You can just hear it as kitty wedges into that pipe.

(PHOOMPF) ... "MEooow?" :|

Depends how strong the espresso was. 😅

Ah, so basically "The Department of Just Asking Questions." 🤢

Considering what M$ has done to Minecraft, that's immensely AWESOME to know! I really need to put some time into Minetest / mineclonia...

I have to admit I often think about sliding into one of these "prestigious but just need to be likeable with no experience" loophole-esque positions...

But instead of acting like I'm "the boss" and pretending to know what I'm talking about while ruining everything, I'd find the best people in the field and make sure I'm listening to them and supporting them in doing their jobs instead.

Just there to keep idiot managers off peoples' backs and listen to people who actually know what they're doing.

I imagine that's "not how it works"...but still.

I recently had to close my store for an hour, because I was the only one working and couldn't breath due to one customers bad hygiene.

I don't even have the greastest sense of smell, I might even consider it impaired, but personal experience begs me to suggest never applying at your local public library then.

never touch something that looks like a carrot plant in the wild, because it could be that one plant that kills you 3 times over.

Okay so when you said "Never touch" I was thinking casually "Oh, don't go messing with it or munching on it or whatever. Sound advice."

Looking it up, oh...poison hemlock...you were being dead-exact.

Source

"As his doctor, Christopher Hayner, MD, pointed out, LeBlond didn't have to eat the poisonous plant to fall ill. "Anything you can touch, you can also inhale," he explained to Good Housekeeping. When LeBlond used a chainsaw to cut down the hemlock, tiny particles scattered in the air, and when he breathed them in, they almost killed him."

Oh holy crap. ~~Kill it with fire~~!

"If you do find a suspicious stalk and want to remove it, wear gloves, a face mask, and protective clothing. Dig it out from the roots, rather than cutting it, and never burn it, as the fumes can cause a reaction."

Not even fire can sate its lust for indiscriminate killing?!

Apparently it's a "recent problem" that this stuff is spreading all over the place.

It was as I suspected. Going outside is overrated. 😬

Lol sure, resilience and grit are great markers of success!...Provided you can afford enough resilience and grit until you succeed! Lol

Yeah it really doesn't help when everyone is driving worn out, pissed off, and/or fearing of retribution from being late due to things out of their control, like traffic, accidents, and sudden construction.

I have terrible time-blindness, so I'd frequently be one of those stressed out trying to make my commute. More often than not, I'd make it to the clock within 5 minutes or less!

There was a few times I felt pushed to make a risky turn where you're allowed to go but yield to oncoming traffic (who were also speeding to not get yelled at or fired, surely!)..., so I could clock in on time...then I thought...

"I refuse to die on my way to work. That would be so pathetically stupid."

Thankfully I quit when they wanted to get on people for being literally sixty seconds late.

Their answer is always "Just leave earlier?" If they had it their way you'd just be wasting hours of your life unpaid in the parking lot just for them. As if they're remotely worth it.

How many deaths are caused by a ridiculous obsession with punitive punctuality, which is hampered by forced office commute traffic, which encourages panicked angry driving?

I too, miss "covid traffic." Roads actually made sense then...

I get where this is coming from. In the Blender space it can be pretty intense because it's such a popular project, but I cringe so hard when I see these whiny posts like

"Why can't the lazy devs just get off their butts and fix [my specific issue]?!?!"

People got so used to "customer-brain" they forgot how to be civil.

"Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under..."

Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.

Can we popularize "Barnett didn't kill himself"?