#technical outlook

[lgbtlunaverse]

Jgy is a class traitor this, jgy is the only person who cares about the common people that. Jgy is the type of guy who would scab during a strike, bring in a union-buster to earn favours from upper management, slowly work his way up to CEO and then give everyone the extra vacation days and payraises they were asking for anyway. Which is an extremely funny type of guy to be. Like, can we all take a break from arguing to agree how fucking hilarious that is?

[chaoskirin]

Today, While I was in the middle of typing an email, Microsoft Outlook 365 popped up a window demanding feedback. And boy did I have shit to say.

I had to keep the swearing out, because apparently any report I make is duplicated and sent to the IT department. But the text I ended up sending follows:

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God, I have so much to tell you. Thank you for giving me the opportunity. First: Stop messing with everything. Outlook works fine, but you keep changing things that don't need changing. Moving buttons around. Turning on features that I have explicitly turned off for not working before. Just today, you turned on the auto-suggestions again, which would be great if it actually worked. Instead, when it suggests anything you don't accept, it just mashes words together. Do you know how it feels to be typing a professional email and you miss one of those failures and send your email anyway? I mean, to be fair, I caught ten, so I still got a 90% on the ol' Microsoft-sanctioned-typo-factory. But the person I emailed doesn't see it that way, do they? They see that I mashed three words together like there was a wasp on the space bar.

Plus, my signature keeps getting deleted. Not just switched to nothing, but completely deleted. Which means I have to re-make that every time your developers get bored and decide to re-haul a program that absolutely never needs re-hauling. I remember once a couple months ago the attachment button just disappeared, and there was no way for me to attach a final bill. I had to actually use my personal gmail address to send an email to a customer because for about 16 hours, it was impossible to attach anything.

But, you say, I should have sent error reports. And I did. But the question in my mind always comes back to "why are you messing with something that does not need changing?" The only thing that ever happens is that you change aesthetics. Colors. This time the boxes are gone. Do you think you're at risk of losing customers? Do you think you have to keep things new and fresh? No. People are shackled to you. You have a quasi-monopoly and a stranglehold on a whole lot of workflows. People cannot leave you. In the world of word processing and spreadsheets, you are Alcatraz. You don't have to change things to keep people here.

Instead, long-time bugs continue to plague everything I do within this hell-suite of software. Sometimes when I try to start typing in the body of the email, outlook decides that, no, I don't want to type an email! I want to send the other emails in my inbox to the archive, where, if I don't notice this, they will sit and fester forever. There's also the bug where I create an email and it duplicates it and puts it in my drafts. Or the bug where it just creates a blank email and puts it in my drafts. Do you want to know how many blank emails I've deleted from my drafts folder? There are not enough numbers in existence to count this.

If you REALLY want to know how to improve Outlook and this message isn't just going into the wilderness like all those notebooks from the hit-TV-show-where-nobody-liked-the-ending, LOST, then please. Listen. From the bottom of my heart and from the top of my lungs: Stop changing everything. Nothing needs changing. Just run a good service. Get your programmers onto fixing longstanding bugs instead of trying to make an email and scheduling program look like a fashion show in Paris.

And if I seem a little ticked off in this message, it's because your request for feedback popped up in the middle of me compiling an email, which was just about halfway done. Outlook, in all its wisdom, decided that I didn't actually need that email and went ahead and deleted all the text in it. All of it. So after I finish giving you an earful, I'm going to have to retype it.

Hope this helps. Have a wonderful day.

[eriexplosion]

At some point I want to write a whole thing about how Hunter is a complete deconstruction of the Mentor Figure. I often think about how he's definitely set up like one initially and then proceeds to teach Omega essentially jack shit because he never had any idea what's going on. Hunter cannot mentor he doesn't know how that works, he confronts every issue with the sullen weight of someone that needs an adultier adult but knows that there isn't one available.

[ladybessyboo]

happy finale everyone, have fun

[red-dyed-sarumane]

thinking this morning how i was like "all my favorite characters have died except rime thankfully shes a vocal synth so they cant kill her" and then they fucking killed her i cannot catch a break.

