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ThereRisesARedStar , in fixed cyberghost's "meme"

OP determining whether to believe the US about socialist movements

us-foreign-policy

Also look up double genocide theory and stop trivializing the holocaust by calling communists fascists.

dangblingus ,

Sorry, who were the communists during the holocaust?

ThereRisesARedStar , (edited )

Do you mean the german ones thrown in the camps or the soviet leadership who were the last of the eventual allied powers to do any sort of appeasement with Hitler (after exhausting all attempts to form an alliance with Britain and France) because communism is less aligned with fascist goals than liberalism is aligned with fascist goals, massive underexageration mine? Do you mean the communist low level officials who helped in a massive ethnic relocation program to move vulnerable minorities out of the way of the eventual german invasion? Or do you mean the population of the only communist nation which lost 26 million people, around 1/6th of their population, stopping the holocaust?

Or were you referring to the joke about racism? If so, you gotta look up how the population of the USSR was not considered white at the time. Emma Goldman for example basically called Stalin a slanty eyed conniving Asian, for example. Nowadays slavs are still called orcs and shit by westerners.

Flinch ,
@Flinch@hexbear.net avatar

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

mexicancartel ,

OP is not calling communists fascists. OP is calling the dictators pretending to be communist, fascists!

ThereRisesARedStar ,

The initial meme included basically all communist countries, they mean communists.

Also which communist countries had dictators again?

mexicancartel ,

The initial meme included basically all communist countries

This meme is against the initial meme.

Also which communist countries had dictators again?

China, North Korea

ThereRisesARedStar ,

This meme is against the initial meme.

The initial meme made fun of being against those countries as a socialist. This meme is against that idea. Ergo…

China, North Korea

When?

mexicancartel ,

When?

Always has been. Government taking control of every action of citizens is dictatorship. Theese people have total power of the country

…Ergo…

What??

ThereRisesARedStar ,

Always has been. Government taking control of every action of citizens is dictatorship. Theese people have total power of the country

The DPRK and China both don’t have parties that are in any way capable of controlling every action of their citizenry. They both have massive grassroots democratic institutions. Hell, look up whole process peoples democracy and the taean work system.

what

The initial meme made fun of being against those countries as a socialist. This meme is against that idea. Ergo… the meme is against all those socialist countries.

xor ,

no way you’re trying to pretend like dprk is a free country…

go ask some refugees what it’s like

xionzui , in The life of a photon

To be pedantic, photons never accelerate. They only ever travel at one speed in one direction

Subverb ,

And as they’re massless, photons do not experience time. Regardless of how far a photon travels, from its perspective, the journey takes no time.

Pseu ,
@Pseu@kbin.social avatar

It also does not experience space, as the entire universe has been length contracted in its direction of motion into a 2d plane. It is simultaneously occupying every point along its path. So it doesn't need to experience time.

spacesweedkid27 ,

Relativistic effects are cool

xionzui ,

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this part and what it means for cause and effect for a while. I think Feynman said something like a photon is only ever emitted when the source and destination agree to exchange one. Which makes sense if the exchange is instantaneous to the photon. But how can billions of years pass for us in the mean time?

Neato ,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

Because there isn't perspective of a photon. It doesn't experience because it doesn't change like mass does.

I'm not sure Feynman was right. Most photons are emitted and never absorbed by anything.

Peruvian_Skies ,
@Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social avatar

Photons exist, so there is the perspective of a photon. Most may not be absorbed but that's irrelevant because some are. And when they are, their perspective - like them - ends. Like yours does when you die.

The photon does not experience time, but we do, so from our perspective they can be emitted and absorbed even though from their perspective they are timeless. Again, like us. Before you were born, you didn't experience being not alive. From your own perspective, you've always existed, even though from the perspective of someone older than you, there was a time when you didn't.

Neato ,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

I was using the wrong term. Photons don't have a frame of reference.

