Man whose finances are reliant on scheme really wishes you'd all stop talking about downsides of scheme, more at 11

I do it because groceries are expensive and I like to try and pick bits of food off people's teeth with my tongue. You'd be surprised at how much food is in there sometimes! Found a whole popcorn kernel in my boyfriend's mouth just yesterday.

There's two layers here. It's a normal double entendre. That's basically just a regular joke. It's a fine joke, I'm not saying it's a bad joke, it's just not some labyrinthine, multi-layered, super complex joke that you have to unpick piece by piece.

He's just calling Vance gay with a pun.

The two "layers" are the pun on beards getting whiter.

The KKK thing is just a separate observation.

That would be a short skyscraper.

It feels like there's been a bit of an influx of posts lately that seem oriented towards stirring up a divide between primarily cis men and cis women. It's weird.

Cyberpunk is absolutely full of loading screens, they're just not ONLY in the elevators. Part of the reason they're saying the engine is a miracle is because of the way it loads.

Basically, if you have a webcam, the game tracks your eyes and every time you're not looking at the screen (e.g. you're distracted, you blink, etc.), the game quickly flashes to a loading state and loads of bunch of assets in.

The real smart stuff comes when you don't have a webcam though! The engine figures out where in the world your pc/console is, and then uses a bunch of meteorological data from that region to calculate how often you'll need to blink, on average. For instance, it'll work out how dry or humid the air is, and whether there's a high pollen count. It'll figure out how hot your machine is running, and use that to estimate whether you're in a dusty home or not.

It really is a technological marvel. That's why it was so buggy on release for a lot of players; the loading hadn't been fine tuned yet so it was just going haywire and loading all the time.

Shouldn't MAGA be focused on like, America? I don't even think most Brits give a fuck what this big eared cunt said.

I used to fully fully 100% agree with this. I'm not a computer science guy but I am a web developer and have been for a decade.

I've finally run into a new, third problem: managers who get angry as soon as they're confused, but refuse to learn basics. My project manager is a fucking nightmare to deal with. The moment, and I mean the first sign that she's not 100% totally understanding what's being discussed, she shuts down, gets dismissive and short, and refuses to hear anything further.

Tech has a problem communicating out, but I've never had this before. I try to take it slow but not too slow (she's an adult and not stupid), I've tried illustrating just to help her visualise, I've tried screensharing, I've tried metaphor, I've tried leaving unimportant details out, I've tried leaving important details out, I've tried giving very brief summaries instead of talking things through in any detail, I've tried saying "ok, no problem, which bit isn't making sense here?", I've tried saying "don't shoot the messenger", I've tried so many different approaches and it's just...

One of our clients has a server that they upload CSVs to. We built a plugin for their site that automatically fetches those CSVs, pulls the data from them into a DB, and populates stuff on the website. Going forwards, internal restructuring at our client company means that they'll be using the server for normal file transfers between them and our design team.

Their IT team do consider security important, so they've locked down FTP access to their server by IP. Our web server is whitelisted, our office IP and home IPs are not.

I emailed their head of IT the other day to ask about whitelisting our office IP, and asked the head of our design team if he wanted me to ask for their home IPs to be whitelisted.

Manager overhears and asks why we don't already have access. I explain that they haven't whitelisted our IPs because we've never had to FTP to their server like this before. She says that we have, because of our plugin. This is true, so I agree and explain that our server has been whitelisted, but not our office/home IPs. She asks how we connect to their server now, already a little bit angry. I explain that our server FTPs to the client server, and can do that because it's been whitelisted, whereas we don't connect from our laptops.

She's now actually angry. She says "literally everywhere else I've ever worked, you just FTP from your computer to the server." so I say we haven't had to do that before with this client. I say "it's not a problem, I'll just get him to whitelist our IPs and all good!"

She turns her back to go back to her desk, saying she doesn't understand why I have to make things so complicated and that I should be making things simple.

I would say there's between five and fifteen of these interactions every single week. I'm not the most socially skilled man, I know that. I've never had this issue before, though. Like, ever. I've worked hard in previous companies to get our web development teams to talk to and understand the marketing team, and vice versa. I've organised team lunches, or nights out after work (I know it sounds like hell but I promise they weren't). In one company, I even asked my boss if I could move my desk into the marketing office for a couple of weeks in an effort to bridge the gap (it was really bad at that place). I've asked project managers to embed into the web development team before to help build that social gelling that helps with work. It's been fine, genuinely.

I'm not skilled socially. I'm annoying, I get that. But this is mad.

Anyway sorry I just wanted to vent. I don't have anyone to whine and moan about this stuff to, really. Merry Christmas all who are reading! 🎄

What's up with that weird answer? These creeps never give a straight answer when you ask them direct questions. If that person just wants to be edgy and thinks it's funny... Well, maybe they're a dumb, poorly socialised teenager. Cos it's not funny. It's not even a joke, really, is it? What's the joke? That they're not actually Hitler?

The halo and angel wings on the pfp take this to another level imo.

Guess the bank account was looking a bit empty 🤷‍♂️

The kind that only lower class minorities work? /s in case it wasn't obvious

While I think these apps are exploitative on both sides (exploiting laziness/convenience and exploiting workers), I think implying that people who use delivery services are racist, classist, or both, is a very "internet" thing to do.

Perhaps it would be healthy if OP went outside for Christmas. A little walk in the real world, as opposed to Lemmy or Twitter or Bluesky, might help rebalance things.

Even the smallest size is over 400ml? How are Americans not constantly dying for a piss and feeling bloated as hell?