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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Cons: *Added stress of fighting traffic for no reason *Added expense of gasoline for no reason *More burning of fossil fuels for no reason *Worse bathrooms that you have to share *Worse kitchen that you have to share *Worse dress code *Less ergonomic office chair *Worse monitors *Slower Internet (in my case, at least) *More annoying disruptions from coworkers *Less peace and quiet needed for concentration *Have to sit in traffic yet again after you get off work

    Pros: *Managers get to feel more important when seeing all their little worker bees’ butts in their chairs. *Promotes shitty “office culture” *Corporate real estate owners get to keep collecting rent












  • “Generally, variables associated with knowledge at the lexical level versus those associated with use need to be better defined.”

    These studies do a decent job of showing that people who know a lot of curse words generally have good overall vocabularies. I am sure I could write down just about every imaginable English curse word, and many in other languages, if given a pencil and paper and adequate time. However, I very rarely actually use a curse word in everyday speech, and these studies do a terrible job of distinguishing between those who know the words and those who use the words.