But even from the colloquial definition, photons don't have perspective. They don't live and die because they never experience time. If you had their point of view, your beginning and end would happen simultaneously, meaning you wouldn't experience anything. They are immutable particles whose only interactions are emission and absorption.

SpeakinTelnet ,
@SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works avatar

I just want to say how much I appreciate those discussion. They remind me of how little I know even though I’m considered an “expert” in my field of work.

Peruvian_Skies ,
@Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social avatar

There's a difference between time not passing and not existing. To a photon, space (in the direction of its movement) doesn't exist, as its origin and destination points are the same. But time does not pass - the axis of time is there, but the photon never budges in either direction, like a rock buried in the middle of the desert doesn't move in any spatial direction on a human timescale. The photon's beginning and end aren't simultaneous, quite the opposite. Since it can't move in time, they might as well be infinitely far apart.

riskable ,
@riskable@programming.dev avatar

Most photons are emitted and never absorbed by anything…

Yet

Eventually all photons will hit something. Even if it’s a trillion trillion trillion years in the future when nearly everything in the universe has decayed into irony.

0ops ,

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but eventually the universe is going to be expanding faster than the speed of light. At that point all interaction ceases, and any photons that didn’t get absorbed by something yet never would.

peopleproblems , (edited )

Sort of. The expansion of space causes (and is measured by) redshift. The photon that doesn’t get absorbed “exists” until its wavelength is not measurable (as its wavelength approaches infinity).

The cool thing about this is that it is identical to what happens in a black hole. Spaghettification. This also has the fun consequence of us possibly existing inside of a black hole, and black holes themselves are entire universes. Because of the breakdown of physics beyond the event horizon its not exactly easy to confirm or deny this either.

Edit: redshift not redshirt. Startfleet personal aren’t dying here, it’s photons

0ops ,

Genuine question, how do we know that photons are being emitted that never get absorbed if observing them requires absorbing them? Is it an energy loss type of thing with the emmiter where we have to assume x many photons had to have been emitted to explain the loss?

Neato ,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

Because we know how different things emit photons. We know a light bulb emits photons in all directions because we can move around and measure it. And we can see the photons being emitted from objects receiving the initial light bulb's light as well so we know it's emitting light in that direction as well.

The idea that photons are only emitted if they hit something also doesn't make sense because of power usage and how we know particle physics work.

Death_Equity ,

Open loop dispersion vs closed loop absorption, in either case they are a distinction of low energy observer bias. They are functionally equal because the waveform is a projection through a open feature of a manifold bound by a topological inversion that intersects it.

So the photon never really goes anywhere, we just see its shadow cast across a screen that moves from our perspective.

Subverb ,

Obviously it doesn’t experience space if it doesn’t experience time. It’s emitted and absorbed simultaneously in its frame.

tcrpz ,

It also does not experience, as it lacks consciousness

0ops ,

Well now we’re getting into philosophy

tdawg ,

Are we? Like even if you believe in the sliding scale it feels preposterous to assert there isn’t some breakpoint (even a fuzzy one) between inorganic thing that doesn’t experience and organic thing that does

0ops ,

My stance is that if we can define, measure, and test experience, then it’s science. But “experience” is a pretty vague term, and the way it’s used is pretty human-centric. To me “experience” isn’t so much a sliding scale thing that’s actually measurable in nature as much as it’s a human construct. If you ask me, if there’s a fuzzy breakpoint, it’s due to the word’s ambiguous definition, not reality.

rockerface ,

I have no consciousness and I must experience

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

How do you know, though? 🤔

funkless_eck ,

I am therefore I must know.

stebo02 ,
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A photon would somehow experience the big bang, the heath death of the universe and everything in-between all at the same time.

spacesweedkid27 ,

They don’t accelerate, but can travel at different velocities in different mediums.

