What about those of us who have worked with expats long enough that we no longer know how to say it correctly so we kinda mash the multiple versions together?

I agree with that. The only caveat I have is that if you are a junior, entry level, or even just an underpaid developer being asked to work on “mission critical” code, then that code is not “mission critical”. It is code that management is obligated to provide but gives no real fucks about.

Much like a bar mitzvah or quinceañera signals the beginning of the transition from childhood to adulthood, there is the junior to senior transition for developers. It often starts with the realization that the most recent in a long line of super critical bugs you are working on has been sitting around untouched for weeks and is only now “critical” because a customer has bitched about it not being fixed. The best part is when you follow the progress of the bug and see that your fix doesn’t get touched by anyone for months because there never was an actual customer bitching about it in the first place, it was just some sales person or VP flexing their power because they felt ignored. So the bug got squeezed it into the already over packed production cycle by making it “mission critical” and assigning it to someone too junior to realize that it’s bullshit work.

Tell me that you have never worked on anything even remotely ”mission critical" without actually saying it…

Ice cream is delicious because it is sweet.

It is possible to state something that is both completely correct and totally wrong at the same time. Your statement is exactly that.

Oh sweet baby Jesus… 🤦…
Uhm thanks for pointing that out…

The word was supposed to be “weird” and there’s no sane way, no matter how badly I smashed my big fat appendages across the screen, that spell correct could have thought I meant to type “wet”, but yet somehow that’s what it chose.

My phone finally forced me to let it update to the newer os stuffed full of ai, and now does some insanely weird spell corrections. It will even sometimes change words that I have spelled correctly to things that mean something completely different. But this one is a real beauty. Honestly, it’s so fucked up that I am just going to leave it.

You conservatives spend an insane amount of time thinking about and making shit up about children’s genitals. It’s so fucking wet and creepy.

What the fuck happened with everyone switching to ingredients that make you shit yourself? Like making it smaller, without flavor, and unpleasant textures wasn’t enough? It’s like someone at the top said “Wow, they’re still buying our food after all that? Well let’s see what happens if we start making them shit their pants too.”

Nice to see that someone besides me knows how to properly score stuff

Excellent answer.
And I really want to emphasize Location matters.
At a Chucky Cheese or a McDonald’s, I would be pleasantly surprised if you offered drinks. And any adults that dare can rummage through the leftovers from the kids if they are desperate or masochists. But, if we’re at a regular restaurant, then this is clearly not about the kids, this is an adult gathering with the kids as an excuse. There better be at least some kind of appetizers or light snacks. And they should have communicated that clearly. The amount I expect to be fed is directly proportional to how much I had to dress up. If I can roll up in my PJs, shove my child out the car door, and drive away, then I expect nothing from you. Sweatpants and whatever shirt I pulled off of the top of the pile of clean laundry? Then I expect a place to sit and some water. If I had to put on my good sweats and find a shirt without holes or stains, then we are entering charcuterie territory. But, if I need to put on a jacket and tie, then you can bet that I expect appetizers, a steak (or steak equivalent), and liquor or dessert.

Unfortunately, we never were. They have just stopped pretending at this point.

One of my first jobs out of highschool was a retail job that required a lot of customer interactions (specialty store). I worked there through most of college and now, literally decades later, I still find I have to restrain myself from helping other shoppers who have that “I need help” look.
The best for me was about 5 years after I had moved on from the job, I was in a similar specialty store buying something, and one of the customers that I used to help all the time at my old job saw me. She recognized me and her face lit up like she had been saved. She came over and asked me about something that, thankfully, I knew a fair bit about. And then I spent the next 15 minutes helping her out. When she had everything sorted out I walked to the register with her and we got in line to check out. After she checked out, I put my two small items I’ve been holding on the counter and the employee rang up my purchase. The person I had been helping watched me get out my wallet and start paying for the items, got a very perplexed look on her face, and asked me “wait, don’t you work here?” I shook my head and the look of absolute mortification that crossed her face made me both want to laugh my ass off and give her a hug and console her at the same time. She was like, “I thought you were just waiting to help me put this in the car!”. I told her I was going to help her put it in the car, I just need to buy my stuff first. She was so embarrassed, I wasn’t even wearing anything like the store employees, she was like “I thought you were a manager now!”. I told her nope, I don’t even work retail anymore. When she asked why he didn’t say something to her to let her know, I told her that I knew what she was asking about, and that she was one of the really nice customers that I enjoyed helping at the old job, so I helped because I wanted to.

No, just dumb as dirt.

I think Pandora had the right idea, but a thumbs up gave an equal thumbs up to all aspects of a song even if you really liked a song despite some aspects of it.

They needed an interface for songs that you had liked that looked like an equalizer or maybe a color wheel and would let you give higher ratings certain aspects of a song and lower ratings to another.

Instead, if you gave a thumbs up to an acoustic version of a song that just happened to be recorded as part of the live event or concert (I’m looking at you Layla) then every one of your channels would be filled with nothing but shitty ass live versions of everything.

