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@mutuals I have changed my header for the first time since like 2016 and i am dead serious

watch this space if things get more stupid

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do you ever tell people you’ll be going to sleep but then you don’t and you have to not do anything noticable online for the sake of it seeming as if you didn’t lie to them

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rubensmuse

the last time i got sloppy with this @tinynaught Columbo’d me

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The mattress company I worked for the first time no longer exists. It was long ago eaten and assimilated by a bigger company. But when I started it was an incredibly intense five weeks of training. I was told I was extremely lucky to be selected, and I was. From a pool of a hundred applicants only fifteen of us made the cut to entering the training program.

The course covered how to talk to customers, how to ask open ended questions, how to close a sale, and product knowledge. I learned a lot, and truthfully my greatest takeaway was a lot of social scripts that I could use in other areas of my life.

We also had a midterm exam and a final. Both included a roleplay element with a trainer and a written portion. They told us when we started that the course was challenging but it was still a shock to come in after the midterm and realize half the class had failed.

I was named valedictorian of training- a dubious honor as it meant I’d done the best in the class, but popular lore had it that valedictorians struggled the most on the sales floor. Lo, I struggled.

Not because I wasn’t good. I was. But because my manager set out to systematically destroy my self esteem. Every sale, every interaction I had was scrutinized and criticized.

If I sold a bed with protectors, moveable base, and pillows he’d ask why I hadn’t managed to sell pillow protectors too. His first trainee had thrived on being challenged and he’d never bothered to learn a different way to coach.

It was wretched. My performance started strong but nosedived after a few weeks with him. My trainer, a man I loathed for stonewalling me in my interview, came in to inform me I was on new hire probation. If I couldn’t get my sales numbers up I’d be let go.

His actual phrasing was, “When you have a bandaid do you like to rip it off or pull it slowly?”

Since it was eminently obvious why he was visiting and because I thought it was condescending I sweetly informed him that I liked to soak my bandaids in hot water so they come off on their own.

He was briefly startled at this derailing but then got on with the bad news. I signed some forms stating that I understood my job was in peril.

I went home furious. I thought long and hard about why I wasn’t succeeding and how frustrated I was with my manager. I came in the next day and my anger had crystallized into a cold sharp edge.

My manager opened his mouth to address the probation and I snapped, “Just leave me alone. Go in the back if I have a sale. If you must address a serious issue then you will give me praise on two things I did right and present it as a compliment sandwich. Otherwise just say good job and shut up. Your constant nitpicking just makes me anxious and I do worse. Back off.” Belated and begrudging I added, “Please.”

He raised his eyebrows in dim surprise but I’d gauged him well. He backed off. Dutifully he’d meander into the back when I had a sale and praised me when I closed it. I resented knowing it was only because I’d demanded complimented but they still boosted me up. My numbers skyrocketed, I landed my first split king sale, and I exited probation with flying colors.

The trainer came back in to congratulate my manager for turning things around. To my gratification he gave me credit for setting him straight and said I’d taught him a different way to lead. My manager would often genuinely praise that moment when I’d stood up to him, impressed with my stubborn refusal to fail and my insight into what would help.

My biggest takeaway from the whole thing was just that people need positive reinforcement to succeed. Praise people for doing a good job. If you’re ever in a position where you need to criticize someone put it in a compliment sandwich instead of just saying the negative.

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nickyflowers

i'm tired of how boring the little free libraries are in my neighborhood. i'm going make a little newspaper to put in them. i will inject some whimsy and delight into this godforsaken suburb all by myself

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nickyflowers

i have to do everything around here

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what-even-is-thiss

If you live in the US, NBC posts their nightly national news broadcast on YouTube for free. If you wanna stay broadly informed but get overwhelmed by reading the news they have all major news of the day and have a good news segment at the end.

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smurfyscott asked:

Hi Mark, since Foundations is going to be standard legal for 5 years, which means you can’t change the actual card list: would it be possible to do a mid cycle art refresh? Just to keep it in the consumer’s eye?

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markrosewater answered:

I believe an art refresh is not off limits.

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damienhaaas

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science-junkie

… and here is a gift for all of us.

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goddess47

So I can find this again! Great list!

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clairificusrex

Don’t lose this post

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ratking-usurper

Fuck, even our furniture is evolving into crabs

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It's called the Carpentopod and was designed by Giliam de Carpentier, a programmer at Guerrilla Games.

12-legged wireless wooden robot coffee table that walks like a boss
The Carpentopod, a 12-legged walking coffee table by Giliam de Carpentier, combines CNC bamboo with motors for smooth, tank-like movement.
Interesting Engineering

He's got a page dedicated to the project with lots of his design info if you want to take a swing at making your own. His response to the video getting a huge amount of attention was to make the Carpentopod linkage system Public Domain. Which is awesome. It runs off a Arduino Nano micro-processer board BTW.

Carpentopod: A walking table project
Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and
decarpentier.nl
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adobe-outdesign

high-key obsessed with this XY museum concept art that shows a guy just casually holding a Mew

even better is the in-game blurb that goes with the painting, which is both great worldbuilding and also very funny:

A Man and Mew: They say a man of power at the time forced the artist to add the Mythical Pokémon Mew to spread the word of how great he was.
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cloverthirteen

if I may add on. I remember this painting's existance mainly because of this old post. it's in the lumiose museum

Source: reddit.com
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theactioneer

Akalabeth: World of Doom (California Pacific, 1980)

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foone

computer game graphics are so realistic these days

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foone

so, Akalabeth: World of Doom is a 1979 game for the Apple II. It's one of the first Computer Role Playing Games of all time, predating even Wizardy and Might and Magic. It launched the career of its creator, Richard Garriott, who went on to make the Ultima series. He was only 18 when he made it, in his bedroom.

It's often called Ultima 0, since it's a sort of simple dry-run for what Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness would be.

So yeah! I joke, but this game is actually very important in video game history. This was one of the first RPGs, made by a teenager who put disks in ziplocs with art by his mom, and then went on to sell 30,000 copies.

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sempegzrd

bumped into this cheesy thing i did back in 2022 and i still have no idea what i feel about so i think its ? Thumbs up?

translation in pictures undercut

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squiiids

thread count is a lie perpetrated by Big Bedsheets. what really matters is the material.

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squiiids

i said this as a joke but then i googled this and

turns out i was right?????? high thread count IS a lie?????

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