For example light travels faster in air than in water and fastest in a perfect vacuum.

xionzui ,

In aggregate, yes, but any individual wave of light is still traveling at c. You get the appearance of a slower wave because secondary waves are generated that cancel the original one in such a way that it makes a combined wave that appears to be slower.

peopleproblems ,

Not quite.c is the speed of light in a vacuum. It’s more accurate to say c is the speed of causality.

Velocity/speed isn’t very useful with photons either - its a wave-particle.

Light in changing mediums is a separate but related phenomenon. The photon essentially doesn’t continue on its same path, it gets absorbed by the particles in the medium. This leads to changing states (of usually an electron in an atom) which may emit another photon, remain stable but increase the atom’s kinetic energy (I can’t remember how likely that is, if at all), or it may eject the electron, ionizing the atom. In any case, the state changes, because the whole system (the atom, electron, and photon) can’t have net energy gain or loss.

xionzui ,

That was always my assumption about why it happened, but it turns out that’s not the case at all: youtu.be/CUjt36SD3h8

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pennomi ,

I believe they still travel at the speed of light, but are regularly absorbed and re-emitted in a way that makes the effective speed less than c.

yewler ,

How do reflections work? Aren’t changes in direction caused by acceleration? Also aren’t photons affected by the gravity of black holes? How does that work?

xionzui , (edited )

Reflections involve the material absorbing and re-emitting photons back the other direction.

The curvature of light from gravity is actually space-time itself being curved by mass. The light continues on a straight path through a curved space-time. It looks like it changes direction from the outside, but that’s just the shape of the universe in that area.

That’s why we feel gravity. The space-time around earth is curved inward, so going forward in time would actually mean falling towards the center if we were stationary in space. The ground is constantly accelerating us upwards. Light does not get accelerated that way, so it follows the curvature.

If you want to get really deep into the reflection topic: youtu.be/rYLzxcU6ROM

yewler ,

Heyo that’s dope! Definitely adding that video to my watch later. Thanks for explaining that.

xionzui ,

It is! I also found this video later that I think does a better job of explaining reflection: youtu.be/1n_otIs6z6E

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Batman ,

Well that’s like, your point of reference, man

qwertyqwertyqwerty , in Inflation yaay!

Don’t forget the company meetings where leadership says things like “this is the best quarter we have ever had”, along with “we need to work harder to stay competitive”. Sigh.

JeffMarkFrank ,

“Despite making record profits, we still didn’t hit EBITDA this year, therefore no bonuses or raises. Merry Christmas!”

r00ty Admin ,
r00ty avatar

That's not true. The senior management team will be getting raises in line with inflation and also huge bonuses for those record profits. Not to mention their share value increasing.

itsAsin ,
@itsAsin@lemmy.world avatar

Danny-fucking-Kaye

lord_ryvan ,

Oh yeah check that box too, for me

Machefi , in Zen Z

I know, it’s just a meme, but… The article. It’s about clocks during exams specifically, when students are under pressure and more likely to misread the time on an analogue clock.

bassomitron ,

Thanks for expounding upon that. It’s shit like this that gets spread around and older gens pat themselves on the back while shaking their head at the younger gen for not knowing something, despite it being taken out of context or even straight up false.

Skua ,

To be honest, even if it were completely true... okay? If analogue clocks are on the way out then there's no particular need for anyone to be able to read them any more. I like them a lot visually and have a couple in my home, but there's nothing so special about them that people would be missing out by using digital clocks instead

turbowafflz ,
Skua ,

With all due respect this is literally just a guy saying that he's personally better at reading analogue clocks than digital ones for 18 minutes

Catsrules ,

I immediately thought of Technology connections based on that description. I didn’t even remember he did a video on clocks.

turbowafflz ,

I mean that’s kind of the point, right? They convey the information in a different way that’s easy to understand for some people which seems pretty relevant since conveying information is the only function of a clock. Probably the ideal solution would be to just have both in classrooms

not_a_dog ,

You’re right, but the article still has a shitty, clickbait-y headline.

