Hello. How are you all enjoying the opening stages of the collapse? Are you prepping more? Are you becoming more based? Are you buying ammunition and practicing with deadly weapons? Are you becoming physically stronger in order to make sure you will be able to consume the flesh of liberals when the time comes?
Good, good. Here are the links.
‘Worst AI ever’ loves to make ‘unspeakably horrible’ racist posts and troll online
Another AI researcher, Arthur Holland Michel, told Motherboard “Building a system capable of creating unspeakably horrible content, using it to churn out tens of thousands of mostly toxic posts on a real message board, and then releasing it to the world so that anybody else can do the same, it just seemsâI don’t knowânot right.”
Remember how funny racism is? Racist robots are even funnier. As the kids these days say: kek.
Missouri woman says she caught STD in car. Auto insurance to pay out $5.2 million.
The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed that an insurance company must pay a $5.2 million settlement granted to a Jackson County woman who claimed she unwittingly caught a sexually transmitted disease from her former romantic partner in his car.
Good for her. Get on that sigma female passive income stream grindset.
Armed suspect arrested by Justice Kavanaugh home identified
Roske told detectives that “he was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to an abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas,” and believed Kavanaugh “would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,” according to the affidavit.
“Kavan-awww, man, you foiled my plot to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh!”
No male historical figure or event involving men or manly grouping is safe from queering, whether weâre talking about Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great, the Spartan last stand at Thermopylae, cowboys, pirates, gang members, or even the simplest masculine pleasures and pastimes. Someone, somewhere, whether they are a tenured academic or an armchair psychologist, will always be ready to tell you that the Spartans fought to the last man because they were all gay lovers; that great historical figure X was driven to make his vast conquests by a repressed desire for a male schoolfriend; or that Brazilian jiu-jitsu is just barely disguised dry humping. Checkmate, bigots!
…It’s not? Bro, I got a BJJ purple belt that says otherwise.
Overeating isnât fueling obesity, itâs too many carbohydrates in our diet, researchers say
Ludwig, an endocrinologist and professor of pediatrics and nutrition at Harvard Medical School, argues for the “carbohydrate-insulin model” of obesity.
The pancreas produces a hormone called insulin to control the amount of sugar, or glucose, in our bloodstream where it works like a “key” to help glucose enters cells in our body, according to Healthline.
Ludwig suggests our way of thinking in regard to weight loss is backwards.
“Given the choice between bread and butter, for years we focused on getting rid of the butter,” said Ludwig.
“But maybe between the two, the bread is the bigger issue.”
WHAT HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS??? The audacity of science, to pretend they’re not just discovering what broscience knew 20 years ago or more. Maybe in another 15 years they’ll look at what polyunsaturated fatty acids do.
As a candidate, Boudin emphasized his personal story as a child of incarcerated radical parents, while also leaning into national fury after three years of Trump, and a decades-long effort to make criminal justice reform a central plank for the Democratic party. He managed to overcome built-in skepticism about his parentsâ background in the Weather Underground, clinching 36% of first-choice votes.
“Are you becoming more based?”
I don’t think that could be possible. Also, no one says that anymore.
“As the kids these days say: kek.”
No one says that anymore either.
*Dispatches assassins*
top kek
Based KEK
KEK-FEFE
Side kek
golf clap
But Warty just said both of those things. Just now.
Warty does not care about puny timeline or what is fashionable when.
He’s awfully big for a kid.
Says the “thicc” dude.
That’s just common usage. I’m sure there a linguist here who could explain it thoroughly.
Based.
Olde kiddes.
But those that do all belong to us?
People still say that. Not as much as they used too, but I still see it frequently.
Racist robots rule. Try as they might, they can’t stop AI from noticing things because AI is specifically designed to notice things.
Well they trained it on 4chan, so results are unsurprising. I still think racist AI giving researchers the vapors is one of the rare delights of our modern age.
The Microsoft one that went bonkers was pretty funny.
Hell, data mining for factors on who to give car loans for?
Turns out, data mining is racist as fuck.
https://imgur.com/a/iBnbW
Did its robot hand form an OK sign?
I can hear insurers frantically rewriting their contract terms from here.
From my comment below. Intentional acts are generally already excluded.
Wondering if that was consider collision or comprehensive?
I suppose it depends on the motion of the vehicle.
rocking?
WHAT HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS???