[chilope]

sent an email on monday, noticed today that i had more drafts than usual, check, its the email i thought i sent monday with everything except the first sentence deleted 😑

[imflyingfish]

this show where diving aircraft is yuri kiss powed and everybody is born a girl and has to choose their gender once turned seventeen at times postponing it to remain as neither a man or a woman; essentially rejecting adulthood and remaining as a religious pilot to defend your homeland. to become a man is to change your body and grow up and give up your life, to become a woman is to remain lesser in society yet divine. You only have one chance to choose what you wish to be physically and in society. its irreversible. you're doing it to save the society. you're doing it for the holy. shit.

[noname-nonartist]

Ngl. I’m sort of glad I’m currently hyperfixated about Project Sekai.

Especially from what I’ve been hearing and seeing from glimpses about the jjk manga atm. I can tell the fandom discord would be chaotic!

Would the fandom be as toxic as it was during the Gojo vs Sukuna fight?

Dunno. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And like, it doesn’t matter to me anyway since I’m over here kicking my legs excitedly about all my favs within Project Sekai~ :3c

Besidessss. I do need that optimism in my life atm~ ;v;

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

brian when that feels good right there like that

[frostiifae]

i really hate whenever anyone brings up pedophilia on tumblr because like. OK, I have read your post and saw the word ‘pedophilia’ and when I say that word, what comes to mind to me is sexual material involving adults (~18+ but, from what i’m led to believe, usually much older) and children (~<16). What are my thoughts on that? It’s awful. Abhorrent. Extremely extremely bad. You could do your utmost to make something artistic and elegant and I would side-eye you to the end of the universe at a bare minimum.

But I don’t know that that’s what you mean. Distance yourself from the narrative of “modern purity culture” all you want; there exists a significant demographic of people that clutch their pearls at pretty normal expressions of human sexuality just because they themselves don’t share that perspective. The concept of pedophilia has been used very irresponsibly, even just in my immediate presence, to describe a pretty wide array of totally acceptable things.

Stories about characters who are canonically minors but portrayed as adults in the work? I would like to think this is a no-brainer but unfortunately some people do not think so. I’ve even heard this described as ‘grooming’.

Stories about characters who don’t have a single unambiguous age? This is especially egregious with characters who are clearly personal vessels. Sorry, my vision of Link(le) and Zelda is a little bit different now than it was when I was 12. Those characters have grown up alongside me in my heart. It’s a little foolish to project the idea of pedophilia onto narratives I create about adults because you think of them as children still.

Stories about two 16-year-olds engaging sexually? Sorry, some people are or were sexually active 16 year olds. That’s just a thing that exists. People write and read about that. You can write it irresponsibly, sure, in the same way you can write two 30 year olds fucking irresponsibly.

At some point, we have to acknowledge that the problem is not the content of the stories but the character of the person writing them, but that’s a scary idea because it means accepting the distinct possibility of people writing some abhorrent and problematic work... without actually being evil malicious people who want to inflict that evil on society. it means acknowledging that the danger of fiction is extremely secondary to the danger of people’s real actions, and that policing art is functionally useless.

I do believe there are a handful of ideas that are so fundamentally evil and horrific that a person can be judged sheerly just for having it, and I’d classify pedophilia as one of them. But I can’t take that term seriously when it’s used in a post on Tumblr, because what could you possibly be hoping to accomplish by doing so? A Tumblr post, no matter how sternly worded, isn’t going to protect children or put people in prison (/rehab/whatever you feel is appropriate). There are things you can do that might actually help, if you genuinely felt someone was in danger, but this isn’t it.

But, if you’re distraught over a big scary world full of people doing things you disagree with personally and you’re seeking validation from somebody that you’re not the crazy one, a vague but sharp-tongued tumblr post using inflammatory language that you feel is right, but without clarifying what you mean explicitly, would be a great way to do that, wouldn’t it?

[financia012]

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[luckymathur]

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[wonindia]

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[llovehymn]

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Testosterone.

[intelisync]

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[sysig]

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