FireRetardant ,

IMO all the more reason to keep them. In the real world we all have to perform under pressure. With practice they can learn to read the clock under pressure, maybe take a breath or two and slow down before trying to read it. It may be a simple hurdle to overcome but practicing overcoming these things is important for development.

leisesprecher ,

You on the other perform excellent in being abrasive, despite social pressure not to be an asshole.

10/10 no notes.

Organichedgehog ,

Lol that dude was not being an asshole. Getting a little defensive?

LesserAbe ,

You’re right it’s good to prepare young people for challenges. Still, that should mean challenges that would come up anyways, not artificially making things more difficult.

It’s good to know how to read an analog clock, just like it’s good to be able to read cursive. But both of them are outdated and aren’t inherently required in day to day life. Inserting them into a testing situation that’s meant to test something else is creating an unnecessary challenge.

FireRetardant ,

There are tons of equipment and tools out there that very closely resemble an analog clock and require the same skills. Pressure gauges for example. These skills are not out dated.

zourn ,
@zourn@lemmy.world avatar

Except, a pressure gage reads the number it’s pointing at. Not 1 hand means the number it’s pointing at and the other means 5 times the most recent digit passed plus 1 for each tick mark.

I’d wager that most people would never even see a pressure gage with two hands. Dual-indicating double-bourdon tube differential pressure gages are quite rare in the real world. Usually for that kind of application you’d go digital.

vrek ,

Not to mention the amount of analog clocks that are just wrong. I work at a fortune 500 company, most clocks are digital and synced to a time server. Every analog clock is wrong. Just yesterday I walked through the cafeteria and glanced at the clock and it read 5:20… For a second I panicked and was like it can’t be that late. I checked my phone, it was 3:06. The clock was just not set properly.

Scrath ,

There are radio controlled clocks which theoretically shouldn’t be wrong. At least as long as there isn’t a battery or motor issue…

DarkDarkHouse ,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

How do you tell whether you’re looking at a radio-controlled clock though?

Scrath ,

Sometimes they have it written on the clockface. I don’t think that’s a general rule though.

In the same way there are digital clocks that can be wrong too though.

RandomVideos ,

Kids cant ask the teacher for the time?

At my school, because the clock was always between 2 and 10 minutes wrong, the students(mostly me) would just raise their hands and ask how much time they have left

KLISHDFSDF ,
@KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml avatar

they could ask the teacher, sure, but why not fix the problem instead of using a disruptive workaround until the end of time? phrased another way, should we as a society fix problems or provide half solutions that don’t fully resolve them?

RandomVideos ,

I wrote the reply before reading the article so i didnt think of digital clocks being the alternative(i also never seen a digital clock in real life excluding smart devices)

Also, i was referencing the part of the comment that said that kids were misreading the time(do kids rely on analog clocks that may be wrong during tests?) , not saying that the problem shouldnt be fixed

Viking_Hippie , in Bloody nose

Reminds me of the first time a friend of mine and his dad went to London. They were both more or less fluent, though his dad less so:

My friend’s dad, trying to order an extra rare steak: “A bloody steak, please”

Waiter, without missing a beat: “Certainly, sir. Would you like some fucking potatoes with that?”

Hugh_Jeggs ,

Did ye aye

Kiosade ,

I mean it is kind of weird that “rare” is used to denote “barely cooked”, when it usually means “very scarce or hard to find”.

Viking_Hippie ,

Yeah, as a non-native speaker, I’ve always considered that really weird too. Same with “well done”, which is apparently worse than murder if you’re enthusiastic about steaks 😄

Rusty ,
Kiosade ,

Haha this is amazing

hungryphrog ,
Jentu ,

Blue or Blue-Rare are the steps above rare afaik (at least in the US, not sure about England). Any restaurant that asks “what does that mean” isn’t a restaurant I’d trust to serve me meat that is cool in the middle.

BuboScandiacus ,

Made my day

SatansMaggotyCumFart , in The uBlock Origin people do not accept donations

They should show ads and get the revenue from them.

jimp OP ,

Infinite money hack?

