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I feel like all this exposure for work talk is helping me understand the concept of being triggered. I'm a GIS consultant, which in layman's terms means I set up mapping systems or design maps for organizations. Setting up mapping systems usually garners a better customer base because if a company or individual knows they need to hire a GIS professional in the first place, they've already asked their IT guy to do it, and have subsequently learned it's its own beast and not something everyone can do. Cartography design, though, holy poo poo. People do not realize the amount of time and money that goes into making maps. I need $3,000 a year in software licenses alone, and this doesn't include my plotter, material costs, computer hardware costs, field equipment, etc, etc. It's like all the worst parts of being a graphic designer mixed with all the worst parts of being a computer toucher. "Yes, could you please make a map of all 4000 properties our real estate company manages? Updated every month? No, we don't have any geographic data, just a list of 4000 misspelled addresses. Make the symbol for each property our company logo. No, our new logo. And each one has to be legible. On a 24 x 36 map. Can you print us 300 copies? We need it in an hour. We can discuss your pay if we like your work." This is why I have implemented a $100 consultation fee for all new customers, which gets you a 2-hour on site consultation that acts as a deposit towards any further contracts. It weeds out a lot of the fuckery.
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Phy posted:"Why the gently caress would we pay you to do a google image search" You have no idea how confusing that acronym is for me when I'm reading these forums. Johnny Aztec posted:I've been looking at real estate for the past couple years. It is laffo how completely inept they are at having online presence. In my experience like 1/10 of all real estate people are even okay human beings. I had one firm who did not understand why I wouldn't extend my "friends, family, and good people" discount to them like I did to a local animal shelter. Aleph Null posted:Alteryx + Tableau and like $30,000/year in licensing fees for datasets is what the guy we have uses. I have no idea what his salary is. Good lord. I use the ESRI and Adobe suites, personally, but I'm just a crappy, early career one man operation. I couldn't even guess what that guy makes; in house GIS analysts go for anywhere from 30,000 to 120,000 or more depending on industry, experience, and location, but if he's worth that much in datasets and using specialized analysis software I'm gonna guess he's making bank.
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Mar 27, 2018 19:37
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sneakyfrog posted:ewwww esri. I don't disagree. I get regular emails from ESRI liaisons asking me in the vaguest possible ways whether there's anything I need for my account. Problem is, they never specify which account (I manage my own + 3-4 others), are never the same person so I can't cross-reference emails, and never reply when I ask what the gently caress they're referring to. Buuuut they're the industry standard. And their software sucks, but it sucks less than everything else available so  Anyway, I'll stop making GBS threads up the thread with GIS talk
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Mar 27, 2018 21:14
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Are gender reveal parties a separate event from a baby shower? I feel like I don't have enough time/interest to attend 2 parties for the same baby before it's even born.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:20
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Memento posted:I use MapInfo and it's perfectly *crashes* If I had any goddamn sense in the world, I'd spend all my professional downtime learning QGIS. Would save me so much money.
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Mar 28, 2018 02:05
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chitoryu12 posted:If I was in charge of that city, I'd immediately take advantage of that. Get that tourist money rolling in. They made a bid for the first ever WakandaCon or some such and lost to a real city.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:49
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Proteus Jones posted:I'm guessing they ordered from using a website or whoever runs the bakery is an idiot. South Carolina, soooooo
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May 22, 2018 15:50
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Yellow Ant posted:The political alignments of Mario Kart characters I'd have thought Luigi was one of the dying breed of blue collar pro-unionists.
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May 25, 2018 17:16
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Hobo Erotica posted:I get that it's not the true meaning of irony, but there is at least some kind of a funny connection between a movie being about water ingress and not being able to watch it because of water ingress, which is kind of 'ironic' in the common understanding of the term. But I don't get anything about the Mario one. I guess it's just characters playing themselves maybe? Seemed like a weird thing to enshrine in a motivational poster. gently caress it, never mind, we've all got bigger things to worry about. Nah, it's loving pissing me off and I don't know why. It's not irony, even in the loosest sense, and it's not funny either. It's also been 15 years since any motivational poster was funny.
