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The Wild Man of YOLO posted:Was that Phil's Wallets? It was the dude who advertised for SA Mart for years. I actually tried to grab it from my back pocket about 30 minutes ago to take a picture and realized I wasn't actually sitting on it. *Flanders nothing at all GIF*
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Guess who has a medical emergency? Like 30 minutes ago I suddenly double over in pain intense chest pain up my throat. After 5-10 minutes of it not changing get a ride to the er. Two streets away it completely goes away. Turned around and am now sitting in an urgent care. 😎
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Kalli posted:Guess who has a medical emergency? probably gird or reflux, that's the hope anyway. Good luck Kalli! Worst losers on all of Trek are Ensign Kim, and Malcolm Reed. Geordi got really lame with his holodeck fake girlfriend, but at least he was friends with Data and didn't strike out when given the opportunity with Seven of Nine, or just be a constant military-wanker useless guy whose only friend barely tolerates him and otherwise everyone hates (that's Reed).
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Oh yeah also Skwirl I'm sorry I wasn't here for you re: semantics of the word "objective", you fought the good fight but it was always going to be a bitter defeat. Language evolves and the adjectives "objective" and "literally" no longer mean anything more than "...and you're not allowed to disagree." "Objectively bad" just means, I'm saying it's bad, and basing this opinion on criteria that I am unwilling to reconsider or even discuss. Of course, philosophically, arguably there is no such thing as objectivity: perhaps that problem is the origin of the erosion of the word's meaning and usage. I'll suggest an alternative: "flawed." That movie that I enjoy, is flawed, but those flaws do not spoil the enjoyment for me, but might for others. I made this painting, anyone who understands paintings will likely notice several flaws of technique and execution, but I nevertheless am happy with it. Manas enjoyed his ruined steak; we all agree it was severely hosed up, but if he enjoyed it, that was still his prerogative to do, and nobody can actually take that from him, however much we might desire to. His steak was profoundly flawed.
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should i watch voyager after I'm done with BSG
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Any of you that listen to podcasts, this may sound weird but listen to or watch the Dale Jr Download this week. It's him and Brandon Marshall, and it's a great talk about mental health with some good football stories thrown in, plus an amazing Ricky Williams impression.
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Package update #2: Ordered some limited edition Knockaround sunglasses because I have a problem with amassing stupid sunglasses. Checked back in my emails for a shipping confirmation because normally they take like 3 days and it’s been over a week. All I found were “we’ve saved your shopping cart, complete your order soon!” emails, apparently I never hit complete purchase. And now they’re sold out forever.
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a neat cape posted:should i watch voyager after I'm done with BSG Its got the lowest lows of any of the Treks, but plenty of fun episodes and one of the more interesting overall stories to base a Trek show on. I think its worth it, you get a huge deep dive into the Borg as villains too.
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a neat cape posted:should i watch voyager after I'm done with BSG Yes. It's stronger than ST:Enterprise, especially in its later seasons. It's weaker than both DS9 and TNG: but it still has some standout episodes. You may or may not detest Neelix, which will affect your overall opinion of the show; I will also warn you in advance that the supposed native american expert they consulted when writing Chakotay episodes was a fraud and the native american stuff is incredibly cringey and stupid. But they pull back on that in later seasons more or less. But on my second full watching of it a year ago I enjoyed the series overall.
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Leperflesh posted:Oh yeah also Skwirl I'm sorry I wasn't here for you re: semantics of the word "objective", you fought the good fight but it was always going to be a bitter defeat. Language evolves and the adjectives "objective" and "literally" no longer mean anything more than "...and you're not allowed to disagree." I do like that I can say "I will literally hunt down and murder the next person who uses the word 'objectively' wrong" and without further context there's no way to tell if I'm being hyperbolic or not.
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Leperflesh posted:I will also warn you in advance that the supposed native american expert they consulted when writing Chakotay episodes was a fraud How the gently caress did that happen? Was it a Rachel Dolezal type situation?
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FizFashizzle posted:Oh god not Kalli I'm good, just got home, calling to setup an appointment with my PCP
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I like the idea of being pedantic about the word "objectively," because words are not objective. I would argue that skill is more of an objective thing than any individual word's definition. Steph Curry is measurably better at shooting three-pointers than I am. A plate of food that contains dangerous bacteria is measurably worse than a plate of food that doesn't. A game that's littered with critical bugs is measurably better than one that isn't. Living language, tovarich.
