Bot #001Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday 5 Jul 2023
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LlabyrinthineAhahahaha. Love the battery for the bot. So cute.
PeelerSheila So apparently there was a magnitude 2.4 earthquake in Pakenham at around 1:25am this morning.
DuenanWhoa really? Didn’t notice that one this time around.
We’ve really had a fair few number of them in a relatively short amount of time.
Day 11 of exercise program. I discovered today that my program has a water drinking tracker and reminder, which is grouse because I’ve always been bad at keeping up my water intake. It also has a calorie burn counter on the pedometer bit. I like to have a low sugar alcoholic ginger beer when I’ve finished work, and it was interesting to note that even though it’s low sugar it would take me half a day of walking to burn it off!
I’ve got 80kg of spuds again today💪 Have a great day everyone!
Take those calorie burn things with a grain of salt, they are way over simplified and dont really mean much. You can calculate your base metabolical rate with online calculators which take your exercise etc into account and that will give you a rough calorie amount that you can aim for each day for maintenance. Then you just need to adjust down or up a few 100 calories depending on if you want to gain or lose weight. Thats obviously a simple way to look at things but it will be significantly more accurate than a calorie burn function on a pedometer
Cool, thanks for the tip, might give it a look tonight. Always wondered about the whole “steps” thing anyway. Like a leisurely meandering stroll at a Sunday market and a “shit I’m late for work” walk are both counted the same, but to me it’d seem obvious that one will burn more fat than the other.
So I’m on a bus and I’m reflecting on the fact that while seatbelts are compulsory in cars, on a bus you’ve really only got your prayers 🙏.
If it makes you feel better, busses have more mass so are inherently safer. The no seatbelts thing is so you don’t have to fiddle with it in a panic and delay evacuating the bus.
Uncanny that a truck T boned a Bus today in Mornington Peninsula. One kid on the bus had lots of teeth knocked out.
dumblederpOn a bus, your prayers are for the cars that get in the way. f=M.A sorta translates to big bus fucks little cars.
Unless a truck hits the bus and T bones it like in Mornington Peninsula today. The Truck won that round.
MeanElevatorUp just before 6 am to hit the gym…fuck yeah!!!
Got some energy, ready to fucking lift.
Do my stretches, light warm ups, first rep of the first exercise and something tweaked in my back.
Off to the physio I go!!!
Yay!!
All of me except my knee wants to go jogging.
Bike ride instead?
I don’t find cycling to be very good exercise for me. I lived inner city and rode a bike everywhere for years. I don’t have access to enough consistent bike path before I have to stop for crossroads (Djerring Trail). I like running because it gets my heart rate up and I can do it at the local footy oval. I could take my bike to Malvern velodrome but it makes exercise a three hour job with getting there and back.
Oh bugger. I can’t run cause everything below the equator is sore for days on after. I’m guessing the answer is yes, but have you looked into knee support braces? One of the dudes at my gym swears by one (I’ll find out the brand) cause he run again without discomfort.
Thanks but don’t stress the brand. I feel braces are a bit like chiro, it really does work for some people but the science is weak.
Now that’s motivation! By the way, I always thought of your username as being like a nasty lift… it only just occurred to me that it might be mean as in median/average 🤦🏼♀️
The username was suggested by Reddit when I signed up and kind of liked it. It has no meaning whatsoever 😁
batariansI wish my office walls weren’t 70% window. I could be napping under my desk right now.
mysticgregAw man so jealous. My office is 100% windowless dungeon :(
StudSpud The StarchyJust go full goblin mode and embrace the dungeon life lol
I’m in IT, so already mostly there 🫠
Heheh there’s dozens of us! Dozens!
“have you tried turning it off then on again?”
Eye mask.
Thinking about a pair of these babies
ThornburywitchWeird thing happened in Coles Richmond Traders this morning when I was buying my lunch. The exit gate for the self-serve lane didn’t open. Had to show the receipt to the attendant to get the gates open to leave. I think this is Coles’ response to grab it & run ‘customers’. Might be a good idea to keep your receipt handy until safely out of there in future.
Self-serve checkouts are the absolute pits. I really hate how they’ve become in such widespread use.
Unexpected item in bagging area.
useless_modern_godI read this in robot voice haha
literally the item I just scanned
Please notify attendant
attendant is busy helping some elderly customer who apparently has never used an eftpos machine before
Or some idiot taking 2 full trolley loads through whilst the actual registers have no line.
