Uni jetstream edge .28 mm. Uses an oil-based ink that doesn’t smear if it gets wet. Feels good in the hand too.

Also, the rOtring ballpoint pens.

Everyone has been in that space, and to OP’s credit, some folks react in a much worse way.

OP, you reacted in a way that may have looked odd from the outside but as long as this isn’t a weekly occurrence talking to your boss like the parent comment says should resolve things.

Meanwhile, consider that some people respond to the same situation by yelling at the person who asked, or throwing things, or otherwise becoming violent. You got upset and removed yourself from the situation, which is the right thing to do.

The question was “what word or phrase annoys you,” not “do you understand this phrase.”

I know what the phrasing means, it still bugs the shit out of me.

“Not me” doing something.

Just say you’re doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that you’re doing it.

Short answer: yes

Longer answer: I would argue we’ve already had a few civil wars since the “War Between the States” in the 1860s. Reconstruction was arguably another civil war. The labor rights war of the early twentieth century included federal troops attacking organizing coal miners and federal agents along with private security forces attacking striking workers elsewhere. The violence of the civil rights movement (remember: the president had to call in the national guard to enforce integration) would also qualify as a civil war by some standards.

Listen to the first limited series of the podcast It Could Happen Here for an idea of how a more involved civil war could start. The idea is that there would not be clear battle lines drawn up because our divide now is more urban vs rural, and people in rural areas have opportunities to attack infrastructure that would have significant impacts on urban areas.

Every day is some variation on shitty.

Gary Larson has several species of animals named after him. He also named the spiked part of a stegosaurus tail in a comic (the thagomizer, “after the late Thag Simmons”) and had that name adopted as the official name by paleontologists.

A sandwich I used to make when I worked at a deli. Pastrami, turkey, and provolone, melted, on a toasted onion roll with coleslaw and Russian dressing.

The Dollop: now with 90% less child murder than Behind the Bastards!

I was cautiously optimistic about Harris before, now I’m regular optimistic. Walz seems like a good dude who will appeal to working class voters, having been a schoolteacher and a union member, and able to be folksy with a genuine-ness that DJT and JD couchfucker couldn’t muster in a dozen lifetimes.

The Daily Zeitgeist - a daily rundown of the news and pop culture

Behind the Bastards

16th Minute (of Fame) - reviewing internet main characters and adding context to what is generally known about them

Factually - Adam Conover interviews experts

The Dollop - two comedians tell stories from history

Bad Hasbara - two anti-Zionist Jews discuss Israeli propaganda, usually with a guest

Pod Yourself [x] - episode by episode recap of tv shows. First the Sopranos (pod yourself a gun) then The Wire (pod yourself the wire) and upcoming is Mad Men.

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Some More News - news deep dives and weekly current events.

Show would have been Starblazers or Robotech (Americanized Space Battleship Yamato and Macross/Southern Cross/Mospaeda, respectively.) For movies probably Akira.

Ross Perot got 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992. While he didn’t get any electoral votes he likely prevented a second HW Bush term.

Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.

1. All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.

2. 24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.

3. After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.

Pretty much everyone who’s discussed it agrees The Godfather (film) blows the Puzo novel it adapted away.

Runner up is Adaptation, an adaptation of the novel The Orchid Thief that expands its scope significantly.

I think there are different valid perspectives on what the terms mean, and the server side vs AJAX split pretty tightly correlates to the rise of social media as we currently understand it because the technology enables that use of the internet.

Both major freezes in the last 5 years in Texas.

They Might Be Giants

Do you a) Own a property b) that you don’t live in c) that other people who are not family members live in d) and those people pay you?

If not, you’re not the subject of that comment. If so, congrats on being in the very narrow overlap of the Venn diagram for waiters and landlords.

Depends on how you define “nametag.” I work at Amazon in an office, and we all have to wear badges, from the drones like me to the senior VPs. Same thing will be true at a lot of companies.