My diocese had one of those too. He ran the Newman/student center at the university. The bishop knew about him and “applied restrictions” to him, but it wasn’t until he died that they publicly investigated him.

It was about ten years after he died that the investigation report came out. They concluded “there was a homosexual culture” at the Newman Center to blame.

During this investigation, no direct information was learned that Msgr. Kalin was homosexual or was a practicing homosexual; however, there was sufficient testimonial and anecdotical [sic] information learned during the investigation to confirm Msgr. Kalin did seek out and prefer the company of men. Much of this exacerbated later in his life due to ongoing medication and treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

That girls wearing shirts that showed any sort of curvature were leading boys to hell. RIP girls with anything larger than a B cup.

And then there was a transfer student I became friends with. Didn’t have the words for them at the time but probably non-binary. They used a chest binder and got in trouble for that. Damned for having boobs, damned for trying to minimize them; damned for just existing.

You think FIFA and the selection of the US as host isn’t political?

Wut?

I’m for the people who will be posting dank memes shitting on the US government.

Yes, it’s recognized in the US. Not always quickly and accurately, I’ve known several people who lived with it for years before a doctor finally figured it out.

(Pure personal anecdotal, not data-backed) I suspect a generation of doctors were trained only to look for a red rash in the shape of a bullseye target on the patient’s skin and not to run blood tests until a bullseye is seen. People with Lyme don’t always get the bullseye rash or sometimes it’s in an area not easy to detect it (on scalp, covered in hair). Hopefully there continues to be better awareness and diagnostics.

It’s not super common where I live (middle of the US). I’ve been bitten by ticks many times but never contracted Lyme. My state advises saving the tick for 30 days after it bites you. If you have any symptoms, your doctor’s office can arrange to have it tested. If it tests positive, you get tested and then treated if needed and also the an official report goes to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is a national-level public health agency.

Unfortunately, the CDC is under the Department of Health and Human Services, which is now run by RFK Jr. I wouldn’t be surprised if that moron were to advise tanning one’s butthole as treatment for Lyme.

Yes, my industry is revising their standard to say something about needing processes to control the use of “AI”. Literally a sentence long. So I pointed out that as written it would apply to spell check and face ID to unlock my phone and Google search engine and so on. “Oh, that’s not what we mean, we mean like ChatGPT”. They need to write that before they publish an absolute shit requirement for the industry to wrestle with.

Humans don’t fit neatly into a male bucket and a female bucket. I’m not interested in discyssing this with anyone unless they’re referring to studies from scientists and medical professionals who actually have some knowledge behind their statements.

I was super good at recording the local music radio station to a cassette tape to minimize the DJs chatter. My brother would pay me to catch songs for him. Too bad he had awful taste.

There will be games in Canada and Mexico too, consider going to those instead. The cup is in July, so due to height of summer I would be looking at Canada, personally.

I’m seeing friends cancel vacation plans and work colleagues cancel work trips to the US and I don’t blame them. If I didn’t already live here, I wouldn’t be looking to travel to the US without really good reason, and a sport tournament would not be enough for me.

People getting CEO jobs aren’t hanging with working class bros. They either never were working class or they shed those connections on their way along the corporate ladder.

I did tier 1, 2, and eventually some 3 support back in the day for a software company. I liked how they handled it.

Customer called in, reached a live person doing intake. The intake person noted their question and callback number, helping to scope the problem if needed, and entered a ticket into the queue. The intake person gave the caller an expected wait time for a support tech to call back, pointed them to online written help documentation, and ended the call. Then push the ticket to tier 1, 2, 3, or “urgent, need to call NOW” queues. Depending on tier and call volume and time of day, they’d get a callback from a tech anywhere from immediately to the next morning.

Support techs like myself were coached to help over the phone, but also to point out the written materials and encourage their use. I would commonly say, “sure, that’s a problem we can fix, go ahead and go to screen x, click on button y, etc. By the way, you’re not the only one who had had this question, we even have an entry on this in our support documentation. Let me show you where you it’s at so you can get to the fix even faster than a phone call next time”.

Having the intake person take numbers, then techs call back later saved customers from having to wait on hold for lengths of time. We had very few cases of irate customers stuck waiting.

My shittiest experiences are the companies that don’t do any intake and make all tiers of calls wait on hold in the same queue. Luck of the draw if the tech you end up with is a tier 1 still in training pants or a tier 3 pissed to be walking a customer thru updating their password for the millionth tim.

I wasn’t “allowed” to watch it, not because my parents had a problem with it but because we didn’t have cable TV. I miss some references other people make about SpongeBob or other Nickelodeon / cable TV stuff, but I’ve never felt like I missed out much. Especially now as an adult, I just get to ask people about something they’re nostalgic for from childhood and have interesting conversations.

I did see half an episode of Nickelodeon Guts once and would have watched the heck out of it if we’d had cable.

(US context) The advice I got was that every marriage has a prenup. If the couple doesn’t write it, it’s just the default prenup their state wrote and it’s going to be crap for both people.

I just wish I could find an RSS feed of it.

No, and doubly so on the second. SEO = search engine optimization. Big corps pay people to manipulate themselves into the top hits of searches; I don’t see Lemmy ever doing that.

The top hits will be from companies that scrape the Fediverse for content then poop AI-generated slop into “top hit” positions they paid Google for.

Easy. Build friendships outside of work with the people you enjoy spending time with, avoid working for the bad manager. The smart person realizes the most fulfilling relationships aren’t built at work.

First thought: I hope the women are safe and have an avenue to report him and get help if his advances are not welcome

Second thought: he’s a creep

My initial thought too. Good. At least until they catch on and make some excuse for needing “teens” IDs too.

Ha, six hours no reply. Is it because there aren’t many heel-wearing folks on here? Or because no one wants to yuck your yum and spill the secret that the trick to comfort is to not wear them 😂?

Hope you enjoy them, M.