the Philippines is not in South America
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I didn't know it at the time but I went to college with a guy who's a flat-Earther. I exchanged a handful of messages with him online about it and gave up trying to convince him. Not sure why I even thought I had a chance. I feel bad for his kids.
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I got a job building touch screen information kiosks for a fundraising thing a university was doing for one of its STEM programs. I had my hands full building this thing, so they got one of the students at the college who "does video" to put the content together. I got one chance to talk to this girl, I start in "So the monitors I'm using are standard 1920x1080, so aim for that resolution" and she stopped me to ask what that meant. So I'm now convinced she wasn't a member of the AV club or in some video production major...she was someone's niece who's on Tiktok.
I eventually get an email with the files she was supposed to send to me. Each kiosk was going to be programmed differently to display information about the thing it was standing next to. I get a bunch of video files in no folder structure with names that don't mean anything. "charlton.mp4" "untitled.mp4." "melissa.mp4"
I replied with an email asking "How am I supposed to know which of these videos goes with which kiosk?" How do you end up with most of a bachelor's degree like this?
Nepotism.
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I worked in a retail pharmacy so here is a list:
- Women do not have prostates
- During Fukishima nuclear incident, there would be no physical issues for people >5,000 miles away
- Antibiotics don't work on viruses
- Vaccines
- "Natural" medicines can significantly interact with other medicines
- What jock itch is and the astounding amount of men who thought it was normal
- Don't recklessly shove things into your eye, ear, nose, butt, penis/vagina (exceptions apply)
Do I want to know what the exception is where shoving things into places "recklessly" is okay?
Maybe recklessly isn't the right word, but there are emergency medications that are administered rectally or nasally where it's better to be quick than gentle. Rectally administered diazepam for seizures is a good example.
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I had to walk a classmate through how to install a program in Windows. You know, go to the website, hit download, wait for it to finish, next next next, etc. We're two weeks away from getting our diplomas. In IT.
You mean you don't just type in the name of the program in an app store like Synaptic or f-droid?
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If you know how to build a computer, you're already ahead of 50% of people going into entry level IT support.
I've had enterprise grade desktop servers with fans plugged into the wrong fan header (pump vs case fan, the pump header runs at 100% and its noisy AF), same problem for multiple of the same model. $3000+ computers and the people making them cant RTFM (they included the manual)
I was 'two weeks ago'-years-old when I realized that maybe setting my AIO pump to 100% instead of letting it be throttled up and down like a CPU fan might be a good idea. (I was installing it on a motherboard too old to have a "pump header;" it only understands CPU_FAN and SYS_FAN.)
Considering that my previous AIO worked just fine for seven years being treated like a fan -- and in fact would still be in use if not for it failing to fit in my new SFF case -- I'm still not actually sure the difference matters.
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I told me biss that i have agave syrup for margaritas and as a hiney substitute for when i have vegan friends over. He asked why vegans have a problem with hiney since insects aren't animals. I wasn't sure how to respond to that other than saying they absolutely are, so he googled it and had his kind absolutely blown
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