The first one sounds more neutral to me, just mentally add a questionmark or a “right?” to it. They’re leaving space for you to respond if the statement is true or not. This is kinda like how conversations go, people leave space for the others to chime in and take their part in it.

If someone “claims” something happened, it seems like an accusation or interrogation.

The main takeaway is that everyone interprets things differently and prefer different styles of communication. Just keep in mind that your interpretation is not always the same as what is being intended.

I don’t know about thin skinned… it depends on a bunch of factors aside from mere words and pauses, written down here. Do you generally tend towards the defensive (feeling attacked/accused/wronged in conversation, and in turn faulting the other person for feeling that way) when dealing with other people or in certain settings?

To expand on asking about work culture, also ask about work/life balance: what policies the company have for it in general and what the manager specifically does to foster it.

WordPress is probably the most well known blog hosting platform. Start there.

Start a blog, maybe?

Beware of romance scams. They can be very patient and build a “connection” for months before starting to need money.

They’ll need money for all kinds of stuff, like to come visit you but will then cancel at the last second. Maybe their car broke down or they or a family member goes to the hospital.

They can use AI to fake images and their voice in phone calls - even fake video calls where they look like a completely different person.

Don’t trust someone you’ve never met, be open with family and friends about the person you’re talking to and trust their judgement of if it’s a scam or not, and don’t send money to anyone before meeting them for real.

Don’t be ashamed if you do fall for a scam, talk to the people you know so they can help you get out of it.

Scammers are scum, but they are very good manipulators, especially with people who are older and looking for connections. Stay safe!

And O for “Oh no” or “Oops”?

What were the consequences after meeting hr?

I’m not being a dick, I just have no idea what that ideology is… so don’t know if I’m in the group being asked. Can you clarify?

Sounds really frustrating.

Ironic that he didn’t know the definition of sarcasm while employing it so heavily…

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Sarcasm is not a great way to communicate in general, and it’s especially not a good look in the workplace.

I get this is the only glimpse we have of the situation and perhaps your history has taught you that this is the only way to move forward with this person, so dont tahe this to hesrt if so… but from just this post here you are the one contributing most to the poor communication and planning.

Addition: well, I kinda missed the community you posted in. My bad! Feel free to ignore this unsolicited piece of advice.

Different companies may not ship to where you live so my suggestion is to search for molded or moldable earbuds.

You can get some high quality ones if you have cash to burn, and some that will be okay and stay in place for a lower budget.

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I wouldn’t know the difference.

All I can know and judge on and care about is how they choose to respond, not how they feel.

And I personally trust people who tell me of their ugly emotions (after we’ve been friends for a long time) more than the ones pretending to be perfect a decade into the friendship.

People are capable of incredibly complex emotions, such as feeling both unhappy bitterness of their own lives in comparison, while feeling and displaying joyous celebrations of their friends success.

One can have both positive and negative experiences of the same event. There’s no use in trying to narrow down to either one.

I don’t know, I struggle to find a single use.

Maybe to make a quick funny thing with seven fingers to send to your friends…? But even then the downside is that these images get sort of normalised and I personally wouldn’t do it. At least not now that the novelty is way over and there are fewer funny obvious errors.

As a person who can’t draw a circle to save my life, for RPG-characters I thought I’d find use for it, but I actually prefer doing a horrible childish two-colour-crayon-sketch at the table rather than bring in a portfolio of images made artificially. My horrible sketches will become part of the lore we kaugh about.

I know that at work when we had out summer greetings sent out from the CEO, anything anyone talked about was how it was so clearly written with AI and it for sure didn’t inspire confidence or pride in the work place as it was meant to do. The same with some project image very clearly AI generated, which led to the whole project being less reputable in the organisation at a ground level and having fewer qualified people conscript to it willingly.

And any project where the creator or images are generated, I’ll trust far less than ones lacking images altogether.

I’m sorry if I couldn’t answer your question properly.

Edit: I may have to go back to gboard - at least it could spell for me…

Being jealous is just an emotion, its nothing to feel bad about. How you act on that emotion however, is how I’ll receive you.

Personally, if I’m paid to work I don’t mind doing other type of jobs, as long as the job I’m hired to do takes precedence. So if I am done with my assignments and they’re still paying me for the time spent at work, I’ll work at whatever needs doing.

Where I feel this doesn’t work in your case is doing jobs you’re not qualified to do. You’re not trained and qualified to talk to patients about their troubles, or to train nursing staff on how to apply electrodes, and probably not to bring patients to the bathroom. All things that would be your responsibility if you were to do it wrong, as those are not under the qualifications for your position.

I would put my foot down on those, and go fetch a different/senior nurse (as fetching people IS your job) when that’s needed.

And that is the conversation I’d have with my manager - not that I don’t want to work while they are still paying, but what types of assignments I’m expected and allowed and qualified to do, and which to refer to someone else to not put yourself and the hospital at risk for liability. And to have that in writing.

You can select a license with attribution attached, but put in your project info that you have no plans to ever enforce the rules of attribution but will strictly enforce the rules of open availability and free of charge.

No one will enforce rules for you that you as project owner/creator does not care about.

I don’t know, but if you put some more effort into remembering people’s names you don’t have to get into these situations in the first place. I say this as someone who’s terrible at remembering names, but I have gotten better at it, and so can you.

Also, most times it’s fine to just say “a coworker” without specifying who it is unless people ask.

Of course mistakes happen, but I think it’s pretty rare so you do notice when it happens.

Have you seen live translations? It’s really cool how they keep up. Maybe nowadays it’s done with an LLM, but at least back in the day subtitles could be written live if they didn’t have an interpreter for the hearing impaired. My guess is it was made with some shorthand-keyboard.

Translators can either go strictly translating the sentences, or change them quite a bit to make a joke, double entendre or clue still work in the context of the movie. The latter can feel jarring if you know both languages but I think are actually the better made translation, because they take the whole piece into consideration and not just the words.

Something I find rather funny is when they translate a title from english to english. For example Miss Congeniality is translated to Miss Undercover, Miss Detective, Miss Agent and Miss Secret Agent in different countries.

If it’s not sarcasm: I feel that sentiment. With time, and intention to change my mindset, I’ve come to appreciate these little conversations. Ten years ago I’d rather fall off a cliff than talk about the weather, but now I see the value in it; even though it’s the most boring thing in the world, I enjoy the (surface level) connection.

If it’s sarcasm: Haha yeah right? (stop bullying me :( )