1mo ago

Great advice

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Holy shit this made me laugh way harder than it should have.
Just gently toss? Or yeet it so it skips?
- Then you miss out on that gentle "splooip".
  
  But it's sooo satisfying when your shiny new "slimmer than any other phone before" breaks your prior record for number of skips.
I remember as a kid in the 70's racing to the phone when it rang so I could answer it before my sister. Nowadays when the phone rings I stop and wait until the ringing stops, then I may have a look.
- I blame spam calls for this
- Unless I'm expecting to talk to someone, into DND mode it goes straight away. I'll check on it when I'm in the mood.
I don’t live near a lake—will an ocean do?
- The meme doesnt say. Can you try and get back to us?
  
  Phone washes up on beach a week later. Ominous drumbeats sound in the distance.
i have defended phone calls as the ultimate way to get something done and i will continue to do so
- Give me the paper trail that comes with an email conversation over a phone call any day.
  Or most days at least. Some things are just easier to discuss by voice. But not many.
  
  You should see the documentation we get from the orderer of our current project, we basically have to call two meetings a day just to decipher it
- Sometimes you need back and forth which over email can take days. You can't talk while looking at your calendar? Guess what, you say "give me 30 seconds to open my calendar". Or 60. However much you need. People gaslight or bullshit? You follow up the call with an email "as we discussed on the phone, x y and z, and we agreed not to do a b nor c". If someone can't communicate over phone, they just can't communicate.
Did something happen to piefed? All the images are broken.
- No, and viewing this post from Lemmy.world works just fine using the web UI - perhaps it is an app issue?
  
  It's back to normal now. It was broken for me on web, too, even straight from blahaj.zone
Why didn't I think of that dot GIF

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