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A guy who sounded like the doctor from Idiocracy, “Our plane broke, so we gotta get a new plane.” He did not say “scro,” but I thought he would.Comments
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Welp, failed save vs. plane failure. We’re going back into the terminal.Comments
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Welp, save vs. flight delay failed.Comments
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There’s a cat that does a daily walk through my parents’ backyard and several other backyards. He’s a jaunty guy but also apparently digs up and chomps up baby rabbits. Cats!Comments
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The whole intra-Russian military conflict thing looks like it's real.Comments
Prigozhin, who emerged as one of the crucial leaders of Russia’s invasion since Wagner took a leading role on the front lines, has been embroiled in a feud for several months with defence minister Sergei Shoigu, who Prigozhin has accused of sabotaging the war effort together with Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s general staff.
Pretty serious talk! Prigozhin is the CEO of Wagner, the massive Russian mercenary force that Russia needs in order to keep up its invasion of Ukraine. (Prigozhin was formerly and maybe still is a caterer.)
He claimed Shoigu had ordered the alleged air strike in secret, then “ran away like a bitch to avoid explaining why he sent helicopters to destroy our boys”.
“The evil brought by the country’s military leadership must be stopped. Those who destroyed our boys today and ruined the lives of many tens of thousands of our soldiers will be punished,” Prigozhin said.
Without explaining what specific steps Wagner would take, Prigozhin added: “I ask that nobody resist. We will consider everyone who resists to be a threat and destroy them at once.”In the earlier video on Friday, Prigozhin said Russia’s defence ministry concocted false pretences to trick Putin into invading Ukraine and said Moscow could have avoided the war entirely.
Prigozhin claimed Russia had faced no immediate threat from Ukraine when Putin began his full-scale invasion last year and accused the army’s top brass of deceiving the president for their own personal gain.
Prigozhin’s regular diatribes, in which he claims Russia runs the risk of losing the war after Ukraine began a counteroffensive earlier this month, had indicated elite infighting was getting fiercer as Moscow’s war effort continues to struggle.
Though Prigozhin notably refrained from criticising Putin personally and has backed the war’s goals, the video was the first time he publicly questioned Russia’s rationale for the full-scale invasion. -
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Typical questions by and large, though very rushed and Sean was very stressed or potentially medicated.
"Potentially medicated" is a good phrase for a Glassdoor review.
While looking up stuff about KidzToPros, I found reviews about their operation in Fremont. There are a lot of reviews like this:Stay away, parents! This camp is totally a scam! I am so regret I didn't check other's reviews on Yelp before signing up the camp. They cancelled the camp and took my money! Do not expect to get your money back!
So, the other side of that situation is referred to on Glassdoor:Cons
And of course, there's the classic Glassdoor astroturfing:
More than 500, but i'll only post one major con. showed up to my shift at a Fremont and i couldn't work. The school told me because the company had not paid their fees to operate on campus!Pros
That's the actual formatting. There were probably linebreaks in the original email instructions about what to paste into the fake review. The other fake-looking reviews also have sentences that are mashed together, too.
It is a great place to work with a wonderful who have a passion for providing quality programming to children Great communication and respect from the people you work with The opportunity to work with kids and teach them new skills and lessons Working with and developing young adults who are new to the working life Having your voice heard by upper management Being a part of a company that is forging its way forward and creating a new path
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I have nothing to say at this point.
A lot of things like this, too:Very poorly managed. Management would leave workers(some as young as 17) to care for very large groups of children without any assistance. When contacted, management would not provide sufficient answers or would ignore the contact completely. Multiple times I received a payment for far less than I was supposed to and I had to contact HR and prove I was underpaid. Very poor experience overall.
