Pot, kettle…

Whoa… Bad choice of words…

Or great, depends on what you were going for…

Having worked both retail and call center, no, they’re not in the same league. People can be assholes over the phone, absolutely, but it’s quite different from face-to-face. Someone threatens to kill me over the phone, I can say “I’d like to see you try” and hang up, and the worst that happens is I get fired. In person, they can carry out the threat.

It’s nice when you have a boss that has your back. I worked at RadioShack back in the day, and the manager of the store I stayed at the longest was like that. Of course we didn’t have the whole x items or less, but we were in a busy college area, only on-street parking, so we’d get people running in and wanting to be served immediately regardless of how busy we were because they were double parked. The boss empowered us to tell them to fuck off, politely of course. “Come back when you have more time, we’ll be happy to help”. Also, we were next to a parking lot, it wasn’t ours, though we did have a couple of spots that were clearly marked employee parking only. Few things gave the boss more pleasure than calling a tow truck… Literally rubbing his hands with glee on multiple occasions.

I never worked food service, but I did my time in retail… That “Well we’re here now” just gave me a PTSD-like flashback…

I know you are but what am I?

In my late teens/early 20s I won a roughly 2 month long fart battle by eating McDonald’s every day. Made my adversary kneel before me.

You say that like it’s a bad thing…

Fight fire with fire.

No.

Hey look, it’s a sea lion in the wild!

It just bugs me the wording “wrongly questioned” - it’s never wrong to question, you just have to be prepared to accept answers.

Machines don’t care about shit, they blindly do what they’re told. Garbage in, garbage out.

Noted. When I develop an essential piece of software, I will name it George.

Yes… Code doesn’t write itself.

That’s people making the dumb mistake of using the wrong units. They could have just as easily used the wrong metric units.

Fahrenheit makes more sense for human experience… 0 to 100 roughly corresponds to what can be survived for a significant amount of time. Below freezing you can survive without shelter as long as you’re dressed for it, but as you approach zero it gets a lot harder, you really need shelter and heat at that point. Same with above 100… 117 won’t kill you right away, but without some sort of man-made cooling device, you’ll be wishing it would. I say this having lived both extremes, mountains of Colorado in winter, and Phoenix in summer… Honestly, given the choice between 115 and -15, I’d rather have the cold.

Base twelve would be great if we went all-in, as in new symbols for single digit representation of ten and eleven, then 10 would mean twelve. Having a base that’s divisible by several primes is handy.

Then how to differentiate from 2x6? 2x8?

Planing. Planning wood is very different.