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You'd have to sweat a lot for that to be a factor. Not that it is irrelevant, but humans can drink distilled water just fine. In fact, there are regions, where bottled water is almost exclusively distilled.

So as long as you don't plan to participate in the Tour de France, you'll be fine.

Nah, I think you're mixing things up here.

"Toxic" is just a label you're putting on everything you don't like and you're also putting a ton of implications behind it.

If Stacy wants a feature, and she's the official representative, I need to clarify what that feature means. A manager can't shield me from having to research the technical implications, that's my job.

Also, you can ignore calls all you want, if there is a genuine need to communicate, you need to have that call at some point. That's actually your first point in the list above.

I think you never worked in a role above code grunt. As a senior developer, my job is to do all what I described above. I need to do all the technical legwork a manager can't. I need to write everything down. I need to get feedback from stakeholders. That's nothing a manager can do and that's nothing a junior can do.

I code something like half an hour a day.

uNuSeD rAm Is WaStEd RaM!!!

I feel like these memes of hating everything other than lone coding is because you keep working for toxic companies.

No, it's because we are working with humans and their deeply flawed organizations. As much as people hate corporations and love startups, both are always a mess. Every organization I've seen from the inside is barely functioning. Cruft, interpersonal conflicts, incompetence, or simply very bad market situations.

Software engineering kind of has to get involved with almost all of that. If you need to get approval from department A and Stacy just keeps changing what she wants, you'll have to carry that chaos into the development and it will usually percolate through half the engineering department, because hardly any interface is actually a stable attack surface. That means meetings, calls, meetings, reviews, meetings, and fucking Stephen again wants to pitch this weird framework he's so in love with, meetings, budget calls, because there's no way, simply changing the field length can take that much work, meetings, .....

And the new Teams is not simply a replacement, no. It's called "Teams (for work or school)" or something, while the old app is "Teams classic". Both look the same and are the same sluggish mess. So why exactly did we do all that crap?

Yes. The first woman that approached me in a club. I was a fat boy most of my life, lost a bunch of weight during university, but was still very very insecure due to trauma and some residual skin/fat.

She simply came up to me and said "Hi, I find you incredibly attractive." - very simple statement, but this was the first time I had seriously considered the possibility that a woman would be attracted to me.

Because it's a defense argument.

Defending the weak or defending oneself are the only legitimate causes for violence in most Western societies. Even the Nazis framed much of their violence as defense of the race (and by extension, humanity) against Jews and bolshevists. Hardly any group says downright "fuck those guys, because I really don't like them", is almost always a threat. Immigrants take our jobs, welfare state or women, gays make our poor little kids gay, etc. etc. So you never hate a human, you hate a threat agent.

Famous German dad joke: "Nach fest kommt ab" - after tight comes off.

Vielleicht lebe ich auch in einer komischen Stadt, aber das würde effektiv sämtliche Altbauviertel zu Verbotszonen machen. Der Gehweg vor meinem Haus ist insgesamt nicht mal 1,80m breit.

Das könnte echt miese Implikationen haben.

Ist eine andere Abteilung.

Nur halb ein Witz.

If you wouldn't be such a reader and instead memorized things like God intended, you'd know, that this sentiment existed for at least 2000 years:

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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Oh those poor fellows.