I'm having to write a lot more perl at work than I would prefer to. It's still poetry, I suppose, but mostly of the bathroom-stall variety.

I was pretty sure that some of the spam calls I received for awhile were from a prison - because they were absolutely unwilling to go off-script, no matter what I did on my end.

Even the ones that were obviously coming from overseas, I would occasionally get a pre-recorded voice saying "hold on a second", followed by a pause (during which the "caller" was presumably typing), and then a clear text-to-speech robotic voice telling me to fuck myself.

Exercising is already unpleasant enough; being hounded about it, and having to gamify it seems like it would make it even more of a chore.

But everyone's different. What motivates one person demotivates the other.

I was going to say something similar. Competitions between people does nothing for me (neither motivates nor demotivates), but accountability groups help me a lot to be more consistent or push a bit harder. But I've found that some of my friends really get turned off by the accountability groups, they feel like they're falling behind and end up giving up. Which is disappointing, the accountability groups aren't meant as competitions but encouragement. If you've got someone like me (I can lose weight quickly once I start exercising just a bit more than whatever my baseline is going into it) but your weight is harder to shed, if you see it as a comparison/competition then it can become very discouraging.

Phrasing in things like that matters a lot, how you talk about it and what you talk about.

But wouldn't you say gamifying it makes it less unpleasant and more interesting? But yes agree with your general thought on this.

For me, no, it makes it more unpleasant because now it feels like more of a chore, and I'll feel guilty about losing streaks, or dropping down in rankings, or whatever.

I exercise for myself, not for clout.

Do any of your customers find enough value in it to take it on themselves?

Finally, some Ai art I can get behind.

When Musk bought twitter, he all-but-explicitly said "I have finally bought this house, which I will let anyone spray paint".

And then promptly started to ban terms like "cis-gendered".

except for trans people and all the people he banned that disagree with him

> was impressed that I wasn't immediately annoyed by any ass kissing.

Did it only annoy you after reading it again?

He should be careful, a third reading and he might start to enjoy it.

No? In a disagreement with Italy, cloudflare is definitely going to need the intervention of the US administration. This (angry Twitter post) is how you're expected to ask for help in this timeline. I was expecting to annoyed with the faux allegiance. But here, I think they communicated their distain over the behavior as best as they could, while still asking for help.

I might not like it, but I understand it.

Equally, I might be wrong; but this feels to me like the post tries to as subtly as possible communicate that they have problems with the administration (my expectations for anyone who is at all ethical) While still also needing their help. And if I'm wildly incorrect; and cloudflare is actually in love with the administration, then it's still a master class in rhetoric, because they tricked me, which was probably the point?

I have the exact opposite muscle memory.

Burners, which you never bring anywhere near your home, and which you do not drive your car to pick up.

Nor should they, tbh. A few hundred bucks worth of shoes isn't worth getting hurt over.

I would not expect an hourly employee barely making minimum wage with no benefits to even lift a finger to stop a potentially violent shoplifter. If it were me, I'd hold the door for them to get them out of there.