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abolitionist except for her specifically e: Moses is said to have died at 120 years old Nuclear Spoon fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 19:34
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serious gaylord posted:I dunno about you guys but ive never had a twitter meltdown feature as the top story on the bbc news. I like when I go to the bbc.co.uk site and for 2 seconds it shows all the insane stupid bullshit headlines before I get redirected to bbc.com which shows actual news
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Apr 1, 2024 19:36
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Failed Imagineer posted:I like when I go to the bbc.co.uk site and for 2 seconds it shows all the insane stupid bullshit headlines before I get redirected to bbc.com which shows actual news lol I hate that as it catches me off guard most of the time. Don't think any other site does it, or they probably have better website coding to do it before they show you the page.
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Apr 1, 2024 19:42
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My address bar autocompletes to "guardian.co.uk" which they now redirect to "theguardian.com" "We're an international news organisation, not some backwater national rag" [Australian office yells at them for being transphobes] "No not like that"
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Apr 1, 2024 19:49
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This is my chair: this 100% lines up with your posting vibe which i do not mean in a denigrating fashion
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Apr 1, 2024 20:32
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Apparently Agile has failed & Scrum Masters are being laid off. From experience - no, all that tends to happen is the agile people disappear for a couple months, eventually an exec goes "maybe we just didn't do it right" and hires an agile consultant for a while for an outrageous amount, they come in and the productivity disturbance workcycle begins anew.
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Apr 1, 2024 20:34
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Failed Imagineer posted:I like when I go to the bbc.co.uk site and for 2 seconds it shows all the insane stupid bullshit headlines before I get redirected to bbc.com which shows actual news Mate it's still top 3 on the news site too
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Apr 1, 2024 20:35
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My office chair cost around £30 from Argos about 8 years ago. The padding on the seat started to get a bit flat during lockdown so I bought a foam cushion off Amazon for a tenner.
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Apr 1, 2024 20:39
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Failed Imagineer posted:I like when I go to the bbc.co.uk site and for 2 seconds it shows all the insane stupid bullshit headlines before I get redirected to bbc.com which shows actual news Hey, just checked this and it does the opposite for me! Every time I try to go to BBC.com, it snatches me away to BBC.co.uk! What if I WANT the .com site?
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Apr 1, 2024 20:47
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Pistol_Pete posted:Hey, just checked this and it does the opposite for me! Every time I try to go to BBC.com, it snatches me away to BBC.co.uk! What if I WANT the .com site? Mine does what yours does.
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Apr 1, 2024 20:51
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Agile is fine, explicitly going for a methodology and trying to fit what your business does to that methodology isn’t. The main thing to get to it is a way to optimise delivery and quality and being nimble in the face of unexpected obstacles. Business agility is never really seen as a component of the whole agile side of things with them not wanting to change especially with larger companies - this is where things usually fully gently caress up. The big problem with any agile project is it not being business led and not having enough time for the business to pop along, poke things, talk about what they want. Security is usually seen as an obstacle as well with pesky laws as well and that can cause people doing agile to break. Anyway, whatever people want to suggest as a way to do things prescribed as the amazing fix by a business consultant unless people want to change they won’t. This is why we need to be pushing therapists to CMOs.
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Apr 1, 2024 20:51
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Yep, absolutely, couldn't agree more
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Apr 1, 2024 20:55
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what's wrong with good proper british project management techniques like PRINCE2, don't need this "agile"
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Apr 1, 2024 21:01
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Starbucks posted:
Yes, as a former Six Sigma Black Belt (a considerable number of moons ago), the higher ups have their 'gut feels'. So we show them with data that their guts are wrong (politely worded) and the data shows where the problem lies - somewhere completely different - they don't like that so they ignore it, and continue to pound on the heads of front line operational staff who are in no position to improve matters, because guess what, some SPENDING is needed on infrastructure improvement. I just got that "This thread has a long post timeout. At {time} you will be able to post again in slow threads in this forum." message! Never seen that before! I think I had the Agility Badge when I was a Girl Guide.
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Apr 1, 2024 21:01
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yeah can we get the timeout removed pls? it's seriously impeding my shitposting here 
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Apr 1, 2024 21:07
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Bozza posted:what's wrong with good proper british project management techniques like PRINCE2, don't need this "agile"
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Apr 1, 2024 21:09
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/01/ministers-face-tory-revolt-over-plans-to-criminalise-rough-sleepingquote:
There's a much simpler solution, and that's to provide homeless people with a home, but I guess there's no performative cruelty with that option. I guess I'd better read up and find out what else is in this crime bill....
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Apr 1, 2024 21:12
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homeless person I am fining you 2.5k, please provide me with an address
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Apr 1, 2024 21:26
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Pistol_Pete posted:Hey, just checked this and it does the opposite for me! Every time I try to go to BBC.com, it snatches me away to BBC.co.uk! What if I WANT the .com site? Exactly the same for me.
