wewbull
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- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 2 days ago:
I think you’re seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 2 days ago:
Won’t somebody think of the children? (/s)
The death of online gaming? - Comment on 3 days ago:
Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 1 week ago:
Conflict often arises because somebody is pissed off and nobody is listening. The first thing to do is listen and understand where they are coming from.
Tense situation is a karen yelling at one of my colleagues because her father’s operation was postponed because I kid you not 4 doctors called in sick today. Rumor has it they’re striking for better pay.
So, this “Karen” has a sick relative that she wants be helped, and nobody is helping. Sounds like she’s got a fair reason to be agitated. Now you may not be able to do anything personally about it, but ignoring her makes the situation worse. Listening and then explaining why you’re unable to help, maybe pointing her in the direction of somebody who has responsibility.
The first thing is to listen, then show a little fucking empathy.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 week ago:
A paper mill will produce a lot of papers.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 1 week ago:
You know the company printing out all those labels was going “Didn’t pay for the spell check service…”
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 1 week ago:
Probably was.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Try reading them in bed laying on your back. When you fall asleep and drop them on your face, the heavy ones will make you cry.
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 2 weeks ago:
FFS the problem is the price disparity between standard prices and “loyalty card” prices. It’s anti-competitive.
How is that not obvious to politicians?
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 3 weeks ago:
Earth, Wind and Fire is where it’s at.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but we don’t actually want that.
We live in a surveillance state and don’t want it to go further.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 3 weeks ago:
No they can’t because we use them for different things. One ID means one system that tracks everything. Also, you don’t have to have a passport. You don’t have to have a driving license. Everybody needs an NI number to work, but it’s not an ID (No photo, DOB, etc).
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 3 weeks ago:
You’re nearly 40 and have to show ID to buy alcohol?
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 weeks ago:
It’s on the box.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
…but we stole the rest of the worlds recipes.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking about F for Argentine cattle alone.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
I’d miss mexican food, but some arsehole bundled it with the USA.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 3 weeks ago:
The sad truth is that, regardless of your intention, it does exclude them. Even if they’ve put some effort in and learnt some basics, they’re unlikely to jump in to group of natives talking.
I don’t think there’s a good solution. I’ve been on all sides at work.
- Having fast conversations in English and realising too late that somebody is completely excluded.
- I’ve been excluded because people are speaking a language I don’t know (e.g. Danish – what the hell is that!!!)
- …and I’ve caught people talking behind my back about me because they didn’t know I could understand a bit of Dutch. To be fair I didn’t know either but my subconscious worked out enough from German.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 3 weeks ago:
Which doesn’t explain the reform support.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 4 weeks ago:
When you’re working you need to communicate in a lot more depth than that though. That’s exactly why they want to talk Spanish, to speed up communication or be more precise.
Social language skills are on the easier side. You can get away with a lot of mistakes.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 4 weeks ago:
Whoa whoa whoa! We were all having a good time joking about killing people and you had to bring religion into it.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 4 weeks ago:
You’re missing the point that the universe is expanding uniformly. That means two points acceleration away from each other is dependent on their distance apart. The further they are from each other the faster they accelerate from each other.
So GP is right. We measure red shift and infer distance.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 4 weeks ago:
Right, but I don’t get why this thread is full of people talking about collisions. Even if it was moving at the speed of light (it’s not) it’s still billions of years away.
It would just prove our theory of universe inflation to be incorrect.
- Comment on Fuck Chad 4 weeks ago:
I mean that episode specifically. It’s the low point of the entire show so far. “The Towering Inferno” in space.
Compared to what came before, it was a huge step down in writing quality. S3 didn’t really recover.
- Comment on Fuck Chad 4 weeks ago:
I wish I hadn’t seen it, but yes. That was what sprung into my mind too.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes in the future…
“Mummy, what kind of man was Daddy?”
“Well… His final words were ‘Counting or not counting gang violence?’”
- Comment on Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes 5 weeks ago:
One MP tipped Phillips as gaining support, saying she was “an ideal successor to Angela [Rayner]. Brave, strong, principled, clear values, great communicator, sounds like a normal person.”
I think she would be an awful choice. Far too entrenched in the battles of the culture war. The press would love it, but nothing of value would ever get discussed.
- Comment on Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes 5 weeks ago:
Sadly, the person doing it doesn’t have fore-knowledge that they are about to make a mistake. They don’t know what to change. The advice has to be more specific.
- Comment on does the new employee eventually stop being the one given the most tasks? 5 weeks ago:
Having heard enough tales from my sister, Nurses are particularly bad in this regard. I think it’s partly because seniority is so heavily related to how long they’ve been putting up with this shit. It’s not the best leaders that become senior. It’s the people with the most battle scars.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 5 weeks ago:
Neoliberalism is an afront to liberalism. Please don’t conflate the two. It ignores anything to do with the rights of anybody except the ruling class.
Liberals believe that every person should be free to live their best life, and that includes freedom from oppression, poverty and other social disadvantages. Therefore it’s government’s role to lift those barriers. They also believe that government can be one of those oppressors and so favour regulating as little as possible, but also recognise the need for regulations when it stops the powerful exploiting the weak.
Neoliberals just believe that companies shouldn’t be subject the regulation. It’s greedy, and exploitative.
