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I made pancakes again on Sunday. And it was really an eye-opener: How is it that a sheet of industrial aluminum is a better griddle than any store-bought griddle I've ever owned, no matter how expensive?
Really shines a light on the whole, "Cut costs by all means necessary, including reducing quality to near 0," movement in manufacturing.
EDIT: The griddle is so good I could cook in the buff and not worry about spattering...
Come on, at least put an apron on.
OK. I'm disappointed. On a monthly call with about 100 other people. Some absolute moron forgot to mute himself and started doing a purchase on the phone, so he started reading off his credit card information to everyone on the call.
The presenter muted him before he finished.
It would have been MUCH better to leave him on so we could each sent him a bouquet to his home address using his card.
Then he'd have to explain to his credit card company that no, he didn't order 100 bouquets for himself...
EDIT: But seriously, "Mute all attendees" should be the de facto standard for ALL meetings.
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Disappointed but are you surprised really?
"Can't compress this directory because one of the filenames contains illegal characters."
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Marston's Old Empire is on draught in the pub, ha hey. At last, a pale ale it's possible to enjoy without a surfeit of hops shrivelling up your tongue.
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I was today's years old when I learned that Martha Stuart's mother was/is Polish, and because of that her cookbook (Martha's, not her mom's) contains a lot of Polish recipes.
Yeah, but my mother and I consider her a bit of an embarrassment to the PolAm community. There was the cringeworthy going to-prison-for-fraud thing. Her recipes aren't that great. She tries to make things "Martha Stewart style".
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I will forever treasure Martha Stewart for her cooking segments with Snoop Dogg.
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I was briefly famous online for speculating on Martha Stewart's post prison bod.
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I had an AI article scoop up one of my reddit comments about Japan encouraging more beer production. Even an AI "news" source can't say its an attempt to raise their population but they can quote some internet whacko saying it's an attempt to raise their population....
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What's worse than annual compliance training?
Annual compliance training that's straight out of a PBS Kids' special, with cheesy animation, horrifically-orchestrated "action" music, and an embarrassing "plot" to link the training together.
What's worse than that?
Having to take the exact same course two years in a row with no option to skip any of the wince-inducing videos and narration.
Honestly, if they offered me the same salary to take this training every work day for a year and do nothing else, I'd probably quit. It's THAT bad.
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This is your brain
Egg
This is your brain when you don't put a cover on your TPS reports
Exploding egg
Any questions?
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What's worse than annual compliance training?
Annual compliance training that's straight out of a PBS Kids' special, with cheesy animation, horrifically-orchestrated "action" music, and an embarrassing "plot" to link the training together.
What's worse than that?
Having to take the exact same course two years in a row with no option to skip any of the wince-inducing videos and narration.
Honestly, if they offered me the same salary to take this training every work day for a year and do nothing else, I'd probably quit. It's THAT bad.
Now I really want to see the Muppets handle corporate onboarding.
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Another friend hit by a drunk driver.
They're fine, but their car is totaled, and their infant daughter nearly became an orphan.
Can we please start confiscating vehicles already?
Days Gone are 75% off should I get them, or pick something else?
Or keep saving for a a few months more until I have enough for Elden Ring or Ghost of Tsushima?
Choices, choices...
As you get older, you learn important life skills.
In the last two days, two people have out-and-out misremembered things I've said or things they've told me. And with experience, you learn that if you argue with, "But you said that..." or, "But I already told you that...", you lose the entire point of the conversation in an argument over who said what when.
Life is much easier if you simply respond, "Fine. You believe i said that/you told me that. So, what did you want now?"
My favorite was the first relative, who insisted that I'd told her that her computer didn't come with a power button. Really? I said that? The second was easily-disprovable since it was a Discord conversation, but is it more worthwhile proving the other person wrong, or finding out what they want now?
You can be right twice. It can be two things!
I had an AI article scoop up one of my reddit comments about Japan encouraging more beer production. Even an AI "news" source can't say its an attempt to raise their population but they can quote some internet whacko saying it's an attempt to raise their population....
I enjoy Sapporo myself.
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Another friend hit by a drunk driver.
They're fine, but their car is totaled, and their infant daughter nearly became an orphan.
