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Fun: I'm taking a nuclear physics lab this semester! I'm gonna get to play with radioactive stuff!

Not-so-fun (but understandable): I have to take additional safety training on top of the lab safety training I've already done.

Oh, gods no: The trainings (yes, there's multiple) are videos of powerpoints with no way to skip though or download the powerpoint or anything, so I have to sit through long videos. This would be not-so-fun, but ADHD! This is excruciating!

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i am especially not downloading it when i click on a web link and get forwarded to the play store. how fucking presumptuous. fuck you imo

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no, you fuckers, i am not downloading your app just because i am looking on my phone. i have a whole-ass web browser

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Just so we're clear, don't @ me on this. I'm not interested in having 59 million techbros showing up in my mentions to all give me the same two reasons why they think I'm wrong. I'm even less interested in techbros who'd be calling me by my deadname if they knew it showing up in my mentions to tell me why I should call something the way they think it should be called. You can all piss right off.

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Calling it "GNU/Linux" makes me infinitely less likely to listen to you when you tell me I should use it.

Oh boy. My partial differential equations professor has emailed us and told us to review (ordinary) differential equations. I don't have a huge amount of study in ODEs (my diff. eq. class was a combined course with linear algebra) and was kinda hoping for a couple days of review. This class might just end up killing me. Send help.

Seriously, if you know of any good sources for reviewing ordinary differential equations, I could *really* use them right now

I have obtained a mystical scrying lens, forged in the depths of hell by the mystical "icu", that grants me the ability to see that which the naked eye can't. 

Okay, so it's a cheap magnifying glass I bought a target that makes it easier for me to read the markings on various PCB components, but come on! Play along, would ya?!

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No context 

"It's like they say: even the best laid plans of mice and men can get fucked up by bejeweled's randomizer."

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@tinytoydragon@snouts.online This is basically just SCP-3008, isn't it? Man, that paints a dark picture for the surviving groups...

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Seriously, though. There is no excuse in 2020 to be sending HTML email. You can almost assuredly get your point across just as well with a plain text email.

Fuck HTML email.

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More bitchin' about my uni 

1) Fuck HTML email. Fucking send me plain text, god damn it.

2) Unless there's stuff I'm missing, I'm pretty sure this violates regulations regarding accessibility.

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More bitchin' about my uni 

HTML email is a fucking mess, and my uni's housing department's emails prove it. It is literally tables upon tables upon tables filled with images and nothing shows up *in my university's webmail*. I can't even view this shit through the client they give us. And guess what? No alt-text. At least, none I can see or make use of. All of this just to tell me when apartment renewals open up (or, rather, fail to tell me, as there is no discernable info in this email).

@cozykaffe@snouts.online I...uh...might still login on a daily basis...

I have zero reason to do so. The only friend I have on there (my cousin) doesn't use the platform anymore, and I don't interact with the forums or anything. And, yet, I continue to do so.

Someone free me from this curse

Reasons I love business-grade laptops (macbooks, of course, excluded, if they could even be counted as business grade): I just finished taking my laptop apart, reapplying thermal paste to the cpu and gpu, and putting it back together. The hardest part of all this was when I had to run out to the store to buy some isopropanol. It was that simple. Dell even conveniently provides step by step instructions on how to get to the heatsink!

Bitchin' about my uni 

Oh, and for good measure, I can't even buy a permit for the lot I normally park in, so I have to move the car to a lot that the permit I had to buy applies to. Gods, UTA is such a shitshow of a university.

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Bitchin' about my uni 

Like, I know I should be using 2FA on everything, but I kinda don't wanna bother for my uni stuff, and I wasn't, even though it was an option for the past few months. But whether 2FA is good or not, *ALL THEIR FUCKIN' SYSTEMS SHOULD AT LEAST BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE*

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