I've never needed anything beyond the combination of the whole "I don't do politics, or religion at work", and a blank stare until people go away.
And I was a nurse's assistant, so it was a similar situation, where I was often the only male employee. I didn't learn how to give good blank face until almost 30, though. It's harder to do when you're younger.
Later on, I had to add the bits about sex/romance because, believe it or not, some women will mess with you just to cause trouble. I would add sexual matters to the politics and religion, and just walk away. There's zero way to engage in those kinds of talks as a man in the workplace. It can not end up in a good place.
Now, I could easily get away with the stone face because I'm typically a very friendly, polite, and affable guy. I'm even downright charming at times. So when I drew firm boundaries, it was rare for anyone to take it personally. Those that did, well, they're not the sorts that last at any job.
Now, if it's break time, and we're swapping recipes or other nice things, I was often at my most affable because as much as I actually hate people in general, and get worn out from group interactions, I can fake being an extrovert very well. That's mostly about a lot of listening, laughing in the right places, then offering the occasional bit of conversation to let them know you're paying attention.
Workplace conversation should be casual at all times, no overly personal stuff, no hot button topics ever. If things are that friendly, meet up outside work and get back to the job. Not because of some bullshit protestant work ethic or capitalist bullshit, but because you agreed to do a thing for a period of time, and fucking around while the job is still on is lame.
I very much enjoyed enterprise at the time, despite the horrible theme song and the flaws in writing that spotted most episodes.
Now, part of that is being a huge Bakula fan. I love the way he throws himself into roles. I think though, had there been another age actor in the role I still would have enjoyed the show.
It wasn't great Trek. Probably the weakest of the older series, depending on tastes and criteria. Certainly wasn't up to TNG, TOS, or DS 9. I'd put it on par with Voyager, though it was both bad and good in different ways, with the lack of attention being paid to established Vulcan history in Enterprise tipping the scales to it being lesser than Voyager.
But I really liked that they tried to go back to the whole "wagon train in space" vibe. And the cast was great. Can't hold the iffy writing against the cast, and there were some great moments where the actors kept things from being worse just by virtue of how they carried their characters.
I don't rewatch any of the series as a binge though, so my opinion might change when the flaws are showing up in rapid succession compared to the original pace of watching week by week and over time. I know binge watching made me almost hate shows I used to like a good bit (like Bones as an example).
I can't compare anything to the newer shows since I've kinda stopped watching much in the way of "tv" the last few years, so I haven't caught any of the stuff that has been done in the last decade. Could be that one of the new shows would be worse, in comparison to the earlier shows, I dunno. Doesn't help that I despise the reboot movies, and the fact e that they happened kinda soured me on new Trek overall. The folks running things don't seem to be interested in the kind of shows that made me enjoy Trek in the first place, but that's second hand impression from seeing what people say online
I'm sorry, but this one fails hard. My country ass drawls like I get paid by the vowel length, and I've never once shortened going to, to a single syllable. Never heard anyone do it either.
And hot potato isn't difficult to say at all.
Is this one a joke rather than something that's supposed to be real?
Now, I'm not saying we don't have some mush mouthed mofos up in these here hills, we do. Just not to that degree at all.
Edit: for anyone coming late to the party, I did say it in a sentence, and even changed the sentence up to see if it was some kind of specific thing like that. Got kind of obsessed with it for an hour or two, calling up friends that know I'm strange about language oddities and don't mind.
No matter how fast I got, no matter what sentence I tried, there was still a distinct, split second pause with an inhalation between them that makes the t and p distinct from each other. There was no ha'patata effect, or anything similar. Just hot, that brief pause as the tongue shifts and the lips purse for the potato, then the potato in a sweet southern drawl.
Maybe it was the "this fails hard" part that set off the parade of "yes it does" regardless of the fact that someone is saying that not only do they not do it, but other people with the same or similar regional accent don't either. And that's the case. The only two people I could rope in to try it out that did it came from Pennsylvania originally, and haven't developed a proper way of speaking yet (and if anyone doesn't recognize that as a joke, bugger off).
Shit, I was enthusiastic about this little quirk of speech. But damn, people maybe not keep repeating the same fucking thing when someone is making a good faith conversation about an oddity of language that should be interesting rather than another chance to feel superior by sticking to a generalization in a fucking comic strip.
Nah, no need to slow down. Molasses flows faster in winter unless I'm pissed off and swearing. The t and p are distinct. The o vowels in potato get drawn out, and essentially turn into puhtaytuh, unless I'm paying attention and speaking formally but the t and p are separate. I've been annoying my wife trying to make a sentence where it happens, even asked my dad to do it so I could hear him.
