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I know there are but my employer is amazing and the work life balance is great. Don’t care enough to try and change our tech stack, but I hold no ill will towards anyone who does care enough.

Yup. Software developer here for a small company. We use a Windows. Chrome for testing applications and edge is just there. We are all in on Microsoft, server is C# .Net, running on azure with teams and outlook and office.

I do use Firefox though but I’m the only one out of 7.

Nah I’m pretty chill so imagine clone me would also be chill.

How do we tackle those problems you mentioned?

The reason I ask is I support your view here, but recently I’ve been downvoted a lot for having the opinion that I don’t blame people still using Twitter as I believe, like you, that most people are good people and can be reasoned out of what we believe are the wrong beliefs and that staying in those places to converse with them is better than Twitter becoming a right wing place and us chilling here in left wing ideology but at the end of that nobody learns anything they didn’t already know.

The hardest challenge in changing someone’s beliefs is that people don’t want to admit they were wrong or lied to or used or whatever and this makes it challenging if we can’t take our ego out of the equation.

Anecdotal proof that people can change is a YouTuber called JimmyTheGiant and he has mentioned several times how he went down the alt right pipeline but started to question things and now makes left leaning content.

But how do you know that some people haven’t changed their views from coming up against counter arguments?

I despise adverts and see them as an attack on my eyes, especially irl.

That said it’s odd that I find the ones in Times Square or Piccadilly Circus (London) quite fascinating when near them. Kind of don’t mind them as they’re concentrated in those areas and well known for them. Just an interesting thought I had.

Genuine question. How do we know they’re not scheming behind the scenes?

Correct. I was hired as a Xmas temp to work the Avenues (accessories) and during that time applied to the Genius Bar as a Technical Specialist and got hired.

As the other person who replied said, this is as Apple Retail / Genius Bar.

When I say I was shit I mean that I’d had no less than 50 jobs at the point I got in at Apple. All dead end jobs where you get treated like crap, paid crap and expect 150% effort. Coupled with ADHD I would just get bored, have shit time keeping and get fired, just not turn up for shifts or just stop going alltogether.

I like to think they hired me because I am good at being a fake extrovert and I am passionate and that must have come across.

I started retail as a Xmas temp for 3 months and during this time applied for the Genius Bar, which lead to all of the information in my original comment.

Happy to answer any more questions though.

Here they do.

I worked for Apple in the Uk and was almost certainly a DEI hire. Apple is a sought after employer due to how amazing they treated us, the salary, and the progression. Because of this they could be incredibly selective in their hiring. I was a failure in my mid thirties with no experience and no degree.

They didn’t care. They didn’t check references and they just interviewed me and determined for themselves if I was a good fit.

Then whilst working there i had private healthcare and got diagnosed with ADHD. They then supported me whilst I trained to be a software developer and then supported me whilst I looked for a job to leave Apple and go to my new career.

The pay was exceptional and more than any other retail store. The work life balance was incredible and the managers actually cared about us. We got crazy discounts and stock given each year.

I say this with no hyperbole that Apple changed my life for the better. The diverse working environment gave me loads of different perspectives and being surrounded by talented people makes you want to do better yourself.

Sure Apple has a multitude of issues but this isn’t one of them.

This is why I’m on a German one as a Brit. /s

Cinema costs me £5 and I take sweets from the supermarket which is allowed in the UK.

I can rock climb as much as I want for a month for £46.

Apparently he doesn’t regret that because he wanted the pizzas at the time and he had BTC to trade. Shame the landfill dude can’t do the same.

Correct. Thing they’re like triangle shape keys some of them. There was a website, which I forget the name of, that would show tips for doing stuff like this and where to get the keys from etc.

Dude you can buy keys to open this digital graffiti things and insert whatever poster you want.

If this is actually in that spot it is because someone put it in there , not by contacting the company that controls these eyesores but by being malicious in a good way.

How’s it going? What are you doing to try?

This is on my wish list of things to do, but I always forget to start.

Is this a rabbit hole I want to go down?

People might look at me and think why would anybody like to play so much Factorio. Or why does this guy keep going rock climbing when he’s already torn a tendon.

People do things that they like to do regardless of what anybody else thinks or without some ulterior motive for it.

Sure some people might have body issues and this is the result, but for the vast majority of people they’re doing what they enjoy and doing it for themselves.

I worked at Apple and one thing that always stuck with me was their approach to Positive Intent, we assume that people are being honest and the best selves and so we assume that of people until proven otherwise. Someone cuts me up in traffic, oh well perhaps they’re in labour and heading to the A&E.

Over sharing and making random noises (stimming maybe?). If someone is telling me something I’ll just repeat a random word from their sentence back to them 😂. Or I’ll just make random noises like dum dum dum for no reason.

People also don’t notice stuff that I do. Like we watching football and I’ll be like huh what does that logo represent on the socks. Everybody else how did you even notice that? Me well I don’t really like football so I’m keeping it fun by reading everything I can see.

I’ve reframed it as less hell and more it is what it is.

I’ve decided I have no control over what’ll I’ll be interested in in the future and so I just go with the flow.

If I frame things as I must keep doing this to justify the purchase that’s a recipe for disaster. But if I frame it as I’m all about the journey then it not an issue to stop doing something and I might come back to it later.

Plus as someone who spent so long self medicating with drugs, I’ve spent more money than I care to think about on less constructive hobbies.

For those interested my latest hobby is rock climbing, although I tore a tendon and not been in almost a month so hope I still have the bug after physio. I’m back into Factorio too and want to start camping in the warmer weather.