I have a meeting with a client today whose lead engineer is actually, genuinely named “Delbert”, and I’m not going to say a fucking word because I know for a fact he’s already heard it.
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner: doctor, I have depression
Kevin “Defunctland” Perjurer: go see the great clown Michael Eisner. He sucks shit and he knows it. He’s so bad at running a theme park he makes me roar with laughter. He cries at board meetings because he knows he’s nothing.
ok so being a parent IS really hard but not the way you think. well its probably hard the way you think but its ALSO really hard because my toddler pronounces peanut butter like “peepee yaya”. and see, because he learns from me, i can’t say “peepee yaya”, no matter how much i want to, because i have to teach him that it is actually pronounced “peanut butter”. and dont even get me started on how he pronounces “shaun the sheep” (shit the shit)
So my two married-with-kids coworkers started asking me when I was going to get married and have kids earlier. And when I politely told them I wasn’t planning on it and tried to change the subject (because like fuck am I coming out as aroace at work), proceeded to tell me I’d change my mind and be married in no time.
So I went, “You wanna bet?” Told them to pick a time frame and sum of money and we’d have a wager. And one of them took me up on it. I was expecting her to put down a tenner or so, but she put down TWO HUNDRED QUID on me getting romantically involved in the next three years.
I would feel bad about taking the bet, except that 1) if someone specifically tells you they’re not interested in something and you bet against that it’s really on your own head, and 2) if you say something and someone grins at you delightedly and goes “care to bet on that” you should be really really suspicious.
i cannot stress enough how important the last one is. your friend who’s kinda tall or looks tough? your friend who’s a little clocky in an intimidating way, or the girl who passes better than you or did a bit of voice training? she’s not gonna take care of it for you. there is no weapon, no intimidating stance, no threat more effective in de-escalation than even a single other person who at least looks like they’re willing to help out someone getting harassed. fan the fuck out and show up for your friends.
a lot of people are saying “come on surely there’s nothing wrong with someone casually referring to a dwarf planet as a planet, right? it’s so pedantic to insist that every time someone uses a word they use its exact scientific definition” and like yeah sure I would agree with you, if that’s what was happening.
the thing that Prompted the pluto reclassification truthers in my notes in this case wasn’t me attacking Them saying “hey don’t call pluto a planet it’s a dwarf planet”, it was. a poll I made, about dwarf planets, and I included pluto in that poll. people saw THAT and got upset at me about it. that’s what I was referring to in the first part of the other bigger post.
“pluto is a dwarf planet”: correct
“pluto is not a planet”: technically correct
“pluto is a planet”: correct in some contexts
“pluto is not a dwarf planet”: incoherent
“pluto is one of the nine planets”: anti-scientific
“pluto is a dog”: zoned out during most of conversation
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