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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I’m not American and I’ve done it too. That’s the whole point of PTO: take some time out to do whatever you want at any time, without needing to give advance notice or anything like that.

    If you want to go on vacation, then you need to use your Vacation days instead - that way your employer will know, for example, that you should absolutely not be contacted by anyone from work during that period.

    What are Americans doing on their Paid Vacation Days?


  • Your point is actually what makes remote work so much more effective. When you work in an office, you get used to things working by chance - people seeing what others are doing, talking about it on coffee breaks and so on. When everybody is working remotely, you quickly realize that those things that happened by chance were actually a lot more important than it might seem at first - and then you can do the dumb thing and go back to having it happen by chance, or you can change your processes to ensure that everyone who may have anything to say about what you’re doing, know that you’re doing it.



  • Even beyond just emotions, in Portuguese the “be” verb can be translated into two different verbs: “ser” and “estar”. They are two complete separate things - so separate that English classes kinda turned the “to be” verb into a meme due to how long it takes to teach Portuguese speakers to use it and understand what it means in each sentence.

    “Ser”: to be someone who is something. Usually more permanent, but not necessarily.

    “Estar”: to be in the state of something. Usually more temporary, but also applies to permanent states.

    Some examples showing how the meaning of some expressions change depending on which verb you use:

    You are sick “Ser”: you are a sick (twisted/evil) person. “Estar”: you have caught some sickness.

    You are sad “Ser”: life has made you sad in general. “Estar”: you’re feeling sad right now.

    You are beautiful: “Ser”: you are a beautiful person. “Estar”: you are looking great today.

    You’re good at this: “Ser”: literal, you’re good at this. “Estar”: implies being good is not the default but you have reached the point of being good at this.

    **you’re funny drunk": “Ser”: when you’re drunk you are funny. “Estar”: you are drunk now and this time you turned out to be funny while drunk. Or, in this point of your life you’re funny when you’re drunk.

    it’s cold there: “Ser”: that is a cold place. “Estar”: that place is cold right now.

    it’s cold there now “Ser”: it’s like saying that winters in that place used to be mild but nowadays winter there can get pretty cold “Estar”: that place is cold right now.




  • Phen@lemmy.eco.brto196@lemmy.worldOopsie rule :3
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    7 months ago

    What’s missing from your analogy is that if you try to run away and fail, your mom will beat you even more - and both your parents spent their whole lives rigging the house so you wouldn’t get away. And if you manage to, any other person you talk to in the street will turn out to be an undercover security officer who will take you back to the house.

    It is 100% a hostage situation - you either let them have their way and accept a miserable life, or they force their way and you live a miserable and painful life.

    Of course the ideal solution is to get away. But how? Simply trying to walk out the front door every 4 years is not really working.







  • Phen@lemmy.eco.brtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldcromchy
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    8 months ago

    Mix it with 5 spoons of chocolate powder and one spoon of butter (or margarine); stir it together, then put it on the microwave for 4 minutes on max temperature. take it out, stir it all again to let the hot air out and put it back on the microwave for another 2 or 3 minutes.

    The numbers may need to be tweaked for specific brands of ingredients but that’s the general baseline and even if you get it all wrong it’ll still be generally good.