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CRUSTY MINGE posted:6.5 is the reference to caliber it fires, 6.5mm Creedmoor. A high ballistic coefficient bullet that has a slower drop over distance, flatter trajectory overall compared to 7.62 nato. Frequently used in long range precision competitions and gradually taking over the police/mil marksmen/snipers units. More like 6.5cm dick
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Oct 12, 2021 14:37
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I'm sure they'll put that on the murderbot too.
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Oct 12, 2021 14:55
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/slack-office-trouble/620173/quote:But even if you don’t use Slack, or something like it, you live and work in the world Slack helped create. It’s a world where openness and transparency are prized; where work is something we are always kind of doing; where who we are at the office and who we are outside it are closer than ever before; where all of these dynamics mean that sometimes things go very wrong, especially for people in power. im sorry, what? i just wasnt expecint a fluff piece for slack to take this angle
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Oct 12, 2021 15:57
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Slack is the Myspace of chat.
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Oct 12, 2021 16:00
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slack is the panopticon of work
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Oct 12, 2021 16:03
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i am harry posted:should have left it all in what would they do sue you? presumably hypothetically whoever bought the rights at firesale could sue. and the game company would have no reason whatsoever to include advertising anyway (ie, they're not compensated for it)
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Oct 12, 2021 16:03
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Honest Thief posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/slack-office-trouble/620173/ i dunno i skimmed the first several paragraphs and the article seems to say that slack is a trojan horse for bosses because it lets workers talk to one another about shared grievances and organize. the leading anecdote is about african coders working for some temp agency that contracts its coders to western firms organizing among themselves on the temp agency's slack because they were being paid far less than what the temp agency claimed to the press they were obviously slack has built-in protection against employees using it to communicate without the boss knowing by eg letting admins see private messages if they pay for the premium tier subscription and know where to look, but if the boss is lazy or not savvy enough it can still happen Shear Modulus has issued a correction as of 16:17 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 16:14
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Shear Modulus posted:i dunno i skimmed the first several paragraphs and the article seems to say that slack is a trojan horse for bosses because it lets workers talk to one another about shared grievances and organize. the leading anecdote is about african coders working for some temp agency that contracts its coders to western firms organizing among themselves on the temp agency's slack because they were being paid far less than what the temp agency claimed to the press they were It's that specific framing, esp on the first couple paragraphs before going on about how integrated into office life slack is, that got me weirded out. Telling high praises for the software under the guise of.. I dunno democratising work communication or whatever
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Oct 12, 2021 17:38
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Honest Thief posted:It's that specific framing, esp on the first couple paragraphs before going on about how integrated into office life slack is, that got me weirded out. Telling high praises for the software under the guise of.. I dunno democratising work communication or whatever selling tech or business practices under wokeness branding is In
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Oct 12, 2021 17:41
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cant wait to get murked by a cutesy doggo drone during a skirmish in the Cascadia-Mountain West Water War of 2033 maybe they can start making different "breeds" ie small stout corgis, big hulking great danes, everyday all around golden retrivers, etc
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Oct 12, 2021 18:28
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tokin opposition posted:More like 6.5cm dick Attaching truck nuts to my murder bot so I can T Bag my kills.
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Oct 12, 2021 18:41
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bag em and tag em posted:Attaching truck nuts to my murder bot so I can T Bag my kills. fully equipped and ready for action 
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Oct 12, 2021 18:44
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lol lmao
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Oct 12, 2021 18:46
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uber_stoat posted:fully equipped and ready for action The rat things are good boys and while that is obviously a rendition of one, it's not a great one for accuracy imo The artist was too busy drawing the genitals I would imagine
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Oct 12, 2021 18:46
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this is cute  https://twitter.com/ryosuzk/status/1447670500642021377
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Oct 12, 2021 23:19
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i watched a product video for work of a chinese soft robotic gripper tool. it featured pneumatic bladder fingers picking up a live crab, then showed the crab struggling within the grasp of its rubbery tentacle-like captor. it was a weird, revolting combination of soft, flexible machine and a hard living thing that thrashed mechanically.
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Oct 12, 2021 23:36
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Shear Modulus posted:i dunno i skimmed the first several paragraphs and the article seems to say that slack is a trojan horse for bosses because it lets workers talk to one another about shared grievances and organize. the leading anecdote is about african coders working for some temp agency that contracts its coders to western firms organizing among themselves on the temp agency's slack because they were being paid far less than what the temp agency claimed to the press they were every organization effort that im aware of in tech has a hard no-work-devices, signal-only rule.
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Oct 13, 2021 01:23
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We use Microsoft teams. Which is like Slack’s lame cousin that takes himself too seriously.
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Oct 13, 2021 01:49
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The Nastier Nate posted:We use Microsoft teams. Which is like Slack’s lame cousin that takes himself too seriously. Also suitable for places where a good chunk of the workforce has to be dragged kicking and screaming away from communicating mostly via long voicemail messages.
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Oct 13, 2021 02:04
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The Lone Badger posted:Wasn't there a french gunner who got heavy metal poisoning after drinking wine from an artillery piece? That would make sense, since the barrel liners are made of God-knows-what. You could drink from an old bronze gun and be no worse for wear than drinking from a pewter stein, but I woudn't try it with a modern piece. Everything in the army gives you cancer. When I got out I had to do paperwork because the melamine dishes they issued may cause stomach cancer, and I was one of about 100 people poisoned once when our water was contaminated by large amounts of diesel fuel. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 02:43 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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Oct 13, 2021 02:40
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Tungsten was the culprit.
