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Unfortunately corporate is right on this one.

Kneejerk admitting fault doesn't diffuse Karens, it emboldens them. And even outside of Karen's, you have to defend your position or lose it. Apologising too often has the unintended consequences of giving up bargaining ground where you otherwise might have actually had a case.

Does that mean never admitting fault? No. But it does mean being solutions orientated.

Took me a while to figure out that low level employees tend to be too quick to apologise and the higher ups rarely ever apologise, but are better at figuring out an actual resolution.

How I deal with this is something like this -

Don't say: "I apologise for the inconvenience"
Do say: "were working on a fix as soon as possible."

Either toei or oda hates Sanji, because he's been wronged ever since enies lobby. He's just been on a straight downward spiral for like 600 episodes at this point.

Firm deny

loafy013 posted...

So a guy who is known for saying dumb shit was, in this single instance, telling an obvious joke. No, people like that don't get the benefit of the doubt.

The neat thing about the internet is that you don't need to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, you can easily verify shit for yourself instead of getting excitable about twitter drama

Funny though to see people pivoting to "well if you have to explain it"

Guys just take the L, lol. It's ok if you weren't in on the in-joke

This was obviously a joke.

If you want to rag on asmongold, there's literally hours and hours of content you can find with him saying dumb stupid neckbeard shit. No need to get twisted over something like this.

If I had a really expensive car I would first make sure I could afford to lose an expensive car

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I'm not going to sit on these issues and just hope that a movement that is not for me or by me is going to take care of these things when it clearly has no interest, motivation or plan to take care of these things. I want to do something, not simply be a silent ally and clap along.

And that's ok, that's not an attack on feminism at all. i just don't understand the argument that a movement with an expressly different purpose is what I should rely on here. So much feminist discourse is stuff that I can't meaningfully contribute or participate in, so that's not where I'm going to look when I have a problem.

I'll give my "things that bother me most about being a man" (oh my, spicy post)

1. the collective presumption that you are ok and you don't need or want help, and the corresponding lack of support network. I first noticed this in my first office job and realised that our CEO would give the women in our office mental health breaks over the most minor of things and for anything comparably stressful for the men he would just look down on them for not being tough enough
2. Related: my knee jerk impulse in most situations to not seek out help or go to the doctor and repress my own feelings at my own cost
3. Wearing an emotions mask at nearly all times. I am expected to be manly and stoic when convenient or angry and possessive when desired, my emotions are expected to exist for the benefit of others. True expression of (at times) ugly feelings has often left me in a worse position in relationships when these emotions are undesirable
4. The curious middle ground in relationship dynamics where you're still expected by many to hold onto toxic notions of chivalry in certain scenarios (hold the door open, pay for the meal, be the strking meat shield) and at the same time always be super conscious and proactive about consent and personal agency in every regard, and you're just sort of expected to read the room to tell the difference.
5. The way that talking about any of these things inevitably gets understood as an attack on women (#notallwomen) and that it is important to make sure everyone understands this is all exclusively the fault of men, therefore any concerns summarily dismissed and handwaved. I am very tired of being "mansplained" about how men's feelings and experiences work by women who fundamentally are barely one hair shy of being outright misandrists.
6. The condescending and even schitzophrenic position that such people have about the way to address this problem: it is not the role or priority of feminism to address any of these things but simultaneously feminism is the only thing that can address any of these things

The battle of the sexes crap is so annoying. Like you can't acknowledge that there are some tough things about being a man without some people being all "but women have to do x" rebuttals.

It doesn't need a rebuttal

Robot2600 posted...

okay but he literally does the exact opposite of that.

can you guys cite sources?

He's probably talking about chomsky's criticism of journalism on the Khmer Rouge, which is a big topic and complex and nuanced but i guess "chomsky denies genocide" is a catchier way to put it.

THRILLH0USE posted...

It's hilarious that this dude built an entire career out of defending authoritarianism and genocide denial but pseuds think he's some giga brain.

"Noam chomksy is a genocide denier" because he defined a specific event as a massacre and not a genocide and as a linguist he took issue with the semantics.