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Thanks for the wisdom, SatansMaggotyCumFart.

anytimesoon ,

Do we have a r/rimjobsteve equivalent here?

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Some things are best left to reddit.

THE_MASTERMIND ,

But not this one.

Omega_Haxors ,

Don’t encourage them!!

redcalcium ,

AdBlock Plus, is that you?

SeabassDan ,

And then block those ads

eltimablo ,

Ah, the old Ad Adblock Plus strategy.

verysoft , in Something tells me this might not be a good year for games...

Just ignore the "triple A" industry and games are usually great. Lots of small passionate studios still pumping out quality stuff.

Neato ,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

I played the demo for Mouthwashing and it was excellent. Nice little horror game without jump scares that really evokes dread.

The Deep Rock Survivors game is pretty cool too. Lots of neat stuff coming out these days.

AdmiralShat ,

Honestly really liking DRG Surviors, and I usually don’t like the genre.

FilthyShrooms OP ,

Yea I’ve mainly been focusing on smaller games recently. Last AAA game I bought was Cyberpunk 77, which I enjoyed but was a whole thing. There’s so many good indy games coming and going its definitely worth it to look into some of them

NuXCOM_90Percent , (edited )

While “AAA” has lost all meaning: even in that space we have some real bangers already

Yakuza/Like a Dragon 8 is already in the running as one of the all time great JRPGs (and probably a top 50 GOAT in terms of games period). FF7R2 is going to have to REALLY screw up for fans to not feel strongly about it. And Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, somehow, showing all signs of actually being faithful to the incredibly weird original. We also might be seeing Elden Ring DLC sooner than later. Tekken 8 seems to be incredibly well received… accessibility aside. That gets us to the end of March (ER has a mysterious youtube entry but it has for weeks so who knows)? Even if nothing else happens this year, that already is a stacked as hell line-up.

Two months in and, gaming wise, 2024 is shaping up really well. Like most years, people see what they want to see. If you want to say things are a flop, there are flops. If you want to say things are awesome, there are some truly amazing games.

MrScottyTay ,

I’m so excited for 7 rebirth. And one I’ve finished that I’ll be getting persona 3 reload to replay one of my favourite games. With those two alone and me catching up on some of last year’s games, this year is going to be a good one for me.

Dettweiler42 ,

Seriously. I’ve been playing Ready or Not, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 lately, and I’m having a great time with gaming.

rish ,
@rish@lemmy.ml avatar

This is not a triple A game actually. Ubisoft CEO referred it as a four A. AAAA.

avater , (edited )
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

To investors who know shit about gaming, not to gamers…maybe he meant the costs which could be in the 4A sector after all this time 😅

xlash123 ,
@xlash123@sh.itjust.works avatar

More A equals more good

Comradesexual ,
@Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Are they? Because the past few years indie games for me have been nothing but early access underdeveloped bare bones crap.

collinrs ,

Ubisoft also published the best game of the year, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Best metroidvania game I’ve played in a long time.

IzzyScissor , in Can't win with some people

If “your man card can be revoked” then you understand that gender is performative and conditional.

Holzkohlen ,

You would think that, wouldn’t you?

VampyreOfNazareth ,

They be throwing man cards at people violently

anarchy79 , (edited )
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

In fact words all those words are a bunch of gibberish and neither the world nor reality works like that. I can just question the vague and often circular premises of that argument and we’re back to square zero.

Not against the sentiment, but you’re never going to get anywhere with that pseudoacademic bullshit.

Edit: hahaha just keep proving my point. You’re the same as them- dogmatic fanatics with no arguments that hold up for shit.

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Cringe, you’re not even a good anarchist.

WaxedWookie ,

Is this the most terminally online possible way of saying “gender is a social construct and I’m a gender abolitionist”?

VampyreOfNazareth ,

Possibly, never seen anyone in real world run around yelling their gender at people.

