I got a bachelors and masters degree in engineering. I needed at least the bachelors degree for licensure.

I use it every day at work.

It depends.

My issue right now is having to supervise “tech” equivalents and they get caught off guard because they try to do shortcuts that they think they can get away with and I point out how those shortcuts break what they are trying to do.

Not really.

Salaried employees don’t get time and a half pay for overtime, but many companies will offer straight time over 40 hours as an inducement to work OT.

The cost of insurance, benefits, equipment, rent, and overhead staff to support people gets spread over more hours, so the effective overhead rate drops and the company makes more money per extra hour worked.

In some industries, the support costs are so high it is cheaper to pay time and a half than it is to pay the overhead costs for a new employee.

WFH would work a lot better if junior staff asked anywhere near the level of questions they ask if they were in the office.

If you can’t explain how something works, you don’t know how it works.

If you’re going to talk about Reddit, I’ve found that there is a somewhat sizeable Indian community on the platform. Some of the videos I watch have the same tone of local American politics videos on Reddit.

My Reddit usage has gone down over the past few years, but a lot of the videos I see on Reddit about India seem to be by Indians for India and have people writing in various Indian languages in the comments. A lot of them seem to critique India as other countries would critique themselves.

That said, you and I may be seeing different videos.

Either that or they justify the choice of small town mothers staying with the local heart throb.

My head cannon is that these are actually international events. It isn’t just that they are go karting, they are participating in an organized league.

It varies between states, but the state party usually has little control over who actually gets nominated. Most states usually enforce a type of vote to choose who runs in each election and that vote can overturn the wishes of the state party.

The problem is that the Internet has become more dangerous and complicated than before. Companies and people don’t choose the cloud because of the storage, they choose it because they don’t have to maintain the server.

Yeah. I was at a bar once and someone say next to me and ordered a burger. Turns out she worked at a nearby mental health facility and needed to vent to somebody. She didn’t even order a drink, but she needed someone to talk to in a pseudo anonymous setting.

I imagine that, if she was coming to me as a rando in a bar to talk about what she was going through, her support network wasn’t really there to help.