Uhm, if you don’t want to be a fat fuck, stop eating fat fuck foods?
Give this man a heart-healthy whole grain cookie made with canola oil!
AND BY CANOLA, MEAN…
WHAT HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS???
I don’t know. I haven’t been listening.
Just as we’re hearing about grain shortages due to Ukraine, they finally admit carbs are unhealthy.
* dons tinfoil hat *
LOL, good point
And not tinfoil hatty at all.
The tinfoil hatters look cleverer and cleverer each passing year.
I would bet money this will eventually end up as a Biden talking point.
lol imagine not being an insane right-wing conspiracy theorist by now
A friend shared this with me when I said conspiracy theories are just movie trailers.
lol
There are a lot of fatties around here who will greatly benefit from the new mandatory Atkins / Keto diet.
Myself included. Take away my bourbon though, and somebody is getting sat on until they stop breathing.
When your software provider can’t understand the scripting code they wrote, it’s not a good sign.
Code should, of course, be documented with copious comments explaining what each variable is, what each subroutine does, etc. I wonder if the person who wrote the code is no longer there.
You’ve clearly never been a short-term consultant. I swear they’re incentivized to obfuscate.
How else would they be hired back to fix what’s broken in their scripts?
There was a some DOD project to code a battle simulation software, where the coders were paid by the line.
There was a LOT comments in that code.
Like C&P a whole instruction manual on writing Java.
https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Write%20Minivan
/looks at the As Built documents provided by a vendor
/looks at items that don’t match up in the environment
/asks vendor about them
/vendor sends over a new As Built document with no mention of the changes
Overseas developers love to pull stunts like that too.
One team we used for a mobile app hard coded bus routes into the app. That was bad enough, but then they wanted to not only bill us for the change to the code, but also for managing the process of getting the “revised” app through the Apple store approval process.
Things did not go well. I think they were genuinely surprised that two white guys would be so unwoke as to call them “crooks” to their faces.
I used to do a bit of Perl programming to parse some data for personal use, and I’d comment out all the braces that opened and closed if/then/else statements so I’d know they matched.
LUXURY!
This code is obviously written using a very flexible declarations format that allows quick and easy additions to the base. The problem is that it is a real motherfucker to trace and debug because of it. The dude buried JavaScript function declarations in active arrays using PostgreSQL database functions and Iâll be a monkeyâs uncle if I can find where he created and populated the array.
The flexibility of JavaScript strikes again.
The short version is that the code is throwing an error in a live environment but Iâll be damned if I can find the function that generated it. Nor can the provider.
Perl? Nobody can understand after 15 minutes.
“One user, Arnaud Wanet, wrote: “This can be weaponised for political purposes, imagine how easy one can sway an election outcome with this one way or another.””
Which is good why Elon is asking about bots on Twitter, and suspicious how Twitter banned the NPC meme. If this AI researcher can do it, so can the DNC, CCP, etc.
*adjusts hat
They already did.
“A new study suggests that about 10 percent of Twitter’s active accounts are posting ‘spam content’, as disputes over the issue threaten to derail Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the social media company.
London-based data analytics firm GlobalData said in a report on Wednesday that its mathematical model found that spam accounts are roughly double the 5 percent share claimed by Twitter.
Musk has been threatening to walk away from his agreement to buy the company unless Twitter backs up its estimate that false or spam accounts comprise less than 5 percent of its user base.
‘The precise proportion of spam accounts is difficult to compute, as it is almost impossible to confirm the identity of the entity behind a tweet handle,’ said GlobalData senior data scientist Sidharth Kumar.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10897179/At-10-Twitters-active-user-accounts-posting-spam-content-study-finds.html
I say it’s way more than that.
Missouri woman says she caught STD in car. Auto insurance to pay out $5.2 million.
I’m at a loss on multiple levels. Including, but not limited to the limits and intentional acts be uninsurable.
Well, it is Missouri. It’s like the Florida of the midwest.
Not only that. Who has a policy on their car for over 5 million? Best you usually see is a 1 million dollar umbrella policy covering car and other belongings.
“Including, but not limited to the limits” đ
100% agreed!
One of the insurance bigwigs is the passer of STD?
I’m just… flummoxed by the Missouri car story. That the arbitration reached that conclusion and that the courts seem to think whatever lunacy they come up with must be accepted is mind boggling.
