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US companies paying remote employees in other countries less than their US-based peers is economic imperialism.

Apple dot com designers love scroll-linked effects more than everyone else in the world combined.

Stripe is growing its engineering, sales, operations, legal, and finance teams in Europe (remote or officed).

It's hosting a virtual event on Sept 15 to share more about Stripe’s growth in EMEA and the problems it's trying to solve.

RSVP: stripe.events/emeaexpansion

“Diversity contains as many treasures as those waiting for us on other worlds. We will find it impossible to fear diversity and to enter the future at the same time.”

—Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator

Old soul, waiting my turn.

I know a few things, but I still got a lot to learn.

I’m alright with a slow burn.

I am tired of dystopian, vigilante justice, physical violence-for-good narratives. Where are the optimistic, diplomacy promoting, and emotionally mature storylines, Hollywood?

I want Captain Planet for adults.

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My Nintendo Switch died overnight and I am very sad about the impact to my Animal Crossing: New Horizon construction schedule.

Hoping the cloud backup happened before the crash and that the repair people are fast. 😩

🇸🇪 Svenskar: I am seeking a lawyer specializing in legal name changes. Do you know of one?

Lavender.
Maroon.
wide ass font.

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Thank you President Biden for *finally* getting the US out of Afghanistan.

Democrats still cleaning up after President GWB…

Listening to Savage Garden made me want to find the origin of the “chic-a-cherry cola” in “I Want You”.

Someone in 2004 answered, “It's an artificial food product related to Chickity China (the Chinese chicken), but with less MSG.” 🤣

arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopi

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The line “I believe you can’t control or choose your sexuality” in Savage Garden’s “Affirmation” hit me so hard the first time I heard it I nearly cried. This was 4 years after the album was released, but I didn’t listen to "secular" music until I was 19.

songwhip.com/savage-garden/aff

I did not realize this inevitability until having time and distance to reflect. So much opportunity, brand equity, and talent wasted by well-intentioned, but unskilled executive leadership. InVision was so close to greatness and just hurts to think about what could have been.

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