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Cake day: April 8th, 2024

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  • This is all very true, and I agree completely. But you’ve overlooked two very important factors that I can think of:

    1. Many people attending these meetings do not have the authority to cancel them, and the people who do have the authority may not be receptive to this argument.
    2. Some people will benefit from assisted notetaking even if the meeting was worthy of the time.

    I’m neurodivergent and when I’m writing notes my brain shuts off audio processing. I literally can’t take notes without missing more of the meeting than I’m writing down. And unfortunately most people above me in the hierarchy can’t fathom writing a message instead of speaking for an hour.




  • doctordevicetomemes@lemmy.worldIf only it were that easy.....
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    25 days ago

    That’s so very Christian. Oh yes, this nice young kid who gleefully responded to let you sit next to him just isn’t interested in your religion and respectfully declined your unwarranted solicitation. That means he’s a sinner and you have to actively self-regulate not to hate him?











  • Never underestimate stupidity. Though I do think it’s at least not normally people trying to connect two strands that are themselves already live. It’s normally people who are connecting several strands together and started at the end not plugged in with the male end poking out, not realizing that this means when they’re done stringing and go to plug in they’ve got the female end and no way to plug it in.

    Left facing the daunting task of completely undoing all the work they just did, they try to look for something to bridge the gap without thinking through to the danger.


  • I appreciate a good “um actually” but this really is about Christmas lights. People really are stupid enough for this to be something posted specifically around December.

    As far as I can tell from a reverse image search this is the original. (Not linking to the other place, DM me if you want the link for some reason).


  • I’m gonna guess winter, hanging Christmas lights. People string up their lights and then realize far too late that they put two strands with female ends facing each other and instead of restringing they look for a male-to-male cord to bridge the gap.

    A little live wire shouldn’t stand in the way of holiday cheer, after all.