EatATaco @ EatATaco @lemm.ee

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I’m an unrepentant asshole because I fucking hate them.

This is pretty much what I've been saying the whole time. You do you, but don't act like its anything other than just being an asshole.

Just a little more context, because the article is really light on the details. After he had been turned away, the cops showed up at his house to interview him and he denied that it was him and it must have been someone else. This defense only came up later after his arreest.

It's BS and I suspect the only reason he was let off is because the town is overwhelmingly red and the jury was packed with Trump supporters. And of course they don't care about voter fraud when their side commits it, only when they imagine the other side is.

I gave you plenty of good reasons for being an asshole.

You gave plenty of good reasons why their actions make you upset and offend you. This is not the same as them being good reasons to be an asshole. If someone offends you and you are pointlessly an asshole to them as a result, that just makes you an asshole too.

Maybe if I’m shitty enough, they’ll report me and they’ll put me on a do not call list.

Another poster here pointed out, from their personal experience do this type of work, that they don't really care. They just hang up and move to the next person. By getting angry and being an asshole to them is almost certainly pointless and will not have this result. Almost certainly, if your goal is to get removed from these lists, you would be better served to ask them kindly to be put on some do-not-call list. I know it has worked for me.

It’s not hard.

It's also not hard to not get all angry and be an asshole to someone just trying to make a buck. It's also pointless because this poor person on the other end of the phone is not really in charge of whether or not it happens, they are just getting paid. So being an asshole to them just makes you an asshole, not some noble warrior. If you're happy with being an asshole for no good reason, more power to you, I guess.

I've got a pretty good sense for these things, and yours is certainly a case of Poe's law, because I've heard nearly the same exact argument used in all seriousness many times.

Okay, so change it to "good on your for trying to make some poor worker bee feel worthless"

It only makes it worse, because it's both assholish and ineffective.

Go on you for making some poor worker bee just trying to make a buck feel worthless. Very noble goal that will certainly change things.

If you want to waste your own time and be angry, you do you. Sometimes I'll string them along if I'm in the mood, but I'm not all angry doing it, I'm enjoying it.

That's not at all what it says. The article is then saying they will lie about it, but that could be to friends and family.

Or, you know, instead of getting all worked up and raging unnecessarily, you could just hang up.

I think OP is confusing the fact that people are sick of Linux users preaching with people using Linux.

It's click bait. Using exponents are not as eye catching.

He warned about parties themselves.

Maybe the system is set up to limit the power of protest voting?

Not everything is some conspiracy to keep you down. The people who wrote the constitution just weren't perfect and had to make political compromises, which resulted in an imperfect system.

Again, I'm curious as to what kind of interviews you are running if you aren't catching people who claim to have experience in something, but have only basically crammed online for (at best) a few weeks between an interview request and actual interview. I feel like if someone had tried to become an expert in the field during such a short time, it would be painfully obvious, unless they were an Olympic level bullshitter. Also, if you claim to have experience in something, and I ask about that experience, and you make it up, that is still lying.

I find working with AI to help me understand way better.

Using Linux as an example. If I search for "give me the size of each subdirectory in the current directory" the stack overflow answer will be "just type du -h --max-depth=1" so you copy and paste it and, voila!, it's exactly what you want. Except I have no idea what any of it means.

However, I ask chatgpt, and it will explain that du means disk usage, -h gives a human readable form, and --max-depth=1 will only go down 1 level, without showing all of the subdirectories.

So now I've learned something.

Additionally, with coding, it's a lot like rubber duck debugging for me. Just formulating my question will often lead to an answer, or trying to explain what went wrong with the AI solution helps me get to the proper answer.

And doesn't insult you, and gives you an answer far more tailored to your issue.

I've been working in tech since 2000 and have been in a hiring position since ~2008. I've done very well for myself, and continue to do well, and I've never had to lie. I've always just treated most of the down page requirements as "nice to have" or "have something similar" rather than hard requirements, and have always been upfront about it in interviews about the actual amount of experience I've had in these things. What kind of interviews are you running where you aren't asking about the requirements for the job? One of my main goals in interviews is to discuss what the candidate has worked on so I know how well it fits into what we're doing.

I do agree that if you do the job well, no one is going to ask questions. But if looks like you've lied to get the job, it makes it pretty easy decision to fire you if things are going poorly.

It’s still very true that the media deserves it,

The article is calling it out, while the poster is claiming that it isn't calling it out. It's definitely not deserved here, and they are just being mindlessly outraged. It's the exact same shit I see from dumbass trump supporters: the facts don't matter, only the narrative.

“we don’t see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.”