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Flamekebab

@ Flamekebab @piefed.social

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  • No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers" — I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.

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  • It'd be nice if their experience shopping lists weren't hilarious. No, I don't have experience with every automation tool under the sun (or whatever). I've tried a few and worked extensively with them as they're a tool to get the job done. I'm not running a tool review podcast, I've got shit to do. I'm sure I can learn to use whatever tool you're using just fine but I'm not going to spend time trialling everything on the market just in case when that time could be used to get results with the tools I have. Holy run-on sentence, Batman.

  • I cannot brain today I have the dumb

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  • Sure, but the point still stands that the placement of the symbol isn't one nation standing alone - it's one of two options and the world is split. Some currencies work one way, some the other.

    I don't like France but I still respect it's preferred placement of its currency symbols, both present and historic. Seems rather arrogant otherwise.

  • I cannot brain today I have the dumb

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  • I cannot brain today I have the dumb

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  • Have we just given up on putting the currency symbol in the correct place?

    (I know some currencies have the symbol after it, but I'm not aware of any dollar currencies that work that way)

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

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  • That's fair enough, thanks for being chill about it! Opinions about this stuff are all over the shop in this thread so it's hard to be sure. When I learn I'm part of a given problem I try to mend my ways but on this I feel like it's a lot of other people that could do with learning a lesson.

    Most of us don't need to be in such a rush - some people do though! Get out of their way!

    I try to remind myself that I'm just not that important. An extra few minutes just don't matter much for me in the grand scheme of things. Those few minutes might make a difference to someone with a dying relative or similar - I'm happy to simmer down and wait my turn (or even more, giving up my turn so others can go before me). Hence why being called part of the problem is a bit upsetting - I'm trying to be the kind of person I'd want to meet!

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

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  • Sorry, I didn't think I needed to outright state that I'm not obstructing others. I assumed, it would seem incorrectly, that that went without saying!

    If you'd like you can assume I also block people at the baggage claim and take my time when I'm at the front of the passport control queue with people behind me. I don't, obviously, but if you're going to start off assuming shiftiness why stop at the basics! Take it the whole way! Presume I'm incapable of using a luggage trolley too! Why not!

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  • It stands, but it neither contradicts nor supports my line of thinking. I was aware of it already when I wondered about adults constantly being in a rush. You can restate it if you like but it doesn't change my curiosity at the nature of this common problem.

    My comment is more about what the underlying cause of the pervasiveness of this issue. Were people always like this or is it one of these fun results of industrialisation? Is it a western culture thing? Is it a capitalism thing? Rhetorical questions in this case - I'm not seeking specific answers from anyone today. I am interested but it feels like we'll end up arguing and I could do without that.

    I'd be curious how different cultures handle rush, timekeeping, social pressure related to commitments. Needing to rush constantly seems like a bit of either a systemic failure or a deliberate dark pattern.

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  • May the odds ever be in your favour!

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  • It's remarkable how many people in these comments detest people wanting to have a chill time when flying.

    We're not slowing the rest of you down - we're getting out of your way. There's so many moving parts that an extra five minutes are so far down the list of things that I'm just not fussed.

    Trains are a bit different - there rushing can make all the difference. The limiting factors there are usually how quickly one can get between platforms!

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  • Staying out of the way of all the people rushing is somehow the problem?

    Explain.

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  • I was speaking more generally, not about flights specifically, and about how common it is.

    Adults throughout my life seem to constantly be rushing to everything. As a proper big boy adult now myself (I'm almost 40) I still don't get how it's so pervasive. My comment was more about how common it is, not about reasons people might be in a rush. I can think of plenty of reasons any given person might be in a rush on a given day but so many people seem to be in a perpetual mad dash. That bit boggles my mind.

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  • I live in the UK - domestic flights haven't featured significantly in my life. As in my comment doesn't have them as context.

    The only domestic flight I remember taking was flying from Edinburgh to Cardiff and it took almost as long as taking the train (whilst being significantly more hassle).

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  • I'm often the last to leave the plane. By the time I reach the passport control/baggage claim areas I'm barely having to wait. I've never really understood how other adults are always in such a damn rush.

  • Feel old yet?

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  • MD 4 Life

  • So so unfair

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  • Boys: now bald

  • Working from home

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  • Or they're just poking fun at themselves.

  • President Trump is only deploying troops to blue regions when most of the dangerous cities are in red states

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  • No duh?

  • Do you love Open Source software? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? LibreOffice is hiring a remote Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time 📢

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  • I see no figure for how much it would pay.

  • Should get a discount or something

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  • I like how you've taken a self deprecating comment that tries to empathise with other people and turned it into a confrontational jab at making one of the many failings of neoliberalism my direct responsibility.

    I actually use self checkouts because I don't want to have to engage the social parts of my brain for what is essentially a tedious chore. However this means that staff also don't have to deal with me under those circumstances, which is a nice bonus.

    To counter your jab, your solution to the failings of neoliberalism is to create needless busywork under dehumanising conditions rather than address the systemic failings?

    You don't have to answer that, I was just making a point about how I didn't come to this thread to fight anyone. Put the knife down.