Dan Jones shared 27 days ago
The road to hell is paved with thoughts and prayers.
Dan Jones shared 27 days ago
Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind
Dan Jones shared 27 days ago
“Stanley, don’t forget you promised to put together the crib this weekend.”
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A pigeon stands next to an egg and a scattering of sticks.
Dan Jones shared 27 days ago
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Pixelart comparison on top unfishished sketch of ducks in water with brances on top and grass on the bottom with "Just make it exist first" text next to it and on the bottom finished piece with "you can make it good later" next to it
Dan Jones shared 27 days ago
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On a full moon night, Captain America speeds down the street on his motorcycle thinking, “Is there really an alien wrecking death and destruction throughout the city, or are the media acting irresponsibly? I guess the only way to be SURE is for CAPTAIN AMERICA to join the search!“
Dan Jones shared 27 days ago
I’m writing an honest self-help book that promotes sure-fire success strategies like genetics, generational wealth, being a white man, and luck.
My wife and I are not particularly gregarious people. So we have no idea how our ten-year-old son learned it.
Case in point: today we were at the pool. We were enjoying our time when the local college soccer team showed up and monopolized a large portion of the pool, and doubled the volume. I was finding myself a little annoyed at their presence, but they weren't doing anything really objectionable besides being a lot of people.
And then my dear little boy worked his way into the middle of this group of twenty-something men, and organized them into a game of Marco Polo with him being the first Marco. They were all having so much fun and he caught one of them in just a few minutes.
If he weren't also a sweet, kind-hearted soul, I'd worry about him growing up to start his own cult, because he would be wildly successful at that.
Dan Jones shared 28 days ago
No, I didn't "forget your name", I didn't store it in the first place, it's called being GDPR compliant.
I'm watching Star Trek: Generations, and noticed something I hadn't before. When Chekov introduces Jim to Demora, after realizing she's Sulu's daughter, and he hadn't seen her since she was a little girl, he flashed her a really creepy look.
Gross.
Dan Jones shared 30 days ago
Dear Companies,
If you have 100s of applicants applying for a position, and you don't list a salary, and then your salary range is actually much lower than what many of the applicants are looking for, then you've basically wasted a lot of applicants time when you could have easily posted it.
If you start the hiring process and don't mention the salary range until deep into the process, then you've also wasted your HR department's time.
And if your goal was to try to get the best applicants but pay them the least possible money possible, then you've also just let applicants know that you don't really care about your staff or their well-being, because you don't want them well paid, you want them minimally paid.
And if you say you were "seeing who you got" because THEN you might pay someone an even larger salary than is typical, then you've just admitted that you have a terrible Human Resources team who doesn't even understand what kind of candidate their looking for. If you're looking for a candidate with more skills and can then pay them more, then post THAT position.
So when you say you are dedicated to "fostering a diverse, inclusive, and respectful work culture," you're not really respecting applicants from the start, because transparency shows respect, so why would anyone expect to be respected once they start working at your organization?
Sincerely,
Applicants for Your Crappy Jobs
Dan Jones shared 30 days ago
How do you stay current?
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Just told my kids I'm older than Google. They think I'm joking.
I'm just sitting here, doing some work, while watching the finale to Forget You Not, while also waiting for a repair guy. And I know that the dad is going to die by the end of the episode, and I'm going to be bawling, and the repair guy is going to show up, and I'm going to have to pretend that I wasn't just crying like a little kid who lost their security blanket.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Texas Republicans have now set up a TIP LINE to rat out the Texas Democrats So PLEASE, for the sake of the public, DO NOT FLOOD THIS NUMBER with tips on Bigfoot sightings, UFO sightings, or asking why Trump is on “the list” 1-866-786-5972
Dan Jones shared a month ago
If Obergefell is overturned, blue states will still have gay marriage. Red states will not.
Blue states have pro-choice protections. Red states do not.
So when you say “both sides are the same”, or “Dems aren’t doing anything” and help Republicans win and gain SCOTUS seats, real people pay the price.
Is the Supreme Court overturning same-sex marriage? What to know:
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2025/08/12/is-the-supreme-court-overturning-gay-marriage-obergefell-v-hodges/85627357007/
Dan Jones shared a month ago"YOUR ONE TIME CODE IS 744537 STOP
DO NOT SHARE THIS CODE WITH ANYONE STOP
IF ANY TELEGRAM OPERATOR OR GENTLEMAN CALLER ASKS YOU FOR THIS CODE IT IS A SCAM STOP"
–Two-factor authentication message, circa 1885
It's Middle Child Day today.
It's no big deal if you forgot. It's not that important.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
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Alt text for calling out the relevant details you mistakenly assume are obvious to everyone
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Dan Jones shared a month ago
Listen, it’s very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk — that comes in litres.
Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if they’re too far to walk — if you can walk it it’s in metres. If you’re driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.
Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you don’t care much about your weight it’s in stone (but not pounds — no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and it’s hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.
Oh, and if there’s a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a “100°F scorcher”. But if it’s cold then it’s an “arctic blast” with “widespread temperatures below 0°C”.
I hope this clears things up.
Here's some interesting bit of American history I recently learned.
Vice President Elbridge Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts for a period before becoming VP. While in office, he was responsible for the redrawing of the state's senatorial district. The redistricting was done to be more advantageous to Gerry's Democratic-Republican party against the opposing Federalist party in the upcoming elections.
A political cartoon depicting the unreasonable new district as a salamander referred to the new "monster" as a Gerry-mander. The despicable practice of redrawing political boundaries to benefit your own party (robbing your constituents of their political voice) is so named after Mr. Gerry and his Gerry-mander: gerrymandering.
However, he pronounced his name with a hard G, like the name Gary. But the practice of gerrymandering is usually pronounced with a soft g, like gelato.
It turns out his descendents are so annoyed at people mispronouncing their name, that they asked the Supreme Court to pronounce gerrymander the proper way.
If it were me, I would be much more embarrassed that my name had become used as a slur for dirty politics that I'd probably encourage the mispronunciation to distance myself from my corrupt ancestor.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
“New FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s” but the media disproportionately covers crime, so most Americans aren’t aware of the decrease. https://popular.info/p/why-you-might-not-know-that-2024
