Generally, should and ought imply the first version of expected: that the thing expected is proper, rather than necessarily real they function sort of like 'might' in that regard. *cough cough* like a certain President *cough*. After all, one is expected to obey the law, even when the unlikelihood that they will means you expect they will probably break it. Well, in that case, expected suffers the same ambiguity. That's how you should interpret it.įor some people, I just don't expect moral or lawful behavior. 'Should' conveys that the thing it refers to is expected, in all the cases you describe. Plus, I'm convinced some people don't even grasp that those are all separate concepts.

They can lead to ambiguities between whether you mean something is the legal way to do things, the moral way to do things, or simply the most likely way things will be done. Related: There are times I want to ban the words 'should' and 'ought' from the English language. Please ask me this question every time I view this page, forever.

I kind of like the spam, but I like random popup dialog boxes even more.

Yes! Please send me spam as soon as I log on to my computer!.

*It's a real thing and I've been getting mercilessly spammed with ads for it on YouTube for the last week.īut first, can this site use your location for determining which ads to spam you with?Īlso, this site would like to send you notifications in case we get any new spammy ads to show you. This site uses cookies to track you, everywhere, forever, and we use the aggregated data to sell ads micro-targeted to your specific psychological pressure points to make you buy useless shit you don't need, like a Philips soup-maker* or a Donald Trump presidency. So why read when you could be signing up for this mailing list right now?Īfter you sign up for the mailing list and follow us on all the socials, can we tell you about our cookie policy? We're actually getting shit done while everyone else is arguing about whether pics of cats in costumes belongs in the offtopic channel or if cat pics should have a designated channel.Įvery 7 out of 9 websites I've opened up today not counting Ars has thrown some kind of pop up over the content I came there to read, right when I'm starting to read it.īut you like mailing lists, right? I bet you like mailing lists more than you like reading. They tried to get our group to drop our Slack workspace and use the division-wide instance only and the universal response from management on down was 'Fuck that noise'. I'm beginning to doubt the scalability of Slack. It basically comes down to two camps: 'I want to delete/edit something soon after posting so people don't see my fuck up' vs 'People are going to gas-light me if they can change their messages.' Now there is a 'Slack Action Team' being formed to schedule a meeting to debate the color of the folder the delete policy will be kept in. The latest blow-up is about the edit/delete policy for slack messages which has resulted in dozens of messages with hundreds of threaded replies. Last month they rolled out a division-wide Slack instance that we were all required to join.

Worked great, very few problems, instant improvement over the Jabber setup it replaced. So we previously had a Slack instance that was specific our department, made up of about 50 people who work in fairly close proximity to each other.

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