Promethiel @ Promethiel @lemmy.world

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It's nuts how much of all of 'it' (where 'it' is all fuckery) is simply down to that fact. Selfish altruism ought to be obvious.

Your Honor, if I may Devil's Advocate for that other poster;

To be the victim of a callous system designed with apathy at best and cruelty at worst...

and to be a profound fool who never picks up any chance to put two neurons together to a task however many chances are given...

Is not mutually exclusive. 🤣. You might even be acquainted with a few folks miraculously barely navigating the concrete jungle already.

It's always a tragic story from some angle, but empathy doth need a break sometimes, that's why we developed humor to uncomfortably bridge the gap.

Don't Zoom and Drive people, court or not.

Hard to not be a cynic and assume the ADA (American Dental Association) isn't wholly made up of "the 10th dentist" lobbying against dental progress but...

That is not the only dental care breakthrough that isn't widely available in the US (they're all available and priced for the 'I don't actually need to worry about price tags' crowd, who can also just travel elsewhere) but which would promote healthier lives at the cost of less dentist visits. Curious how it happens.

It’s not a complex ideology, but it’s an easy panacea - like conspiracies- for the hard reality that is modern existence.

Damn but that's some high grade poignancy early in the morning.

But it isn't a panacea. They're just told by the hate oil salesman it is, but they'll choke on it same as they would have with snake oil, just taking the rest of progress with them. There has to be a way to hijack the methodology and change the message.

For some, a temporary lack of self growth; for others, certain mental illnesses. It's as awful as it sounds if you really sit and imagine. The self awareness needed to rise above some of that? Many will live and die never having reached it.

The misguided brain can hang itself up on nearly anything, and for many it's the semblance of validation. There is quantifiable pain behind the need to interact for some people.

I am genuinely sorry I was genuinely a reactionary idiot earlier, but thank you for teaching me a new one!

Sometimes, others share their opinions and lived-in experience not to give you insight, but because to speak is to human. Sonder on that, whatever your generation.

I am aware the oldest writing is of a merchant swindling. I am aware of the atrocities respected elders have carried out against the Village children, all villages.

I am not here to insight you; use your own faculties for that.

It sounds like what it is, Flying. Not a tasty pill to swallow but these are the dues of the division modern society has allowed.

No more Village raising the children. No more respected elders, trusted craft people, or neighborly bonds.

For the illusion of connection and its subsequent gamification and for the enrichment of those who say what we want to hear, these are the dues to be paid.

We live and die alone, bemoaning a loss of bonds that could be mended at any time; let he who is lonely lay their cynicism down first.

No, I don't believe it's that easy (and recognize the risks of being first) but it probably is that simple. No clue how the message is amplified back through time in a manner that gets enough likes though.

Holy fuck ignore my other comment. "Yeah your reality sounds different from mine, you're wrong." You're just a stunted mind, no longer interesting.

Disregarding the topic and focusing on semantics for half a second out of pure (and weekend freedom stoned) curiosity, why do you value the anecdotal experience of others--and seemingly in one direction only?

My Cousin Vinny's Tomato Canning and Money Laundering Inc, ran by my cousin Vinny and his family of hard looking unrelated men lost VPN access after the last Microsoft update. I'm lying, BUT let's pretend I'm not, what's your next weird hill, I'm curious.

"It depends on the position. If it's entry level or some retail job, yes, fill it out. But management or some other position where it's highly specific, this is an absolute waste of my time"

It's an absolute waste of time, period. No need to stratify it further. McKinsey & Ilk bullshit is commodifying the lowest denominator shit in the name of HR professionals using more buzzwords and less braincells in the hiring process while pretending they're standardizing equity, in my opinion.

That the positions you are ostensibly qualified for allow for a measure of 'hardball posturing' doesn't mean pseudo-hokey HR practices on non-leadership role hiring. aren't filtering the best of the best of people--at filling out useless forms that you'll need to train to critically think anyways.

Only way to combat MBB bullshit is for the in-house managers to grow a spine and speak truth to power after the pre-contractually safe 'I'm so good you want me even if I don't toe the line' that is allowed to every leadership role hire as their moment to feel special to see that reaction.