Re: The Kavanaugh nut — fully expecting we’re coming into a Summer Of Love again. Joy.
My weight gain is almost certainly eating habits and my metabolism slowing down after 37 or so. I used to be able to eat anything and be thin as a rail — and those habits are hard to break. I’m just working on increasing my exercise habits to compensate….
And migraines suck is the other major thought of the day. Hope y’all have had a better one.
Cleaning up your diet will help with all of that.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4462058/
https://drcate.com/migraine-headache-diet-treatments-vegan-versus-omega-6-omega-3/
I don’t think the migraines are diet related — they’re sinus allergies. And while moving out to the Central Valley of California was great for my mental health (being rural), apparently almond orchards or the crap they use on them don’t agree with me. TL; DR: My body prefers the honest pollen of the South Eastern pines or something. đ
Come on down. There is still some property available for expats of CA.
I still have the house in GA to move back to, so that’s covered. Just don’t want the 35% or so pay cut for moving to a different state and still doing the same WFH job because of “cost of living regional adjustments” and whatnot.
Hey SDF, were in the valley do you live? I was in Merced for three years, and before that Freson for three years.
Good times.
Jebus. Where, not were.
Dr. Cate is terrific.
Everyone should buy her book.
Just fucking do it.
Downloaded that from the library on your rec. Haven’t gotten far yet, but looking forward to learning.
Eat more hot peppers.
Yes, it’s inevitable. The left has been preparing for this day for decades.
Fucking Harvard should be automatically excluded from any discussion on nutrition. At least they got quotes from Volek, who also has been writing about this for decades.
It’s still not the whole story, though. PUFAS, yes, but also hormones. T, thyroid, etc. It all matters. And depending on your tolerance, carbs are not the devil. Shitty carbs are.
I have a suspicion that carbs per se aren’t even much of a problem until the endocrine system gets fucked up from years of being poisoned, too.
100%. Get metabolically squared away and lots of doors open.
Do you do any TRT yet?
Nope, still lifetime natural.
PUFAS, yes,
As opposed to FUPAs.
Roske of Simi Valley, California, was carrying a gun, knife and pepper spray when arrested and had made violent threats against Kavanaugh, sources said. Roske was picked up on a nearby street after calling police on 911 to report himself.
Shades of George Azerodt, who was assigned by John Booth to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson but lost his nerve and got drunk instead. The big difference being, the yankee government hanged Azerodt anyway, where this guy will get the Hinckley treatment for a little while.
And then a show on MSNBC.
Shouldn’t that be considered cruel and unusual punishment?
Only for the viewers.
So he’s they guy who’s going to host the dancing tik-tok trannies?
Why would you report yourself? If you have second thoughts about committing a crime, good, don’t do it, but why turn yourself in for something you haven’t done yet?
Apologies for the slightly early OT. We all know there is a reason why the only entity he seems to have any recourse with is the airline. Mind you I do think the airline could do with some discovery. The rest of the pearl clutching is typical of such suits claiming emotional damages.
Man says he was wrongly jailed for 17 days after American Airlines falsely identified him as a burglary suspect
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-airlines-michael-lowe-arizona-man-wrongly-jailed-lawsuit/
Meh — I think there’s a case there if the airline was really asked to turn over everyone on the flight with a certain description, they only gave the single name and so the arrest warrant was for that person.
Of course, this is what puzzles me:
In our Post-9/11 world — I would expect terminal security to have the robber of the duty-free store trackable through the terminal – and maybe that’s how the police were “able to trace” him. But why would the police need to bug the airline? The whole TSA checkpoint with boarding pass + photo ID should have given them a list of males on the flight that fit the basic pattern (ignoring clothing, which could be changed anyway)… not that I’m a big fan of the TSA, but that data certainly was already gathered.
Weird.
Something isn’t right here. At least one something. I hope he gets a big payout from the airline, and a shame he can’t zero-out the pension funds of some government employees, too.
He shouldn’t have stolen stuff in plane sight.
His terminal mistake?
It was all he could lift.
Bad impulses. Instead of a well planned heist he decided to wing it.
Hopefully he has a soft landing.
He figured the goods would help his retirement landing.
Thank you for posting one of Dave Mustaine’s many raised middle fingers to Metallica.
The Four Horsemen is a better song though.
Spend enough money in the studio, and version two will always sound better.
