Depends on who your dear is 😁

Is helium used in deodorants these days?

Hahaha, you’re so full of shit your eyes are brown.

All companies with more than a handful of employees, have HR. It’s a legal issue for them.

Salary vs hourly really has fuck all to do with this.

Good HR people are there to protect the company, yes, but they’re also there to protect the employees.

Their primary responsibility is to protect the company, protecting employees only matters in the context of protecting the company.

Didn’t bother reading the rest, because you’re already bullshitting.

Source: almost 4 decades in very large (tens of thousands of employees) companies

Hurr durr, 'Muricans Stoopid

People like you crack me up, all butthurt cause Americans don’t give a fuck about where you’re from.

Just shows you want attention from Americans, like you’re mad your crush doesn’t know you exist.

Only New Yorkers think this way.

How do you know someone’s from New York?

Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

Talk about dumb.

Are you going to assume the risk of this change, and pay the millions upon millions of dollars to make it happen, and for what benefit?

We have thousands of devices that simply don’t support it (because they were designed before IP6 existed. You going to pay to replace them, and the labor to replace them, and the reprogramming to replace them, and the RISK you create while doing this?

Dumb is right. Hubris is another word that comes to mind.

Why should I use IP6 in my small home network?

Or in an SMB where there are less than 100 IP’s used on a daily basis?

First I have to pay the cost of transition, along with the risk of things not working while I do this, and then the risk of something new being added and not working.

There’s simply no value in these environments to switching, and a lot of risk.

Now let’s look at Enterprise, where you have thousands of desktops, probably thousands of servers, extensive networking that already works (along with many, many devices that don’t support IP6, like printers, scanners, access control devices, surveillance hardware, etc, etc). Are you going to pay the tens of millions to transition, and assume the risk?

IP6 is good for backbone right now. It will slowly transition into LAN for larger environments (think Enterprise when they setup new network segments, since they’re buying new hardware anyway. But only after extensive testing.

But IP4 is just fine for small networks, and I don’t see any reason for IP6, ever, for home and SMB LAN.

Yea, hay is a generic term for grasses used as feed.

Or crazy cheap (like copay), since it prevents lots of expenses for the insurance company.

Not sure if your link is the same as I’ve read, but yes, the thing with prostate cancer is that treatment doesn’t seem to change the outcome.

This is most likely because it usually doesn’t develop until mid-50’s or later, and grows so slowly that it doesn’t have time to kill you.

I think the concern would be it occurring in younger ages, or it growing faster than typical.

So test and monitor is likely a good thing, treatment shouldn’t be a given, unless there are clear signs.

There are primarily 2 stool tests available today, one has significant false positives, the other doesn’t.

I forget the names, or I’d send you a link. It’s been about a year since I looked it up. I know my insurance uses the more accurate one, fortunately.

Yep, it’s even bad for the driver. Reflective glare off signs shows it well, plus the sharp cutoff means you have high contrast - something is either well-it or totally dark.

Unfortunately lighting regs haven’t changed, and I don’t know if the research exists that demonstrates what makes for effective vehicle lighting.

If it does, even then we’d have to push it into regs, and you know how much the industry will fight it.

I mean, the pantries ask for canned goods, because they’re shelf stable, portable, safe.

Not sure where you think this is anything like used needles.

Because mosts music tastes stagnate [sic] after your teens

Assumes facts not in evidence.

Also ignores that pop music, by definition, has the broadest reach, by being the lowest common denominator (no criticism here, it’s just a fundamental requirement to be accessible by the most people).

Compare pop music to say, Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” . Far fewer people can appreciate “Kind of Blue” because it’s insane complexity. Hell, I have musical training and can only listen to it occasionally, on the daily I much prefer something far more approachable, some form of more-popular music - even stuff we call “classical” (which was the pop music of it’s day).

Not much of a shower thought.

Your complaint is that the world isn’t perfect.

Boy, I’m real hesitant to go to HR. May as well ask to be fired.

It really depends on the business, culture, climate. The better places I’ve worked, this kind of interest is genuine, an attempt to foster better relationships at work. Of course, some people are just nosey Nellies…

Without knowing the environment and culture (and the questions), it’s hard to say what to do.

Best I can say is to make it clear you like to keep your work and private life well separated.

Also OP, if someone else feels insulted, that’s on them. They’ve chosen to feel insulted. Besides, how do you know she feels insulted? If she’s communicating that, then she’s being manipulative, using “emotional blackmail”. Look, I’m not responsible for how you choose to feel, that’s on you.

One trick I’ve used with people who continue with questions is to respond with a non-sequiter, something jarring, and use it all the time, repeatedly. Something like “how about the weather”, or “how about those <insert local sports team>”. Make it your catch phrase for when people continue to pry, and don’t be afraid to repeat it. Keep in kind tone matters, so say it like you mean it, like you walked in on Monday after a team did well, or got their asses beat. You don’t even have to like the sport or the team, in fact it’s kind of funny if you don’t like them.

It’s a bit of re-framing the conversation, while also communicating you aren’t interested in the subject, without being an ass. And if anyone complains, well, you were just talking about a sports team.

They said that they try to reserve their spots for people who specifically fall short of other places.

Sounds like bias.

They are crazy fast on their element.

You, I like you.