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  • There is some kind of trend where a survey or something happened and women said they would rather go camping with an actual bear than a man, presumably because the man is more likely to rape or kill them or something.

    And when men say "what the fuck that bear is gonna maul your ass to death", that is a gotcha opportunity to highlight how men don't understand the constant threat women are under.

  • There's no King of the Alphabet People dictating and controlling exactly how everyone behaves. You're dealing with individuals who due to America's (and other) shitty government are dealing with a literal existential crisis. This is a terrifying position to be in. Unfortunately I consider it normal and expected that in a situation like this for people to feel cornered and viciously protective of their safe spaces.

    It's not impossible to have a good faith discussion over the Internet. But not everyone wants to have those discussions. Not everyone wants to actually educate and recruit allies. Yes, notice I said "recruit" - it takes mutual effort to build that relationship, and that means both sides need to chill the fuck out and talk without alienating the other.

  • The problem isn't necessarily "stuff not sent over vpn isn't encrypted". Everyone uses TLS. It's more that you are no longer NATed behind the VPN egress IP. When governments want to assassinate anyone who touches a destination IP, having the true source IP instead of a VPN source IP is pretty helpful. For this to be practical you first need a botnet of compromised home routers... which they already have.

    In a corporate environment, traffic that is VPN'd typically also undergoes better logging and deep packet inspection.

  • My Asus motherboard started bluescreening Windows. After a lot of effort I traced it down to a specific device ID that windows was loading firmware for. No matter what I tried I couldn't get this auto installation to stop. It was a totally random component that added nothing I could tell.

    Asus refused to release new firmware be cause the motherboard was "unsupported" even though the box etc has stickers saying it supports windows 10.

    After a ton more effort I figured out how to make some low end api calls that eventually stopped this auto installation. It was mostly reliable. I got to crack a lot of jokes to my friends about my motherboard not supporting windows but it was a really hard period for me particularly because Linux gaming wasn't as strong as it is today. I was really big into league of legends at the time and this experience forced me to quit, losing touch with many friends in the process.

  • You're agreeing with me, so I'm not sure why you're saying No.

    The con man uses the carrot as part of the convincing. And people are just as susceptible to those strategies now as they were back then. Science is better now but the "floor" hasn't moved much, just the ceiling.

  • MBTI, DISC, and love languages work well together. Even if there's no hard proof, it at least gets your thinking about the fact that other people think differently. It's very easy to live in your own head and make assumptions, so getting exposed to these concepts in a formal way can be really effective in building relationships of all kinds.

  • If you agree the system is broken I encourage you to reconsider your prior statements about the rich not paying their fair share.

    Rich people do a variety of shady stuff and keep it hidden (Panama papers), I wouldn't trust your lack of data points to mean it isn't a pervasive problem.

  • I wouldn't be surprised if those loans are repaid without realizing the gain of the collateral. Step-up basis is a huge tax dodge, and tax dodge is theft from all the people who would benefit from the things those taxes could pay for.

    The way the rich use loans as income is unfair. Therefore the rich do not pay their fair share.

  • And what did the "customers" say after you told em it's a DoorDash problem? (I argue your customer is DoorDash since they ordered the food, but I recognize that user might mistakenly rate your restaurant poorly on an app outside of DoorDash - who cares if they rate you poorly on DoorDash, you don't want this non censensual business anyway right?)

    Do we really need to design a system that takes into account the fact that users blame the wrong thing? How is this any different than dealing with people of average intelligence who Karen about other random stuff that isn't your fault? They're dumb. Put on your customer voice and tell them kindly to fuck off. Even if you did have a partnership with DoorDash, the delivery is still not your fault so they were still wrong to call you. It is your fault if you finished making the food too early though. In-person customers, not just DoorDash, rely on your pickup time to be accurate. If I'm on time and my food is cold cuz you finished early, imma be pissed.

    DoorDash lets you rate the driver separate from the food, and a reasonable person knows that the driver doesn't work for the restaurant and therefore the only way it's the restaurant's fault is if the food isn't placed on the pickup counter while it's hot or wasn't decently packaged to stay decently hot for fifteen minutes for someone to get home and eat it. Everything else: anticipating cook times so that a driver accepts the job and arrived at the restaurant on time, is on DoorDash.