Vanth @ Vanth @reddthat.com

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As my mom was becoming an adult, women in my country still couldn't have their own bank accounts nor could they vote. So how much choice did she have? She could stay under her abusive father's control, or roll the dice on marrying a guy who had minimal red flags. They're fine, they had kids and are still married decades later. But I can't really say she was able to freely choose.

I am mixed on how they did as parents. I have no doubt they mostly did what they thought was the right thing. I just strongly disagree with them on some things they believed to be right. Like I wasn't given certain vaccines as a kid, not because my parents thought they would cause autism, but because my parents thought Hep C would only be caught by drug users and sexually promiscuous people. And their kids would never.

Aside from cost, there is also privacy to consider. Subscription home alarm systems don't fit into my threat model, personally. I focus on hardening physical access points as compared to my neighbors, and good insurance.

Just like how I only need to outrun my hiking buddy instead of trying to outrun the bear, my house simply needs to look like a more challenging target with lower yield than my neighbors. I am not going to get robbed when my neighbor leaves their patio door unlocked with valuables visible through their always-open windows.

Young Bobby was so eager for his beard to grow in, but this is not what he had in mind. being 15 is rough.

I've been told my polish sounds "old". I know only a little bit, learned from grandparents and great grandparents. However they were speaking in the early 1900s when they left Poland for the US, that's the Polish I grew up hearing.

I grew up in the Midwest where there were quite a few 2nd, 3rd, + generation Polish Americans. Now I live on the East Coast where there are more people who immigrated from Poland in the last ~20 years in addition to the generational families and they sound quite a bit different from what I grew up with.

What you're missing is full brainwashing from the patriarchy, from the bootlicking capitalists.

Any partner who can but doesn't support their partner and newborn is an ass.

Any partner who can but doesn't take advantage of the leave benefit they earned is giving free money to their employer overlords like an absolute cuck.

Be revolutionary, put your family over your employer.

I've wanted to learn Dvorak for years but the article hit on it: I'm not and never will be native to it since I already know QWERTY, so won't ever net the sweetest efficiency gains.

Top bunk. My folks invited someone to stay with us when I was in high school and they slept four feet above me.

Can't say I'd be so generous as to invite a stranger into my house like that as an adult. Maybe. I would certainly help with other sorts of disaster relief but it's tough for me to envision a situation in which I would open my home.

Set your default view to the communities you subscribe to. Don't subscribe to communities that overlap with politics or reddit.

Not needed for a company to update rules agnostic of any alleged bad actor. Honey coul end up completely innocent and it would still be a positive update by Google.

What did it take them, 5 months from when the general public knew and who knows how long since insiders were aware? What a laughably long response time.

Initially makes me wonder how the employer could be so dumb as to give one employee so much access. But then I remember a former employer of mine did the same and worse.

Colleague was known for writing his comments in such a way that only he could read them, including mixing in German (US based company doing all business in English). He was also the admin of our CAD system and would use it as leverage to get his way on things, including not giving even default user access to engineers he didn't like. We migrated systems and everyone was thinking, "this is it, the chance to root this guy out of the admin position" and... they gave him admin access again. Not even our IT department had the access he had. I left before the guy retired / was fired, this post is making me wonder if he left peacefully or left bricking the CAD system out.

Strange drunk man hip-checked his way into my locked apartment. He was on the wrong floor, trying to visit his buddy one above me.

Full, over-the-top drama mode to the apartment managers and they installed a much more secure door and deadbolt. I'd already complained about their doors being basically just thick cardboard, so I wasn't going to pass the opportunity up.

Lol, you don't know how middle management works, do you. I have been "empowered to find ways to be more efficient" so unfortunately that means no budget for extra resources, use the AI tools that some Jr c-suite asshole pushed to justify his latest promotion.

I did choose to set filters on resumes loosely at the expense of having a larger pool for the video portion. I could have tightened the resume filters, but for this particular job, I decided verbal communication explaining how they used x tool mattered more than how well one copy/pasted keywords from the job posting into the resume. I would probably set filters differently for a different type of job.

I also don't think it's "cool" to have a down selected pool of 70. I think it's a sign the job market is fucked up and getting worse. The job itself is fine; it has one good benefit of paying for just about any advanced degree that can be stretched to sound "job relevant", but other than that it's mid.

no re takes

That's garbage. That's def an option someone selected, to not allow re-takes. Hopefully they just didn't understand the impact and course-correct if they use it again.

Knowing the workflow for mine was unlimited retakes made me feel a bit better, though I still didn't like the tool. So the person who chose to record from the phone with their camera shooting up their nose had every opportunity to rethink that choice. The person who opened and closed with a string of expletives chose to hit "submit'.

My company sometimes uses that too. It has your general keyword filtering on resumes, with sensitivity adjustments.

It also has a tool to ask questions, then candidates video record themselves responding (as many retakes as they want) and the hiring manager can review their video so they aren't bound by a mutual schedule. No AI element to that (yet) that I'm aware of, but could see the potential to screen the videos through an AI filter.

I don't like the video screening, personally. Neither as an applicant nor as a hiring manager. I've only had to use it once as hiring manager where the narrowed down by resume pool of candidates was still 70 people for only one position. I used the damn tool because I didn't see any other way to filter it down to a number I could conceivably interview live on zoom.

If one is down to 3-5 candidates, AI tools of any sort are inappropriate. As with all things AI, it's a tool and not an excuse to not do the job.

thefacebook.com isn't exactly a great name.

Yep, fully agree. Regionally, what is most popular. Also what is OP most likely to drive? If the family car is manual, better learn that.

Yes, I've found the versions with potassium nitrate to work best for me. And non-whitening too, I think they are a little less abrasive.

What helped the most though is convincing my dentist to give me a fluoride treatment at my checkup every 6 months. Where I live, they stop providing those by default around age 12.

Edit: ope, I just got billed for the fluoride treatment from my recent visit. Reason given: "patient is over age limit for this benefit". Hot trash. Our teeth don't stop needing fluoride at age 12, the insurance companies just don't want to pay for it.

So pay attention to insurance coverage and charging if you decide to try it.

Very directly. My company just had layoffs as a direct result of Trump. The company has contracts with the government and Trump cancelled many of them. The Legal team is also trying to figure out if the company will be paid for some work that was already completed.

The tarrifs and threat of tariffs and general chaotic instability Trump is driving around tarrifs is already affecting our supply chain and pricing. We try to make long-term agreements with suppliers instead of doing spot buys, and they are working assumptions of even more tarrifs into their pricing as a buffer.

And how would one know with 100% certainly a person killed in self-defense despite being labeled a murderer by the applicable legal system?

It assumes an impossible perfect knowledge. Or if not perfect knowledge, some percentage of error, making the murderer of murderers guilty of occasionally murdering an innocent self-defense killer.