Oh my ex wanted me to cut his hair, but just pulled it over one shoulder and said cut it off. He wanted to see it cut, understand? No, neither did i. I said “no, it will be slanty because it’s all pulled to one side, let me cut it into a haircut.” He said no, it will be fine, just cut it. “It will be slanty!” He was getting mad, JUST CUT IT! Finally he just took scissors and cut it how he wanted. “Oh no, it’s all slanty!”
Climate change is real and damaging to everyone and we need to take action to mitigate its progression. People who deny it are just insane. Not sure why some folks think losing freshwater and having more extreme weather events isn’t a problem but it will end human civilization as we know it and eventually our species as a whole. We need to get with the program and stop politicizing a global issue.
Religion. I’m amazed not a single response here starts with that one word. Infallible opinions are bullshit. Smart people change their stance when presented with facts that contradict their world view.
yeah I’m autistic this happens very often
Random programming one, but some of the changes in C++20 are terrible and do not belong in the language. I will die on the hill of just because something is easier to learn/work with doesn’t make it better.
That smart phones are surveillance/psyop devices, and that they own you, not them. I’ve been 100% phone free for 5 years now. I’m a 30+ Year IT expert. Also, fuck A.I.
100% phone free or 100% smartphone free? Thats wild
ALL: I don’t own a smartphone, dumb cellphone, landline, or anything else. I don’t own a tablet either.
I only use my computer without any camera’s, microphones or other feedback systems that social media can use to listen in or watch what my eye is focused on. I limit my online time to less than 2 hours a day, and often go several days without it at all.
I do have a media player that uses yt-dlp too download a few youtube channels I like, but with all the ads and whatnot removed. It’s as anonymous as I can get to limit what big tech knows I’ve consumed. Censorship and book burning start by knowing the source of the offending information.
Ive thought about going smartphone free, but I literally need it for a lot of 2fa stuff and travel.
However, all I do on it is, read, read lemmy, and talk to friends. Sometimes play nethack. Im not on toxic social media. So other than being on lemmy a little too much, I dont think its a bad thing to have, minus all the spyware, which I hope to get a pixel or light phone someday to rid that.
What I do think is good and needed more is respecting it. I dont need to be on it when im with friends. I dont need to look at it first thing in the morning. I dont need it when im in public and could sit contently or talk to a neighbor. Usually on weekends I leave it in my sock drawer and check it once or twice (unless i just need it for 2fa)
Pizza that traditionally comes with sauce on top would be better if you did no sauce on top and instead dipped the pizza in sauce as you ate. I like my crunchy.
I do cheeseless pizzas and if you have the right amount of sauce on top its fantastic with a deep dish crust.
I’m a structural engineer. It is part of the job.
I’ve been mostly right.
A profession where I’m sure it’s beneficial to be very rigid…
Except during seismic events.
Tell me, as a structural engineer, should I build my home on sand?
Depends on the sand.
That’s also generally more the geotechnical engineer’s call.
What about the graboids?
It’s cheese curds and gravy that make it a poutine, not cheese. You can put cheese AND cheese curds on a poutine along with other stuff, but without cheese curds, all you have is fries and gravy with assorted hangers on.
And them curds better be squeaky!
This is correct. I used to live in southern US and could not find any place that served even something similar to poutine much less actual poutine with cheese curds. Youd think they would be more into that stuff its got fried stuff, gravy and whatnot
I said in a meeting “that’s a really bad idea”
They still did it.
During years, we had trouble with it. I kept saying “I told you it was a bad idea”.
After 6 years, they finally removed it. I said “well, I said it was a bad idea”.
Sounds like youre not a team player. /$
If you’re walking down stairs or an escalator you stand/walk on the right. always. If you live in a country that drives on the left side then you apply the same to stairs.
When walking on the sidewalk you pass on the right.
People who walk down the opposite side are a cancer to society.
Fun fact, in Japan, they drive on the left. As a result, they also walk on the left on the sidewalk. However in Osaka, they walk up stairs and use escalators “international style” on the right. They still walk on sidewalks on the left side. The rest of the country is not like this.
Adding to this, if a group is walking together shoulder to shoulder taking up most of the sidewalk, it’s that groups responsibility to stack when a single person is coming. The single walker should not have to move off the sidewalk to accommodate.
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When walking on the sidewalk you pass on the right.
You walk on the right, but if someone is slow, and there’s no room on the right, you can def pass them on the left. Like driving.
