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Hyacin (He/Him)

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  • Robot Vacuums Privacy

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  • PS: I can’t believe they called that app Valetudo (I get it - Hygieia). Just…that word has a very different meaning in many folks brains

    It's the robot vs the dirt, a fight to the death, or at least unconsciousness or a hospital trip! 🤣

    I feel like I remember hearing about an event or series called Valetudo in like, the middle east or something, back in the 90s around like, UFC 1-3 timeframe. Where like, Rickson did the majority of his fighting as far as I understood/remember. I didn't know until today it was a catchall term! I remember my buddy telling me about how absolutely legendary Rickson was and how it was such a shame all we had in the UFC was Royce, lol. I think I only ever saw him fight once, in Pride I'd guess... likely against Sakuraba (but I'm guessing and scraping the memory banks hard here.)

    Edit: AH, just looked it up, it was Takada ... a judo expert iirc ... yes, some of the cobwebs shaking loose now! And the "Vale Tudo" I'd heard about was a thing, but it wasn't in the middle east, it was Japan it seems! Probably confusing it with something else that was in the middle east.

  • (drama) Found myself stuck in a love triangle mess between two coworkers, what should I do?

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  • Fair, and same here! Here's hoping we cross paths again :-)

  • (drama) Found myself stuck in a love triangle mess between two coworkers, what should I do?

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  • To be fair I am talking about like, 2000-2010 here lol.

    Though I remember having a social outing just a couple years ago at my current job, and I remember my team mate and I'd say pretty good friend (who again, only met through work, but we clicked and connected) telling me after that he was really into this one girl that was there, and then a week or so later updating me that he'd asked her out but she wasn't interested and he was (obviously) leaving it at that ... and he's quite young, I'd say mid-20s.

    I do probably give off the "feel free to talk to me about casual and personal stuff" vibe though as I 100% loathe and reject the whole 'corporate culture' bs, and I currently work at the stuffiest most uptight place I've EVER worked at, lol.

    Also tech industry, so I think we're generally a lot more casual? No idea! :-)

  • (drama) Found myself stuck in a love triangle mess between two coworkers, what should I do?

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  • We were having a perfectly civil discourse (and I'm not sure where that downvote came from, but it wasn't me) ... I'm sad to see these messages deleted. :-(

  • (drama) Found myself stuck in a love triangle mess between two coworkers, what should I do?

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  • I've been through my share of large ISPs, telecoms and financial institutions in the last 28 years I've been working full time and not one of them has had a policy like this. At more than a couple of them it was not uncommon at all to have MANY husbands and wives working for the same company, in the same building, and they met at that company. It was downright shocking to me sometimes to be like "woa, wait, that dude on that other team is married to your SISTER? WHAT?!" Like rabbits just all over each other and very entrenched in each other's lives. :shrug:

  • (drama) Found myself stuck in a love triangle mess between two coworkers, what should I do?

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  • She doesn’t know that I know he asked her out, I would imagine. Would be kind of awkward to bring up as I haven’t even asked her out yet. lol

    Oooohhhh, yeah... that throws a wrench in to it. I will ponder and reply again if anything magical comes to mind (highly unlikely!)

    Good luck!

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  • Virtually every larger company has rules against romantic work relationships.

    This is false.

    They have rules against people dating subordinates, 100%.

  • (drama) Found myself stuck in a love triangle mess between two coworkers, what should I do?

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  • Confiding your love affairs to your boss is such a red flag though. No one does that.

    Disagree. One can have a "boss", or one can have a "manager." My entire career I've tried to get to know the people around me, my manager, my director, my peers, other random people - everyone I can. I spend a LOT of time with these people, and everything being "professional" 24/7 is draining. We're all real people, with real lives, real interests, hobbies, etc. - and the happiest I've ever been while working is when I was surrounded by people I wouldn't hesitate to call "friends", and that includes discussion personal issues often - maybe not quite as much as I would with say, a friend from high school, but close.

    Related - I married a 'girl from work' many years ago, and the person who was both our manager when we got together, and still my manager when we had the wedding, was one of my groomsmen. I did not know this man before starting that job, but spending more time with him and interacting with him more than my 'high school friends', by a LOT, over those four YEARS, meant we easily became at least 80% as close as I was with any of my outside-of-work friends.

