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Boinkage

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  • When / why / how did "I hope you are well" become a standard email intro?

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  • I think you're answering your own question here.

    Your blunt coworker has to explain himself or risks being taken as rude by people who don't know him. You yourself couldn't determine if he was being rude to you without some additional context.

    Without further context, you don't know how to interpret an email that says where is my spreadsheet motherfucker.

    In both cases, you're saying further social cues are needed to determine if someone you don't know very well is being rude or not. Hence, why people emailing people they don't know very well in a professional capacity include niceties to convey context and tone.

  • When / why / how did "I hope you are well" become a standard email intro?

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  • I use this when the tone of my email would otherwise be, where's my spreadsheet motherfucker?? It's nice to modify the overall tone of the email to something more friendly. I have a very curt writing style so I'm often concerned my emails will come off as blunt or demanding if I don't include a pleasantry.

    I work in a very friendly, informal field so I find myself doing little pleasantries to fit in, email-wise.

  • How would Biden give abortion rights?

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  • He would not, because the executive branch does not create laws. He could ask the legislature to pass such a law or to amend the constitution.

  • People who post in other languages than English, do you also get mass downvotes ?

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  • It's because native English speakers are seeing it in their All feed. If it's appearing in the All feed and the user has their feed set to English language only, then the poster failed to set what language their post was in. So they are downvoting the post for not setting the language.

    I personally don't agree with this, I'm annoyed when I see a post in All in a language I don't know, but I simply block the user and move on. But maybe the persistent downvotes would call attention to the issue and encourage the poster to use the language settings in the future. As is happening right here.

  • Are EVs in cold countries still more energy-efficient than gasoline in the winter?

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  • More efficient per dollar or per energy unit? Either way, almost certainly EVs will be more efficient than a fossil fuel vehicle dollar for dollar or fuel energy unit.

  • Discussing the Potential of EV Charger Sharing in Our Community

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  • A bit of feedback - you have some questions in the structure of why or why not, but they are yes or no questions. And many folks need to charge less than once a day, maybe just once a week, and I doubt anyone is charging three times a day. I would expand those answer choices to once a week, twice a week, daily.

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    Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce

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  • Ah okay, you're not a conservative idiot, you're a liberal who is very bad at conveying sarcasm. Carry on.

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    Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce

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  • If you use the words woke agenda unironically, you are not welcome in this instance of Lemmy.

  • Republican lawmakers push to ban feds from removing border barriers after Supreme Court defeat

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  • Is Fox News a website we need to be reading?

  • He broke out my window

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  • Which one?

  • Should I get a PS5?

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  • If a ps5 is $500, and a decent TV is $300, you could build a PC for $800 that will serve you for years and years. When a console becomes obsolete every piece of it becomes worthless. When a PC becomes obsolete every piece of it except the graphics card and processor will continue to be useful. In 5 years it will be far cheaper to upgrade an $800 budget gaming PC than it will be to purchase the PS6. A gaming PC is an investment, a console is a an expensive piece of hardware that will do what you need for 5 years or so, then become an expensive piece of trash.

    Add to this the savings you will have by investing in steam games instead of proprietary console games. You already own a steam deck and have probably spent hundreds of dollars on games on steam. If you buy a PlayStation you will start from scratch buying PlayStation games. If you build a PC you will have a full game library on the day you turn it on which you have already paid for.

  • How to make sourdough without messing with starter every day?

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  • That is interesting thank you!

  • How to make sourdough without messing with starter every day?

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  • Great suggestion thanks!

  • How to make sourdough without messing with starter every day?

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  • Thanks, I will check for that!

  • How to make sourdough without messing with starter every day?

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  • Thanks, that is probably correct. Whipping out sourdough at a potluck is such a huge flex though.