I plan to annoy other family and friends tomorrow because it seems weird for something universal enough to end up in an xkcd to not happen at least enough to have encountered it, but because "hot potato" is a game, and a slang term, I've heard it a lot. I can't think of any time there wasn't at least a partial stop between the t and p, with the t being distinct. Plenty of mangling potato until it sounds like a foreign word, but that's a different thing
Maybe it's regional? Gods know the Appalachian dialect is full of some weird quirks.
I'm sitting here sounding like an idiot repeating the phrase, and doing a full sentence. There's a distinct, split second pause in between the t and p, no matter how fast I try to go.I can't seem to say the hot without that t being crisp, with the tongue against the upper part of the mouth, then the shift for the p causing a tiny pause in between.
If anything, there's a brief inhalation, which is kind of a sound that links them. Is that what it's supposed to be? We can't be that far off around here. My dad says it the same way I do, I bugged him about it earlier.
When I force it into one mouth movement, it turns into a "tup" sound, but that feels alien to me.
I keep fucking saying that I've been doing that, and it doesn't fucking happen.
Y'all motherfuckers apparently never come into the mountains where speech is slooooow by default.
Even speeding up on purpose, it doesn't happen. Which is why I made the original comment in the first place. Wouldn't waste my fucking time otherwise. Jfc people can be assholes over nothing at all
Luckily, once you push enough people hard enough, you end up with an angry army. Look back at the history of anti union efforts and how many ended up with the workers striking in multiple uses of the word.
Let's say you are dying of starvation. You pull one of your teeth out, causing blood to slowly seep into your mouth, which you swallow. The calories from the blood getting digested will delay the time you die of starvation, right? Or will losing blood while starving kill you faster?
Absolutely not true. Wherever you read it is full of malarkey. I would go so far as to say it is impossible, since your be vomiting unless you were still drugged. It would take sedatives to keep you under long enough to swallow that much, and you can still vomit while sedated.
You also don't die from a full belly by itself.
Then, there's the fact that the stomach takes up some degree of water during digestion, and is breaking down any solids that it can break down along the way. You'd have to literally chug the blood to get enough in at once to distend the stomach, and no tonsillectomy produces that much blood.
Almost every single modern procedure uses some kind of cautery to stop bleeding, and the few that don't still take steps to do so.
Anyone, especially a small child, bleeding enough to die from swallowing it, would never be sent home. That's a sign of a major problem apart from the surgery.
And that's ignoring how much blood loss that would be. Even if swallowed, the amount needed to cause death wouldn't fill the stomach in a small child. Even in a bigger child, the stomach is bigger too, so you run into issues with realism there.
Tonsilectomies are done all around the world, and have been for ages. While complications can happen, this simply isn't one of them.
You can never, ever get a net gain from self cannibalism of any kind. Digesting takes energy, and you're also having to heal/replace whatever it is you're eating.
Besides, the amount of blood that will come from a pulled tooth isn't enough to do anything useful. You wouldn't even gain minutes from it if the source was external.
Sooo, they want the crazy apes with opposable thumbs and the ability to persistence hunt any animal alive to band together and hunt them until they run over a cliff?
Because that sounds like a good plan at this point.
It’s honestly not bad since you don’t have a lot of stuff.
Like you said, some hangers are a priority purchase. Need to do some non permanent runs for the lan cable.
Beyond that, you’ll want something to get the bed off the floor, be it an actual foundation/box spring, or something improvised. It really does change things mentally to have a proper bed. It feels more like a proper home than a temporary cot somewhere. It is harder to move, so if this is going to be a few months stay, it wouldn’t be worth it, but if you’re looking at a year or two, you’ll want to figure something out.
Curtains would be another mid term option. Not worth it for a few months, worth it for a year plus. Makes a huge difference in sleep with the light better limited.
The rest? Depends on house rules. Like someone else said, having more than bare walls makes even a small room feel cozy and homey rather than like you’re shoved in somewhere. You can use poster putty if you aren’t allowed to hang things more securely.
But look, at 20, nobody feels like an adult unless they’re delusional lol. You’re just starting out in that regard, there’s going to be bumps and a lot of changes as you figure out how to get through life. Don’t worry about it, just learn from any mistakes you make so the next mistake is different, and you’ll be fine.
Finding life balance is a thing. It takes time. I can’t honestly say I found mine until my mid twenties, and it still took a few years to figure out how to maintain it through changes like moving or new jobs. You’ll be fine homie :)
The show had already established how Tendi has green blood earlier in the series after an injury and it would have been an easy to infer detail compared to humans in the show....
I’m not sure where you’re running into this myth, I’ve never heard of it before.
That being said, I would hazard that reflection is the idea behind it. Any sound source is going to bounce off of things. Since there’s ground and water pretty much everywhere, or isn’t a stretch to think that someone buying info the idea you’ve presented might think that’s why it’s going up more than any other direction.
