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@terrana Aha. I don't think we could do that, personally. We're still struggling to manage 40 hours a week most of the time, so we end up having to take days off from time to time throughout the year for mental health reasons.
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We're doing that right now, actually--we could tell we were nearing a breakdown of some sort, so we talked to our boss about taking a week off even if it meant going negative on our time off.
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@terrana We would like to have that. Is that the norm in the UK, or just something your employer does?
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@owashii@plush.city by anthropomorphic hot dogs do you mean sexy anthro dogs, or anthro frankfurters
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

aid request for a friend, boosts welcome 

my partner petra is moving across the country soon and needs help to cover the expenses - any amount helps, boosts here and RTs on birdsite are also really appreciated

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"completely inscrutable to mortal minds" is my gender
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the fact that they explicitly chose not to capitalize it is a bit unexpected though
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apparently ON Semiconductor finally changed their name to just onsemi, which sure took them long enough because everyone's just called them that for as long as we've known
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@monsterblue i'm pretty sure the double t just got assimilated into one t
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@monsterblue no, a taurant is a thing that turns you into a taur, like how a relaxant relaxes and an irritant irritates
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they call them restaurants but i've never had one turn me into a taur when i rest at one, want my money back
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honestly i feel like we've kind of dropped off on the whole talking-to-friends thing over the last year, maybe even continuing a trend from before then even

i don't know what to do about that
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food 

we don't like tomatoes for texture related reasons, but tomato soup is excellent (as long as it doesn't have chunks of tomato in it, see above)
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@NovaSquirrel Relics of a bygone age, where electrical engineering was a more approachable art
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@NovaSquirrel oh wow, that sounds like it'd be fascinating to look through
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@heatherhorns like we've never seen it used to mean garbage or refuse, only specifically intestines and specifically in the context of butchery

also in the context of ancient roman divination stuff i suppose
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@heatherhorns actually i'm pretty sure it specifically means intestines, in the context of meat preparation
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