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Reading HtN I was like: “aww, I see! This is all part of a clever scheme Harrow! What is your masterful endgame I wonder?”

In the 1950’s drug stores not only filled your prescription, but there was usually a food counter, ice cream and coffee. My Great Uncle Angelo worked as a soda clerk in the New York suburbs where a man named Bill would come in and flirt with him.

my family is fucking addicted to macgyvering and it's becoming a problem. every time something in this house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.

to the people saying this isn't safe in the tags: my dad has a engineering degree and my brother is a mechanic this is like. state sanctioned macgyvering. safe sane and consensual macgyvering. our house will not burn down. in fact, i think it has made us all better in approaching problems from all angles when they arise, which has served me well in life, especially in high stress situations.

what would you define sex as? i know people say sex dosent have to involve genitals and you said boot polishing can be sex for some people but like. within this definition, when does something become sex? whats the line between something being sex and just being a sexual activity in this definition? like, would every activity that people get sexual pleasure from be sex? is it just, however the people doing it define it? like if two people holding hands consider it sex, would you call that sex?

fucking someone's mouth with your fingers can be sex

As silly as it might seem, this is in fact common and you are in fact "useful" - the point of an analyst is essentially to be "on call" for the one million things putting together financial deals requires (mainly tons and tons of powerpoints & financial tables for getting everyone on board and making the numbers work), and its something where overnight changes are common (because finance) and those changes costs you hundreds of millions of dollars. And you really don't want to switch analysts mid-stream because they are constantly tweaked existing products, not building fresh decks, so onboarding new staff would be a huge sink.

Yeah, going around twitter discussions this is the impression I got. Extreme grunt work, big contrast to tasks that are more mentally demanding and necessarily see productivity drop below zero far earlier.

Yeah its important that no one at these offices is spending 120 hours entering data on cells. They are hanging around until 3 am because Shanghai needs that new IPO pricing model and you just waiting for the real assets team to give you the figures on those mining holdings, so you just sit there for 4 hours ordering doordash steaks and committing light fraud adding whiskey to the order, but like having this done by multiple people in 8 hour shifts just doesn't work, so you are stuck there and the Boss wants you showing face for accountability.

my literature discussion and writing group is composed of those guys, a handful of college professors or other academics, two lawyers, people who run IT, a dude that does technical writing for weed companies, and a translator