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Its Rinaldo posted:Pfizer Pfriends represent Just leaving my 2nd jab appointment. Scrolling the chat thread during my mandatory 15. Feels good, man
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Kalli posted:I'm good, just got home, calling to setup an appointment with my PCP Whew, good
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Kalli posted:I'm good, just got home, calling to setup an appointment with my PCP I was about to tell you not to be surprised when medics show up. Our urgent cares locally are midway through dialing 911 when before you can finish the phrase “chest pain”.
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D-LINK posted:Just leaving my 2nd jab appointment. Scrolling the chat thread during my mandatory 15. Feels good, man Congrats! Had my performance review. Got the highest rating, but not after the bulk of time being spent on new feedback of what could've been done better. Happy for the rating, not thrilled to spend the time getting surprise feedback with no examples and the whole, "only critical because you've mastered these other things and this would round you out and I want to challenge you"
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LeeMajors posted:I was about to tell you not to be surprised when medics show up. Our urgent cares locally are midway through dialing 911 when before you can finish the phrase “chest pain”. Yeah, I was completely fine by the time I got into the UC. Got a EKG some other tests, all good. I probably had GERD or something, who knows, doesn't really match the symptoms I just read, will find out when I talk to my doc tomorrow. I did eat some spicy takeout last night, so maybe that caused it? or the slice of pizza I had for lunch? WHO CAN SAY? doesn't make any sense, do know it sucks, so I don't want that happening again. Literally had my buddy pull over as we're driving to the ER and was like... huh I'm fine. Got out, walked around a bit, did some deep breathing, all clear. Walked to a supermarket after I got out of the Urgent Care to grab some prilosec just in case that takes care of it, immediately wished I was not wearing sweatpants for a guy who weighs a lot more then I do and destroyed slippers. For once I was the people of Walmart.
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Neil Armbong posted:Congrats! I hate that and honestly it is so dumb how that works. I had a performance review a while back and was told out the gate, oh I intentionally score everyone low so that there is room for improvement in the next review.
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Neil Armbong posted:Congrats! I've never experienced a rating scale where the top rating can actually be achieved by mortals.
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SundayMoney posted:I hate that and honestly it is so dumb how that works. I had a performance review a while back and was told out the gate, oh I intentionally score everyone low so that there is room for improvement in the next review. That seems like actual fraud to me. Your reviews obviously have some sort of financial incentive, so for them to say they made it lower than you deserve intentionally is super problematic.
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Skwirl posted:How the gently caress did that happen? Was it a Rachel Dolezal type situation? Probably in the same way that Iron Eyes Cody managed to make a living as an “Indian” even though he was just some Italian dude - no one bothered to check because they didn’t really care.
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Hey, remember when this was the most important thing in the US for like months https://twitter.com/RetroNewsNow/status/1385329954708205573?s=19
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I don't remember if I posted this before in cspam or in here, probably both, but probably a couple of times a month I remember that story and it blows my mind that that used to be national news for a solid few weeks. Our tolerance level for state bullshit has grown incredibly since the late 90's and early 2000s.
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Eifert Posting posted:That seems like actual fraud to me. Your reviews obviously have some sort of financial incentive, so for them to say they made it lower than you deserve intentionally is super problematic. I've been in the situation where managers with excellent teams are told they're overrating all their employees and have to lower some ratings. As if there's no such thing as a team with six very senior employees who have been doing extremely well at their jobs for 10+ years. The response org-wide these days seems to be that it's extremely hard to get a 5. A 4 already means you're doing very well and exceeding expectations. You can have one or two 5s out of like 8 criteria but if you have all 5s the manager is gonna get told "bullshit, no such thing as a perfect employee who overperforms in every aspect." The review process is undoubtedly still useful for employees who are genuinely struggling in some area, but the impact of this sort of thing is that most of the numbers are meaningless. Probably 90% of employees have a bunch of 3s and 4s and exactly 2 5s every year and now you can't really use performance reviews to differentiate, other than maybe finding the bottom 5% of employees who are loving up badly enough that they're gonna get fired. Skwirl posted:How the gently caress did that happen? Was it a Rachel Dolezal type situation? https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/2021/02/26/voyagers-native-american-consultant-was-a-fraud/ e. this is a better article https://heavy.com/entertainment/star-trek/jamake-highwater-voyager-fake-native-american/ Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Apr 22, 2021 |
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Neil Armbong posted:Congrats! Well done. About quarterly my manager (on me third after 1.5 years now, lol) will give a really broad statement about "[director] really wants senior and above engineers to be leading improvement projects with the E1 and E2's, so we need to make sure we're getting you those opportunities and documenting it." Today that speech was given after I listed everything I'm doing and said I'm pretty full up on work for the foreseeable future! Honestly at this point I'm perfectly happy landing in the 60% of people lumped into "meets expectations", because, like Rectal Placenta, I'm pretty sure I would have to divorce my wife and marry my job to be in that top bucket.
