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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In the US, lots of companies use the opposite system and anything less than perfect is a failure. It's also impossible to be perfect in the US. For every high mark you get, you get one or more low marks to even it all out to a 3/5 across the board. Unless of course you're smoking buddies with the manager, or the manager's manager, then you'll get promoted if you try to quit.
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Iron Crowned posted:Just chop 'em all, you can never have too much garlic As someone with acid reflux, this sentiment is my pet peeve, because, oh yes, I can have too much garlic.  But also, acid reflux aside, I just don't like eating super-garlic-heavy dishes, because A) it usually completely overpowers all the other flavors, and B) it leaves you with terrible breath. (Heh, I just remembered -- when I was growing up, my family had a pact that when we went out to a restaurant, we could only order garlicky dishes if everyone else did, too, so that we'd all stink together.  )
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Sep 30, 2020 16:11
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I like my garlic balanced with onion and ginger
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Sep 30, 2020 16:30
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Rabbit Hill posted:As someone with acid reflux, this sentiment is my pet peeve, because, oh yes, I can have too much garlic. If you don't like the smell of garlic, there is something seriously wrong with you
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Sep 30, 2020 18:58
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Iron Crowned posted:If you don't like the smell of garlic, there is something seriously wrong with you Garlic smells nice, not garlic breath and sweat
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Sep 30, 2020 19:04
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Iron Crowned posted:If you don't like the smell of garlic, there is something seriously wrong with you Wario's SA account spotted
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Sep 30, 2020 20:57
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overusing garlic is a noob cook’s way out of being unable to balance flavors correctly 
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Oct 1, 2020 09:06
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Youtube ads are getting out of control, especially since everyone started working from home and, I assume, providing a more captive audience. A 20 second ad to watch a 4 min video. Two unskippable 10 sec ads. Makes me want to watch less youtube not more. On desktop I can block them but no such luck with the iphone app (and i do use the app features rather than the web interface so I think I'm stuck). Don't get me started on the 'fill out this survey to help our advertisers'. Who would do this? Who would provide companies with this information for free???
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Oct 1, 2020 13:32
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Generally I find if the garlic tastes too pungent, unpleasant, or overpowering it wasn't cooked enough, or it was burned. Garlic!
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Oct 1, 2020 13:42
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Nigel Tufnel posted:Don't get me started on the 'fill out this survey to help our advertisers'. Who would do this? Who would provide companies with this information for free??? I do.
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You legitimately should never fill out a company survey when prompted, it's almost always going to be used as ammo against employees the company thinks they could stand to get rid of. There's nothing to be gained from it on your end and it might get someone else in trouble even if your review is positive. Edit: and stuff like asking you what types of ads you want to be bombarded with is just comical. If you get asked that, the group doing the asking probably already knows enough about you to know what your answer would've been should you not respond. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 16:17 on Oct 1, 2020 |
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Oct 1, 2020 16:12
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i hate wide eyed nonsense in popular science, poo poo about contact with aliens or dyson spheres or space elevators or mars bases or warp drives or whatever, none of that is ever going to happen for a variety of reasons, undue optimism annoys me in general
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Oct 1, 2020 23:33
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like "we can travel to the stars within our lifetimes, all we need to do is invent negative mass/create an artificial black hole and capture it in a magnetic field/invent human cryonization" regardless of the fact that none of that poo poo can actually be feasibly done. then usually the bullshit about "technology levels" and the kardachev scale comes rolling out. this kind of person usually also likes elon musk
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Oct 1, 2020 23:51
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CJacobs posted:You legitimately should never fill out a company survey when prompted, it's almost always going to be used as ammo against employees the company thinks they could stand to get rid of. There's nothing to be gained from it on your end and it might get someone else in trouble even if your review is positive. When I worked in customer support, a customer not filling out a survey was a mark against me and also made the "bad" (9/10 instead of 10/10) reviews count more. I always just fill them out 10/10 down the page 
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Oct 1, 2020 23:56
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CJacobs posted:You legitimately should never fill out a company survey when prompted, it's almost always going to be used as ammo against employees the company thinks they could stand to get rid of. There's nothing to be gained from it on your end and it might get someone else in trouble even if your review is positive.
