I hate blanket generalization. You know when you get to that point that your company is over managed and understaffed, not creating a good work environment.

This is such hax

So the solution for trying next time is to become resistant to sabotage.

From your desktop to your deck? How’s the effective frame rate of that?

“Nem csináltam semmit!”

Damn, it works in Hungarian too.

Maybe it’s just English that’s stupid, and not every other language.

We were on a Zoo trip during summer camp, me and my brother and a bunch of other kids from our judo class. Mostly early teens.

Certain areas in the Zoo had free roaming animals, mostly kangaroos, emu, peacocks, some ponies, goats and sheep. A couple kids had the great idea to pester the pelicans. Pelican are a funny bunch that keep begging for treats with their giant beaks open and waddling around. They look less than threatening, although they have that frowny looking eye.

Anyway the kids decided it’d be fun to take turns spitting into the beaks of one particular giant pelican instead of giving it treats. It didn’t really like it but the kids kept persisting, daring to lean in closer and closer into the pelican’s wide open beak. Finally my stupid little brother in the spur of the moment thought he’d show the other kids how it’s done. He ran up to the pelican, leaned in really close and spit the most nasty wad into its beak. At that moment the pelican turned its head sideways and

*** CLAP ***

I’ll never forget the sight of my brothers head being completely engulfed by a giant beak.

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The grab only lasted for a blink of an eye. My brother didn’t even have time to realize what happened and struggle against it. He came out with a surprised and slightly scratched face. The surprise turned into a grin and then laughter within seconds.

Nevertheless, the pelican gained the respect from the kids and they’ve stopped pestering it. But somehow I imagine that this is basically the worst they can do. Give you a stereo-slap on your ears with their beak. You are safe against that brown pelican.

Be glad it’s not a cobra chicken.

maintain self-preservation

The simulator running us clearly did not define this restriction.

Toaster.

Dude won’t make it that far. Or much further than that.

I always hated it as a kid. All hundred iterations of it, despite always playing with them a little.

Endless Lege—naw, forget about it.

Time to get off lemmy. Go for a run/jog/walk in the cold to the nearest stationery store and buy some pen and paper. Then get home and get to writing.

You can do it!

I don’t understand this line of thought. As in you are childless by choice BECAUSE of what is going on in the US?

No, it was rather easy. I was only eleven years old though. The consciousness of it and the method to squelch it at first, without saying it out loud, helped a lot. The therapist really only highlighted it once for me. But it didn’t help that to get to this point I got traumatized by a whole class of vicious fifth graders laughing at me while I was reciting something in front of the class. 🙄

All good. Looks like my comment got axed for some reason, even though I’ve intended it as a positive critique.

I’ve noticed that people like using “I mean” as a filler or figure of speech. But when you keep seeing it over and over again, especially multiple times in a single comment, or in a comment chain, it’s really noticable.

I used to say “uhm” out loud a lot while forming sentences. It’s a placeholder to give your mind a pause to catch up what you are trying to say. A speech therapist highlighted this to me and got me to slowly phase it out by first squelching it and just internalizing the “uhm”, then completely getting rid of it and rely on silent pauses instead. It helped me realize these speechpatterns, doesn’t matter whether they are used as a run on or a pause. And “I mean” really caught on the past few years as a faux intellectual discourse marker, so it’s extra noticable for me.

Looks like there’s some more about its usage here:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/language-in-the-wild/202408/why-i-mean-became-the-new-thing

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For the outer layer, do not go with synthetic stuff, despite what people will tell you. An oversized Icelandic wool sweater or similar will catch snow and wind much more effectively (and dry in no time when indoors.

And there’s a comment after closure, also from a decade ago, mentioning that this should not have been closed as a duplicate.

How do you make it?

Yes, the difference being that one is a war and the other is just plain old genocide.