something u need to understand about me is that me and my brain are NOT friends and she is NOT helpful to me. bitch gives me all these thoughts and feelings and is like “deal with these for me will u?” GIRL YOU’RE LITERALLY THE GUY IN CHARGE
“Mukherjee’s photograph shows a male gharial giving a ride to more than 100 of his babies. The photo was recently named on the highly commended list of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest run by London’s Natural History Museum. Mukherjee’s ability to capture this special moment is made all the more intriguing when one considers that the gharial is a critically endangered species…”
an author i love just tweeted about how “big joy and small joy are the same” and how she was just as content the other night eating chocolate and cuddling her dog as she was on her Big Trip to new york and honestly. i think that’s it. this morning i was listening to an audiobook while baking shortbread in my joggers and i realised i really didn’t care what Big Things happened in my future as long as i could keep baking and reading at the weekend and maybe that is the kind of bar we have to set to guard ourselves against disappointment. just appreciate and cherish the mundane stuff and see everything else as a bonus.
found it - she was replying to this thread that starts “unpopular opinion: i don’t think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; i think it’s okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die” and i for one think that’s fucking brilliant
every week there’s another news item that immediately tops the list of real life events that sound like an overwrought politics SNL sketch and every week all i can do is laugh because otherwise i’d be resorting to arson
this year is a cosmic joke and i am absolutely terrified of the punchline
i’m sorry i’m not done they have spent MONTHS now gassing up their ~incredible world beating test & trace system~ that they spent 12 BILLION POUNDS ON!!!! and it apparently consists entirely of a single fucking microsoft excel spreadsheet i can’t fucking take this anymore i want off mr. johnson’s wild ride
Wait THAT’S why those numbers were missed? Because of an EXCEL FILE?
YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT OUR ENTIRE PLAN FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS HINGES ON A FILE THAT I COULD HAVE BUILT?
Bloody hell, I thought it was something to do with server access and security, not a bloody excel file.
I’m sorry, they tried to use EXCEL? I’m so embarrassed for them
Oh, it gets dumber. Because there’s actually nothing wrong with entering the date into an excel sheet (it can feed info into various programs that analyze it, and is easy to use for newly hired admin staff who need minimal training to input the data into a usable format fast). BUT the thing is, the version of Excel they were using is 13 years out of date. Because the garbage firm the government hired – who has been selling pandemic management contracts to their buddies’ firms instead of to companies with any fucking competency whatsoever – hasn’t bothered to update their Microsoft Office software for over a whole ass decade. A WHOLE DECADE. Once again, we get fucked over because the people running the government are using their positions to fucking LEGALLY funnel money into private companies for their personal benefit.
oh but it’s worse than that!!! they were RECEIVING the data as csv files (good, sensible) and then COLLATING them INTO an Excel file (garbage, for this purpose!)!!!!!!!
my wife woke me up at 5.30am to tell me about this and I didn’t even yell at her I was so busy being outraged
I spent a portion of yesterday just screaming in allcaps about how you add new records as mfing ROWS not COLUMNS. I mean we’re not even going to discuss the part where they need a database manager and a SQL database. I’m just saying don’t use Excel if you don’t know how to use Excel.
This entire story just keeps getting more amazing. Like, first it was just that they were using Excel, then it’s that they were using out of date Excel, THEN it was that they were getting GOOD data and then DELIBERATELY CONVERTING IT INTO BAD DATA. And ALL because of NEPOTISM.
Like, you guys remember my story about my boss who wanted to be able to push a button and convert 500,000 database records into an excel spreadsheet? This is exactly that level of “does not understand how data OR data management works”.
millennial culture is being unable to eat dinner unless you are watching something at the same time. movie? tv show? twitch stream? doesn’t matter. just have to be able to click play
i mean if im by myself what else am i gonna do?? be alone with my thoughts?? out of the question
