• @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    235 months ago

    Back when I was working on my (never completed) dissertation, I would sometimes call up televangelists’ hotlines and talk about my research. It was pretty amusing how they would initially try to steer the conversation to the God stuff but then give up as I kept relentlessly returning to my subject. Eventually they were reduced to “uh huh … uh huh” but they couldn’t just hang up on me because they weren’t allowed to. I actually worked through some problems this way.

    • @ysjet@lemmy.world
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      145 months ago

      In programming, this is called ‘Rubber Duck Debugging.’

      The televangelists, in this case, were the rubber duck.

  • Troy
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    135 months ago

    I run a small business. People in my spam folder have really high opinions of my business. They all want to invest or something… Mostly harvesting my LinkedIn profile for keywords.

    • jlow (he/him)
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      25 months ago

      I on the other hand for some reason seem to be in need of “high-quality” (yet very cheap) office chairs, according to my spam emails 🤷‍♀️