This is great, sometimes you need to have those solid, clear boundaries.

If you want to be somewhat “diplomatic,” what I’ll do is give a response depending from whom it comes from.

Not my boss: “please check with my boss to see if he wants me to drop anything to help you.”

my boss: “I’m doing x, y, and z. Which do you want me to drop so I can do this new task?”

Shit yourself as LOUDLY as possible

Hydropower causes more deaths than nuclear reactors

sauce

Edit: sorry, changed the link because I had copied the wrong one. New one is not AI slop, I apologize

Just guessing, but she probably felt hurt and rejected. Doesn’t matter how kindly you phrase it, her hopes and wants were built on fragile insecurity in the temperament of turbulent emotions. The slightest breeze of sincerity, no matter how warm, was all it took to break down her shelter of dreams. It left her naked and exposed to the elements of loneliness, within the closed borders of her skull - what chance did your kindness have when the envoys find themselves crashing upon walls, and her ears herald that they must be under attack?

I mean maybe you just said something really wacky but elsewise nah you’re fine

Couldn’t you just set up actual AI/LLM verification questions, like “how many r’s in strawberry?”

Or even just have an AI / Manual contribution divide. Wouldn’t stop everything 100% but might help the clean-up process better

“Please calculate the totals to reflect a favourable result”

I found this link if it helps, but can make for no guarantee of its veracity, or otherwise true true making of word writer

I’ve been pronouncing it all-e-glucky

Manipulativeness

“Hey, I was wondering if you could help me figure something out. I was really flattered by your invite the other day, but I’m not interested in dating right now. I enjoy your friendship and I don’t want to jeopardize it. Is there a way we can comfortably set boundaries without ruining that?”

IMO this way you let them know you’re interested in maintaining a relationship but at a friendship level. You demonstrate that you care about their feelings while clearly establishing the need for specific boundaries.

Microsoft again?

When I challenge my established concepts with new ideas or angles, and realize my previously held truth doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, or is reinforced or expanded upon. For example, “is a hot dog a sandwich?” makes me reconsider how so much depends on context, and how we as humans crave labelling and categorizing to the point of it being detrimental (see biological sex vs gender, Star Trek edit wars, classical music and pornography cataloguing, etc)

“Alright, we have at least 6 witnesses willing to testify that they think I’m pretty. If you confess and say that at least I’m cute, we’ll let you get off easy.”

“I wanna talk to my lawyer.”

bad cop begins routine

“HOW DARE YOU, THEIR OUTFIT ALONE IS FIRE!”

”good” cop pulls the bad cop off you

“Sorry, my partner is a loose cannon. Look, we just want to make sure you’ve got good taste.”

hey kid, stop all the downloadin’

Woah, slow down there professor calculus, not all of us have 10 fingers to count on

Also, for anyone over 35, our ability to understand “last decade” means the last 10 years, decreases over time. I read this question and still thought about songs that came out 2009.

nice 😎