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It also ain't what's spoken by most Americans. You ain't almost gonna never hear "ain't" as part of that unless the speaker is quoting someone or implying a lack of education on the part of the speaker.

The "American Dialect" is what American TV newscasters speak, sorta like how "Recieved Pronunciation" is Standard British. Go five minutes from a formal setting and you aren't hearing either spoken 100% of the time by someone who isn't a pretentious ass or a naive aristocrat.

I got a nurse named Ariel (after the Disney character) last month. That gets a pass from be because it's a Biblical boys name meaning "Lion of God" with origins going all the way back to Mesopotamia.

Stupid names? I hereby present you with the Confederate Brigadier General *drumroll please* States Rights Gist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_Rights_Gist I should go look up some of the stranger Puritan names from way back when for more fun ones ...

She fucked around and found out that yes, there are consequences for being an openly racist bigot.

The African slavers were going to sell their captives to the highest bidder ... Whitey just so happened to be the highest bidder because - to Europeans back then - buying directly from the slavers was akin to hitting Costco, paying the membership fee, and buying in bulk. The alternative (for...

It depends on what you want to do. If the field requires a specific degree: absolutely. The specific university you got it from? Not so much once you have a few years of experience. After that, having a degree - any degree - helps but where it's from and what it's for doesn't matter much.

The largest companies I've worked for never had more than 50 people. It's usually been less than 30. Stuff like a mom-and-pop retail store might have less than 10 with a "help wanted" sign taped to the door.

Almost all of the ones at the places where I shop don't have those. Only one store has an automated change system and none of them have an automated self-checkout.

No, the register usually doesn't make the coin change, there's still the matter of getting the banknote total correct, and the manager is often just double checking the clerk's count for "fuck it, that's close enough" because "give-a-penny, take-a-penny" is a thing.

The two equations I shared upthread ... you basically need a B.Sc. with a Math minor to have any chance of solving either by hand. H is the enthalpy of everything present. Solving the second one means calulating entropy. Good luck with that and may God have mercy on your soul because your slide...

No, it doesn't. J. Random Clerk has to know enough basic arithmetic to know how to make correct change and count the money in their drawer when it's time for them to go home towards the end of their shift.

If she was presented with these two monsters ... Ve = sqrt[2H/M] * sqrt[1 - (Pe/Pc)^(R/Cp)] Ve = sqrt[2(Hc-He)/M], η = (Hc-He)/Hc ... you'd see TILT in her eyes almost instantly because that's rocket science.

Meanwhile, in the world of people who aren't complete assholes ... There's an Imam from Senegal who said "you can stay" to a homeless Catholic who will not set foot in the mosque or school without express permission.

Umm ... please don't go there. I look and sound almost exactly like my twin sis. She does X-rated work and I'm a father of two.

I'd say that Zach should set aside as much as he can afford to set aside while foregoing guilty pleasures like cigars or a six-pack of beer.

This? https://www.tsp.gov/

With a 1-to-1 match you'd need to set aside at least $750k for the interest on 30yr treasury bonds to equal an E-5's base pay.

You knew what you signed up for. Or rather, the recruiter knew what you were signing up for and convinced you to put your signature on the contract.

Sorta the same thing.