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Apr 1, 2024 21:27
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Pistol_Pete posted:Hey, just checked this and it does the opposite for me! Every time I try to go to BBC.com, it snatches me away to BBC.co.uk! What if I WANT the .com site? be abroad (do not tell the harry potter lady)
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Apr 1, 2024 21:37
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Pistol_Pete posted:Hey, just checked this and it does the opposite for me! Every time I try to go to BBC.com, it snatches me away to BBC.co.uk! What if I WANT the .com site? Have you tried not being in the UK? serious gaylord posted:Mate it's still top 3 on the news site too Sounds like you're in the UK
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Apr 1, 2024 21:37
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Failed Imagineer posted:Have you tried not being in the UK? UK immigration office posting hours.
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Apr 1, 2024 21:52
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/01/ministers-face-tory-revolt-over-plans-to-criminalise-rough-sleeping The UK has privately run prisons, so there's your answer, someone has shares in something and they need more prisoners.
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Apr 1, 2024 22:13
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They could run housing the same way, it's much cheaper to run a place that feeds and houses you but you don't need to keep people from leaving than one where you do. There'd be a lot of problems with that, but nowhere near as many than with bringing back vagrancy laws.
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Apr 1, 2024 22:20
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https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1774912680173650390 a British national has been killed in Gaza while working for the World Kitchen aid agency in Deir el Balah when a vehicle was bombed by the IDF https://www.aljazeera.net/news/live...%88%D8%B3%D8%B7 e: for ticker translation Aljazeera posted:الإعلام الحكومي بغزة: الاحتلال اغتال فريقا أجنبيا kecske fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 22:51
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now they'll need to take this seriously
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Apr 1, 2024 23:03
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Well, I'd like to see ol' Plucky Israel wriggle its way out of THIS jam! *Israel wriggles its way out of the jam easily* Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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Apr 1, 2024 23:10
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Microplastics posted:Well, I'd like to see ol' Plucky Israel wriggle its way out of THIS jam! 
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Apr 1, 2024 23:21
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again jk rowling and the media coverage of her is just depressing. like, you don't have to be a full-blown brick-throwing trans activist to see her twitter thread's a load of poo poo, right? here are four trans people who have committed actual crimes, one of whom isn't even from scotland i guess she thought three wasn't enough. also here are six other trans women i've had spats with on twitter that i'm totally not implying are basically the same, no siree. i'm just asking questions. like, it can't be a wild and radical position to say this person is in fact rather transphobic? im in tiny train world
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Apr 1, 2024 23:24
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Angepain posted:again jk rowling and the media coverage of her is just depressing. like, you don't have to be a full-blown brick-throwing trans activist to see her twitter thread's a load of poo poo, right? here are four trans people who have committed actual crimes, one of whom isn't even from scotland i guess she thought three wasn't enough. also here are six other trans women i've had spats with on twitter that i'm totally not implying are basically the same, no siree. i'm just asking questions. like, it can't be a wild and radical position to say this person is in fact rather transphobic? im in tiny train world i dunno what the media coverage is like. But she is quite clearly full glinner unhinged. Maybe worse. If someone on the alleged left pulled up 4 cases of an asylum seeker or something doing a bad thing and was like well... and then listed some other asylum seekers? how would that go? The new law is rubbish but they should send her to prison anyway
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Apr 1, 2024 23:58
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Angepain posted:again jk rowling and the media coverage of her is just depressing. like, you don't have to be a full-blown brick-throwing trans activist to see her twitter thread's a load of poo poo, right? here are four trans people who have committed actual crimes, one of whom isn't even from scotland i guess she thought three wasn't enough. also here are six other trans women i've had spats with on twitter that i'm totally not implying are basically the same, no siree. i'm just asking questions. like, it can't be a wild and radical position to say this person is in fact rather transphobic? im in tiny train world If people actually listened to half the poo poo public figures say they'd probably think they were dogshit people but unfortunately plenty of people get to hide behind media presentation and refusal to outright call them a piece of poo poo, as well as the unwillingness of a lot of people to think that people they are predisposed to like for some reason are actually pieces of poo poo. The people in power aren't going to acknowledge that she's a turd in a human skin suit because she's "a british cultural icon" or whatever even if they didn't agree with her, and a shitload of other people just won't conscience the idea that the author of the media franchise they're excessively attached to might be a monumental twat. Like yeah if you're a normal person you'd think she was a raving shithead but unfortunately there's consistently a refusal to acknowledge normal observable reality in the media because it's not an obligate reflection of reality, it's a fabrication loosely based on reality but filtered through whatever lens is useful to the established power structure. They're also just... extremely unwilling to make value judgements in a lot of cases if they think doing so is going to alienate some section of the audience. Like they're not gonna say the IDF are a bunch of murderous bastards hellbent on killing everyone they see, they're not gonna say the tories have been in power for 14 years and everything's gotten worse in every way and their approach to government has failed everywhere it's been tried, and they're not gonna say that JKR is clearly a deranged bigot who spends all her time screaming at people on twitter to try and feel like she's doing something important with her life rather than just rotting in her castle with infinite money. There's just a bunch of stuff the media just won't say despite it being blindingly obvious. And yeah it's really annoying sometimes, it can feel like you're crackers for seeing it when the supposed guardians of truth and factuality refuse to acknowledge it. But it's them, not you. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Apr 2, 2024 00:12
