‘Talking with partners who do not share our democratic values does not mean abandoning them’

Yeah, and I only allow peeing in one corner of the pool.

I don’t think those are the kind of games we talk about here.

Oh fuck yeah. That’s what I’m talking about!

Aww man. You can’t just promise me pizza and not deliver!

I’m surprised. I would have guessed that music would be one field that the suits wouldn’t pay too much attention as long as it didn’t sound like garbage at the end of the day.

#1 mobile data only. No wifi.

It blows my mind that anyone would connect a personal device to their employer’s Wifi.

Keep an unfinished task on hand that you can pick up at a seconds notice.

Wait. Are you telling me that it’s not normal to constantly have 5 unfinished tasks at any given time?

Make yourself irreplaceable. That’s what I did.

I’m working on that now. When I started, they made me one of five admins on their scheduling software. The other four have since left the organization, and I’m not going out of my way to teach the users any more than they absolutely need. 😂

Every adult I’ve known to be homeschooled is weird as hell.

Don’t get me wrong, I personally love weird people, but I was usually their only friend, because our coworkers would just avoid anyone who didn’t fit in with the norm.

I’m not advocating that everyone conform to the norm and change who they are, but if you don’t know how to blend in when needed, you’re going to have a rough time.

I’ve only bought cheap TVs, because that’s what was available to me.

A year or so ago I got a big Samsung at an estate auction. It’s older than all my other TVs, but much better than all of them.

There may be higher quality or better value brands, but I can confirm that Samsung makes a nice TV.

It might be because it wasn’t linked to an email.

I haven’t really used mine in years, but it still signs me in when I need to pop in there to look something up.

I was thinking of network television.

I do love those paid promotion tags. Lets me know to just keep scrolling.

I think it was trial and error. When people tried Mario 64 for the first time, it was VERY challenging because we’d never really done it before. It didn’t take long to get the hang of it, but I remember myself and others just spinning around in circles at the Walmart demo unit because we had no ideas how to navigate in 3 dimensions.

Unless the gecko consents.

Is possible that they do, but it’s so subtle that you don’t notice.

We’ve learned to identify and resist ads, so at this point, the most effective ads are the ones we don’t recognize.

I might be wrong, but I was under the assumption that Lemmy doesn’t stop them from replying. There was a recent conversation complaining because blocking people didn’t silence them.

If you want to test it, feel free to reply and block me, I’ll see if I can keep the conversation going. Unblock later tonight to see if it worked.

I guess Reddit does it that way, but I try not to think about that place anymore.

I don’t know about this “winning” theory.

Generally, people feel like they’ve won when they get the last word in. If you block someone, you don’t see their replies and assuming they do reply to your last comment, they would get the last word.

Personally, I block people when I realize there’s no point in continuing the conversation. I’m not trying to win an argument, I’m just over it and don’t want to interact with their toxicity.

Two shrubberies?!? Couldn’t I just cut down a tree with a herring or something?

I see what you did there.

This is nonsense.

Yeah, I’m a longtime Borderlands fan who follows what’s going on with the franchise, and Randy just acts like a child who inherited a video game company. He usually says this dumb shit with a smile on his face, so I think he’s intending it to be in good fun, but it just does not come across that way.