latenightnoir @ latenightnoir @lemmy.world

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I once fell out of the attic of an abandoned house because an owl scared the living crap out of me - it was huge and it made itself look even larger, must've been the largest bird I'd seen IRL by that age. Does that count?

I knew smoking'd pay off if I just kept at it! (kidding)

I can say without a shadow of a doubt that there is no sweeter pleasure than watching utter panic and chaos unfold when the rockstar quits. I love quitting shitty jobs...

To my mind, that caters to a different set of... preferences:))

We are Legion (a Lenovo trademark).

Now, that's the sensible approach, but we don' take too kindly to "sensible" 'round these here parts!

Jest aside, I see the point in doing this in cases where the company actually deals with very sensitive stuff, but in terms of average app developing company... meh... Most people are smart enough to know not to share keys and creds, and most people who hang around the ol' Slack channels for a meme and a laugh really don't care about said keys or creds.

In my case, I did my 6-year stint in full-on Corpo, then dipped from Start-up to Start-up, and it's always been the same story.

Mild Annoyance with the Machine.

100% down. My experience with comms security has been such that we were still shitposting on 'official' Spam channels with people who had not been employed at that company for months. One of them even slipped up and accidentally dissed one of his former teammates on the project team channel, and that's when they ejected him from Slack. About 5 months after he quit.

They did love insta-deleting GSuite accounts without switching doc ownerships or transferring associated accounts, effectively annihilating a lot of vital design stuff. Stuff was super-secure after that, I'll give'em that much!

Sorry, based on principles, the remove upvote... uuh... stays?:))

Not just that, but even works with general tension.

Had this neighbor at my old place, she loved to replicate a full cinematic experience at 1 AM, played music very loudly during the day, sorta' calmed down after I started knocking on walls, but not really (she'd still go full blast with the movies up to midnight, still generously shared whatever she was listening to with the rest of her neighbors, etc.)

So, being the socialite that I am, I started responding in kind. Not with blaring movies at night, but with trying to compensate for her concerts with my own, singing poorly and loudly around the house, stuff like that. And we kinda' settled into that routine of mutual annoyance.

Thing is, though, I was attracted to her, but in a purely lustful way. And I'm pretty sure she had something similar going on her end, because the tension was palpable every time we met face to face. And, lemme tell ya', that wasn't the "I want to strangle you" kind of tension. Well, maybe some strangling, but not the main focus.

What I tried to explain through this venting of unspent frustrations is that sometimes you just get the hots for someone you don't like as a person, and that would most definitely not stop either of you from bumping uglies. Quite the contrary, the interpersonal tension usually amplifies the sexual one. The wonders of biological imperatives at work!

"Your call is very important to us!"

Edit: I am a fool. I have missed the obvious and objectively superior quip achieved through the transposition of a landing request onto the standard automated message, i.e. "Your landing request is very important to us." I apologise and take it upon myself to review my values and business strategies.

Is that a threat, or a promise? ;) ;)

Nnnoooo, god damn it! I was in the midst of rewatching Voyager, and now you've seared "Janeway cheese" all across my perception! Thanks...

... I mean, it's only fair...

As a Romanian, tipping here does very much help Hospitality/Delivery workers, as our wages are deep down the toilet.

Our tipping culture is (or was, at least) pretty similar to the US's, 10-15% as a standard tip, 20% if you're flush and the service was notable (checking up on you occasionally, helping you make sense of things if need be, polite, nothing over-the-top). Same thing goes for delivery people.

Nowadays, I suspect people have somewhat maintained the ratios, although this comes mostly as an anecdotal observation - I started tipping 20-25%, or even double that if I'm ordering groceries (because I stock up for weeks, so it's quite a bit to carry), and a LOT of delivery people have remarked that it was the largest tip they'd ever received (as an average example, about a 20RON ~ $4 tip to a 100RON ~ $21 food order).

Thank you! Yeah, it hit us pretty badly... Well, to be fair, every loss wrecked us, because we never treated pets as pets, but as family members, but that was the first death I ever experienced in my life. Taught me a very valuable (although unfortunate) lesson about human beings, too...

Great, it'll have to plow through ~30GB of 1080p recordings of darkness and my upstairs neighbors living it up in the AMs. And nothing else.

Ooooooh, that makes a lotta sense! I really should've abused my first ex's willingness to share her knowledge of Japanese...

Edit: thank you!

Dude, what the fuck!

I have no idea what any of that means, but I've recognised the word "coffee" on the cup and everything else became irrelevant. I want one.