Now, the water thing isn’t entirely untrue. There aren’t usually obstacles dampening sound on bodies of water, so it kinda does end up traveling well, despite the water itself not being the reason.
What are the limits to it ? Exceptions etc. Context i saw vsauces " power of suggestions " video. Is the video scripted or was the kids conditions just not real like i can understand the girls condition may be cured through placebo but come on adhd and migraines immediatly cured ?
It doesn’t do much, and nowhere close to what actual exercise will do, but it’s better than nothing at all by a small margin.
Iirc, the last study was done back around the turn of the century. I know I was still lifting at the time, and it wasn’t long into the noughts that I had to stop doing that seriously.
And, if my memory isn’t betraying me, it gives slight increases in benefits with exercise as well. I know that visualizing things in martial arts and other “muscle memory” activities improves performance of skills over not doing it.
Did this dude say this somewhere I can go and call him an idiot directly? Because, if this wasn’t one of the corporate social media companies, I would very much like to.
Seriously, that’s what it ended up costing me, and I did part of the body work needed to be able to fit a new windshield in right. If I hadn’t kept the tools around, that would have been another 500.
Mind you, the 500 I did pay out included some other body work I just couldn’t physically do. The glass and installation of the glass was “only” 150 ish (can’t remember what the tax was).
The one before that, that was barely under 500 was the AC unit for the house freezing up and fucking the compressor.
And 500 is a single emergency. You get hit by multiple, and you’re fucked .
Big family camping trip. Me, my parents, and sister are first to arrive.
My dad faceplants into a tree, breaking his nose and generally fucking up his face because feet.
This is maybe thirty miles from the nearest town, then another fifteen to one with an urgent care type of thing.
My dude didn’t want to go, because “not the first time I’ve been hit in the face by a tree”
He wasn’t joking.
But it sounded like “nob duh fusd tibe ibeen hib in da fabce by a twee” because homie’s grill is busted
I lightly tap the tip of his nose, and his eyes fill up with water, not because he’s crying, but because his eyes are just highly empathic I guess.
Tell him to get in the car, I’ll drive.
He laughs at my then barely 14 year old ass.
My mom ain’t driving on that god damn mountain roads.
I tell my dad for the first time ever to shut up and get in the car.
Instead of my ass being belted, he gets in the car after tossing me the keys.
Five minutes down the mountain, dude is sawing logs.
I poke him. Like, dude, wtf? I don’t know where I’m going, and you could be concussed the way your head bounced off the ground. I say that, minus the wtf part. He grunts and says “there’s only one road down, wake me when we hit pavement. You said you’d drive, now drive.”
My punk ass manhandling a Dodge cargo van down a one lane dirt road in the Appalachians, both terrified and feeling boss as fuck.
Poke him one we hit pavement. He gives directions, goes back to fucking sleep.
Snoring like a drunk chainsaw.
Get to town, poke him again. He looks around, says, “I can’t see shit, my eyes are swollen too much.” I look at him, and he looks like he said no when Mike Tyson offered to ass rape him. Face is busted.
Get directions from him again.
Off we fucking roll! He stays awake for a bit, but then just crosses his arms and leans over to snore more.
Find the fucking urgent care. Wake his ass up after parking.
Get inside, the receptionist shrieks a little, and people come running because pops looks murdered out
Questions are asked, answers given. Dude sleeps through every damn break in activities, and tried to fall asleep in the xray room.
No concussion, just a broken nose and some fractures of the face. Three stitches in his lip, five in his eyebrow.
Eventually, nose gets taped up, he’s given drugs, and we’re sent packing.
“You remember how we got here?”
Yeah, I think.
“Good, wake me up when we get to camp, and start trying to get your papaw on the CB so he doesn’t worry too much.”
My punk ass did just that.
Back up that fucking mountain, halfway in the dark as night fell by the time we were close to the dirt road.
Shitting bricks most of the way.
Dad snores through me backing up to a wide spot to let a small car go by.
Snores through the bumps and bangs of navigating that fucking road in the dark.
Get to camp. Everybody is flipping out despite CB updates. Dad finally wakes up, climbs out of the vehicle, says “when’s dinner?”, still flubbing words like a bill Cosby routine gone wrong.
Pops pops pain pills, sits by the fire and eats a fucking hamburger.
Then fucks off to his tent and snores the night away.
Years later, I ask how the fuck he slept like that. He gives me a goofy look, “I told you the army could teach you some useful skills.”
This from a guy that served on a medical base during the early seventies during vietnam conflict. Sleeping at will was the skill he valued most from that.
That one person to the right in the thumbnail doesn’t quite get how it works.
