And yet you left off:

"The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?"

This is definitely "a thing." I've had two MacBook Pros whose batteries swelled to where it bent the case open.

I try to make it a point to put my laptop through regular charge and discharge cycles, as result. As much as I love this 21:9 monitor, keeping it perpetually connected is definitely not the way to go.

Modern versions of macOS limit the max charge automatically don’t they? Or is this a hardware thing?

I definitely recall seeing a notification that it wasn’t charging my MBP to full because it has spent too much time connected to the charger.

I'm right there, with you. Even worse, are the ones where they outline the silhouette with a solid color.

That said, there's many variants that are perfect valid: network engineer, sales engineer, systems engineer, etc.

Beyond that, the author has completely missed that the electoral college protects us from things like the five most populous counties in America selecting our President for us and limits the effects of massive voter fraud. cough Illinois cough

> the five most populous counties in America selecting our President for us

The 5 most populous counties have less than 10% of the US population.

Moreover, I have yet to see a good reason it makes sense to prefer tyranny of a minority to tyranny of the majority, where we can't avoid both.

> limits the effects of massive voter fraud

This is an important point that's not often discussed, IME

It appears the original author would be better suited in a union shop. It would also appear that they’ve never owned a business.

The thing about owning a business is you never hire someone unless you absolutely, positively need to. This apparently wasn't the case at BigCo. Maybe they're the ones that never owned a business.

Well, it's Snap, so that means they were pumping that sweet VC cash roll into headcount (like any similarly funded startup). Then one day they realize that doesn't deliver the desired growth, and they cut headcount. I've said it before, and I know it sucks, but startup layoffs are often the result of letting go of people that in a normal business probably shouldn't have been there.

"My dogs are as important to me as my friends and family." That's not sweet, it's sick.

House on fire, can only save one... Dog or Friend - Friend (time spent deciding, 0 seconds) Dog or Family - Family (time spent deciding, 0 seconds) Dog or Total stranger - Total stranger (time spent deciding, 0 seconds)

I don't have a problem with them asking. I politely decline to tell them and move on. I have yet to have it be a stumbling block. An employer asking is a fairly standard practice, as is a potential employee not providing that information.

I've had an employer refuse to proceed with an offer unless I provide salary history.

"Thank you for for self-identifying. Good day."

That would have been my response.

Some companies ask for your previous W2 as proof.

So refuse it. Tax documents are private.

Then they fire you.

Then you find a job someplace that isn't trying to screw you out of thousands of dollars a year.

That's not a realistic option for most people.

Yeah, think about the children.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13612054 and marked it off-topic.

I was not taking a woman on a date to a place where women are objectified, and I didn't say that I was. She and her friends (women) decided to go to a strip club, and invited me at the last second.

How could you POSSIBLY have interpreted what I said as that it was my idea to go there, let alone that it was a date? You've also assumed it was a strip club of only females.

Regardless, I'd be open to the possibility that you should mind your own damn business. Nobody involved cares for you to judge them for their job or the way they express their sexuality.

Drop the puritanical attitude. Strippers are just regular people trying to make ends meet.

Get off your moral high horse, you can't possibly know the full circumstances of the OP to make such assumptions. This SJW mentality has to stop.

It's funny because it was actually a group of girls that decided to go to the strip club and then just invited me at the last second because I was there.

I didn't touch the stripper, but the girls did. I didn't pay to have her rub her boobs in my face, but the girls did.

I'm not saying something can't be sexist if a girl does it, but I am pretty sure it blows that commenter's assumptions out of the water. I actually hadn't yet said that they were female strippers at that point either.

Personally I don't like the idea of assuming a stripper doesn't like their job or is being taken advantage of or objectified. I don't see why it's any of our business to tell them how to feel about their job or make assumptions.

Totally agree. AirBnB couldn't wait for the opportunity to roll over, show their soft belly, and urinate all over themselves, instead of actually recognizing the false dichotomy.