Even the positive reviews have stuff like this:Sometimes staff don’t show up to site
The adventures continue on BBB:
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Friendly staff and ample breaks
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Long hours, unclean facilities sometimesKidz to Pros offered a Unity programming class for kids but this is a bait and switch. The computers provided would not run UNITY.The camp counselor did not know anything about UNITY.No instruction was provided. It's straight up fraud. Here's the class description from the website, but the kids just goofed around online instead of learning anything about UNITY."Students will learn and practice the basics of Unity using the ** scripting language. They will learn player movement with vectors and simple physics, and move on to integrating game objects and assets. Students will need to think through game level design and the bells and whistles of first creating a complete 2D game In the 2nd week, students will create a first-person, customizable game that will require them to master 3D character control and 3D models and animation control. They will use particle systems to create explosions and effects, and implement an AI for computerized opponents."Today on the first day of camp my kid's computer could not even load UNITY and the two kids who could load it received no instruction. None. The camp did not return my calls.
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The Harvard Art Museums are thrilled to announce that admission will now be free for all visitors, effective immediately. This permanent change to our admission policy deepens our commitment to be an educational resource to all and welcome everyone to enjoy one of the largest and most renowned art collections in North America.
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Re: the cheap Illinois prices I was talking about yesterday: Two large pizzas from Lou Malnati’s is $60, so it’s not cheap across the board. Theme park tickets are cheaper than on the east coast, though.Comments
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It’s the way of the world, but it’s extremely messed up that you’re not allowed to being your own drinking water into a water park. It’s a basic need!Comments
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Dag, a meal for five is little over $40 at Portillo’s. That’s like three burgers and fries at Shake Shack. Illinois pricing!Comments
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A real study: Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effortComments
Twenty domestic cats (11 male, 9 female) between 1 and 10 years old (average age: 5.1 years, SD: 3.1 years) were enrolled in the study. … Six of the 20 cats had previous experience with using a food puzzle.
Send your resume to SmidgeoThree cats (2 female, 1 male) who refused to consume any food from the puzzle during training were withdrawn from the study for their safety. Cats that successfully completed the training were then exposed to the testing protocol.
The best way to win is to not play at all.
One of the cats in the study is Baba! BABA IS CAT. Also, there’s an Orion, which I misread as Onion. I wanted to name the guy Orion at one point, but Katt pointed out people would misread the name in exactly this way.We did not find strong evidence for contrafreeloading; instead, cats preferred to eat the food that was freely available with no required additional effort. This was true when looking at both the overall population of cats, and the behavior of individual cats across trials.
Well, yeah. Good to get it tested, though!In fact, the strongest predictor of amount of food eaten from the puzzle was the amount of food eaten from the tray.
I could be misreading it, but there’s a table that says which food source each cat went for first at each trial. The four cats that were considered “contrafreeloading” (preferring the puzzle source as much as the free source) all went for the free source first most of the time. To me, it looks like these cats grabbed all the free food then only did the puzzle to get extra food. I’m not a veterinary scientist, though.Male cats are more prone to obesity (Lund et al. 2005) and may be more food motivated in general.
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As a young man Marx wanted to be a poet, not a political theorist, and wrote some floridly Romantic verses to his future wife, Jenny
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Today, we learned that flights can be delayed, but also undelayed.Comments
We got an email at 4:30 AM saying our flight at 9 would be delayed about 45 minutes. Another email at 6:48 said it would be delayed a full hour. So, we thought we had extra time.
I used that time to work out the last problems in my makeshift remote security camera system. Then, we got an email at 7:27 saying it was back on at the original time. But we didn’t see this right away.
When we did see it at 8, I was still messing with the camera, and I had to get dressed and pack the electronics, and we only had an hour until the flight.
The maps app said there was a 19-minute delay on 93.
Fortunately, I found out that didn’t apply to the HOV lane. Rolling by miles of stopped cars will probably be the highlight of the day.
Despite Terminal C being further from the parking than expected, we did make it.
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On the heels of feeling like my job was going well yesterday, I feel like I’m tired of and not excited by digital technology now.Comments
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Back stuff, 12 pull-ups. My back isn’t quite ready for running, so next week, I guess.Comments
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