Playing noise on your phone in a public place is wrong. Violators should be put in one those midevil contraptions that lock your head and wrists in a plank of wood so that we may all pelt you with rotten fruit and vegetables.
No one wants to hear that shit. You’re an asshole and should feel bad.
To extend that, people that have there notification sound on all the time is really annoying, just leave it on vibrate it’s just as useful!
At work, I had to design something for a new software product and realized that if we applied the same approach as our old product we were going to run into major scalability issues. The problem is the whole organization was basically used to the product working this old way. For months, people tried to ignore the scalability issues and push forward with the old approach in the new product. I kept being a pest though and pointing it out. Eventually, I wrote a several page document with data and graphs explaining exactly what the problem was and presented it to other teams. I also did research and found that our competitors were doing it my way, which I attributed to the scalability issues inherent to the problem. This forced everyone to accept the problem and eventually my solution. It was really hard to basically be fighting against a mob mentality and feel like the only sane one. It was also hard because even after the solution was accepted people were still upset about the change. In my view, this was like being angry at the laws of gravity. You can feel that way, but it doesn’t change that they exist and you have to accept them.
I was once a consultant for wine companies. I was working on helping establish a new wine brand. The client was really clear that they did not want to rely on the idea of terroir, nor their vineyards closeness to the ocean as selling points.
My boss thought the brand should use a bunch sails and anchor imagery to sell the terroir and the vineyard’s closeness to the ocean.
I told him the client wouldn’t like it as they’d been clear that’s not what they wanted. He said I was wrong. If he’d told me the client was wrong that would have been fine but he insisted that I had heard it wrong and started gas lighting me.
Turns out the client felt they’d been really clear that they didn’t want a brand that focused on the terroir and closeness to the ocean and refused to pay for that round of work.
TIL Terroir means “the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate”
They tried to argue that all math was useless bullshit because it couldn’t deal with infinity.
I tried to show different ways math has been useful for me personally, and for humanity generally. None of that mattered to them. I tried to explain how math can actually work with infinity. They insisted I was lying.
A part of me thought they were just trying to troll me, but after seeing and interacting with them multiple times afterwards, I’m pretty sure those were their genuine beliefs. They were also a moon landing denier, but after the whole math discussion I didn’t touch that topic with a ten foot pole.
So many people never even look at calculus & how it addresses infinities, it’s got this reputation as difficult but that’s just because of all the different algorithms and rules to learn for different cases, but you can teach the basic operations and build intuitions of differentiation and integration to grade schoolers.
What really disappointed me about math is that there is a proof that there must be mathematical theorems which cannot be proven or disproven.
Just adding to aMockTie here: I love math, a math-lover, if you will, and I don’t find the incompleteness theorem disappointing, I find it incredibly interesting and captivating. It’s like learning that black holes are real. It gives me the same feeling that watching superfluids in chemistry flow up their containers do.
The fact that the universe conspires to keep us ignorant is so goddamn interesting.
I never made the connection until reading your comment, but I now wonder if they heard about the incompleteness theorems and came to their conclusions about math based on a misunderstanding.
I’m sorry to hear that concept disappointed you, but I personally don’t think it ultimately matters or effects the usefulness of math. I see it as similar to the difference between science and engineering. An engineer can create something useful by knowing what works, without knowing precisely why it works. A scientist tries to uncover why things work the way they do, regardless of the utility of that understanding. Often the output of those two fields overlap, but they don’t have to.
JFC don’t send them stopdoingmath.jpeg
I now consider it one of many examples of the idea that you can’t use reason and evidence to change someone’s beliefs, if they never used reason or evidence to conclude those beliefs in the first place.
I feel sorry for those who have never felt the excitement of changing their beliefs based on new evidence or understanding, especially when due to their own hubris. Being wrong is an opportunity to learn and discover. Everyone who has ever lived, and will ever live, is sometimes wrong.
In a way, that’s the general theme of this thread. We stood our ground when we knew we were right and could prove it with reason and evidence, while facing opposition that was based on stubbornness, hubris, and refusal to admit to being wrong.
I feel sorry for those who have never felt the excitement of changing their beliefs based on new evidence or understanding, especially when due to their own hubris.
Not only is it sad, nearly everything wrong with the world right now can be boiled down to a handful of people having this character flaw
“Nearly everything” seems a bit hyperbolic, but I absolutely agree that it’s a major problem that has caused, and will likely continue to cause massive unnecessary suffering worldwide.
You can’t even prove numbers are real!
Sounds irrational
We should all imagine imaginary numbers together.
Ha! You got me there!
