You could just tell them your social capital is spent and leave.

Yeah, not for long, I’m quitting this company as soon as I can.

At work we have the following quote on the fridge

“A ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”

We are a software development company and my reply to this was basically that pot making hasn’t changed in a long time, it’s basically shaping and firing clay. Software development is comparatively new and has a vastly more dynamic landscape.

Also, the comparison is stupid because we don’t write code, realize it was shit and write a new one. If we did business like that, we wouldn’t be in business.

RemindMe! 6 months

• White sand, volume 3 by Brandon Sanderson
• Reaper’s gale by Steven Erikson
• Mindful eating by Jan Chozen Bays

I mean, they almost spelled eww correctly

The enjoyment was very real

I use it sparingly and only to automate things I know how to do very well, so reviewing its work become easier.

Paint everything white to make up for the loss of the polar ice caps /s

Came here to make sure this one was in the comments.

Germany’s Central Council of Jews has sharply criticized the government’s decision to suspend exports of military equipment to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip, announced by Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday.

Israel is attacked daily by enemies and bombarded with missiles, Schuster said.

“Depriving Israel of the ability to defend itself against such threats endangers its existence,” he added.

Using weapons inside Gaza is not defense though.

Had some last time I visited Bali, it’s delicious.

Mine still lasts the whole day, so no worries here.

Same, but I do have my own community away from work and have always prioritized my friends over co-workers.

I cannot even fathom the mental abuse this woman had to go through. Accidental birth, child dying and a murder charge. There’s enough trauma there to last a lifetime.