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[–] 141 points 3 months ago (1 child)

The c-section baby line is pretty smooth have to admit

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

    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what. then, is an empty desk a sign of?”
    -Albert Einstein

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  • [–] 46 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    My coworker got in trouble for using the word "circlejerk" in our AI Slack channel.

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

    lol it's to talk about new AI tools and just a bountiful smorgasboard of toxic positivity.

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

    “I love having this tool vomit unintelligible garbage at people and making them figure out what I’m trying to say!”

    “Me too! I wonder if I can offload everything in my life to the random token generator!”

    “I’ve been using model 7.5 and can really feel the difference in quality between my garbled output! Whereas 7.4 felt awful and slow 7.5 feels like it knows me!”

    Every damn AI channel.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    It is called brainstorming in corporate lingo.

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

    In corporate (and many other) settings it's likely to be a circlejerk, but brainstorming per se is not.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    So we agree ! How can i turn this in a debatable offense ? XD

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

    I wanted to point out that both the term and the activity of brainstorming exist outside corporate settings, and that I consider it a good thing, at least in principle.

    It's not (just) corporate lingo.

    So, not fully disagreeing, but not agreeing either.

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

    "Unless it's being properly maintained and gets sharpened as needed."

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

    "In that case, someone other than the pencil ought to do that job, don't you agree?"

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I don't think it's cut out for this work. The pencil refuses to be sharpened or only stays sharp for a day at a time and eventually ends up trying to stab anyone who wants to use or sharpen it.

    But, we eventually we have to talk about real life problems instead of pretending everything is simple. Sorry, pilaz, you're fired.

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

    You can call him foreskin. Because he disappears when things get hard

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

    Sometimes I rather enjoy working for boomers. My boss will just light up a cigarette in the shop, we rag on eachother constantly and joke about hanging ourselves from the rafters.

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

    That's starting to happen with Gen X already. As you get older you give fewer shits.

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

    I have tested as "color superior". At my work, we had to match colorant of the product we were manufacturing. It requires a sign off from someone who can pass the color test. You line up little color samples in order from lightest to darkest, and I pass everytime.

    except this one day. I was the only woman in the department, and you can imagine the shit Id hear on a daily basis. I had failed the test and I said, "ahh its probably cuz my cunt is bleeding, Im not feeling my best and I probably fucked it up" or somethinh like that, I forgot what I said exactly, but I got a chuckle from my coworkers however I worded it.

    Later thay day HR called me in. I think the dork who admin. the test bitched I said that. When she told me, I laughed "do you know what I hear daily out there on the floor? Ive never complained once and I hear wild shit all the time". I promised not to make the same comment and left the meeting laughing to myself

    little bitch boys will talk all the shit, say aweful things, be misoginistic, bigoted, but they draw the line at "my cunt is bleeding"

    fucking babies.

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

    That second guy hasn't heard of pencil sharpeners

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

    "Give me a tug and I'll be sharp again."

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    fact he went to hr over that tells you all you need to know.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (26 children)

    That's not how pencils work

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

    It is, in a way that's recognizable as a metaphor.

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  • [+] -16 points 3 months ago* (15 children)

    But it's not. Pencils have to be resharpened when they're used, so a sharp point doesn't inherently mean it's never been used for work.

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

    But then you'd see the pencil being shorter, but adding that is too long for a quip.

    Remind me of the classic: "There are two types of people on the world, those who can extrapolate from incomplete information."

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  • [+] -9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This isn't a case of extrapolating from incomplete information. The premise of the comeback metaphor is fundamentally flawed.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I don't know why so many people are downvoting this when you're so clearly right. It's a comeback that sounds superficially clever, but doesn't stand up to any kind of analysis. If you keep using your pencil after you've blunted it instead of sharpening it again, you're doing low quality work.

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

    A dull pencil definitely has though. Sharp pencil could be a worker but could be a total poser.

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

    Look at you, dull but not smart either!

    All metaphors do break down eventually.

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

    But this one breaks down with very little scrutiny. A sharp point doesn't mean it's never been used.

    Have you never worked because you woke up not feeling exhausted?

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

    Got a better metaphor off the top of your head?

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

    No, because of how tools work. The whole premise of the comeback is flawed.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah; if they're still in the box, they've not yet been sharpened.

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

    I’d argue if you are speaking on the sharpness of an item it would be implied that they are supposed to be sharp. “Sharpest tool in the shed” discounts the hammer you have in there as useless when it just might not be the right tool for the job but it implies the need for a sharp tool currently.

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

    I mean, it's not that complicated. The opposite of sharp is dull, which is a term for not being smart.

    But the shape a tool is in isn't necessarily indicative of the amount of use, so the metaphor isn't transferrable in that way.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I was only commenting on them not understanding how it’s implied that all the pencils in the box should be sharp. The fact that the overall comeback is not fully thought through never came up. I never mentioned the condition of a new vs used tool. My point was that the quote is pointed to imply he should be sharp and not dull in this situation so everything else he’s compared to would presumably be sharp. I don’t know where you thought I had missed or implied otherwise, all around I don’t know what you’re on about.

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