RootBeerGuy

RootBeerGuy , 14 days ago to Work Reform in Accurate

Don't make this guy a meme. He does not deserve that.

RootBeerGuy , 23 days ago to Work Reform in Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less

You are right. It is probably much worse these days.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago to aww in My puppy named Quark! Sometimes charming and sometimes strange.

I think this post is retiring that GIF. There can be no better use for it anymore. Well done!

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago to Star Trek in Jörg Hillebrand breaks down the history of the Betazoid emblem

Was there any explanation that I missed what this rectangular icon in the middle is?

RootBeerGuy OP , 1 month ago to LinkedinLunatics in Amazing attitude

It seems a controversial topic, I didn't think so either but here we are.

RootBeerGuy OP , 1 month ago to LinkedinLunatics in Amazing attitude

Sick kids are low maintenance. You've either been a lucky parent or you have no kids.

RootBeerGuy OP , 1 month ago to LinkedinLunatics in Amazing attitude

Yes and no. Multiple things are the problem.

1st - what you said, this shouldn't be a thing worth highlighting and its sad it is

2nd - just the usual online clout generating using your sick child. The image below is the poster with her sick daughter in her lap, I cut it off on purpose. I get it, images are more powerful than words but using your child for online clout is a hard no for me, triple that when your child is sick

3rd - the image is taken by another person. Often you see this sort of post with the person taking a clear selfie, here its almost a professional quality photoshoot type of picture, I know its still probably just a mobile phone though, not saying they hired a photographer for this. So who is that person? I'd hope the dad, but why is that person there able to take that picture but not taking care of the child. Sure, maybe same situation, working from home to also take care of the child and they take turns. But then that's a bit dishonest not to mention you are sharing responsibility but instead celebrate yourself as an awesome "working mom"

4th - if the dad is also home, why can he not maybe even take care of the child alone?

5th - just like how sick leave should be normal, having leave to take care of your children should be the norm too. I know I am having a privileged perspective here, I live in a Scandinavian country where we have such a "taking care of sick children" leave. And its great! So yeah, if you don't live in a country like that, you look at this and feel like its not so bad, from my perspective it is

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago to Sysadmin in r/sysadmin and the size of this community

Fully agree. I see this sentiment so often, "we gotta tell people from reddit how great it is here!"
This might work with something like a meme community, but once it becomes a bit less mainstream you need people to make that decision themselves. It will look needy and annoying to try and "educate" them about how supposedly great it is here.

RootBeerGuy , 2 months ago to aww in Just horse vet things

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/e8b89407-b9c3-4a41-9678-4a1d9f241d54.webm

RootBeerGuy , 2 months ago to Star Trek in Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K]

So I haven’t compared any and I am not sure if you are up to that but there are several fan-made upscales available online for all of DS9, as long as you are willing to sail the high seas.

RootBeerGuy , 3 months ago to Ask Science in If you have some cold water evaporating, is it possible to make it evaporate sooner by adding hot water?

Aw man, finally a sort of appropriate question for me to drop this relatively new knowledge: you don’t even need heat to evaporate water, light is enough. Scientific finding from last year!

Sorry, you may not have needed to know, but more people should know about this!

RootBeerGuy , 3 months ago to Star Trek in ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP

Like they totally wasted that outer-dimensional race of machines coming to destroy all life when you open a portal from season 01. They’ve been consequent on building up something in a season and then completely forgetting about it the next.

RootBeerGuy , 3 months ago to LinkedinLunatics in Thanks for telling me shapes exist!

Probably an AI generated post. Either way, I hope this is not a tenured professor.

RootBeerGuy , 4 months ago to LinkedinLunatics in Inflation screwing you over? Just invest!

Are you fucking joking that a hospital is on the stock market? I know, its the company that owns the hospital, but its still fucked up. Should not be allowed.

RootBeerGuy , 4 months ago to Star Trek in Interview: Jeri Ryan On Taking Seven From Borg To Bi Captain Of The Enterprise To ‘Star Trek: Legacy’

Literally “between”, it got kind of shoved into the last episode of season 01 and killed off again when season 02 started. They should have played it out more, let them develop a good relationship on screen, the way it was done just seemed so forced. Like the writers forgot they wanted to have some LGBTQ+ representation in the series up until the last episode of season 01.