    Edit: And I actually just remembered, said manager met his wife at work too! They are still happily married unlike my ex and I (who are happily divorced and have the best/healthiest relationship that we've ever had now.)

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  • Threesome!

    Joking, obviously. Seriously though, on paper, I'd discuss it with her openly and honestly, say I'm interested, but it might be better if we wait until John moves on, either to a new job, or a new girl. In reality, I'd probably just do nothing, not having the courage to talk to Jane about it.

  • Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project

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  • for a second, care about more than just yourself!

    Wow, look at that, from one comment you know my entire personality and life story. I'd kindly invite you to get fucked, I spend 3/4s of my life caring about others and substantial quantities of my income goes to charities. Take your anti-social, RUDE, generalizing and offensive bullshit back to Reddit if you're going to behave like they do.

  • What would you think of a 48/49/50 year old married man with kids(including a 19/20yr old daughter) and grandkids blatantly and consistently flirting with women in their early-mid 20's

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  • There's a rule... there's a reason it's a rule...

    Half plus seven.

    I didn't come up with it, but it seems to work out pretty good across the board, and it's known by most men that I've talked to.

    48-50 works out to 31-32, MINIMUM acceptable age.

    Anything younger is officially creepy.

  • Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project

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  • Noted. Will refrain from eating my headphones.

    More seriously though, yeah, "can be absorbed through the skin", fine, but at what levels? Like, seriously ... we're not talking about things we consume or things we put stuff into that we consume (i.e. BPA in a water bottle). I get it, strive for perfect and keep this crap out of our environments entirely, but this is really coming off as sensationalist clickbait to me compared to say, a study that shows people who use these products have confirmed higher incidences of cancer or something more substantial like that.

  • Yet another Trump ambassador doesn't know how to behave.

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  • But they do know how to behave - they behave like the person they represent - that is, I assume, why he appointed them, so they can represent him internationally, and do and say exactly the things he would, or that are in line with his views. They are functioning exactly as intended as far as I'm concerned.

  • How can I remain professional toward this female colleague I feel wants something romantic with me when I don't?

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  • Yeah I've seen it go both ways before. Ideally they just send out some blanket memo "reminding people of our policy on $x" and everyone who may be doing something even a little questionable wonders if it's about them and adjusts their behaviour.

    I actually just had that this week - we had a team thing and our director reminded us about "team norms" and blah blah, and I knew exactly why he was doing it, and who and what the real problem was - but other random people started showing up to meetings on time and such - because they all thought "oh crap, did someone complain about me?"

    But, as said, you have zero control over what they do, so sadly it could go either way.

  • What are some subscription services done right?

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  • Coffee delivery. I use a fairly consistent amount, so I don't get as overloaded/running out as some other things I've tried to subscribe to - and it lets me bypass "big grocery", and get better quality product directly from the roaster/blender.

  • Government Surveillance on Chinese vs US made phones

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  • This was absolutely my thinking in the couple/few years I had Xiaomi and Oppo hardware. CCP doesn't know or care who I am.

    Of course, no one spying on me is even better, so when I found out about Graphene I dumped my Find N5 at a pretty staggering loss to jump to that. Super anxious for them to start supporting non-Google hardware (last estimate I saw was late 2026/early 2027.)

  • How come some people can work 8 hours straight and then have energy to hit the gym, but if I walk for 1 hour in the treadmil all that I can is lay down for the rest of the day?

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  • I used to love doing that. The gym is so much quieter and empty at that time too. It was messing with my sleep though getting myself that amped up that late at night :(

  • How come some people can work 8 hours straight and then have energy to hit the gym, but if I walk for 1 hour in the treadmil all that I can is lay down for the rest of the day?

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  • Thank you. My day has been made.

    Almost had coffee come out my nose too!

  • How many of you are interested in one single genre of porn your whole life?

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    CBC is exposing the Canada to Israel Charity Pipeline

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    The WORST Toronto News Station

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    Her camera spoke when the world looked away

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    Her camera spoke when the world looked away

    plancanada.ca /en-ca/stories/fatima-hassouna-gaza-photo-diary