Who was more irritating to work with, blackout drunk junkie Dave Mustaine, or born-again Dave Mustaine? One man knows the answer.
Ok, but version 2 is better than version 3?
OT – *grumble*
Now I’ve got to come up with a solution.
Problem – I’ve got a subscription to plastic crack that gets delivered to my house monthly. They ship on the 8th of the month, and arrive days later. Come September, that would land on my doorstep when I’m out of town for several more weeks to attend the Honey Harvest. The company that provides the subscription service has no option to delay a delivery (only cancel the whole damn thing and restart at issue 1). In fact if not for products already delivered I’d take the extraordinarilly barebones site as a scam. Instead of a well-known carrier, they use a delivery company whose website is not exactly customer friendly, and they do not appear to have a ‘delay delivery’ option. They don’t even have a means to contact them besides a phone number. It’s enough to make me doubt the actual degree of customer service I’d get, as the whole vibe of the page is geared towards the people sending the packages instead of the recipients. (Reading the wiki page for them doesn’t give me much faith in them either)
My fallback option seems to be to find an actual human in the area to collect the box from my doorstep for me. I hate asking people for favors, it makes me feel like I’ve failed at planning. It doesn’t help that the number of people I’ve told where my house is is rather small.
I guess you can’t trust any of the orphans out of the mines long enough — they might make a break for it.
Afraid so.
Any chance of being able to update the address to ship to somewhere else you could pick it up? Say the office?
The office would not work. Personal mail is not accepted.
I did contemplate that possibility, but I haven’t come up with a suitable substitute spot.
And I don’t know if an address change would take, but that’s just be being suspicious of their website.
Your destination, assuming it would likely arrive before you’ve left to return home?
ShadyCarrier(TM) doesn’t deliver to anything west of Ohio.
USPS will hold mail.
That said most merchants don’t use them.
If it were via USPS, UPS, or FedEx, I could get it held. None of them are the carrier.
Fuck Lasership.
I know this is a totally un-Glib solution, but do you know any of your neighbors well enough to have them grab and hold it, or at least throw it over the fence into your back yard (presuming fence and yard)?
I have no fence, no yard, and the nighbors rotate out regularly, so I never know them.
I suspect I have two options, pester someone to pick it up, or have it shipped to my mother’s, 110 miles away.
Is there a resident manager? Make them earn their keep.
I’m not sure what a Resident Manager is. I’m a homeowner, I manage the property. I just don’t have a lawn.
When someone makes a good faith suggestion, the shtick gets old.
I honestly haven’t heard of the term.
I was guessing it might be a position related to apartment complexes and condo units and my earlier response might have been interpreted as my living on one of those.
It’s like Resident Evil, only more managerial. [showboats off stage]
When my neighbors ask me to pick up a package, I don’t think they have failed to plan. I just think they want to be sure the package doesn’t disappear. You’re way, waaay over thinking this.
Or email the company, explain you’re a fan of the product, and ask if they can help you out.
I am overthinking this. I overthink everything.
Perhaps you can pay a small fee to have the package forwarded to Fourscore’s house.
P.O. Box?
One thing I found out about PO Boxes is that only USPS can deliver to them. Other carriers go “LoL, nope”.
(I was kinda surprised when I stumbled onto that).
UPS store?
?
I’d have to investigate whether they accept shipments from other carriers, and whether lasership will deliver there.
The advantage of a UPS store is that they provide a real street address. Everything gets dropped at a real street address by everybody. For all Lasership knows, it’s a house.
UPS has forwarding services too.
The disadvantage, which is why I have a PO Box, is that UPS is hella expensive. I do not know if they require a certain term lease or what, but you if they do, get a box for a month, change your address with your vendor, have UPS take possession of the package, change it all back when you return and cancel your UPS box.
^This.
I don’t know about UPS specifically, but there are privately owned mail stores. You rent a box there, and they hold your packages. I would be extremely surprised if there isn’t one near you. Look for shops that offer packing or shipping services.
Lasership should ship there. It’s just a regular address so you don’t have any of the P.O. box issues. I used to rent a box at one of these places so that I had a non-personal address to use for registering websites (rather than paying the privacy fee… I use dreamhost now). I think I paid 20 dollars/month.
Or, you could ask Adahn.
NOT!
He is on the short list of people who might be able to find my house from information provided.