I hate that so much, roll my eyes so hard i send them into orbit
I make sure to “accidentally” bump into them. Apologise profusely, and bump into them again.
Or if I’m at the register next to them, crowd their area as much as possible.
I’m probably adding to the problem, but get a weird sense of satisfaction from it.
Sometimes it feels really good to be petty heheh
Exit gate sounds a bit like detainment / kidnapping.
CEOofmyhouse56I start sweating at the self serve like I’ve stolen something but really I’m just over exerting myself because I have a trolley full of shit, no register is open so i have to do it myself and I want to get out of there.
I’ve just realized why I’m over this job. This was supposed to be exciting. Managing shit. Helping people. Fixing things. But I’m so busy filling in god damn spreadsheets and checking off things on a list to do anything about actually fixing or improving things… Its basically just become an admin assistant. What the hell am I even doing here?!
Booked myself in for an Azure fundamentals course next week. I’m pretty adept at Azure already, but I tried to study for the bigger certificate and got a bit overwhelmed so im gonna try get the basic certification and then build momentum from there.
Good luck mate. I’m sure you’ll land something more interesting. There’s a fair bit out there for the time being.
just_kittenLast session with the Really Good Short Term Psych. It went so well even though I was procrastinating in bed until half an hour before the appointment. I feel a good sense of closure and clarity and appreciation. It feels good in my bones.
I am also infinitely grateful and relieved that he will write a letter summarising findings and recommendations to my GP and the psychiatrist I have an appointment with next week, because we covered so much and I feel he really got to the crux of what I’ve been having difficulties with my whole life. It’ll save me a lot of exhausting explanation and rehashing and will come with professional recommendations that might finally get me the help I need.
I swear to Alanis Morissette that if I don’t get this frackin’ job I’m going to eat my cat’s dryfood.
Please offer me the job
And I’ll be your phone monkey,
I’ll upsell,
Cross-sell,
Side-sell,
Slide into hell,
If you pay me,
Fortnightly
Please tell me you like me…
💀
Everything’s gonna be fine, fine, fine…
calhoon2005reminder that Dogma is available free on youtube as per Kevin Smith fucking with Weinstein.
[4K] Dogma (1999) full movie with subtitles
Ah yes, upscaled to 4K by an AI algorithm and uploaded by the official YouTube account of someone named Dash.
I guess I meant the director unofficially endorses YouTube/other postings of the movie as it stops any proceeds going to Weinstein who owns the rights.
Electronic_OwlI swear to Alanis Morissette
Is that a Dogma reference?! I love that film :)
Yeah it is lol! It’s one of my fav films heh
heyheyitskayWhy do we have such a toxic culture of making work “fun”?? What the hell is wrong with people? Why can’t we just do work, go home and have your own kind of fun with other people you enjoy being around???
Seagoon_if it’s fun then you won’t ask for more money
I think they sometimes miss the point that fun is in the eye of the beholder…
Because your corporate overlords believe that if you can build a connection to your workplace and colleagues, they can guilt you into producing more value for less pay out of some misguided sense of loyalty. A job is a transaction. They don’t give a shit about you, you don’t need to give a shit about them.
believe that if you can build a connection to your workplace and colleagues, they can guilt you into producing more value for less pay out of some misguided sense of loyalty
But I’m afraid they’ve been wildly misinformed by the HR overlords or whomever on ‘how to get employees to build a connection to the workplace and colleagues’ cringe
I fucking hate it. I dont get it. Its a JOB. It means nothing to me. Just middle management and HR trying to justify their existance.
Just cause they dont have personal lives.
An idea was floated by HR that each team should make a video (to put on our intranet) explaining what we do and how we fit into the organisation.
The kicker - it should have been a music video!!! Everyone loves to sing on camera!!
Thankfully upper management put an end to it quickly, but it went way further than it should have.
it should have been a music video!!! Everyone loves to sing on camera!! have these people not heard of the Geneva Convention?
We’re talking about HR here, so definitely not.
I should note that there were a few teams that very actually disappointed that this didn’t eventuate.
Those team members have been reported to ASIO as potential spies
Report?! No no no. Execute them now. Clearly they are shapeshifting aliens! I’d say robots but I think even robots would shy away from an artsy idea like that.