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PhobosAnomaly

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  • Go on, I'm here to ask dense questions and learn dense answers.

    I can see that the central graph is x^3, but what equation repeats it twice along the X axis, and am I missing a pun?

    edit: ah is this a tan(x) joke? I'm getting there slowly!

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  • Mad optical drive respect.

    Giving people the ability to play 90s games and burn fire mix CDs like it's 2k all over again.

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  • Risky joke - could get a laugh, could get you a meeting with HR without biscuits. It's worth a punt though if you know your audience!

    If you make the joke a bit more explicit it tends to get a few more laughs, like "this one goes out to the tireless administrators, creative engineers, fantastic embeds... and Paul".

    Only pull those stunts if you're happy to get the piss taken out of you in return though, else you'll look like a right tosser.

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  • An old boss of mine started most group conversations with "right then you cunts..." and it was set the tone straight away. No bullshit, no egos, and no dragging on the conversation. Top fella actually, one of the best leaders I've had. We were his cunts, and he was our better-paid cunt.

    We had another bloke who was a proper cockney boy. If you were in his good books, you were a "geezer", and if you'd ruined his day then you were a "slaaaaag".

    I'm guilty of addressing my squad from my very junior managerial position as "alright my dudes", which on the surface of it sounds very male-leaning, but I think since the 90s "dude" has become as gender-neutral as they come.

    That, or you could go full Karl Jobst and kick off with "hello you absolute legends .."

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  • More often than not, I'd agree with you - though it is quite handy for catching up on what's been happening while I've been elsewhere or asleep before a nightshift.

    It is entertaining to see what rumours are going around though, finding out who's made a real James Hunt of a ticket so nobody makes the same colossal clusterfuck of a job twice, and hearing who's moving where in the organisation though.

    If they stopped doing them tomorrow though, I wouldn't miss them.

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  • Our unit has a conference call every twelve hours where each senior rep from every division globally has to attend, provide an update, and pick up what's happened since the last meeting.

    Previously, we went through nearly twenty people across the organisation giving the same bullshit numbers and stats, with the odd bit of news or gossip. It took fucking ages.

    Now, some bright spark has knocked together a form and a Power BI automation tool, so the stats are forwarded before the call has even began, and people only pipe up in the meeting if anything has changed or if something out of the ordinary has happened. It has turned a 30min call into a five minute call tops.

    A rare W for common sense.

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  • I suppose the TV licence in the UK is a sort of paywall, even if it is made of swiss cheese and enforced by folk with all the legal standing of Larry the Head Mouser or whatever moggy it is now.

    I pay it, but I'm loathed to now. Not because I watch any live TV or BBC programming, but because I use the BBC News site a metric fucktonne and I suppose I justify it to myself as funding the BBC News department rather than Graham Norton's salary.

    Maybe I'll fuck it off though. I do fancy a letter war with Capita or whoever managed the enforcement these days.

  • Does your language have animal slangs?

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  • Go somewhere public and call a girl a chick, see what happens 😂

    Seriously though, it's not the word that's the issue, it's the labelling of someone based on their gender. I can't speak for the bottom line as I don't appear to be a woman, but I'd start getting fucked off if a generic term was used to address me when I had a perfectly good name.

    In the UK, an equivalent is "bird". Equally likely to get you booted in the balls.

  • Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community

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  • I'm guessing you've got a study that backs that assertion up as well?

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  • Thank you for your public service announcement!

  • Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community

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  • I know this a gross oversimplification, but:

    "Remote working benefit those with a reason to stay home, but doesn't for those who don't have a reason to stay home" seems to be the general idea of the headline.

    edit: I think this is the study they're talking about, please double check the source before quoting: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36718392/

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  • ain't no harm skibidi ohio guy, don't got time fo the low-rizz crowd, no cap

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  • If I could have crowbarred "moist" in there somewhere too, I'd have set the lexical tiktok on fire.

    ...if there is even one, don't come at me TNETENNBA fans!

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  • Yeah it's a shame that Musk is so inextricably linked with the brand. I'm quite sure SpaceX and Tesla are full of top tier talent and engineering wizards... but have a direct link to a toxic cockwomble that bankrolls them. Shame.

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  • I haven't, no - and you're probably right, yes.

    I worry that if I start playing KSP then my other half and kids won't see me again for six months because it does sound fucking awesome and highly rewarding.

    Nope, I'm a simple man. I play through a couple of Doom WADs each summer in the academic off-season and that's my gaming appetite satiated.

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  • I'm surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!

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  • Speaking as a layman, I just think it's fuckin' awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.

    Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin' land where they started seven or eight minutes later.

    Science is fuckin mint, man.

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  • Thank you, friend. It's lovely to have such a positive reply.

    I'd recommend it to anyone - education is never wasted. This is the end of year five or six now mind and I've had a bit of a titsful of it - the summer break has come at a perfect time. I'll smash this last year in then give it a rest I think, maybe formalise my French over a year or two.

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