MetaCubed ,

I’m entirely for gender abolitionism, but you really need to find some better rhetoric. “Cope and seethe, your arguments are shit” won’t work on most people

The_Lopen ,

Sooo what if a dude just decides to act like, dress like, and call themselves like a girl? Why would they not be allowed to do that? What about the laws of the universe takes away their agency to do that?

IzzyScissor ,

Which words are you struggling with?

Thrashy ,
@Thrashy@lemmy.world avatar

For some the optionality of it is less important than the notion that if it’s performative, you can be bad at it and therefore make yourself an acceptable target for abuse, and besides that the idea that some roles can be restricted to only those with a certain set of physical characteristics is deeply ingrained in many, be that in terms gender, career, or what have you.

Mango ,

I understand that gender is made up and doesn’t matter. There is nothing girly or manly.

Pistcow , in poor Dean

“Stephen King made me want to become a writer. Dean Koontz made me realize I could become a writter”.

Anticorp ,

If Terry Goodkind can publish several books, and get a TV show, then anybody can!

Thassodar ,

I used to enjoy his books and you made me look him up for the first time since the terrible Law of Nines book.

He’s dead! That was a surprise! Otherwise most of the Sword of Truth series was “watch Richard take on communism…Again”.

Anticorp ,

Yeah, he died a few years ago.

I enjoyed the first couple books. The next few were okay, although all the misogyny and rape and torture fetishizing was bothering me. The Temple of the Winds was unintelligible nonsense. I had to stop in disgust and never touch another one of his books again. That is one of maybe 3-4 books I stopped and never finished in the last 20 years. Man it was awful. Plus, most of his ideas were just plagiarized from Robert Jordan. He did have a couple of unique ideas that were cool though.

Mango ,

Shots fired!

tslnox ,

To me, Terry Pratchett made me realize I could become a writer. Now I just need to convince myself to stop being lazy and start actually writing. :-D

Transporter_Room_3 , in Iron shooting
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Then they tell you the previous person was incompetent or something to try and make it seem like they were a bad employee, not that it’s a bad work environment.

“Oh? And who was in charge of their interview?” because unless they have a large hr department to handle hiring interviews, it was probably the person who hired you.

This is when you take notes in your notebook you should have brought with you.

I’ve noticed interviewers get visibly uncomfortable when I write in my notebook. It’s like they’re either trying to figure out if they just lied about something I will be able to reference later, or they just get that natural “someone is writing about me and I can’t read what it is” feeling, I assume the former.

Simon Pegg wasn’t lying in Hot Fuzz. The notebook is a powerful weapon if used right.

Vilian ,

but the notebook strat gonna helpnme get the job in the end of the day?

Bonehead ,

Do you really want the job if the interviewer can't handle being interviewed by you?

OneWomanCreamTeam ,

Yes, because I like eating and having a roof over my head.

Bonehead ,

I thought that once too and ignored my gut feeling. It was the most toxic work environment that I've ever experienced, and it essentially killed my software development career. I was eventually laid off and never recovered. I'm now a mail carrier.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

How’s the usps looking these days? You still got that asshole tearing the sorting machines down?

Bonehead ,

I actually work for Canada Post. We've heard rumblings of the pre-sequenced mail coming our way, and some people have lost large chunks of money from it. Contract negotiations are coming up though, so we'll see how things go. Though it is nice having a union that is willing to fight the company for the workers...I've never had that before this job.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Ah i did the thing, oops. Good luck on your negotiations :D

Nommer ,

Had a similar experience. Toxic company that was awarded a contract hired in a bunch of people, gave us starting dates then a week before we were supposed to start they delayed our start data by 4 months. It only got worse and worse from there. I eventually quit when I was doing 4 other jobs, like with different pay scales and supervisors and everything, by myself. Killed any chances I had with IT since every other company around here doesn’t want to risk yet another burnout from that place. I had the same place interview me twice 6 months apart and both times as soon as they saw that company on my resume they frowned and kind of cut it short.