Can we please start confiscating vehicles already?
Oh no, I don't drink and drive. I am fortunate to have a great public transportation system here.
*SIGH*
I gave them another chance. AFAIK the new owners of the store are Pakistani, so I expected at least a mediocre section of curries. I'd been to Andronico's twice for Japanese curry cubes but they were out both times. So I went to the corner store. Searched and couldn't find the curries. Asked. Found the two curries in their curry "section". Asked again about Japanese curry. "Oh, I'm sorry sir, we don't sell that."
No spicy brown mustard. No Japanese curry. One type of Patak's curry paste.
So I can't go there for vegetables. I can't go there for bacon. I can't go there for cheese. I can't go there for curry fixin's.
Is it any wonder I get sad every time I walk by the store?
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Oh no, I don't drink and drive. I am fortunate to have a great public transportation system here.Another friend hit by a drunk driver.
They're fine, but their car is totaled, and their infant daughter nearly became an orphan.
Can we please start confiscating vehicles already?
Same! Except I also live in a city with milkmaids.
Days Gone are 75% off should I get them, or pick something else?
Or keep saving for a a few months more until I have enough for Elden Ring or Ghost of Tsushima?
Choices, choices...
It's not a bad game it just has bad pacing.
But it is pretty fun as long as you don't really give a s**$.
You know you're doing a good job when the firefighter/race car driver on staff holds you up as his standard for excellence.
No pressure or anything.
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Same! Except I also live in a city with milkmaids.Oh no, I don't drink and drive. I am fortunate to have a great public transportation system here.Another friend hit by a drunk driver.
They're fine, but their car is totaled, and their infant daughter nearly became an orphan.
Can we please start confiscating vehicles already?
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Now I really want to see the Muppets handle corporate onboarding.
It's time to crunch some numbers
It's time to earn your payIt's time to meet the corporates at 7 am today.
(on the dot!)
Work time's not for doing makeup
Work time you dress up right
You'll be in business casual till your check out time tonight
Waldorf:
Why do we always come here
Statler:
I guess we'll never know
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Screw Sony with a chainsaw. They just released God Of War: Ragnarok for PC, a game that was on my wishlist. It isn't anymore because those trollholes decided to steal players data by forcing them to sign into PSN.
Nope.
The only way I am buying that game (if I save enough money on paypal, which is not anytime soon), is to write a review condemning that ridiculous demand, and refund it immediately after without playing.
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Screw Sony with a chainsaw. They just released God Of War: Ragnarok for PC, a game that was on my wishlist. It isn't anymore because those trollholes decided to steal players data by forcing them to sign into PSN.
Nope.
The only way I am buying that game (if I save enough money on paypal, which is not anytime soon), is to write a review condemning that ridiculous demand, and refund it immediately after without playing.
After Redfall I will never buy another Bethesda game.
After Helldivers 2 I will never buy another Sony game.There are thousands of good games out here. I don't need to support studios that screw over their player base. Or employees. Or both.
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What a difference motivation makes.
Impus Major knows exactly what he wants to do for his career. I've spent basically no time helping him this semester (I can't say, "None at all" because of that ridiculous significant figures incident.)
He just got his first midterm back in molecular biology.
92%. And he's mad because he biffed one question by flipping his Ph numbers.
We used to be happy if he broke 50% with as much help as I could give him. I think he's found his calling...
Speaking of education, hoo, boy. It's disturbing to see just how much a poor math education can impact you.
Global Megacorporation decided to switch from a bimonthly (twice a month) to a biweekly (once per two weeks) pay schedule. Which is enough to make you hate the English language right there.
So we're getting 26 paychecks per year instead of 24, paid every other Thursday.
One of my co-workers just plain couldn't handle it.
"So, we're getting paid on the 1st and 14th of every month now? But what if those aren't Thursdays?"
"If we're getting 26 paychecks instead of 24, why will our paychecks be smaller?"
"How can we tell which months will have three paychecks? Do they just decide that at random? How are they going to tell us?"
It was... painful... listening to my manager trying to explain things to her in simple terms.
