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[–] 162 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I... You know what we should make a combination everclear/whatever they call those drinks for old people like ensure. Call it The Mondays, sell em by the case. As business supplements.

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  • [–] 69 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I am glad that when I did a team shuffile I was left out of team meetings so now I have no meeting at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    At my job I basically never have meetings since I’m a resource to do work and not technically a β€œteam member” on any projects. Recently, some of my younger coworkers were talking about doing 8am stand-ups with the whole department to allow people to chip in about eachother’s work, and I almost lost it.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    LPT: blow on your mug of gin and tonic before carefully taking sips.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    A screwdriver looks like orange juice when you can't smell it.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Yep that's why it exists. American petroleum engineers and techs working in Arab states where alcohol is banned. It's also why it's called that since screwdrivers are used by almost everyone.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There's no clear origin to the name. Both tales on Wikipedia refer to using a screwdriver to stir the drink at work.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    While there's no clear origin I can certainly tell you why they would keep calling it a screwdriver while hiding their drinking around their Arabian ESL colleagues

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I had a professor who did complex math for energy exploration in Saudi Arabia and apparently you can legally buy a still permit if you have the cash to do so. That's how all of the Saudi royalty gets behind prohibition I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    A screwdriver being the thing that drives screws?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    That looks nothing like orange juice

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    If they mention it, complain you don't make enough and have to buy really shitty, watery orange juice and they should be ashamed that they've humiliated you, etc... etc...

    Now you get to drink during calls AND you're making more money.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe that's how it looks in the US. US-Americans don't consume natural things lol.

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  • Um. I don't remember the last thing I ate that I didn't make from scratch. I'm in California though, your argument applied more to my neighbors when I lived in Utah. I met this dude who made salsa from all canned ingredients and when he was done it was thinner than water. Nasty shit. Claimed to be from San Diego, but dude was adopted by the whitest whiteys that ever drank bleach.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    I always put a shirt when on company calls β€” I wouldn't trust the camera not suddenly turning on (or myself β€” not turning the camera on by accident).

    Not pants tho β€” they are staying in the closet.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Camera can’t turn on if it’s not plugged in!

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Flock camera proceeds to raise outside the window.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't even trust that honestly.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Ohh I remember being the only one with their camera off while people spoke this kinda crap too!

    Now in a new job that doesn't have meetings. At all. I think our manager protects us from them. Or perhaps he protects the rest of the company from us?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    "And what's behind that door?"
    "Damn you are new, that's HerbGrower's place, we don't go there."

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  • [–] 72 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    Leaning into the old because I refuse to use β€œreclaimed” incel 4chan speak

    I witnessed the cesspits from whence that shit fomented, back in the days of gamergate, and will not touch it with a 100 foot pole.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Its not even being old its just being aware. If only they knew

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago*

    I'm fully aware, this comic is the demonstration of why I do it. I try to get all the white women in my life to also because that inflicts extra psychic damage to a certain kind of person

    The writers of Superman comics did something similar to the KKK back in the day

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Ooh interesting, what do you mean by the 4chan speak? Is it the maxxing thing?

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    β€œMaxxing,” β€œmogging,” β€œ-pilled.” Amongst many others. I’ve even seen this language on billboards and the seepage of sewage into the mainstream is mind-boggling.

    Then again those stupid psyop fucks infiltrated Xitter, tumblr, etc. over a decade ago.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    These terms were originally heavily used as heavy right wing 4chan terms, largely circulating in hate circle jerks (which is like 50% of 4chan anyways). Largely associated with millenial incel culture.

    Gen Z proceeded to take these terms and parody the fuck out if them, effectively mocking incel culture and turning it into a huge joke. Thus then became mainstream and its largely acted as a very successful humiliation tactic towards the hateful groups.

    Think stuff like all the "chad" memes but applying it to silly stuff, like intense cuts of a random chair or a porta-potty, x-pilled terms, etc.

    All their terms have been mocked into oblivion, you cant really use the terms without just sounding like a gen z meme now.

    An example of when millennials did a similiar thing was mocking the shit out of gen x biker/trucker hyper masculine culture and turning it into an ironic joke. IE the skeleton "my body is a machine that turns x into y" jokes, or ironic memes of edgy skeletons/wolves/etc. Three moons shirt, those things.

    10/10, I fucking love how culture can do stuff like this over time lol

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    With what was posted there, it's enough for me that it originated on 4chan at all. Part of me wants to tell people what kind of place the rickroll came from, but then I'd be hard pressed to explain why on Earth I ever went there. You can't separate all evolved cultural trends from that place, but there is just no way it's ever going to sit right with me.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    Oh God I feel this in my bones.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Oh his screen is in the bottom right corner

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think scp 096 breached containment

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Zoom meetings feel like a farce created by a demon to slowly extract our souls from our bodies over the span of years. That would explain why I’m so tired after β€œmeeting-heavy” days.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Dude got culture shocked so much he became Hollowed.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I’ve heard global thermonuclear armageddon isn’t such a bad way to go.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    This art style reminds me a lot of Animatrix.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Windows isn't really fit for development (outside of windows-specific targets), so. And it kind of sucks for just day to day usage. And most IT departments aren't great, so linux is out.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I feel like that Linux is just harder to lock down for the IT department

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not that kind of computer person so I can't speak confidently on the specifics. I imagine it might be a factor that windows is just more familiar to many people, lots of enterprise software was already written for this task, and common problems were solved.

    A user in linux without admin rights is pretty limited in what they can do.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I imagine it might be a factor that windows is just more familiar to many people

    Does it really matter in a development enviroment? Like, yeah, it can cause issue for some devs the first few times they use it, but if you can't adapt to a new OS, can we really trust in your skills? At least, that's thinking

    A user in linux without admin rights is pretty limited in what they can do.

    Yeah, that's what i was thinking too, you can lock down Linux but then you would've to remove administrator rights which make it harder to develop stuff but if you don't remove them, it's easy as fuck to remove the stuff that locks you

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Does it really matter in a development enviroment?

    Yes 100%. There's a good chance whatever you're working on with be on Linux, so being on windows locally is just an extra layer for problems to manifest. Plus windows is just weird compared to everything else.

    I don't want to fuss with the OS. I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work. I don't want OneDrive. You can go get tooling to make windows more linux-like but, like, why half ass it.

    With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.

    Do you do software development work?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work.

    I once had to install openssh on windows because the default util for ssh was ass, for some reason it would work very differently than every other client i tried

    With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.

    Containers are way more heavy on windows sadlyz that's because you first need a VM of linux to make them work

    Do you do software development work?

    Yeah, i do it mainly on Windows for various reasons and it's shit tbh

    Some tools suck for windows, some doesn't exist at all, i need too many siftwares to mimic Linux functionality, i have to install dependencies manually using installers sometimes if i am lucky they are on Scoop(a package manager for winslop), mess with env variables every 3 seconds and i want to kms

    I can't even use some C/C++ libraries (like ncurses πŸ’”) and compilation documentations are always 3 times longer

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