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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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cross-posted from: https://jorts.horse/users/fathermcgruder/statuses/111734226439984153

Elder waitresses should be called something else, like waitrons or waitriarchs.

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[–] agamemnonymous 61 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Server. Everyone is a server.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

And a group of servers is called a kubernetes.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be a "cluster"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought about that, but I didn't think that got the joke across as well. Probably overthought it but 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I doubt many people outside of IT know what Kubernetes is 😅. At least with "Cluster" you get a "Why?" Instead of "What?".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Right, but at least for now that's most of the demographic on Lemmy.

[–] agamemnonymous 3 points 7 months ago

Academically perhaps. In the field it's colloquially called a "hospitality night".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Nginx wench

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I am super lazy so I often pick terms like this by default so I don't have to spend cycles thinking about age or gender.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Using which Linux distro?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Waitress superior

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Waitriarchs is very witty, well done.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

How dare you say that about their mother!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You’re thinking of an Eldritch Waitress. What OP meant was a waitress that fuses metal objects together.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a wailder. OP was thinking of a waitress that works with locks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's a waitcracker. OP was thinking of a waitress who just walks into a house of bears, eats their food and falls asleep.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

"Bar wench! Where's me grog?!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

In a few languages you refer to people based on their relative age vs yourself. So a young waitress is one word, a older waitress is another, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fellow human seems to work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

hey are you a fellow human? yeah cool grab me a glass of water please uhh i don't work here

We are hiring a fellow human for low wages but you might get great tips what do i need to do? youll be a servant to rude dirtbags. can i call myself a waitress instead please? No our culture requires official titles to be fellow human for all staff and patrons and you will all go by the name Sam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but if I start shouting that in a restaurant I'm going to get everyone's attention instead of the old lady responsible for my meal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't know. They seem more powerful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Meaningless titles with superfluous connotations just leads us to more useless middle management.

We don't need a new term.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Should new ones be called waitrwards?