Certain members of it care too much, way too much.

And this is why all of Dave’s neighbors have learned to securely lock down their entire house before taking a shower.

More like Lead Poisoning.

A bear with wood, some horny guy, another guy comes offering to blow your house down, two rough looking birds…
That pretty much sums up every party I have ever been to.

I am no expert, but in my own research for a previous task I had to deal with for work, most everything I saw said that getting below 30-35% for even a small room like a closet was going to be difficult without moving to heavy duty and expensive equipment. I don’t know if there have been improvements in the technology since then (dehumidifiers have definitely gotten much smaller) but you start getting into issues were you are pulling moisture from the surrounding walls and items in the room.
I suspect in you situation you May be able to make some gains with heat, but I have to wonder if how hot you can go before you start seeing problems with the cabinet itself. I have seen cabinet delaminate just from being in hot garages, so I am not sure how hot you can get.

By that, they they mean that they are adding responsibilities and reducing pay.

One of my first jobs was at a retail hardware store. We were just a small variation of the main store, but we ended up being number 3 in sales nationwide.
The location had a lot to do with our success, but looking back, I believe that it is due to the first store manager being ADHD and hiring a bunch of ADHD people. Those of us who stuck around for any amount of time became very knowledgeable in our departments, way more than the non-adhd employees. This was before most people had Internet and you couldn’t just go check out YouTube to find out how to do something. So, if you showed one of us unmedicated and largely undiagnosed ADHD employees something new, we would dive into that subject. I had a lot of long talks with professionals and knowledgeable people because I would see them with something I was curious about and would unashamedly ask them about it, and their experience with it. Before long I wasn’t really an expert, but I could tell others what the pros did and why. And with my untreated ADHD, all you needed to do was ask and I would give full knowledge dump on the spot.
I also had no problem with telling people not to buy something because it was crap, or even telling them that they could get a better deal or better product elsewhere. I even made a lot of sales to people who were dismissive or talked shit about our products by being brutally honest about our stuff. Yup, compared to the place down the street that catered to professionals, our products were crap. But for someone using our stuff every couple of weeks or even monthly, they did an acceptable job. And for the price you could buy 2 or 3 of ours compared to the professional version. Which was a big deal once you realized that abuse and lack of maintenance was how most home owners killed things rather than wearing them out. So, you could buy one of the pro ones and it would last 20 years if you took care of it, but the first time you were lazy or forgot to maintain it, you were in for a lot of money or effort to get it back to working order, where with us, the parts were cheap, they were a lot more forgiving to abuse, and they were not right designed to last more than about 5 years tops. It was funny how often I had serious enthusiasts and pros stop me months after I originally talked to them to let me know how happy they were with the “shitty” version they bought from us. Now they can keep their pro version for pro use only and they no longer have to worry about their wife, or kid, or brother in law, or ect, trashing their pro version. Not to mention you could abuse and neglect the shit out of it and it didn’t really matter it would keep going. Not for long, and not as good as their “good” one… but long enough and not nearly as bad as they expected.
At the same time there were a lot of people who stopped me to thank me for talking them out of buying our products, or at least buy a cheaper version. Sometimes I would be half way into selling someone something and they would say something that made me realize that they intended to use this professionally, or on a task that was of professional level, and I would put the brakes on let them know that this was a bad idea and would end in regret. If their budget forced them to buy low end anyway, to hold them over, I would go over the weak points and get them something that had less features, but also had less failure points and cost less because they were going to need to buy a new one a lot sooner than they thought. Sometimes the store manager would come over and be like “I can’t believe you sold that piece of shit! I thought it would be on the shelf forever!”, and I would tell him to not be too enthusiastic, because that guy would likely be in every couple of months to replace it under warranty until the warranty ran out. Generally, warranty claims kind of hurt, but it also boosted other numbers that counted positively towards his yearly bonus and he knew that if the guy was coming in to exchange it he would be buying the consumables from us (one of the things that got a product labeled as shit by us was proprietary consumables). So the store manager was happy that the consumables would more than offset the losses from having to warranty the item, and the customer would be happy because he got something that would get him through for at least a year, and he could plan around the known failures. It was always enjoyable to tell people how to take advantage of the warranty. It was always funny to see the look in someones eyes as they realized that you were telling them to buy the much cheaper and shittier version because none else ever bought it and they could be sure that any one of our locations that they stopped at would have one on the shelf. And if they made sure to grab at least 4 packs of the consumables when they were doing the exchange, they would get happy and snappy service, even from even the store manager themselves. The company would incentivise the managers to sell certain products that didn’t sell on their own. And some things that were turning into a boondoggle for the company would see stacked incentives. So any manager who saw you that you had just warrantied this thing last month and again the month before that(so that meant you were likely using it professionally which was against the terms of the warranty, but if you were also buying 4 boxes of consumables every week or 2…) well you know what, he didn’t actually have any proof that you were using it professionally so it’s not his problem, have an excellent day and please come back.