Of course not. Why would I risk limiting our market share that way?

I demonstrate synergy and the ability to run an agile ship by instead outsourcing development of an app charging 1,000,000,000 people $15 monthly for the privilege of pressing the button and posting that they weren't it this month.

Then I press it, because we must make sure our actions align with increasing shareholder value.

Don't let my family know, I still want to keep ruining speed Monopoly...

But I wouldn't object if my ashes are like, 85% sand by volume. I'd be too dead.

"Self promotion" can and often is conversation. Ads are ever just ads. Of course rules and expectations were put in place to push for a divisive paradigm that only "the big guy" can afford to sidestep.

Can't have advertisers' treasured impressions diluted by discourse that happens to involve a specific person's (often) passionate labors. Drink your multinational conglomerate verification can now.

Shhh, you'll attract the solarpunks and then we'll really be finding out all about the ways of low-tech and high-nature. Some of us have things to do today other than design low-watt high-flow irrigation.

I even wonder if it's some sort of coordinated mass manipulation to prevent the increasingly radicalizing people from taking out the groups in power, by letting them fight against the older ones, while they prepare younger fascists to run the place, but that would be too much of a conspirational thought.

It's not much of a conspirational thought; it's common sense blanket chaff laying.

Ageism, racism, and ableism are easy and timeless levers to pull. Who did the Nazis blame for their problems (besides Jews, their own built-in trifecta of isms)?

Edit: Nazis are just topical; pick any other axis power. Pick any civilization on Earth whilst they were getting their subjugating in, for that matter. I speak of human nature "always has been.jpg" monkey reaction shit.

Othering works best when it's programmed to work at a glance, and as demographics shift, age becomes as useful as racism to manipulate if you're being paid by a handful of shit stains coordinating their self-defined supremacy (Billionaires. I mean the oligarchical dragons who own the information outlets).

Too much of a conspirational thought? Please. It's not even worth a line item in Repub Think Tanks strategy meeting; it'd be like saying the sky is blue or money makes you worthy for that kind. Axiomatic.

I mean, you're 99% correct imo.

But it's not the voting power they're afraid of losing though.

"We" (read, anyone even one iota to the left of what passes for American Centrism/Liberalism) doesn't even stop to consider what "we" would do with a voting majority over the status quo voter example (Christian, White, Male) because that's just not how "our" brains on average are structured.

"They" would get exactly what they deserve; adequate everything and a shot at the pursuit of liberty as equitable as can be honestly delivered.

That's not what "they" vote for in the pursuit of maintaining their stranglehold over that teensy bit of extra power; they fear what they would vote for because their interests would see them vote the existence of the "other" away.

Community Blood Center. The very polite vampires are the only ones who put up with Google screen for me. They really like my blood.

Take it easy on the uneducated y'all. The fact that the failure to get anywhere and still keep meeting is the whole point, is actually not as well known as it ought to be.

Ask yourself dear reader, if world governments didn't have a place to meet and waste time arguing over geopolitics and agreeing to disagree, how would such disagreements take place?

Theoretically, there are less big regional wars and no world wars anymore thanks to the UN's founding as the world government's pressure release valve.

I'll not share my personal stance on the matter, easy to discern as it may be.

Now, these days are the real test of the institution. It was intended to head off another of what's brewing (WW), to be a release vent and that's just fucking laughably not happening as genocide and fascism returns anyways.

So the institution and it's non-currently disingenuous members (US politics has been financially tied to Zionism too long for a clean break) need to call out the bullshit and the other four need to find their balls too because the only winner in a WW3 will be the US elite and rich, again.

Every other oligarch and oligarch wannabe is dreaming if they think our dragons will align with theirs out of dragonhood if Uncle Sam gets geared for global war again; the US will load it's cannons with its fodder stock of idiots and no-other-choicers and will once again do their outmost to take whatever path leads to the most rubble elsewhere and the most firesales on cheap foreign bonds. Just like before.

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