IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the phone call is more convenient as it can be placed from anywhere

  And that’s half the problem. My job deals with things that physically exist, and if you can’t be bothered to get your ass in here to actually look at it, I can’t be bothered to deal with whatever your problem of the day is (yes I’m getting bitter about engineers sitting at home telling me “BuT iT wOrKs iN CAD”).

  Also, in person conversations are far more effective than phone conversations. Human communication is far more than just purely verbal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Email tends to have less expectation for immediate response and doesn’t have unavoidable “message read” notifications. Most importantly, in my experience at least, people tend to put more details into an email. Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences, and then I have to play 21 questions to drag the info out of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Either send me an email and you’ll get an answer when you get an answer, or come see me in person. Phone calls and text messages are annoying as shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To visit/fistfight the Andromeda galaxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m wondering if they got France and Germany mixed up. I don’t remember all the French I was taught growing up, but it didn’t sound right. So I googled it and got “droigts” and “orteils” for “fingers” and “toes”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Physicists: all three answers are both right and wrong up until the point when they are evaluated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s easy. The answer is A: 2024. The other answers would require either the zero or the four to be plural.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨imagine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well now you just triggered a false vacuum decay on the far side of the galaxy. Way to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OP has a realization⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if a civilization is advanced enough to create space-time bubbles, they are advanced enough to have speed matching cruise control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone is free to set their own priorities, but for me, I’ll just not purchase a thing at all, rather than buy it off Amazon. Most people buy too much crap they don’t actually need anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing I would do if I had a magic wand and could just change reality to see what happens, would be to get rid of Citizens United and whatever they called that decision that said money=speech. That’s the kind of thing that could actually happen without requiring wholesale societal change. Add in some strong campaign finance laws and maybe you could get some politicians who aren’t putting themselves up for auction to the highest bidder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up science!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What does the validity of the circadian rhythm concept have to do with creationism? Being wrong about one thing doesn’t suddenly mean you believe in ghost stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m definitely with you on that. I won’t buy any smart devices that require internet connections these days. And when looking to automate things, I’m much more likely to be buying a dumb device and a smart plug, rather than a smart device. That way I can still manually use the device if and when the automation side fails somewhere along the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place. I like home automation where it makes sense (like having some of my bedroom lights and my coffee maker tied to my phone alarm in the morning) but why would anyone ever tie their fridge to the internet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout out to my engineering homies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What I meant is that wielding new science and technology against people is in no way unique to capitalism. Every system we’ve ever tried has done that at one point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout out to my engineering homies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. That evil has nothing to do with whichever socio-economic system is your particular choice of boogie man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Assuming a spherical child and no air resistance, how far will the child travel?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Existential cowposting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I’d even be willing to forgo the punishment, if they’d just stop fucking doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I understood some of those words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any other universal icon that is at all related to throwing things away? The recycling icon might just be a win by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How it possibly be “bog standard” when it’s the only developed nation on the planet where it’s true?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  assuming she has one

  Aaaand there’s the rub. Poor and pregnant? You can just go fuck yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every once in a while I try to use it at work. It has yet to actually provide me with anything useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a new one. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of a narrative where Democrats blamed anything on trans people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scandal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t have to actually be on the island to acquire the pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Read the Jeffrey Epstein Emails That Mention Trump⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of that is standard corporate email signature stuff these days. I think it’s meant to help if you decide to sue someone for leaking private emails. Might keep people from being able to use the “I didn’t know it was confidential” defense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly better for the teeth maybe? And maybe a slight benefit if heartburn is an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but with lemon flavour. I think the idea is if you started with plain water, then added lemon, you’d now have lemon flavoured acidic water. If you start with alkaline water, you’d end up with lemon flavoured neutral water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-bean soup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about tomato soup?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because nobody ever took their drink to go after finishing their meal.