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I think this is one of those pearl clutching communities. Borderline collaboration, but it's their power to enforce their rules.

Oh I read something interesting about that once. I think it came at it as big city vs urban modes of thought.

Someone who lives in a big city surrounded by many people realizes quickly you need robust systems. You just don't have the time to handle every case as a unique circumstance. So you have laws and regulations to shift things earlier in the process when they're easier to deal with (eg: fire codes before the building gets built, instead of no codes and a fire hazard)

The other mode doesn't think like that. They can have simple laws on the books, and if there's a problem they'll just go talk it out with Brian the sheriff. Sure abortion is bad but you know little Suzie she just made a mistake, you can make an exception for her, right?

Obviously the "treat every case as special and rely on informal social connections" doesn't scale or consistently deliver fair, just, outcomes. But according to some half remembered post I read, that's how some right wing people view the world. You can have draconian laws, but the people enforcing them know when to apply them (against those assholes) and when not (for good folks who made a mistake)

So, I guess, corruption.

Single use plastic should he illegal for most things. Yes, it might be inconvenient to have to carry your own thermos or whatever, but filling the ocean with plastic is worse than inconvenient

It's too bad there's not going to be a prize when bluesky enshittifies, other than being able to say "I told you so"

He was a pretty smart guy, so I'm pretty sure he understood the ramifications. This isn't like a plumber working in a building that happens to house an evil company. This was directly working as a high ranking software developer at a shitty software company.

I've thought about that. But that seems like a terrible strategy, because it lets the Republicans do anything. The Republicans do a bad thing, or accuse you of doing a bad thing, and now you're incapable of responding to it?

Palantir is pretty awful. I knew a guy who took a job there, a bunch of years ago. When he said where he was going, I asked "But what if they work on something really shitty? Like spying on people?". He was like, "Meh", with a big shrug.

He was friendly and kind to the people around him, but I guess he just didn't care about anyone he didn't know personally right now.

I feel like most of my friends follow the news, but I bet you're right that most people are just in a haze of screaming cucumbers.

I believe so. Otherwise you're testing memory as well, which would make the results very confounded.

I can't find the one I did, but https://www.varsitytutors.com/6th_grade_reading-comprehension-problem-440865 seems free.

https://www.k12reader.com/subject/reading-skills/reading-comprehension/6th-grade-reading-comprehension/ also came up.

I've already posted this a few times, but Ed Zitron wrote a long article about what he calls "Business Idiots". Basically, people in decision making positions who are out of touch with their users and their products. They make bad decisions, and that's a big factor in why everything kind of sucks now.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/ (it's long)

I think a lot of us have this illusion that higher ranking people are smarter, more visionary, or whatever. But I think no. I think a lot of people are just kind of stupid, surrounded by other stupid people, cushioned from real, personal, consequences. On top of that, for many enterprises, the incentives don't line up with the users. At least wikipedia isn't profit driven, but you can probably think of some things you've used that got more annoying with updates. Like google putting more ads up top, or any website that does a redesign that yields more ad space, worse navigation.

Someone posted the other day something like "A stupid person is someone who creates net negative gains. For example, they hurt themselves and others, and gain nothing from it."

Why didn't the democrats demand hand recounts when the election was initially called? It felt like they all just rolled over and accepted defeat.

I'm so tired of "AI". I'm tired of people who don't understand it expecting it to be magical and error free. I'm tired of grifters trying to sell it like snake oil. I'm tired of capitalist assholes drooling over the idea of firing all that pesky labor and replacing them with machines. (You can be twice as productive with AI! But you will neither get paid twice as much nor work half as many hours. I'll keep all the gains.). I'm tired of the industrial scale theft that apologists want to give a pass to while individuals who torrent can still get in trouble, and libraries are chronically under funded.

It's just all bad, and I'm so tired of feeling like so many people are just not getting it.

I hope wikipedia never adopts this stupid AI Summary project.

That's a lot of people who saw a reporter get shot and went "I'm cool with that".

I'm joking. Most of them probably aren't paying enough attention to have seen that.

Its kind of pithy but like we still live in a capitalist hellscape, so have any resistances really been successful?

despite a decade of experience, I can’t even get to the first round of interviews.

I've had several places reject me without even a phone screen. My last job was the same role, the same tech stack, and I achieved the things they wrote about in the blurb. I just get back "we're looking for someone more aligned with our needs".

What needs?? I check every box you put on the post!

My friend thinks the jobs don't exist, and they're just posted so the company looks good. Or they're some other fraud.

I think that happens, but also there's incompetence in the funnel. Recruiters can't read, ai sucks, blah blah blah.

I think 6th grade is reading for plot. Just a basic plot with a few characters. No complex themes. No unreliable narrators. Limited vocabulary.

I found an online test for it somewhere and it was like

"Sally was born in Canada and lived there until she moved to the United States when she was thirteen. She spends summers in Canada with her aunt and uncle, but spends the rest of the year in Boston. This year, she's graduating from high school and planning on attending college. She wants to see more of the country, so her top picks for college are in California and Chicago."

"Where does Sally live during the winter?"

"Where did Sally spend her childhood?"

"Where do Sally's aunt and uncle live?"

You're not going to find as many people who read badly on a majority text platform like this.

I don't think "every single problem ... must be reduced down to an individual failing" is super common, but sure, some people refuse to recognize systemic problems. There are loads of people who say racism isn't a problem, for example, and that's bad. Kind of off topic from childhood development and people who refuse to admit fault when it is plausibly their fault. (And saying you're late because there was traffic because the city refuses to build effective mass transit may be technically true in a sense, but it's also kind of useless, maybe even counter productive, in the moment where everyone else is waiting for you. Leave earlier. Use the agency you have.)

A lot of people here seem stuck on the details of the metaphor instead of focusing on how some adults refuse to ever consider they are wrong or at fault, and that's a real problem in the world. You probably know someone who never admits fault for anything. If they're late, it's because of traffic. If they lose in mario kart, it's because the controller is bad. If they get lost, it's because the GPS is hard to understand. Never their fault.

You wouldn't be alone if either party has women friends. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy in this post had no women friends , or only had women be wanted to fuck.

Also the bisexual erasure is pretty thick here.