Notices by hannah (h_thoreson@mastodon.world)

the economy is so bad I’ve had multiple people tell me today they want to get laid off to get severance because they’re frustrated with their jobs (sometimes bc employers are just deliberately messing with people to try and get them to leave) and getting paid a big windfall all at once sounds amazing to them

me: no, trust me, you do not want that. you want to leave because you have a better offer and not because your employer is tired of coming up with health insurance for 20% of the people.

one of the weirder thing I didn’t anticipate about becoming a Californian is that every phone call to the middle part of the country either starts with a guilt trip about how much worse the weather is there OR unprompted so how is the homeless/crime/wildfires/Gavin Newsom

@skinnylatte I noticed the same thing. I have had one standout meal in SF, but most of the food there has been pretty meh but somehow 2x as expensive as NY or LA. San Jose is somehow even worse, I had tacos there that seemed like they were using canned chicken???? Ew.

@skinnylatte But most of LA is still much more normal and culturally diverse. There are some techies here- but it's not *literally everyone*

@skinnylatte my sister Kate lives in SF and she doesn't understand why it seems less magical to me than LA. It's partially the weather but partially the insane cost of living and rapid tech gentrification has just pushed everything else out to the margins. It makes it a less interesting place to even visit because ultimately, if I want to hang out with rich techies and eat mall food court stuff, I could just go to Irvine, or Santa Monica, and save myself a lot of hassle.

the google AI features are so dumb i googled "can i eat more than one orange" and the AI slop results on the top half of the page make it sound like i searched for "what happens if i eat yellowcake uranium" or "is it safe to eat dog treats"

inflation has really killed off product packaging

Was anybody else just really unimpressed by the concept of “January”? Just me? No?

biotech companies: if you donate an organ we'll give you a month off

defense contractors: yeah we'll shoot you for free

pretty much 🤷♀️

My opinion on the H1-B visa issue. https://www.brickstackr.com/posts/tech-is-not-the-only-industry

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me
Twelve Soundcloud rappers,
Eleven Elon Musk tweets,
Ten rizzlers rizzling,
Nine Tiktok Dances,
Eight raw milkshakes,
Seven dried lakebeds,
Six dollar eggs,
Five Dogecoins,
Four AI agents,
Three Costco chickens,
Two clay pigeons,
And bird flu in a pear tree!
🎄 ❄️ 🎅

there's so many illnesses going around the federal government should hand out test strips that look like a swimming pool pH dipstick

red? covid. orange? influenza. yellow? norovirus. green? e coli. blue? bird flu. purple? RSV.

what's your most regretted *non purchase*? i hear a lot about buyer's remorse, but what's a thing you regret not buying?

remember when nutritionists were like “oh you need to eat your colors”? today I’m on orange foods (50% carrot sticks and 50% cheez its)

It’s so funny to me (a millennial) that the right wing has seized on hormonal contraception as this like new cool invention that’s destroying all the women… it’s not new. My grandmother used it after she finished having children. My mother was on it until she had them. You can’t even accurately say it’s “going back to the 1950’s” to try and take it away from people because they were desperately trying to get it. More like the Victorian era, not known to be a pleasant time.

me before calibrating sensors and calculating offsets: I can’t wait to take a Waymo for a ride

me after doing that: I think we should walk everywhere. Accurate cars don’t exist

I’m realizing for the first time the plot of the book “Hatchet” and any given episode of Mr. Beast are basically the same.

trying to just tune out all the toxic politics but JD Vance is just such a unique level of clown. not only has he changed his mind on basically every issue, he also wrote a book that can’t possibly be accurate that makes life in ohio sound like an impoverished foreign country and basically seems to think the safety and happiness of adult women doesn’t matter at all.

This fan is easily the best thing I have ever 3D printed. Easily. All the blade pieces locked together neatly and held together just right with an M3 screw. (My own design)

It's 3 filaments, a clear one for the base layers, then color change and blue to do the pattern #3DPrinting