DontTakeMySky @ KeepFlying @lemmy.world

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To take this further, if the office mailroom is the router, opening a port is like telling them "we just hired Jeff, so accept mail with ATTN Jeff" and closing a port is like "we just fired Sam, burn all mail addressed to Sam".

I rarely sit when waiting for a plane (at least not for maybe an hour before). I'm about to sit for hours, so I don't want to start now.

I wonder if it has to do with the specific traits they are commenting on. Do you value being different? Maybe compliments make you feel like you're fitting in and insults tell you that you're your own person.

Anyway, fuck you, have a nice day asshole :)

In general, yes. In the expanse of space there must be life somewhere.

For fun I let myself believe they've visited earth, and that at least some UFOs were alien, but that's more of a fun "what if..." belief than anything and it doesn't impact anything beyond my imagination.

I can't let Bill Gates learn EVERYTHING about me

Honestly though, in a five star restaurant you don't modify your food**. Trust the chef to make something good.

**Except for allergies or ARFID or something

What can you expect? You presupposed the food wasn't salty enough, do you'd CLEARLY be a terrible employee. Isnt it obvious!

How long are folks planning to wait before migrating to something new? I suspect this is still safe for at least a few months before things fall out of date, right?

Or I guess it allows wire guard to update freely so it's probably safe until something specifically breaks.

A small company like that likely won't have policies and processes to fall back on. This can be good for some things, but when things go bad it can backfire.

Mainly for things like promotions, HR, complaints, etc. In big companies there's a formal process for how to get promoted and what's expected at each level, etc. Same for HR complaints. At a small company you're going to be more subject to the whims of whoever is in charge.

Same for new projects. In a big company you have red tape and processes to blame when something fails, but in a small company it'll be more likely to be "your fault".

Don't salt your food before tasting it, it's insulting to the chef/cook since it looks like you don't trust their cooking.

There's a popular story of someone being taken to a restaurant for an interview with their potential boss and the candidate being rejected because they salted their food before tasting it. The interviewer took it to mean the candidate wasn't trusting, was opinionated, and didn't respect the food or the chef and they didn't get the job.

We had this challenge with my grandmother. I had some really memorable moments with her late in her life, but she looked a lot sicker and run down in any pictures from that time, but that's how I remember her (at least that's part of how I remember her). My mom didn't want to share as many pictures from that phase of her mom's life though because she remembered her younger and more active, so it made putting a memories collage together complicated. Especially since all the early pictures were still in albums spread across the country with her children.

Personally I want people to use pictures of me that let them remember me the best. Not the best of me, but the best of our relationship, even if that's me as an ugly old fart.

That's amazing, I'm glad your coworker was able to find someone and get to be a parent.

I'm sorry if I came across as advocating against surrogacy. I don't nearly know enough to have that strong of an opinion on it in either direction. All I wanted to get across was that making sure there's no coercion is hard. Not impossible, but hard. There were some really sweeping statements under this post that felt like they were oversimplifications and I wanted to consider the nuance.

Separate from any discussion about surrogacy, that's fucked and our adoption system should be way more accepting of gay couples than it is. There's no reason it should be so hard.

Absolutely! And more to cover other expenses like maternity clothing, any comfort items to manage the pregnancy, additional dietary needs, and probably some more to help account for how traumatic a pregnancy can be and the body changes it causes.

I'm absolutely not advocating that a surrogate shouldn't get paid. Just that it's hard to separate payment from coercion in even the best situations.

Im not sure I can be so confident just because the surrogate knows the couple. If anything that would make me more worried about coercion. That could easily add MORE pressure for a surrogate to take on the pregnancy if that surrogate knows how important it is to the couple.

I don't know how I feel about it overall (surrogacy, not gay people getting to have children, that's beautiful), but it's hard to be confident there's no coercion when money is involved. The money itself can be coercive especially if the surrogate is particularly in need of the money. I'm not sure it can always be "clear" it's not coerced.

Yeah pretty much. They had small tournaments throughout the weekend and in between it was a free for all that anyone could jump in to and whack people for a little bit. They had a bunch of foam swords and shields available for people to use.

They have different purposes.

Listening music is intended for a broad spectrum of "use cases", but gaming music often needs to drive a specific emotion at a very specific time, be repeated if a gamer takes too long to complete an area, drive world building for an area, etc.

And just because the tech has changed doesn't mean the social expectations have. We expect game music to have specific characteristics because it's what we're used to.

What were the rules for the exam? Were you clear what resources were acceptable and which weren't?

Especially for a take home exam, establish a rule where you give points for showing work as well as for correct answers. It's almost impossible to enforce a perfect honor policy for a take home exam, so you should have structured your grading to account for that.

Not the same thing, but when I was proctoring an exam I saw someone very un-sneakily using their phone, so I quietly sat down next to them for the rest of the exam as a quiet threat (then of course let the prof know when they turned in their exam too).