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Titus

‘office/M365 tutor for geriatrics’

Compared to actual title

“Director of Information Systems”

Every day makes me understand Marvin from HHGTTG more and more.

In which way am I complaining? I am explaining why calling a valid solution a bandaid might be construed as belittling their very real knowledge of this process. And how that is a regular pattern in a lot technical fields.

And don’t give me this shit about ‘I’m not the person you were talking to’ This is an open forum not a direct/private message.

You can’t expect people who are knowledgeable about this stuff to just forever accept that someone asks for advice, gets told the solution, and then ignores/belittles the person with knowledge.

This is our daily life experience. We get hired to be experts, and get told by non-experts that our solutions are not tenable every single day. Only for that solution to eventually be accepted when the user in question figures out their idea was not useful and the expert was correct.

We have to put up with it at work, we are not obliged to accept it here.

That the folks in IT have any sway over microsoft or facebook’s ui plans.

NO Karen, I can not make Teams go back to the way it used to be. No matter how many times you ask.

Check out who runs CNN now and all will become apparent.

Taking weed to BC (Canada)

The periphery of small towns covered in makeshift tents and shanty style campers would disagree with your statement.

These encampments used to be for seasonal workers passing through. But more and more become year-round all the time.

You are certainly correct about the bulk of homeless making their way towards the cities, but there are a growing number of those who don’t.

Everything you say is misconstrued through some lens over which you have no control.

example:

Me: Hey do you want to go for a walk when you are done what you are working on?

Them: Why are you always so critical of how long things take?

Me: What. The. Fuck?

Thanks. I won’t tell them or it’ll just go to their head.

I know a single data point is pretty worthless. But here is our most recent experience.

When we suddenly lost one of our 5 year old brother cats, the one who was still with us got lethargic and very obviously wasn’t himself. We waited about 2 months then brought two rescue kittens home about a week apart, and did a fairly relaxed intro for each before bringing in the next.

He hissed at both of them for the first 5 minutes when physical contact was allowed but otherwise he left them alone for a few days each.

Within a week they were sleeping together. Now they can often all three be found in a big furpile licking each other and he is back to his playful self. We considered not getting another friend for him. But we are so very happy we did.

Cat Tax: Batman (The older brother) is on the bottom left, Eddie Vedder Allen Poe is the one sitting up, and Skeeter can be seen squinting on the right as she always does when she is in her happy place.

The Taxpayers - Go Fetch a Priest

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3NAbXIGkUhg

I have never had a comment make me feel this old.

-Signed, an old man who used to publish zines in the early 90s.

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For me it is the wholesale - “Everyone can do this, it is a moral failing on your part that you aren’t already vegan” that irks me.

I have a combination of diseases that mean I could never go vegan, but every single time I have interacted with a vegan online they take the stance that I am lying/wrong and just justifying my choices. Well - My choice is to not die of malnutrition while being tied to a toilet 24/7.

Like yes, random internet vegan - You certainly know my dietary needs better than my doctor and I do…

This is not evidence that the term is a slur.

This is the definitions of words which most everyone in this thread certainly already knew, strung together with your opinion that they are connected.

While this has been somewhat entertaining, I don’t think I’ll continue to feed your delusions any further.

I will not be replying again. Goodbye.

Care to provide any of that? Because so far all I have seen is your opinion, and a bunch of people disagreeing.

It sure seems like you’re in here trying to enforce your personal opinion that the word people are using is a slur.

You don’t get to decide what is a slur. Go away.

I’m not sure about how accurate it is, but I read something a while back about it being the opposite in canada. You don’t spend more on smokers because they don’t live long enough to get to the really expensive part.

This is just a foggy memory so I’m definitely open to being corrected.