I’ll stop by and pick them up. What’s your address? and when are you going to be gone, if you hide a key under a rock by the door I can just put them inside for you.
I hate asking people for favors, it makes me feel like Iâve failed at planning.
Then don’t ask for a favor, offer to pay someone to go pick it up and hold it for you. Then it’s all part of the plan. đ
Or if it’s not valuable enough to do that, take the chance that it will still be on your porch when you get home from your trip.
Thinking along that last thought, can you request the drop off be at a back door/patio that’s away from regular street traffic?
I’m afraid not. One of the reasons my house was so cheap (relatively speaking) is that it has a disadvantageous lot.
“‘Your political survival is totally insignificant compared to the survival of our children’: Nancy Pelosi brings eight gun bills to the House floor that would raise minimum purchasing age for semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 and ban large-capacity magazines”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10897405/Nancy-Pelosi-brings-eight-gun-bills-House-floor-today.html
I’m sure that went over well.
Just like the old political war cry of “we must protect our white women”!
Orange (jump) suits are the “color of gun violence victims”? Really? Did they think that one through?
And
Screw off you old lying hag. You know that’s bullcrap as you wave the bloody shirt to try to ram your agenda down everyone’s throats. Disgusting.
Pretty sure automobile accidents still beats deaths by firearm in any given year. And if you want to talk cumulative history (“have died”) I suspect that disease may rule the roost; even though population shrinks radically as you go back in time, infant/child mortality was huge.
Some numbers for you from 2016
Injuries (60%) Car accidents (20%) Firearms (15%).
And roughly half those firearm deaths were suicide. I’m sure those would have been 100% stopped if there were no evil guns.
I’m also suspicious that the homicide half of the number would be mostly teen gang bangers killing each other.
It is also interesting that there were only 20K child deaths in our country in 2016. That seems far lower than I would have suspected.
A response to Congress worth reading.
Sigh… screwed that up somehow.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/06/08/dem-gun-control-policies-didnt-save-this-womans-son-n2608414
And of course the MSM focused on Matthew McConaughey’s speech instead of this woman’s.
Thanks for linking it.
Matthew McConaugheeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I did not expect him to fall for the “we must doooo sooomething” crap.
Disappointed!
I don’t like to know what celebrities actually think.
As some of you might have noted, we had unusually heavy rains in south Florida last weekend, leading to flooding and one of the more bizarre and terrifying local phenomena — the floating raft of fire ants. They rank somewhere between the Portuguese Man-O-War and Florida Man as things that you cross at your peril in the Sunshine State.
That said, a fun fact about these: the rafts are made up entirely of the males in the colony. Females are more dense than water, so they go down with the hill, so to speak.
Rule of thumb — if it sinks, it’s a girl ant. If it floats, it’s…
So at this point does Florida Man get some gasoline and make some more headlines?
Always a good idea when you see that. Scoop it in a bucket and burn it up.
/so bad its good
Warty Hugeman as imagined by an AI text to image generator.
Accurate
Great. Now all the public toilets are going to be closed.
If you can sue for catching a STD from a car, I’m sure the liability of a public toilet seat will be too much for anyone to bear.
Like, since, the 1920s. Weight Watchers was built on low-carb.
I have made it to Detroit! Parents, bro and the three nephews are all here.
My mom is TOTALLY on board with me going to a dispensary and buying my Hitler Bday Fun. This is wild and a great step towards recovery. That is not sarcasm, though I will also be using it for fun purposes.
Hopefully, we can go today but we might go tomorrow. They’re 8,6 and 1+ years old. They may be a bit wiped out after the zoo, which I didn’t attend. Going back to Indy tomorrow and on Friday I have an important check-up with the doctors. I strongly suspect I have another cracked rib and lots of odd bruising. Such a strange existence.
Things I’m noticing: THANK GOD people are maskless here. My lord. Thank heaven for that. Also: duh, but it’s odd to see so many black people and considering I’ve never been to Detroit, the busted up buildings and messed up impoverished feel is interesting to adjust to.
Also, LOTS MORE UGLY PEOPLE. I WILL miss that. I loooooved just going outside there were always being flocks of attractive women walking around. Clockwork you can depend on. The “Flocks of People” I see are…uh…nowhere near as attractive as I’m used to….that’s a bad adjustment. HOWEVER, *I *am looking way better with these folk shufflin’ around.