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crispix posted:yeah can we get the timeout removed pls? I meant to run it for a shorter time (just long enough to notice) as a lame April Fools thing and then forgot to pull it, sorry Got it a bit ago
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Apr 2, 2024 00:19
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Pistol_Pete posted:I get the concept that some chairs are nicer than others but I'm struggling to see how a £1000 office chair can (presumably) be 10 times nicer than a £100 office chair. We've had chair technology for millennia, what does the posh chair 'do' that makes it worth £1000? I realise this has already been talked about a fair bit, but anyway... Two things mainly: Expensive chairs have way more adjustments than cheaper ones. They are (generally speaking), built to last. If you spend a lot of time in your chair (8+ hours a day) you can really benefit from getting a better chair. In particular you can look for a "24 hour chair" which just means they're designed to be comfortable enough to sit in for 24 hours at a time - which is mostly achieved by having lots of adjustments you can make to them. I've had a Humanscale Freedom chair with headrest for the last ~10 years that I got from 2ndhnd.com for £150, back when it still existed. https://ca.humanscale.com/products/seating/freedom-task-office-chair If I couldn't find another used one for cheap and this one broke, I would pay £1000 for a new one. Compared to a ~£200 (new) one it is significantly more comfortable. The way the tilt works (leaning back) is unique - the back tilts separately from the seat but also it causes the seat to move a tiny bit, and the headrest to effectively move forward and tilt your head up so you can stay looking at your screen. There are animations/vids on the humanscale website I posted above if you want to know what I'm talking about - about halfway down the page, where it says "Dynamic headrest". The tilt function works simply by leaning back into the chair. I spend a good deal of my time in the chair leaning back at about a 35° angle since it's really comfortable in that position and gives good back support. The padding is better quality than a cheapo chair. I can adjust the back height, seat depth, arm rests up/down, seat height, headrest height and tilt tension. Because I'm able to adjust all that stuff, I have it dialed in to fit me pretty much exactly. It took a couple of weeks of making small adjustments to get there but now it's right for me I don't have to mess with it. Since I got it, my back/shoulder/neck pain issues from prolonged computer use have basically disappeared. I cannot recommend this chair enough. We got them for 6 people in the office I used to work in, and not one person disliked them. I just checked on Reyooz and they currently have ~70 in-stock of the non-headrest version for £125, which is an absolute steal. I checked for delivery and IDK how much it varies by where you are in the country but it was gonna be £20 to near where I used to live in Milton Keynes. Plus they have a discount of 20% off for your first order on, so it would work out to like £136 or something as the total delivered price: https://www.reyooz.com/products/humanscale-freedom-office-chair-with-coat-hanger-37564
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Apr 2, 2024 05:52
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/01/ministers-face-tory-revolt-over-plans-to-criminalise-rough-sleeping So the three solutions are: imprison people, despite there being an historically high prison population and historically low space for them, fine people, despite the fact that being homeless tends to mean you don’t have very much money to pay fines, or move people on, which just shifts the “problem” from one location to another, with the added frisson of depriving someone of what little sleep they might have been able to grab. I know the cruelty is the point, but loving hell
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Apr 2, 2024 07:37
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That's tempting, but I also like headrests... I wonder how much of a difference it makes.
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Apr 2, 2024 07:40
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Goons sit down way too much, drat
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Apr 2, 2024 08:03
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Yeah lie down instead like us real slobs
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Apr 2, 2024 08:16
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Just imagined typing an email while lying down and my carpals started throbbing
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Apr 2, 2024 08:34
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I want to get a standing desk/walking treadmill set up like Linus Torvolds.
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Scientastic posted:So the three solutions are: imprison people, despite there being an historically high prison population and historically low space for them, fine people, despite the fact that being homeless tends to mean you don’t have very much money to pay fines, or move people on, which just shifts the “problem” from one location to another, with the added frisson of depriving someone of what little sleep they might have been able to grab. I’m sure people in this thread have read Orwell’s “Down and Out in London and Paris” which explains in revolting detail how the homeless and poor were treated in this country around this time last century. This is simply a return to good old pre WW2 British values Edit : The other big takeaway is that if you were poor in Paris you just got pissed on fairly decent red wine, whereas in England the best you could hope for was a cup of weak tea and some toast smellmycheese fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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