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Oct 13, 2021 02:43
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Frosted Flake posted:That would make sense, since the barrel liners are made of God-knows-what. You could drink from an old bronze gun and be no worse for wear than drinking from a pewter stein, but I woudn't try it with a modern piece. If he was a gunner, he probably already had heavy metal poisoning. It's a well-known occupational hazard.
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Oct 13, 2021 02:43
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I use teams at work and two years ago there was employee who got very mad about getting a new computer because IT wouldn’t get them one with XP. it’s basically the chat equivalent of phones with huge buttons for old people. The Lone Badger posted:Wasn't there a french gunner who got heavy metal poisoning after drinking wine from an artillery piece? yeah, I’m pretty sure it was how acute tungsten poisoning was discovered
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Oct 13, 2021 02:50
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withak posted:Also suitable for places where a good chunk of the workforce has to be dragged kicking and screaming away from communicating mostly via long voicemail messages. i will never listen to a voicemail and if the voip app can't transcribe it properly well then you're just not getting a call back
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Oct 13, 2021 02:51
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silentsnack posted:creepy misogynist robots do, apparently? remember: its not the bots that are misogynist, its the people who wrote them
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Oct 13, 2021 07:17
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pygmy tyrant posted:yeah, I’m pretty sure it was how acute tungsten poisoning was discovered 
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Oct 13, 2021 10:48
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The Bloop posted:The rat things are good boys and while that is obviously a rendition of one, it's not a great one for accuracy imo those are some lovingly rendered dog balls fosho
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Oct 13, 2021 12:25
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pygmy tyrant posted:I use teams at work and two years ago there was employee who got very mad about getting a new computer because IT wouldn’t get them one with XP. it’s basically the chat equivalent of phones with huge buttons for old people. Every company has at least one. One of my boomer coworkers, a year and a half into this poo poo is still the lady who constantly misses zoom meetings because “it wasn’t working” If she had to join a teams meeting that required any more effort then clicking on an email link I assume her head would explode
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Oct 13, 2021 12:28
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I can't wait to be old and use that excuse
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Oct 13, 2021 12:38
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Professor Latency posted:I can't wait to be old and use that excuse Presumably because the infrastructure that makes it work will no longer exist
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Oct 13, 2021 13:23
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Professor Latency posted:I can't wait to be old and use that excuse you can use it no matter how old you are if your boss is old and tech illiterate!
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Oct 13, 2021 13:38
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Professor Latency posted:I can't wait to be old and use that excuse you can use them as a young geriatric millenial, just say that your calendar didnt sync up so you didnt had the zoom meet link
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Oct 13, 2021 14:04
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Ah yeah like anyone is gonna believe an old millenial will have computer problems when they're the generation that grew up with widespread PCs but prior to the adoption of smartphones/tablets
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Oct 13, 2021 15:22
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Chard posted:zapping my brain with car batteries and coils of copper wire stripped out of blackrock owned mcmansions
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Oct 13, 2021 15:44
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Thanatosian posted:If he was a gunner, he probably already had heavy metal poisoning. It's a well-known occupational hazard. You would think so. I don’t know if it’s the same in the States, but VAC will fight tooth and nail against tinnitus and hearing loss claims by artillerymen. The distinction is like you said - it’s occupational not operational, and so attributing it to service becomes a long drawn out fight. This, in a country with UHC. I can only imagine what it’s like in the States. I’ve heard workers’ comp is even more difficult and frustrating, which is sickening.
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Oct 13, 2021 15:48
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The VA in the US is way less stringent than social security over disability. Biggest hurdle is getting access by being dumb enough to enlist. I'm pretty sure half the vets I know have a 10% rating for tinnitus. That's like, $150/mo. Also the VA covers any treatments for life, what little their are. That 10% rating opens the doors to more benefits, from education to housing, so it's kinda standard to claim it at the end of your term of service and be approved, especially if you deployed. Canada doesn't spend the money that the US does on veterans though, and I'm sure socialized health care is taken into account whereas lol, america, gotta make a separate tier of the lower class.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:10
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Universal VA is probably a better shot for getting healthcare than M4A at this point Let's just admit we're a military with a country attached
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Oct 13, 2021 16:19
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I'm all for everyone having the benefits my dumb vet rear end has. The loving hoops people have to jump through to get SS disability and the pittance it pays are a disgrace.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:25
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they're all designed to fail. at the start of covid when i got furloughed i never managed to get them to send me unemployment before they brought me back to work months later. i got on medicaid and the doctor they assigned to me was not operating a practice and was instead running an urgent care clinic.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:30
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tokin opposition posted:Universal VA is probably a better shot for getting healthcare than M4A at this point Thing I believe is true but cannot prove: our military isn't actually that good, we just have the most expensive boondoggle in the world. It's like our healthcare, with the difference being that the healthcare grift didn't really get rolling until the 80s or 90s, and there are actually some attempts at accountability, there; military contractors have been grifting since the 60s, and similar to piece of poo poo pig motherfuckers, any attempt at accountability is fought from top to bottom with accusations of the people who want to hold them accountable lacking patriotism or wanting the terrorists/communists to win.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:31
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