“No repayment until cancellation is delivered”
Yeah, that’s kinda not a threat. “I’m not going to pay you until you tell me I don’t owe anything”
Methinks someone slept through a few classes ;)
Edit: Apparently, my dumb ass slept through some news articles, because I thought the debt cancellation was meant to be total. No idea how I got that impression.
Let this be a lesson, if you’re going to make a snarky joke, be right
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Being real? That’s a load of malarkey. Discoverability is easy on mastodon. It’s reddit easy. Just like you can put r/ in front of damn near anything and find a subreddit, the # system is as close to dummy proof as possible. Interested in a topic? Slap a # in front of keywords. That’s it. End of problem discovering posts and users to follow.
While I don’t doubt that there are assholes in mastodon, good luck finding anywhere that doesn’t have them. There’s always someone that’s going to bitch at noobs. It could be a brand new, first day situation, and somebody is going to bitch at people that are two minutes newer.
The CW complaint is an annoyance, I guess, but it’s simple enough to resolve in the same way as most other social media. Block the idiots. Boom, immediate cessation of whiners.
Instance rules are easy to find. It isn’t buried behind anything complex. It is our responsibility as adults to look for, and seek understanding of those rules. If we can’t be bothered to do it before signing up for a new service of any kind, that’s not on the service. But it’s also quite easy to do after signing up. If someone can’t do due diligence before diving in head first, that’s on them.
Compared to lemmy and reddit, mastodon is much easier to discover rules. They’re only instance based. The r/ and c/ structure means each community can also have rules beyond those of the instance. Even that’s absurdly easy to find though.
I think the survey behind this piece had to have been answered by people that don’t have the sense of a turnip. It takes all of a minute just exploring mastodon’s interface to find rules by accident. That means anyone answering that as a reason for not using it didn’t even bother to find out what is and isn’t possible via the main interface. That’s either laziness or stupidity.
It seems like it would help further prevent censorship, given how each instance of the Fediverse is run by people who can unilaterally decide what their users see. I'm beginning to feel like federation is but a half-step toward a solution.
is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital?
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Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise ( screenrant.com )
xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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Is this c/aww material? ( lemmy.world )
Could death by starvation be delayed by drinking your own blood?
Let's say you are dying of starvation. You pull one of your teeth out, causing blood to slowly seep into your mouth, which you swallow. The calories from the blood getting digested will delay the time you die of starvation, right? Or will losing blood while starving kill you faster?
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Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ ( www.theguardian.com )
An old picture of my pup popped up in my "2 years ago" feed ( social.n8e.dev )
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Cold take: Lower Decks should have colored an Orion's blushing as green instead of red/pink. ( startrek.website )
The show had already established how Tendi has green blood earlier in the series after an injury and it would have been an easy to infer detail compared to humans in the show....
My terrifying strong sewing machine ( i.imgur.com )
The last thing the guy that dropped this beast off was “don’t forget to keep your hands clear, that’ll sew through your bones!”...
If you're cold, they're cold. Let them in. ( startrek.website )
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Can placebo effect really help you heal faster and cure physical illness ? If so won't someone who works out too little but believes in himself too much get jacked beyond comprehension ?
What are the limits to it ? Exceptions etc. Context i saw vsauces " power of suggestions " video. Is the video scripted or was the kids conditions just not real like i can understand the girls condition may be cured through placebo but come on adhd and migraines immediatly cured ?
Young goats ( v.redd.it )
Challenge accepted ( media.kbin.social )
Its somebodies birthday today! ( social.n8e.dev )
So you're a veteran in your field? What war did you fight to earn that title?! ( files.catbox.moe )
Had a laugh when I saw this post, he was constantly defending himself in the comments as if the US army owns the word “veteran”
They didn't go to the shop floor and say "Who here is a gun nut?" ( www.tiktok.com )
63% of US workers unable to pay a $500 emergency expense, survey finds ( www.cnbc.com )
The ability to nap anywhere is a superpower ( startrek.website )
62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll ( www.commondreams.org )
Maybe it's fine to leave some people behind... ( lemmy.ca )
My new watch isn't great at telling time ( discuss.tchncs.de )
Cross posted from the herpetology community.
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t ( erinkissane.com )
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Did anyone else see what Uhura did there? ( youtube.com )
Yet another article about Reddit vs. Lemmy vs. others: "Discussing Three Reddit Alternatives After Reddit's API Decisions" ( kbin.social )
https://hackernoon.com/discussing-three-reddit-alternatives-after-reddits-api-decisions
What do people here think about Nostr? ( kbin.social )
It seems like it would help further prevent censorship, given how each instance of the Fediverse is run by people who can unilaterally decide what their users see. I'm beginning to feel like federation is but a half-step toward a solution.