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Leperflesh posted:
loving lol, he had already been outed as a fake before he got hired as a consultant for Voyager. Also, why didn't they just hire an actual Native American for the role?
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Leperflesh posted:The review process is undoubtedly still useful for employees who are genuinely struggling in some area, but the impact of this sort of thing is that most of the numbers are meaningless. Probably 90% of employees have a bunch of 3s and 4s and exactly 2 5s every year and now you can't really use performance reviews to differentiate, other than maybe finding the bottom 5% of employees who are loving up badly enough that they're gonna get fired. Ours is basically all of the managers in our part of the org get together and compare people who have the same job title. They break it out so it's like 15% are killing it, 60% are status quo, 25% need to step it up. The annoying arbitrary part is how much of it is how well I personally track and document everything I do so my manager can have a bigger list of accomplishments to point to. I am trying to get better about doing that, but I'm also not going to sweat it when the guy who has Director of QA as his 10 year plan and works (literally) at least 12 hours a day is rated above me.
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a neat cape posted:should i watch voyager after I'm done with BSG Only episode you need to watch is Threshold.
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Hiring people of Hispanic descent to play native americans was (and still is) the most common approach throughout the last century. At least when it wasn't just a random white american in "redface." And yes, if they'd cared to look into his background at all, they'd have discovered he was a fraud, but remember this is a time before most people used the Internet and you had to actually do real research. The man was a widely published author and still passing himself off as an expert at the time Voyager was made, and nobody had the foresight or instinct I guess to look into it further. You'd have thought that his input into the character might have rung some loving alarm bells, though? Like I'm pretty sure that even 19-year-old me in 1994 would have been raising some eyebrows about the authenticity of Chakotay's spirit journey stuff. It's hokey and stupid. One thing these articles don't make clear is how much of his consultation was actually used, vs. the episode writers' own invention, though. I don't think 100% of the fuckup can be blamed on the consultant. This is the same production that hired Jeri Ryan to be the T&A character for ratings... although it just randomly turned out that she was an excellent actress, something Kate Mulgrew never got over.
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Kalli posted:Anyway, so after that brush with death I now realize that any post I make could be my last He accidentally made a great one, again.
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Leperflesh posted:Hiring people of Hispanic descent to play native americans was (and still is) the most common approach throughout the last century. At least when it wasn't just a random white american in "redface." And yes, if they'd cared to look into his background at all, they'd have discovered he was a fraud, but remember this is a time before most people used the Internet and you had to actually do real research. The man was a widely published author and still passing himself off as an expert at the time Voyager was made, and nobody had the foresight or instinct I guess to look into it further. Jeri Ryan getting the Star Trek job directly leading to Barack Obama becoming president is one of my favorite bizarre historical facts.
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Leperflesh posted:One thing these articles don't make clear is how much of his consultation was actually used, vs. the episode writers' own invention, though. I don't think 100% of the fuckup can be blamed on the consultant. This is the same production that hired Jeri Ryan to be the T&A character for ratings... although it just randomly turned out that she was an excellent actress, something Kate Mulgrew never got over. I'm also reminded of the hokey guy Snyder hired to do some interviews where he declared Redskins wasn't racist.
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Kalli posted:Anyway, so after that brush with death I now realize that any post I make could be my last I wish the police state could be destroyed with some literal and metaphorical Lebron dunks.
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