Oh no.

Literally everything OP posts is from RT or a similar Russian mouthpeice. I am - and I’m being serious here - stunned by the level of doublethink on display. I would say they’re a bot, but I think even a bot would be like, “nah, this is too much - no-one is this much of a cretin”.

Yup! I had an amazing job lined up working for a major company at their EMEA headquarters in the UK. I had got through a half-dozen rounds of interviews and was offered the position. I had just moved into a place near their campus and was heading through the process of joining (there was a longwinded - but fully paid - enrolment process I was working through) with an amazing job full of travel, interesting challenges and, crucially, a £100k/year salary waiting at the end. But this was shortly after Brexit and the flailing UK government was jumping from self-imposed crisis to completely-unavoidable crisis, insulting and infuriating other countries by constantly changing the terms of neotiation, publicly announcing then denying new impossible promises by the day, and the company in questions had just had enough: how the fuck could they keep their EMEA HQ in a country that couldn’t even promise that foreigners would be able to visit - let alone work - there in six months, and they announced the campus was closing. All the existing jobs moved to the EU, existing staff offered redundancy or relocation, and the onboarding process was cancelled. Thanks to Brexit I wasn’t allowed to live or work in the EU so I was jobless. I ended up doing shitting IT support jobs for £20k then £18k for years until I finally landed the job I’m in now which I love, but it’s definately not where I could - or, at the risk of sounding arrogant should - have been.

Remember when you could lick the cake mix off the spoon as a kid? Yeah, the mechanics won’t let me do that.

Subbed. I encourage you, dear reader, to do the same.

It’s more like the GitHub of Spotify, or the Grammarly of Xbox Live, or the BMW of Pepsi Max, or the South Korea of pineapples, etc.

“And, per se, and”

Amazing; the features I like the most about the things I like are also what I like about the most about them. Truly, you and I have our similarities in common.

“No”, is the answer, but with good reason. Eutelsat’s LEO offering is of a far higher standard than the Dipshit’s, but the cost of the service and equipment is way higher too because they’re not focusing on individuals and households, but on entire villages, research stations, phone towers, factories, cruise ships, oil platforms and the like. The stakes, demands, and loads are greater.

That said, I really wish they would bring out a SoHo-grade product.

Six word horror story.

Fucki-, just, fucking fuck off.

Upvoted, obvs. But still.

Agreed, the current batch of Office icons - and the updated versions rolling out soon - are excellent. I’m a big fan. But I still wish Outlook was gold.

I’m still pissed off that they dropped the gold(ish) colour for Outlook.

That’s really clever. If you’ve not noticed it yet: if you hold your phone at arms length and blur your vision it creates the illusion of a vague blob that doesn’t look like Taylor Swift.

“The anxiety of an man with the ability to be rendered into glue after death of a horse.”

“Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner.”

Do not trifle with Appellomancers.

Alt Text: “Anyone who tries to give you a new name is suspicious. Your parents, for example.”

Source: https://www.oglaf.com/branding/