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New Leaf posted:In case any of you weren't aware, there's now a podcast by the Welcome to Nightvale folks where they get friends/minor celebrities/other podcasters to read Chuck Tingle books. Each episode is introed by The Tingler himself. They are as amazing as you might imagine. Chuck Tingle is also a pro follow on facebook, even if you don't read his books. He's a force for good in a scary, confusing world.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:He means this one. Watch it again and pay close attention to what kind of bank they robbed, hth
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Oct 15, 2018 22:58
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:How long do you think you'd have to bake your head in order to die? All I can get are stats on survival in extremely hot situations. Based on that, I'd say a fully cranked oven would kill you in a couple of minutes.
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DandyLion posted:She's the best part of that mini-series. The best part of an extremely good series
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Jan 22, 2019 18:50
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Occasionally I wonder "Hey, why did Dance Dance Revolution explode and then immediately fade into obscurity?" and then I'm reminded that society only had so much room in it's heart for this sort of poo poo I kind of miss the days of house techno and happy hard and all that other objectively bad music. Tiesto was my hero when I was 14.
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Feb 28, 2019 00:44
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Barry Bluejeans posted:As someone who spent the better part of his teen years playing DDR, these posts make me very melancholy and wistful. I feel ya, totally. I made a lot of friends in high school playing DDR and it's still the most enjoyable form of exercise I've ever known. I recently poked around on the internet just to find out that decent dance pads are now a rare, expensive, niche hobby item. You'd never know that basically every suburban family in America had a pair back in 2007. I'd love to still have my $90 hard foam insert pads now that I have a ground level condo and no sense of shame, but the market just ain't there and hasn't been for a decade. gently caress guitar hero I guess for making rhythm games that didn't require Americans to get off the couch or listen to techno. I think we need a revival, personally.
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Feb 28, 2019 04:11
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The Toys That Made Us is endlessly entertaining and remarkably candid, strongly recommended for fellow man children with Netflix.
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May 21, 2019 23:20
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It's incredible what you can accomplish at Disney World if you're willing to go in November or February.
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Jun 13, 2019 21:22
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Tashilicious posted:I was gonna say sounding kit but you're probably right 
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Jul 11, 2019 23:41
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Imagined posted:Then someone tell the story about how Ork magic works and away we go again Um, actually it's not "magic" it's a reality-bending field of latent psychic energy and furthermore,
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Jul 30, 2019 23:41
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When I went to boarding school in nowhere, Tennessee in the early/mid 2000s the internet was practically non existent but all of the dorms and the computer lab were on the same LAN so we had constant Unreal Tournament, Halo, and Half-Life LAN parties. I kinda miss that.
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Aug 2, 2019 14:59
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JesustheDarkLord posted:Bell Buckle? St. Andrews, but close!
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Aug 2, 2019 23:35
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Ak Gara posted:I feel like people strongly dislike targeted ads but the thing is, why do I need ads for "yarn! Old People Edition!" or "glazed pottery monthly"? Mine are always "THIS NEW LAW MEANS HUGE SAVINGS FOR COLORADO RESIDENTS BORN BEFORE 1980" and it's like cool, that's not me
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Aug 11, 2019 16:33
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I want to take that image and shove it in the face of every suburban white dude who's ever regurgitated the "It's pronounced Le-dash-a" myth I guess that was all just projection
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Aug 12, 2019 19:29
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I didn't find a personalized anything with my name on it until I went to England when I was 10. I saved that purple octopus keychain in a shoebox until I was old enough to drive. Also the lifetime of correcting people on spelling/pronunciation sucks!
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Aug 12, 2019 20:14
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:I don't know if this is the right thread for this, but I feel like I need to share this with the world: I've been debating with myself for years as to whether I dreamed the Prince Muppets Tonight episode.