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Screw Sony with a chainsaw. They just released God Of War: Ragnarok for PC, a game that was on my wishlist. It isn't anymore because those trollholes decided to steal players data by forcing them to sign into PSN.
Nope.
The only way I am buying that game (if I save enough money on paypal, which is not anytime soon), is to write a review condemning that ridiculous demand, and refund it immediately after without playing.
After Redfall I will never buy another Bethesda game.
After Helldivers 2 I will never buy another Sony game.There are thousands of good games out here. I don't need to support studios that screw over their player base. Or employees. Or both.
Oooorrr... You could buy it. Write a scathing review of the PSN requirement and refund it. You get your money back and do a good deed making the world better, one written complaint by another...
That way you can remain true to Tyr, the Lawful Good god of paladins, and please Loki, in his oft-forgotten aspect of god of fussy customer complaints at the same time!
What a difference motivation makes.
Impus Major knows exactly what he wants to do for his career. I've spent basically no time helping him this semester (I can't say, "None at all" because of that ridiculous significant figures incident.)
He just got his first midterm back in molecular biology.
92%. And he's mad because he biffed one question by flipping his Ph numbers.
We used to be happy if he broke 50% with as much help as I could give him. I think he's found his calling...
The closest he can get to being a necromancer in a real life?
Blackwarm would be so proud!
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What a difference motivation makes.
Impus Major knows exactly what he wants to do for his career. I've spent basically no time helping him this semester (I can't say, "None at all" because of that ridiculous significant figures incident.)
He just got his first midterm back in molecular biology.
92%. And he's mad because he biffed one question by flipping his Ph numbers.
We used to be happy if he broke 50% with as much help as I could give him. I think he's found his calling...
The closest he can get to being a necromancer in a real life?
Blackwarm would be so proud!
OMG yes. He wants to spend his life around the dead.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned his attitude towards medical school: "I don't have to try very hard. It's not like my patients will mind if I screw up."
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Global Megacorporation decided to switch from a bimonthly (twice a month) to a biweekly (once per two weeks) pay schedule. Which is enough to make you hate the English language right there.
I just checked and both of those words means either (a) once every two periods; or (b) twice per period. The inconsistency of switching from one meaning to the other is annoying, though. They should simply say "we'll pay every other Thursday"
So we're getting 26 paychecks per year instead of 24, paid every other Thursday.
One of my co-workers just plain couldn't handle it.
"So, we're getting paid on the 1st and 14th of every month now? But what if those aren't Thursdays?"
"If we're getting 26 paychecks instead of 24, why will our paychecks be smaller?"
"How can we tell which months will have three paychecks? Do they just decide that at random? How are they going to tell us?"It was... painful... listening to my manager trying to explain things to her in simple terms.
Oh, come on, you don't need math when your work in IT, everyone knows that!
Right Freehold?
Wait, why Vany approaches us with a baseball bat?
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What a difference motivation makes.
Impus Major knows exactly what he wants to do for his career. I've spent basically no time helping him this semester (I can't say, "None at all" because of that ridiculous significant figures incident.)
He just got his first midterm back in molecular biology.
92%. And he's mad because he biffed one question by flipping his Ph numbers.
We used to be happy if he broke 50% with as much help as I could give him. I think he's found his calling...
The closest he can get to being a necromancer in a real life?
Blackwarm would be so proud!
OMG yes. He wants to spend his life around the dead.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned his attitude towards medical school: "I don't have to try very hard. It's not like my patients will mind if I screw up."
Remind him of those words when the zombie apocalypse starts.
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Impus Mortician. Even if that doesn't end up being his chosen career, it's a pretty solid name for a singer in a Black Metal band...
Elden Ring needs a bigger sale than a mere 30%... Either that, or I need to keep saving Patreaon monies far longer.
Screw Sony with a chainsaw. They just released God Of War: Ragnarok for PC, a game that was on my wishlist. It isn't anymore because those trollholes decided to steal players data by forcing them to sign into PSN.
Nope.
The only way I am buying that game (if I save enough money on paypal, which is not anytime soon), is to write a review condemning that ridiculous demand, and refund it immediately after without playing.
After Redfall I will never buy another Bethesda game.
