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jtrek

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  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • I remember once when I was a kid, my uncle asked me something or other. I dithered for a bit, and then admitted I didn't actually know. He said something really nice about how it's much better to just say you don't know than to dig deeper into bullshit. Really stuck with me, for some reason.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • I was talking about this with someone a while ago and they suggested that some people's lived experiences have been more... abusive. Like as a child if they made a mistake their parents treated them like shit. Now they have that untreated trauma deep in their personality. When they make a mistake like making a reservation at the wrong time, they subconsciously think it's going to be like when their dad screamed at them, smacked them, and sent them to bed without dinner. So they lie and prevaricate to avoid that.

    I don't know how often that kind of early childhood trauma is the root of the behavior, but if that is happening that's really sad.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • Also it’s one of the things destroying politics.

    That's often the previous stop on this train of thought. There are maga people that in their secret heart know they've made a mistake, but they struggle to come to terms with that. Though that also carries the fear of losing all their social bonds and being rejected by the group.

  • Former Microsoft AI Leaders Are Spending $1M To Replace CEOs With AI

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  • Market the company and, for smaller companies that want funding, beg and network.

    Leadership is often removed from how work actually gets done. This is part of why they often make bonkers decisions.

    They don't understand that most of the time isn't going into typing code into the computer. It's figuring out what the product guy and CEO actually want. It's pulling answers out of them (eg: what do you want to do if the user's name is null?) or dealing with it when they don't like your decision (eg: you didn't say what to do when I don't have their name, so the email just says "hey". I really don't think this is a crisis)

  • Lesbians like me joined forces with conservatives. Now they're turning on us.

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  • When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020,

    Eyeroll. Can already tell this person is an idiot.

  • How many people do you know from your neighborhood

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  • I've met two of my neighbors, but don't know them well. One might even have moved away- haven't seen her in months.

    I have two friends that live nearby. Three if you stretch what's considered the neighborhood. All walking distance.

  • Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows

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  • Many executives are also board members.

  • So much for the lawsuit

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  • Right? Emulators are pretty popular. Piracy is a service problem.

  • So much for the lawsuit

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  • If they released PC ports of Nintendo games I would play a lot of them.

  • How Trump and his administration have mired the US in multiple crises

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  • Every Republican administration makes things worse. Yet there are so many idiots (of various kinds!) that vote for them anyway.

    My old boss is from Iran. Like, family still lives there. He voted for trump "to unlock the economy". He also laughed at ICE kidnapping people. That fucking moron. That cruel sack of shit. The only way it could be more leopards ate his face is if ICE kidnapped him too.

    But he's still chugging along as CEO, living large on his rich father's money and VC capital.

  • The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

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  • Paywall, but going by the headline: good

    The world is burning and these assholes are making it worse.

  • How would you design online communities so they don't degenerate over time?

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  • I wouldn't do it based on join time. Age doesn't always map to quality, and it might encourage people to make sleeper accounts to age up.

    I would do it based on a graph of trust.

    Let's say you're user 0. You trust yourself. You can then invite or vouch for a user. If they misbehave, it should reflect badly on you. If they post good content, you should share some of the glory. If one of those users invites someone, the good and bad flow upstream.

    People no one has vouched for have very little power. You can filter them out with a toggle.

    You'd be able to see the web of behavior. If someone keeps inviting or endorsing assholes, then they're a problem.

    Endorsing is different than upvote. You can upvote whatever, but endorsing is saying you trust this person and you're willing to put your own reputation and access on the line.

    Something like that.

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    ABC, NBC, CNN do not air Trump’s election-security speech live on primary channels

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  • Maybe they don't want to air it live because that'll make it harder to sanewash

  • How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century

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  • So one hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is

    Most of them won't learn anything. If they were capable of learning, they've had ample time to do so.

  • ‘BED TALK’ [OC]

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  • There's a few strands of toxic monogamy that are pretty common. Really jealous, controlling, and with poor emotional regulation.

    I'm lucky my current partner is very chill about these things. I'm still good friends with two previous partners and it's never been an issue. We've all hung out together.

  • Why won't you have kids??

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  • I was looking at the costs of raising a child the other day and I don't know how anyone does it. My job pays garbage with trash health insurance.

    I'm just so mad at the management class with their high pay and not doing any actual work. My boss seems fine - I think he knows this is bullshit and goes a little out of his way to make it easier for me. But everyone above him? If I saw them drowning I'd have to think a long time before throwing a life vest.

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  • For any question about "why is this extra bad in the United States?", racism is probably a big factor. There's a book "Dying of Whiteness" that's pretty horrifying. Some people would literally rather suffer and die personally than let black people have nice things.

    It's not the only factor, but it's a big one.

  • Michigan Democratic voters want to see change in the American health care system, poll finds

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  • There's a small but insane group that would rather personally die than let black people have nice things.

    If we could just like... get rid of them, or render them powerless, we'd be better off.

  • How to unionize your tech workplace

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  • Workers skeptical of unions in a survey of 1,900 tech professionals conducted by the career site Blind cited specific concerns: that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

    Looking at my non union job where idiots make millions and it has taken years to get even the basics of ci/cd implemented.