Not exactly the spicy take people make it out to be.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

The opinion seems to be unfavorable. I dont know this guy, heard of him but no clue why hes not liked

Only one of the most important thinkers of the century. But he criticised western warmongering among other things and you know how the right really hate that.

Obituaries popping up everywhere despite not a single news article about it. Do these people pre-write these things?

A 6/10 game can be a 9/10 game if you have a silly bunch of gooses for friends to play with.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/aa7e58b4.jpg

Here

I saw a website or an infographic that styled up trump with a better haircut and a properly fitting suit and he ended up looking like pretty much any other republican candidate goon

As much as I hate him, he does have uh...individuality, I guess.

No kidding. Have you moved away now?

I drive through selkirk most days

CADE_FOSTER posted...

They dont get it tho they think Homelander is a chud hero

That's the best way really. You don't even need to be subtle with these people, just don't be overt I guess. Anvil sized hints are basically invisible to people incapable of understanding subtext.

Remember when budweiser did like one small time promo with a trans person and they lost like 25% of their monthly sales and fell off the top spot and budweiser factories got bomb threats and tiktok right wing people went crazy posting videos of them shooting budweiser cases

Yeah. That's why. Turns out the right are fucking NUTS.

Southernfatman posted...

Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!

The accent might be terrible but willie was right about everything else

Neoconkers posted...

don't worry, it's where mine already was.

but I mean it's worse for me, being from the borders. you can drive 10 miles and the accent has completely switched, each town has its own variety, so any discussion of "scottish accent" is a lost cause immediately

Get out of town, where you from? Melrose here.

archizzy posted...

This topic reminds me of how many people were complaining when Brave came out that Merida didnt sound actually Scottish.

The voice actress is from Glasgow. The Internet is never happy no matter who you use.

You need to understand, no one hates the scottish quite like the scottish.

Neoconkers posted...

oh please, as if the glasgow uni accent isn't the true scourge

Brain went immediately here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZzFXolGJc&ab_channel=Limmy

People say a lot of shit but the answer is rarely an absolute thing in cooking. You just have different results based on what you're doing and what you want.

With a regular burger (not a smashed burger), you don't want or need to squeeze the burger down too much and actively push all the juices out. You DO want to make sure that the burger has solid contact with the pan, so putting your spatula on it so or weighing it down with weights is no big deal.

Smashed burgers are a way of getting more crispy browned bits, the trade off is some juicyness inevitably lost, which is why they're quite often made up of fatty mince. Whether you care about that on a burger is your choice.

Southernfatman posted...

We all know Christopher Lambert did the perfect Scottish accent in Highlander. /joke

So who does the most authentic one IYO?

By actors who are not scottish?

Trainspotting (sick boy), Brave (the mum), Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland

I looked into electric motorbikes recently and the range is embarrassing for most of them. I imagine the battery would be the issue here.

They come in three accent varieties
1) american actor doing what is probably passable if you're not scottish (willie, simpsons)
2) scottish actor but they've been in america too long (gerard butler)
3) actual scottish person but they have that peculiar edinburgh/fife theatre kid voice that only people in scottish tourism adverts have (Rowena MacLeod, supernatural)

This is such a niche complaint that maybe only 3 people will understand what i mean, but maybe it's the same for other nationalities too.

Ok everyone is throwing around anecdotes of what they would do/wouldn't do/could do.

What does actual non-NRA data say about the good-guy-with-gun phenomenon?

Loved stardew valley. Sort of enjoying minecraft.

This guy will have plenty of time to play out his military fantasy in prison.

emblem-man posted...

Having something, either cops or cameras, or road design enforcing driving and traffic seems like a good thing. Gotta pick one.

I pick option 3. It's very hard to take the arguments about road safety seriously in the UK when we have such a ridiculous pothole problem that the main thing I'm scared about on any given journey isn't wreckless drivers but instead having my axel fly off because the road maintenance is that terrible.

If they want to protect people on these roads, they should maybe make the roads safe to drive on in the first instance.