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Oct 2, 2020 05:36
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Amazon have started adding a 'rate your delivery' link after a package has been dropped off. Absolutely no way I'm doing that, because you know for sure it's gonna result in people getting fired. Even if someone just hurls a package at my front door in the pouring rain, I don't want them to lose their jobs. Yes, i realise that any moral high ground taken as an amazon customer is not a very high high ground at all.
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Killingyouguy! posted:I always just fill them out 10/10 down the page.
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Nigel Tufnel posted:Youtube ads are getting out of control, especially since everyone started working from home and, I assume, providing a more captive audience. You can possibly cut them out entirely, even on an iPhone, with a PiHole: https://pi-hole.net/ There's plenty of guides for even non-technical people. Though obviously only works at home. Another possible thing to try, if an iPhone allows it, is to use an ad-blocking DNS server like Ad-Guard https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
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CJacobs posted:Edit: and stuff like asking you what types of ads you want to be bombarded with is just comical. If you get asked that, the group doing the asking probably already knows enough about you to know what your answer would've been should you not respond. Pet peeve: these ad companies have got to have at LEAST a decade's worth of information and purchase history on me and they STILL can't target ads towards me for the life of them. They just go "oh, feeemale? makeup. perfume. pregnancy test... thrush cream. tampons" despite the fact I have never once bought or used makeup/perfume/tampons in my life and don't plan on ever getting pregnant. I've also never needed cream for down under because I don't USE that thing for anything I miss when Youtube ads on my phone were quick recipes. I actually watched those because I like watching people make food  I mean I'd rather they *not* target ads towards me, but as long as I have no say in the matter, please let me look at tasty food if you're going to hold me up for 10 seconds before a video
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Oct 2, 2020 23:14
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If you go into your Google account settings, you can see the demographic info on how they're personalizing ads and be amused at how wrong it is. I binge watched a YouTube series on World War I small arms and Google spent almost a full year convinced I was a 55 year old woman that loving LOVES Home Depot.
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Oct 3, 2020 07:23
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the algorithmic nature of modern websites has taught me the habit of just browsing incognito half the time if i kind of want to read or watch something but dont want the algorithm to get ideas about it, besides using scriptkillers and adblockers etc i think ive finally taught youtube to never even mention ted talks to me, although they still pop up occasionally in searches, ive told those videos to gently caress off so often that i think even the stubborn algorithm understood and filed me under "elitist snob"
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Oct 3, 2020 08:34
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Regarding peeling garlic: Take as many cloves as you need off the bulb, and cut off that little hard part at the bottom. Put the unpeeled cloves into a small tupperware container, and pour a little bit of olive oil over top of them. Let it soak in for like 2 minutes, then put the lid on, and shake it like your life depends on it for 30-60 seconds. The peel slides off.
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Oct 3, 2020 13:42
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Shibawanko posted:i think ive finally taught youtube to never even mention ted talks to me, although they still pop up occasionally in searches, ive told those videos to gently caress off so often that i think even the stubborn algorithm understood and filed me under "elitist snob" Finally, someone else who doesn’t like ted talks! I don’t get why they’re so popular, whenever i complain about being forced to watch one for a class (god why do they get assigned so often) i hear “oh well maybe you haven’t seen one of the good ones yet”. No, I’ve seen enough of them and hate motivational/productivity type bullshit, leave me alone 
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The Myer Briggs personality types/nerd horoscopes. You know the ones, where people just pick one of 16 'personality types' that fit/flatter their self image the most, and which has zero basis in actual psychology. And that of course makes people trust it and use it as an indicator of.... whatever. It's especially cargoculted in some business practices because they love loving metrics that have no bearing on reality. Met a guy online who felt it was required to bring up his MB personality on first introduction, and I do not think I've lost the will to speak to someone that quickly before.
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SubNat posted:The Myer Briggs personality types/nerd horoscopes. Strongly agree. MB is just horoscopes for HR nerds. Our entire finance department at work is required to take the test and post their results and personal thoughts about it on the whiteboard outside their cubicle. At best it's self-indulgent navel gazing, at worst it's pigeon holing yourself and your employees into static, one dimensional archetypes for no reason at all. Not all of us struggle that badly with our sense of identity, Susan.
