This only works with the same select few people who speak up or share things in every call. They’re typically very outspoken, willing to go to after work, work related gatherings and such. That’s fine.

No thank you. I value work life balance very much and this violates it. I keep my personal life separate, unless I want to share. I’m very good at what I do and value my ability to do so. The people I need to get along with, I already do. These kind of details get shared organically and should not be forced.

I also do not come from a healthy family background to put it softly. When these positive sounding ideas to share come up, I come up blank, because I do not have them to share.

So go on and talk about your happy vacation to Disneyworld for the nth time, or your trip to Istanbul, or your huge extended family and their third grandchild. Talk about your hobbies and your farm animals. Don’t force me to enroll into playing games over Teams meetings. It’s fine for you to share or participate as long as you want to. I’m happy for you. Just don’t make me have to make shit up on the spot. I’m not creative that way.

If you want to know more about me, then show me that you are a good worker that I’ll get along with. Become someone I might speak positively about. Then I may offer a part of me that’s outside work. These forced team building techniques don’t work. They never have other than build resentment.

This makes me sound quite bitter but I’m just a chill guy that values privacy.

OK South Park, you know what to do!

I keep hearing how things need to stop, yada yada yada, and the dangerous liberals… what?

It’s not just code, but day to day shit too. Lately corporate communications and even training modules feel heavily AI generated. Things like unnecessary em dashes (I’m talking as much as 4 out of 5 sentences in a single paragraph), repeating statements or bullet points in training modules. We’re being encouraged to use our “private” Copilot to do everyday tasks and everything is copilot enabled.

I don’t mind if people use it, but it’s dangerous and stupid to think that it produces near perfect results every time. It’s been good enough to work as an early rough draft or something similar, but it REQUIRES scrutiny and refinement by hand. It’s like it can get you from nothing to 60-80% there, but never higher. The quality of output can vary significantly from prompt to prompt in my limited experience.

I really like the Kensington Expert mouse for this reason. Expert Mouse Wired Trackball

I use my index and middle fingers to manipulate the ball (together or alternating scissor-walk like fashion), and ring finger to turn the wheel. Thumb for left click (bottom left button), and ring finger to right click (top right button). The hand doesn’t move at all, with movement all in the fingers.

It freaks out visitors when they try to use it, but it’s a life saver for click intensive workflows. So much so that I would have a second as a backup. My only complaint for it if I had one is that the scroll wheel can get a little loud with aggressive scrolling in a single direction, like trying to get to the bottom of a page.

Your tax dollars at work.

Not a youngster, but I would say because it’s a simple choice. Don’t have to think which brand sporting Android is better and definitely don’t have to worry about what custom ROM to install. Troubleshooting between different models can be a pain. People just want something that works out of the box without having to be an expert.

1 choice (mainly) vs (too) many choices.

Looks amazing but a bit too sweet for my taste.

You mean eye liner wearing, DiD you EvEn SaY tHaNk YoU - couch fucker, James Donald Bowman “ VancyPants, our potential next in line President?

Yeah my German friend tells me of his coworker that he hasn’t seen since early this year, out sick. Can’t be fired, and no replacement. Or take a week off and be sick the following week. It’s not without its drawbacks but significantly better than what we have here.

Here, we tend to be afraid to take sick days.

July 28, 2006 here.

Brothers!

That was the goal from the start.

If you enjoyed it then it’s fine.

What people are pointing out is the pool of sauce. If made well, the liquid would be fully emulsified and adhere to the pasta and not be pooling at all. The fact that it’s pictured like this in the menu is almost a crime in itself.

If you’re a minor being questioned like this, start screaming PEDO. Guaranteed they back down once they realize what she said and what they’re doing is quite disturbing

I only found out about this today from someone whose computer got bricked from trying to enable secure boot.

So what options are there? It sounds like a K1 is out of the picture since the spouse would be a resident while applying for a green card. CR1 would work if married outside the US and the spouse can get a green card (conditional if <2 years) upon entry?

It’s about control. They can grant you access or revoke it based on your id.

The powers at be hate that they can’t control the narrative as well as they used to so this is their solution.

Fiber and good gut biome. It can take a while to correct if out of wack.

Eat less frequently. OMAD or skip one meal. Also if you’re drinking a lot of water, supplement with electrolyte capsules (no Gatorade) to maintain optimal function. Reduce or eliminate snacking between meals.

the large intestines absorbs water, electrolytes, and vitamins. It won’t function as well if your shits out of whack.

It very well could be 🤣 the beginning is definitely memes on YT

Sorry, I should have used some sort of tag.
It’s a reference to a 2017 YT vid and since become a meme.