I'm not exaggerating. On my daily work commute there are at least 5 potholes that could cause a serious accident.

I'm primarily talking about non highway roads that have pedestrians around them.

Highway speeding is an issue as well of course.

emblem-man posted...

1,2,4, and 5. If the data shows it's increasing pedestrian safety, I can't really say I care what the intention is. So yes, obviously they should be put in high risk areas with poorly designed roads and high risk of pedestrian danger, but I'm pretty much for more traffic cameras.

My personal beef with speed cameras is the A68. This is a straight single lane road up the centre of the UK, from newcastle all the way to edinburgh. It's basically only one of two routes north. It is largely just a single lane road surrounded by empty fields.

And there's cameras....ALL the way up it. Like every 10 miles. But only once you get to scotland. Somehow I guess the road gets more dangerous once you cross the border because it goes from zero cameras to many, many cameras.

The most maddening thing about this is that they made sure to put the cameras on the only good passing spots the entire way. Any idea how infuriating it is to get stuck behind a truck and two caravans doing 45mph when the road is 60, and you have 100 miles to cover, and you can't risk overtaking because the cameras have you covered. Yeah, that's actually really fucking annoying.

If y'all are talking about american highways with 17 lanes of drunk drivers doing 120 then I don't have have a bone to pick there.

3. More so than having regular cops perform this type of traffic enforcement for 24/7?

Better yet, let's not have cops enforce speeds at all

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

He had someone close die due to a speeding hit and run. He has reason to get wound up about this.

Whatever the reason, this is the message board CE on gamefaqs.gamespot.com

@StealThisSheen, it's time to put this topic down and go take a walk outside or something. You're way too wound up over some strangers being wrong on the internet.

StealThisSheen posted...

Are you literally bringing that up as a counterargument to "Don't speed?"

No, I'm bringing it up as a counrerargument to the "so long as you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about" argument.

Wow.

But, okay, sure. The government already is snooping through my laptop because I'm connected to the internet. Believing anything else is being incredibly naive.

Are you happy about it?

StealThisSheen posted...

The "right thing" isn't speeding, and thus, if you're doing the right thing, which is not speeding, you have literally nothing to worry about.

Like let the government snoop through your laptop. So long as you're doing the right thing you have literally nothing to worry about.

Yeah we all share a road, I get it. This wasn't my "this is why speed cameras are wrong" argument. Someone asked my why I personally hate them and this is why. I hate that society is so fucked that I need to be watched 24/7 to make sure other people don't fuck up.

StealThisSheen posted...

Why? Hopefully you can answer this, because nobody else has, so far.

P.s. I gave you all my reasons but now let me give you the real one

I fucking hate being told what to do and babysat and surveilled when I'm already doing the right thing, and I don't care if that isn't good enough

StealThisSheen posted...

Why? Hopefully you can answer this, because nobody else has, so far.

1. I don't think the intention is always purely about safety and is easily corrupted, so it's essentially a government sanctioned grift
2. They're quite often poorly thought out in placement
3. Extremely expensive to maintain
4. Something just extremely annoying about thr human condition where an open stretch of road with nothing around it for miles needs to be council regulated to that degree
5. Now I'm in the UK all the cameras are clearly marked with high vis paint so that you're clearly informed and incentivised to slow down, so they say. When I was in Australia they hid them as deceptively as possible with the justification that you shouldn't be speeding anywhere. So...which is it? Aren't these things about safety?

Case in point, my weekly commute has had what, 6 or so speed cameras on it for the past decade or more, and they're now taking them all (all!) Down because they've done research on this road and discovered it is extremely low risk. So...why were they there all this time

I hate speed cameras on principle, whatever social ill they help with statistically

Dark souls is objectively hard

Every generation before me is out of touch and doesn't get it, every generation after me is the breakdown of society

A tale as old as time

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

just got the idea for a movie where a bunch of DnD cosplaying dorks travel in time to the actual medieval ages.

unless someone already came up with such a concept already... lol >_>

Take your pick of any of a hundred isekai animes that came out just this year