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Oh yay; I was recently researching THC toxicity in dogs and get to share with you, the curious posters of SA I'll keep it brief but dogs are much more susceptible to the effects of THC than humans, even when accounting for the generally much lower body weight of dogs. This is because dogs have way more cannaboid receptors than we do. Second hand smoke is rarely powerful enough to harm dogs outright but edibles can absolutely be dangerous (especially if they contain chocolate, obviously). Getting into a gummy or two of recreational grade edibles is not likely to cause long lasting harm for most dogs, but there are confirmed instances of canine death from consumption of medicinal grade edibles. A secondary danger, as some of you have suspected, is how dogs react to being high. It's very much possible for dogs to injure themselves under the effects of THC, or to have unpredictable psychological reactions to the experience such as increased fear reactions to associated sensations long after the experience. I think it goes without saying that getting your dog high is very irresponsible. Secure your edibles and always take your dog to a veterinarian if you suspect they've gotten into your stash.
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I'm gonna find some hot af rule 34 on that toothbrush/toothpaste
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She was also photographed with a dude who had a swastika on his shirt or something
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Mar 24, 2020 17:41
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mind the walrus posted:No no no you see it's a joke that he's a cave troll and every single post you see extolling his virtues is made ironically and knowingly so-- Parks and Rec has never been more succinctly explained It's funny because it couldn't *not* be funny with that cast, but hooo boy it's the most Hilary Clinton sitcom I've ever seen. At least 30 Rock had the self-awareness to make fun of Liz Lemon's bougie-feminist leanings from time to time.
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Which is a shame because it's a great term to describe all the corporate Pride bullshit that gets trotted out every June for naive gays such as myself.
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Jun 2, 2020 20:48
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goddamn this may win out over the wonderwall one
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Jun 9, 2020 16:35
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Data Graham posted:I'm definitely amused by the thought of people who have mastered the exquisite art of throwing suction-cup dildos against windows so they stick, doing it to cop cars as they drive past a mob of protestors so they emerge at the end lookin like George Washington covered in dicks This is called porcupining, by the way.
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Jun 18, 2020 18:32
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bike tory posted:Neil Degrasse Tyson, or hell even someone like Jordan Peterson are great examples of how most people are only "intelligent" in very discipline-specific ways. You only notice that they're stupendous dumbasses when they step outside of their lanes. Ben Carson is my go-to example.
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Jun 26, 2020 22:59
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Does anyone have that parody of written erotica, the only line I can remember is "incredibly average body" but goddamn if it doesn't make me laugh like an idiot every single time.
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Jun 30, 2020 00:37
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I rewatched MiT recently and it really didn't hold up as well as other Brooks productions.
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Jul 13, 2020 00:06
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canyoneer posted:Men in Tights has a place in my heart always because it has 19 year old Dave Chapelle in it, and that dude rules He was 19? That's incredible. I loved MiT when I was a kid, but something about the comedic timing (and rap) just make the movie drag in a really sad way
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Jul 14, 2020 01:18
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RandomFerret posted:I got detention once for saying something sucked. The teacher yelled "I know that means it SUCKS DICK" My 6th grade art teacher used that as some kind of gotcha. Every time someone said "that sucks" she'd start yelling "SUCKS WHAT EXACTLY???" One day one of the more wholesome and well-meaning kids responded "A GIANT JUICY PICKLE  " and got detention, but at least she never asked again.
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Jul 22, 2020 19:46
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It's me, I'm the guy who goes to Whole Foods exclusively for the hot bar.
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Sep 21, 2020 18:58
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gbut posted:So, what's the resolution? He forgot to strap one to his forehead? IIRC they catch him in a noose and hang him.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I've been suspecting that Dingo might be part Corgi. He was advertised as a mini aussie but he's longer and lower than any other mini aussie I've seen. I've seen a lot of mini aussies in my life, and that is not one of them.
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