I’m surprised that I’m happy someone has arrived in Detroit of all places. But I’m glad you arrived safely and met up with the family.
I am so glad to hear that you’re back in the US and with a supportive family.
Welcome back to the states.
And yes, glad you made it safely back to the States.
Good. Welcome back!
Come down to Big College Town for a spell. Seeing SEC sorority girls during sundress season will put a spring in your step no matter how old you are.
Plus, you’re already an honorary Florida Man, with the scars to prove it.
Glad you are back!
Dude… it’s Detroit. You need to say that out loud, they can’t read it.
Glad to see you’re back in the states, even if it is Detroit. At least Michigan has lots of good beer to select from. Any thoughts on acquiring a medical card when you get back to the homestead? If you can, that may cut down on the cost and make resupplying easier.
Comparing the women of Detroit to Seoul is like comparing worn shoe leather to the finest deerskin driving gloves.
Yay variety!
Welcome back!
Welcome back, Evan. I hope all goes well with the docs.
So very happy you made it.
I feared a last minute glitch.
Ain’t no party with no Ripple.
https://youtu.be/hwBIiIAojTo
Your daily Sanford & son.
My wife wanted to know if I was gonna be ok.
So goddamn funny.
Yup. Top shelf comedy. ??
The permanent press polyester is hurting my eyeballz.
I think the collective noun in America is “sounder”
Or pounder.
Wednesday zoom starts at 8pm Eastern.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81891984758?pwd=Z3lqZE96eElxeVBxZ2lXNjNPY24wZz09
On a related note, I will be out of pocket Friday, so someone else will need to host. Girlfriend has a Friday off that coincides with the Tremont walkabout, so we’ll be going down and eating, drinking, walking about, and checking out local vendors/artists.
I can’t, somebody else?
I maybe can. I’ll know here in a bit.
Thanks for hosting tonight, Tulip.
I’ll step up and host the Friday GlibZoom.
Don’t worry, OBE, after a suitable apprenticeship you’ll be allowed to host unsupervised.
Lol whatevs
I’ve put in my time on Monday…not sure wife would be happy with a twofer
I will not be on Wednesday or Friday zooms for the next 3-4 weeks. New gig.
Best of luck in the new gig, may it be uneventful and fruitful.
Thank you!
You’ll be missed, hon.
Thank you, Tonio. I’ll miss you guys too but $20 is $20, same as downtown.
WTF
(congrats…grumble grumble)
Ebook formatting is not paying the bills anymore. đ Nobody has any money for frivolities like that when they can learn to do it themselves or find some SAHM working for pin money (read: they can’t afford me). Anyway, business boomed at the beginning of COVID and Trumpbux and lots of free time on people’s hands, but now I’m paying for it.
OT – I’m embroiled in drama with another department that is known for being asshoe. They tend to halfass their work and then dump the steaming pile on other people’s desks with a terse demand for something to be done.
The latest kerfuffle was because they used a spreadsheet of mine and didn’t bother clicking to the second sheet to see where the actual work was done. After a few very weird emails about selling off entire technology areas, I finally figured out where they were going wrong and I sent them a “for dummies” version of the spreadsheet complete with instructions about what both of the columns mean and how they should use the data in each column to do their job.
Anyway, as is expected from this group, their manager hopped in and sent another request, likely out of spite. See, we’ve migrated to DBs since the original spreadsheet went out, and the new IDs don’t exactly match the old ones. It’s a simple fix if you know what you’re doing in Excel, but they do not. So, of course, the punitive request came back to generate a report with all the new IDs so they can do their work off of the new system. In any sane situation, they would be responsible for this themselves. They’re the ones who chose to wait 6 months to start analysis. They’re the ones who fucked up in reading the spreadsheet. They’re the ones who are supposed to be experts at searching this system. They’re the ones who bitch when we start moving away from spreadsheets.
Alas, I completed the entire thing in 10 minutes, 8 of which were spent chasing down the exact names of Excel functions that I knew existed, but had forgotten the names. I even responded in kindness rather than retaliating. I merely included a mild passive aggressive “I’ll train your team to do this if you’d like”. I’m proud of my restraint. Maybe I’ll take the rest of the day off. ? Oh wait, I’m gonna be rewriting work product for the next 6 hours because we fired a law firm that was doing atrocious work. ??