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We had to do something similar for my work called Whole Brain and it's the same poo poo. It was like a 30-40 question test and based on that it told you what type of person you were. It went into detail about how you balanced your personality and assigned it a color and then also told you how you shifted between colors when you got stressed. I have no idea how it does this because it didn't ask questions while I was stressed or even offer leading questions like "When you're stressed do you...". The downfall is of course people answer the questions based on how they think they are personality-wise, not how they actually are. But of course since the company spent like $250k on everyone to take this dumbass test and fly us to NY to meet with the creators it's taken as gospel. I swear if I hear someone go "ahah you're being so red today!" I'm going to lose it Which goes against my stress color because I supposedly keep it together well under stress
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Coworkers who do not stay organized, especially when it means my emails to them get lost in their inbox. "But email is so hard to stay on top of tee hee!" then you haven't done your job of learning your tools. Filter your inbox more aggressively. Delete or archive what's outdated. Make going through your filter folders a daily task at LEAST. I shouldn't have to instant message you to ask if you got my email. E: and if my instant messages to you get lost somehow, wtf are you even doing Related, when people have like 20 applications all running at once. You can't possibly be using all of those for your current task! Clean up a little bit! You'll stop feeling so overwhelmed! Killingyouguy! has a new favorite as of 18:44 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Killingyouguy! posted:Related, when people have like 20 applications all running at once. You can't possibly be using all of those for your current task! Clean up a little bit! You'll stop feeling so overwhelmed! Related: People who have 20 things open and then go 'oh whoops lol it's a bit slow sometimes.' I wonder why. 'oh hey I could have sworn I had it here' *begins hunting through a row of microscopic tabs*
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On corona peeves. It is so loving surreal to take for example the bus or subway, and basically everyone is masked up. Straight up did not see a single person without a mask when I had to take the subway a couple days ago. Then you take a step onto the street, or go to a store, and there's not a single mask in sight anywhere.
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What subway are you riding? I'd be too scared to leave the house if I hadn't managed to get corona as soon as poo poo started going down.
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I was working in a Dollar General in Bumfuck, Ohio and not a single goddamn customer that I saw wore a mask. I was there for 7 hours. There were signs for masks and everything, and none of them got called out. Also, I keep seeing parents and kids walking around without masks while the kid has a cough. Once in a health food store.
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rodbeard posted:What subway are you riding? I'd be too scared to leave the house if I hadn't managed to get corona as soon as poo poo started going down. I'm in Norway, things are starting to ramp up again, but it's not too bad for necessary travel. It was only 20% full, and it was that or walk for 2 hours to get to my psych.(or take a bus/tram, which would be fuller) We've still got pretty low numbers compared to the rest of europe.
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I broke the drat yolk of the one of the eggs I was having for breakfast and now my whole day is ruined.
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Love 2 b distracted and frustrated the better part of a day because my neighbour does super loving loud, super irregular drilling and hammering construction/renovation work. While the noise is loud and pretty loving awful, the far worse part is the completely random lengths of time between it. Often just enough for you to relax and wonder if it's done before BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.
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SubNat posted:Love 2 b distracted and frustrated the better part of a day because my neighbour does super loving loud, super irregular drilling and hammering construction/renovation work. I live in an apartment, and I don't know what it is but my neighbor just pound away on their counter at semi-regular times in their kitchen. Otherwise I rarely hear noise coming from nextdoor. Sometime between 6-8 am, 11am-1pm, and 5-7pm. It's only for a few minutes and it's obvious food related, but it's annoying, and I want to know what it is.
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Oct 15, 2020 11:26
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When shows try to pass off Vancouver as Chicago or LA or somewhere that is definitely not similar to Vancouver.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:When shows try to pass off Vancouver as Chicago or LA or somewhere that is definitely not similar to Vancouver. Works pretty well for Seattle and Portland though.
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I know I received this ring I bought online. I know I never wore it outside. So where the gently caress is it! My apartment is pretty small, there's only so many locations it could be! But I've checked everywhere! How did I manage to lose something in my own home!!
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Killingyouguy! posted:I know I received this ring I bought online. I know I never wore it outside. So where the gently caress is it! My apartment is pretty small, there's only so many locations it could be! But I've checked everywhere! How did I manage to lose something in my own home!! I swear I always lose small things underneath a piece of paper. LIke I'll spend an hour looking for something I just had, only to find out that I had put the electric bill on top of it.
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Our fire stick remote went missing in our last apartment and I was sure we'd find it during the move, but nope! Where did it go? We strip cleaned that entire place and it never showed up.
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