I’m sorry, but Doomerism has to die.

The only call-to-action I get from this kind of comment inspires is “give up & go home evryone; your fate is to suffer”

My intention with my own comment is to ask people to please keep the defeatist comments to yourself.
If you aren’t saying anything informative or supportive in Public discourse, what are you actually putting into the Public’s mind?

As far as I understand, all the money/asset value that goes into funding an organization is owed back to the investors, whether it’s as services bck to taxpayers, or dividends back to stock investors. Any start to an organization involves people/ other organizations seeding it with money

Taking on a loan gives you both money (pretty liquid assets) and debt (liabilities). If you just use that money to pay back the debt, you’re back to no liquidity - no leverage to do the things that cost money to get kickstarted or keep maintaining.

So the idea is that, if an organization uses too much in funds/all the assets to pay back the debt, they may not have enough left over to maintain/grow operations.

Source: I’m taking accounting, am struggling, and hate how evrything seems absolutely bonkers at first. But also, it all makes sense. Because real accounting accounts for goddamn evrything.

Not sure if you were angling for this response or used a voice transcription service, but it’s *seizing, not ceasing, btw

Unrelated: sometimes I’ve had confusing chats over fb marketplace trying to gauge the other person’s tone/sanity, but found their texts were just off because they let voice-transcription take the wheel.

If you want change,

Doomerism has to die.

Do more than chant “mid” like trolls do

I LOVE the Time one, lmao

It hurts knowing that this is just untagged sarcasm but there are people out there stupid enough to read this as rabid sincerity.

Right? All the bleach we injected in 2020 extincted all the diseases

/s

Somebody remind me what movie this was. I faintly recall that it was short, but awesome

*laughs in pre-recorded laugh track*

Surely giving up and trying nothing will turn things around!

/s

When prisons are for-profit –

Does the laptop have any Fn key perhaps? In case all your F keys are set to media keys.

Me, finding out this exists after buying a used sff HP pc and wondering why it won’t display out to any new monitor unless I unplug and plug the power cord: 💀

Luckily (or not so luckily), I was able to turn off the HP “security feature” from the bios. The pc came from a former school fleet of sff pcs

Good question. OEMs do usually last longer than third party strains. The higher cost is usually worth it because it will probably last until you run your vehicle into the ground

Jumping on the topic of popular ideas that’ve worked - I have family that works eight 9-hour days, one 8-hour day, and chooses either a Monday or Friday off. This is every two weeks. It still squeezes in 40 hours, and he likes it better than all 8-hour days.

I’m pretty sure martial law is worth rioting over anyway

It was the Muse album Drones that I bought from the band’s website. I thiiiink I shared a link to the folder to my netbook with a different account to download to, and then I didn’t notice til later (maybe it was a week? A month?) the folder of just this muse album was empty.

Idr checking the trash can for my Google drive or anything. I don’t think I got a notice because I searched “copyright” in my emails circa 2015, and nothing related to removing my files popped up.

Damn @.@
The section referenced:

The Dark Secret of Swimming Pools

Main

· “A Conversation with Jeff Wiltse, Author of Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America.” University of North Carolina Press. (May 1, 2010) http://www.ibiblio.org/uncp/media/wiltse/WiltseQ & A_pb.pdf

· Wiltse, Jeff. Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America. The University of North Carolina Press. (April 23, 2007)

· Gale, Neil, Ph.D. “The Origins of Nude Swimming in Illinois Public Schools and Community Pools.” Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal. (December 20, 2016). https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-origins-of-nude-swimming-in.html

Others

· “Nude Male Swimming” Collection of articles. Historic Archives https://sites.google.com/site/historicarchives4maleswimming/home/archives---mid-20th-century-to-current/photographs

· Markowitz, Eric. “Until Fairly Recently, The YMCA Actually Required Swimmers To Be Nude.” vocativ. (April 29, 2014) http://www.vocativ.com/culture/fun/fairly-recently-ymca-actually-required-swimmers-nude/

· Jumper-Swim. “The Origins of Nude Swimming at the Y & Public Schools.” Historic Archives. https://sites.google.com/site/historicarchives4maleswimming/home/archives---mid-20th-century-to-current/stories/jumper-swim

· Norm. “Swimming naked: my high school swim team did!” Chicago Then. (November 12, 2013) http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-then/2013/11/swimming-naked-my-high-school-swim-team-did-123/

· All Things Considered. “Plunging into Public Pools’ Contentious Past.” [radio] NPR (May 26, 2007). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10407533

For real-real? Saurce?

I downloaded music I bought online and copied it to my Google drive once. This was years back, mid 2010s, this album just came out for my favorite artist back then. I’d downloaded it back to another pc and a week later - poof. No more mp3s. @.@

Edit: just that folder of that album’s mp3s, not my whole music library back then, just to be clear. Still, that was my first big burn from cloud services.