After Helldivers 2 I will never buy another Sony game.There are thousands of good games out here. I don't need to support studios that screw over their player base. Or employees. Or both.
Oooorrr... You could buy it. Write a scathing review of the PSN requirement and refund it. You get your money back and do a good deed making the world better, one written complaint by another...
That way you can remain true to Tyr, the Lawful Good god of paladins, and please Loki, in his oft-forgotten aspect of god of fussy customer complaints at the same time!
At the moment approximately a third of the reviews are negative. While many focus on the PSN being non-optional, some point out that it is a poorly optimized PC port.
Lets the review bombing continue!
I am worried a bit about Ghost Of Tsushima - allegedly it only requires PSN for multiplayer (which has zero interest for me) but by the time I will be buying it in an unspecified future that might change, for the worse.
What a difference motivation makes.
Impus Major knows exactly what he wants to do for his career. I've spent basically no time helping him this semester (I can't say, "None at all" because of that ridiculous significant figures incident.)
He just got his first midterm back in molecular biology.
92%. And he's mad because he biffed one question by flipping his Ph numbers.
We used to be happy if he broke 50% with as much help as I could give him. I think he's found his calling...
The closest he can get to being a necromancer in a real life?
Blackwarm would be so proud!
OMG yes. He wants to spend his life around the dead.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned his attitude towards medical school: "I don't have to try very hard. It's not like my patients will mind if I screw up."
Tammy has some notes.
Speaking of education, hoo, boy. It's disturbing to see just how much a poor math education can impact you.
Global Megacorporation decided to switch from a bimonthly (twice a month) to a biweekly (once per two weeks) pay schedule. Which is enough to make you hate the English language right there.
So we're getting 26 paychecks per year instead of 24, paid every other Thursday.
One of my co-workers just plain couldn't handle it.
"So, we're getting paid on the 1st and 14th of every month now? But what if those aren't Thursdays?"
"If we're getting 26 paychecks instead of 24, why will our paychecks be smaller?"
"How can we tell which months will have three paychecks? Do they just decide that at random? How are they going to tell us?"It was... painful... listening to my manager trying to explain things to her in simple terms.
That has nothing to do with math, and everything to do with not knowing a calendar
Global Megacorporation decided to switch from a bimonthly (twice a month) to a biweekly (once per two weeks) pay schedule. Which is enough to make you hate the English language right there.I just checked and both of those words means either (a) once every two periods; or (b) twice per period. The inconsistency of switching from one meaning to the other is annoying, though. They should simply say "we'll pay every other Thursday"
So we're getting 26 paychecks per year instead of 24, paid every other Thursday.
One of my co-workers just plain couldn't handle it.
"So, we're getting paid on the 1st and 14th of every month now? But what if those aren't Thursdays?"
"If we're getting 26 paychecks instead of 24, why will our paychecks be smaller?"
"How can we tell which months will have three paychecks? Do they just decide that at random? How are they going to tell us?"It was... painful... listening to my manager trying to explain things to her in simple terms.
Oh, come on, you don't need math when your work in IT, everyone knows that!
Right Freehold?
Wait, why Vany approaches us with a baseball bat?
That's why I'm glad I get paid by the hour.
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That way you can remain true to Tyr, the Lawful Good god of paladins,
RRRRrrrr
I am worried a bit about Ghost Of Tsushima - allegedly it only requires PSN for multiplayer (which has zero interest for me) but by the time I will be buying it in an unspecified future that might change, for the worse.
I am still waiting on my background conversation translator.
Just for Freehold: I may have to turn the heat on early this year.
Yesterday was foggy and overcast and only briefly broke 64°F. Today it's foggy and overcast again and won't break 64°F at all, meaning the house is coasting down into the 50s. Once it's 58°F inside the house, I turn on the heat.
May well happen tonight...
It is 86 degrees here.
Heats a christmas present....
We hit the low 90's here.
Sigh.
Over one hundred yesterday.
Likely 100 again today.
We're supposed to start getting "fall" weather (temps in the upper 80's) next week. It won't drop below 80 during the day until the end of October... about the time that my mom and sister will be seeing daytime highs in the upper 40s/low 50s.
I miss seasons.