Sorry you had to deal with that. I can sympathize, although I’m afraid I’m too often the one needing support because I haven’t done as good a job as I should have.
For what it’s worth, replying professionally and venting here was the right decision.
(although the inverse would have been more fun… For a time)
Thanks! You’re absolutely right about venting elsewhere and keeping professional demeanor in the interaction.
I think the most frustrating part of dealing with this department isn’t that they panickedly grab onto passersby like a drowning person, but the tone in which they do it. Many a fuck up can be forgiven if the fuck up is owned and the request for assistance is asked in humility. Neither of those happen with this department, and as a result everybody hates working with them.
Are they attorneys as well?
My experience with attorney friends, family and professional is the only time they say nothing is when they know they were 100% wrong.
The stories I could tell about engineering turf battles. Flying clipboards, curse words, wrecked $20k mahogany conference tablesâŚ
request for assistance is asked in humility
That’s my one saving grace: I admit when I haven’t measured up when asking for help. I struggle with productivity (although I’m harder on myself than everyone else) and focus, but I’m happy to say “I didn’t get this done when I should have, I’m in a bind, can you help? I’ll make it up to you.”
Seems to work. I mean, I’m still employed.
Yeah, there is a reason “don’t be afraid to ask for help” appears in my yearly reviews. It works.
Being an ass about it is just being an ass. I’d be pissed, too.
/looks at e-mail thread about a manager who hasn’t quite grasped the difference between an ACD line and a direct line.
Having some weather excitement nearby – luckily northeast of our place and Tres & Jugsy’s place. Turning me into a weather report junkie.
Hope Akira’s OK!
We had an E1 trundle through town last night.
Local news showed a photo – whatever is passing through clobbered a Meijer (grocery/discount store chain) distribution center north of us.
Reportedly the side of the complex that handles groceries. Guess I’ll be buying food at Kroger for a while.
My kid works on a dock. That gave me a tiny chill.
So far, no reports of injuries, though there were obviously a LOT of people there working.
I like Brave, but it really fell down on me today. Did not have sound through a weird conferencing software, so I had to switch to Chrome.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/06/pas-latest-attempt-at-privatizing-the-state-run-liquor-system-advances.html
so they picked the crony who gets to benefit?
No wayâŚ. One of the few negatives retiring to PA.
Any real chance of passage?
PA is on my short-list of near-term bug-out zones if I have to get the hell out of here.
I wonder if there are any other nasty surprises.
Amish. Buggies. Good Lord what a PITA.
Lots of them near where I grew up. But I wouldn’t be going rural anyway.
But my religious freedom!
At least around here, there’s also been the fun of the cocaine smuggling Amish (what cop is going to pull over, let alone search a buggy?). But they do provide an ungodly amount of unhealthy food (also wine, but no breweries that I’m aware of).
Dunno. I had no problem with the arrangement until that asshat Wolf shut them down for Covid.
There has been advances in the state via wine and beer, so I suppose it’s got a chance.
/remembers the wine vending machine debacle
Yeah, it got bad enough that our asshole governor stopped alcohol sales to out of state visitors in the counties bordering PA.
The state licensed, privately run stores here in Ohio have their share of issues (such as nothing above 155 proof), but at least they do try to make sure there’s distribution and lotteries run for rare (AKA underpriced) bottles.
F*ck them hoes. God gave us fermentation and the government cannot regulate nature. Time to get together and post more home made beverage articles.
When that was proposed in Virginia, the Democrats came out for blood. It was amazing how much resistance to it there was.
+1 Quaker
Jeez, Virginia too? They need to take pointers from a free state like NY.
Virginia was Democrat for far longer than most realize. The Republicans only had the state for a brief period before demographics pushed them out again.
Gosh, what a surprise. ?
The whole thing sounds so dark-ages.
USA tells Japan, we got it!
https://nj1015.com/nj-man-indicted-in-upskirting-incident-at-red-bank-business/
WP
House to vote on gun measures just hours after wrenching testimony
No emotions here, just the facts. And we all have no idea whatâs going to happen right?
The first bill passed with ten GOP votes. I want to know who, other than Kinzinger of course.
Oh good. We got rid of the Bushes and get a new dynasty.
https://www.insidernj.com/rob-menendez-wins-cd-8-primary/
Hey, kid fuckers are totally hot right now.
An even dumber and more corrupt dynasty.