Vilian ,

why it killed your carrer?, you lose the desire to work in software development?

Bonehead ,

It was because I believed the lie "if you start in Support, you'll have a chance to move over to Development". I spent 5 years waiting for them to keep their promise. I did everything they asked me to do, I even wrote code in order to demonstrate that I was able to do it. None of it mattered. And after 5 years of doing everything they wanted, chasing that goal post that kept on moving back on me, they laid me off unceremoniously. I then tried to apply to development jobs but I kept on getting asked the question why I haven't held a development title in more than 5 years. No answer I gave was apparently good enough. I spent the next five years bouncing from a tech support job that I got laid off from, and then a technical advisor job (which was really just tech support for the development team) that I got laid off from. After that, I decided I either get a development job, or I'm leaving the industry. Tech Support was killing me, and I refused to go back. And now I deliver mail for a living. It's a lot less stress than I had to deal with before. And I now get a true chance of a six-figure salary.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Actually, I’ve had more than one interviewer comment on it saying it “shows (I’m) prepared” since many people don’t bring anything to write on and sometimes have to ask for a paper.

As for whether that could be a bonus in getting hired? Meh. 110% depends on the field.

If the question is “will asking unnecessary questions and writing down answers help get this job” then I’d ask if the interviewer isn’t prepared for a couple innocuous questions, then it shows a severe lack of preparedness on their part and I’d question whether I want to work for a place where someone gets shook by their underlings daring to question them.

I fully admit I am already biased against nearly any company that I would be interviewing at, so I’m already more willing to get confrontational in interviews if I feel I am not getting the respect I deserve (you know, the basic human decency of treating every random person you meet as an equal until they prove otherwise worthy), and drop them to keep looking than the average person. I’ll eat ramen and peanut butter sandwiches for a few more weeks if I need to. I’ve walked out of interviews before.

I’ve walked out after the opening “greeting”. “alright let’s make this quick, I’ve got a dozen other interviews today” okay well if that’s how you treat someone here for a simple interview I can’t imagine how you treat your employees on a bad day, get fucked. I literally said “excuse me? You don’t talk that way in a professional setting.” and left.

The_Mike_Drop ,

This is absolutely true. My former employer (a big box retail company) reduced my pay while I was on holiday. I had been there for years and accrued a bunch of pay rises - but the company got bought out and the new owners thought they could strip me of these because they felt they were temporary and non-contractual.

I got some legal advice that basically said they can’t do that sort of thing and had a meeting scheduled with HR. I went in with my notepad, I stayed calm - pleasent even - no angry shouting or slamming tables with fists, I just politely asked them questions and wrote down everything they said, then read their answers back to them to confirm thats what they said. I had about 6 questions prepared and by the 4th they were visibly uncomfortable, it was an amazing feeling making them squirm like that. After I got done asking my questions, I dropped the legal advice I had been given on them and it was obvious the answers they gave supported my case very heavily. They panicked and reversed all there decesion plus I got back-pay.

But if the first thing I had done is charge in making accusations and quoting the law I know nothing constructive would have happened.

See the goal is to bury them in their own words.

Edit: predictably the company went bust the next year. So long Office Outlet!

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Always get them to bury themselves before dropping your intentions.

My wife is currently dealing with her employer and their complete lack of handicap spots, despite over 200 regular car spaces scattered all around a warehouse lot. She doesn’t quite get how to “play the game” like this but she’s learning.

One party recording state so I’d like her to go in to talk about it while recording, but her anxiety is completely stonewalling her from bringing it up.

Hit record on the phone, slip it in a pocket that has good clearance for the whole conversation, and get them to say the things they’ve said when they think nobody else can hear them.

