I will almost never click a video unless it’s a natively visual thing. Like, a music video, a clip of a movie, whatever.
If it’s like “you should learn more about the My Lai massacre - here’s a great video” I’m just going to roll my eyes. Use your words. Embedded media is probably fine. Like an article with illustrations or video supplements. I’d much rather just read like a wikipedia article like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
I wonder if this was a form of sabotage by an engineer, or regular incompetence
Yeah. I wouldn’t bring it up as a non sequitur but it’s pretty important.
We’re a stupid country rules by assholes and morons.
You just know if someone tried to make a serious push for it, all the fox news types would go into a frenzy. It’d be an easy way to whip up their idiot base.
These so called conservatives really have the worst stance on like every issue.
The Republicans are not competent. That’s assuming they even care about what they talk about. They don’t live in a fact driven reality.
Now that song by the clash is in my head again
I’m all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality
Conservatism is entirely about the laws applying differently to different people. The king is special. The nobles are a little less special. The peasants are trash. The slaves are worse. That’s the conservative world. Hierarchy. So of course they don’t want to apply rules to their chief.
They are worse than children.
A fine article, but maga types aren’t going to read and think about it. They just feel
Where’s that comic with the guy saying “I’ve been SILENCED” on like tv, radio, and a book tour?
The right wing are a bunch of insecure idiots who can’t grapple with the complexity of real life, and so demand everything be simplified into hierarchical in-group and out-group. They’re failures. Even dogs can figure that out.
Anyone who knew how anything relevant worked could have predicted this. Unfortunately, most people don’t know shit about fuck, but they vote trump anyway.
I accept that your job likely has different cadences than software development, in addition to personal preference.
Most software engineers I’ve talked to don’t like being interrupted in the middle of some deep thought. Especially if it means shelving current work to check out something else
I didn’t mean I need them to keep it digital. I meant I don’t want my train of thought interrupted. A “take a number” and “now serving” sign would work fine, if it gated the conversation until I was ready. Or just they send a message asking to talk and wait for me to say “ok come on over”
poor heating/cooling. Usually offices aren’t a comfortable temperature for everybody.
not getting compensated for the commute. It’s a pay cut. Fuck you, management.
people that just walk up to your desk and start asking questions. Send a message like “can we talk about XYZ?” and I’ll get to it when I get to it. Though this maybe is a learned behavior from people who are bad at responding to messages.
I had a pair of coworkers that would chat over slack all day. One of them had a laugh. My other coworker at the other side of the large office would message me “what’s so fucking funny over there?”. I never knew because they never shared.
I think we agree, then? What I was saying is you have to talk to people like your family. You have to have bonds with people, whether that’s from being a family or just spending time together.
I just to debate them enough and provide them with the necessary examples that they can form their own actual opinion.
This will be fruitless if they don’t trust you. That’s another way of saying you’re in-group.
In-group pressure and trauma are the only things that change minds. Traumatizing people is often rude, and maybe a crime, so it’s safer to try to get people to see you as trusted in-group and then work on changing their minds.
Make it progressive. First $x is untaxed, $x+y is taxed at some percent, the next $x+z is taxed higher, and so on.
Also build more housing in general.
Only slime balls, children, and cowards refuse to admit fault.
There was a joke at Bush’s expense, I believe, that was like “This man believes the same thing Wednesday as he did on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday.” Don’t be like that.