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lyxal

06:02

Fun fact: Ms Teams has really fun post formatting options

Here's me and I'm writing an announcement for the team. Originally I have it as a standard message. I see it has a subheading box. I think "well I have to fill that in...big text is mandatory!"

Then I see there's an announcement setting

And it has an even bigger heading box

So obviously I used that and replaced the text in the subheading box

Then I discover you can change the announcement banner colour

So I change it to be the most obnoxious and bright pink I can find because that's the least expected colour for a group of men

And then I discover you can use images as the header banner

So I upload the first image I can find which is a graph of team activity

And the worst part is that it didn't even look bad lol

And then I discover you can bold text. So obviously I bold the entire first sentence

And then I discover you can mark posts as important, which gives it a red line on the side and the word IMPORTANT! in red at the start

So obviously I do that too

In conclusion, I was laughing really hard at the tiniest things in Ms teams

lyxal

06:30

Awww they don't do the sanitisation thing at the hospital bus stop anymore :(

That was like half the magic of the bus pulling in, picking up whoever, getting everything sprayed and wiped down and the bus continuing on its way

(for context: the bus ride home from uni goes past a hospital)

(well, into the hospital)

(into the bus stop that's inside hospital grounds)

(obviously it doesn't drive into the actual hospital)

(that would be a bit silly)

(maybe 2% funny but generally speaking a bad idea)

(yes I am on the bus right now)

(hello to anyone else here on the bus)

(which is 99.9% likely to be no one)

(but just in case)

user

@lyxal Hello

lyxal

Hey completely unrelated topic but did any of y'all ever do that lexile reading program stuff?

user

Mandatory here

lyxal

It was ELO but for reading in a sort of way

user

MAP-R? (idk if that's just an American thing)

lyxal

06:38

Never heard of map-r

Man I can't believe the lexile system actually got me to read more and actually care about improving my ranking :p

I was like one of the first which got 1000+ lexile ranking

In my grade probably in 2014

It meant I could bring any book I wanted to read for morning reading

user

@lyxal Wait they restricted books based on that score? That's dumb

lyxal

Obviously, I chose to bring bjarne stroustrup's c++ reference for my morning reading

user

Some guy in a server I'm in asked ^^^ out of the blue

lyxal

@user you were only allowed to borrow your elo

@user bit of a bruh moment

user

@lyxal That's kinda stupid. It's okay for someone to pick up a book that's too hard for them and struggle a little

Frick whoever at your school implemented that policy

That person then started talking about how poor Indians were attractive and rich Indians were ugly

For context, there is no context here. Before this, the whole conversation consisted of that person idolizing rich people and talking about how poor people were "unclassy," and then they came out with this

The conversation eventually ended with the guy hitting on literally everyone until we got weirded out and left

This has been by far the most entertaining conversation I've had ever

10/10 would engage in an argument with a troll again

1 hour later…

lyxal

07:55

@user oh but you could easily increase it by doing a quick quiz on any book you read

Like any time

All you had to do was show that you were actually able to read the book

And you were encouraged to do things that went towards increasing your ranking

And not everything was lexile marked

math scat

08:12

I'm back

like actually this time

couldn't recover my data but at least it's just the disk

so I'm going to have to set up fricking wsl and opencv again

Unrelated String

5 hours later…

lyxal

13:03

that's the teams post I was talking about

I left a reaction of a badminton racket emoji

because that's the obvious reaction to such a post

math scat

of course

2 hours later…

DLosc

15:18

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