Apparently the front office woman screamed at her to move her car (she parked there because the offices are isolated from traffic and have access to her work area)and “it’s not our goddamn problem we don’t have handicap spots, it’s yours so deal with it”

I’m about to just skip around waiting for her to do things and file a complaint with the EEOC or at least the ADA government site complaint form. I’m sure that would take months, if not years before anything ever happened, but I can’t hold her hand and be there when she confronts the owners about their 6-8 missing handicap spots.

bane_killgrind ,

When I go to client sites I carry around a pad, and I tell people that ask it’s just a prop to make it seem like I’m being thorough.

Really I have extremely good spatial recall and estimating retrofit jobs is a piece of cake in that respect.

nulluser , in Want some so bad but not willing to trade organs for it

I don’t understand why so many people can’t just go get their own damn food. Uber eats hasn’t been around long enough for you all to have forgotten what you did before, has it? How did you survive back then?

SuiXi3D ,
@SuiXi3D@kbin.social avatar

Some of us only have one car and their wife used it to get to work.

RaivoKulli ,

Some of us don’t have a car and don’t want the food to be cold when I get home with it.

Got_Bent ,

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  • ryathal ,

    If you are an office worker just take your whole lunch. By not taking it your just helping enforce the informal rule of not taking lunch.

    HerrVorragend , (edited )
    @HerrVorragend@lemmy.world avatar

    Are you sure you are not working on a pre-civil-war cotton farm?

    12+ hour days with no lunch break does not sound feasible in the long term.

    MarigoldPuppyFlavors ,

    Long term.

    HerrVorragend ,
    @HerrVorragend@lemmy.world avatar

    Thanks!

    TheAlbatross ,

    Fuck Uber Eats and all that, too expensive, but, buddy, you need a different job.

    PP_BOY_ ,
    @PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

    No offense man because it sounds like you were conditioned into this over years, but you sound like a massive bitch for putting up with that.

    UnknownQuantity ,

    Do you work for Elon Musk? If so get a different job. Are you making a shitload of money? Is not, get a different job. If yes, spare us your crying about delivery fees. Are you Elon Musk? If yes, fuck you. If no, get a different job. I mean you sound miserable and have no life. I’d rather be homeless than live like that.

    BearJCC ,

    Except for people without cars and the walk to restaurants is dangerous. Except for invalids. Except for people who work at companies with rules about not leaving your post. Except for people quaranteening. Except for…except for…except for…

    oldlamps ,

    I just have no idea what life was like in the before time. All these poor souls

    Slowy ,
    @Slowy@lemmy.world avatar

    They suffered more. Now they don’t have to.

    wlsnt ,

    Once a month I get home from work so tired that nothing in the world will convince me not to go home, order a pizza and wait for it while laying on the couch. I deserve that and I will do it, no matter how much “back in the days” you people throw at me, I’m busy and tired

    andrewta ,

    Why use Uber eats why not just call the place directly and have them deliver it? Uber eats takes a large chunk of their profits or they over charge you.

    TurboDiesel ,
    @TurboDiesel@lemmy.world avatar

    Some places still do their own deliveries, but most in my area ONLY do UberEats, to the extent that they’ve cut their delivery staff. The only consistent holdouts seem to be the Chinese places.

    z500 ,
    @z500@lemmy.world avatar

    Because Uber Eats delivers all over the place, and a lot of the restaurants I would order delivery from usually have delivery areas that I’m outside of. All the one way roads and the shit parking basically put me off of going anywhere downtown.

    superduperenigma ,

    You could always order the food when you’re leaving work, then pick it up on your way home.

    wlsnt ,

    For what, 10 euro less? I’d rather go directly at home earlier and wait in my underwears, money is meant to be spent

    scytale ,

    When I know I’ll be too exhausted to go out and grab food, I make sure to get it on the way home so there’s no extra drive or leaving the house.

    pukeko ,

    Thanks to COVID and work from home and smartphones and Teams/Zoom, I’ve gone from an hour commute each way to a constant stream of meetings, texts, emails, IMs, etc. that must be addressed immediately, from 8am to 6pm. I don’t think the “back in my day” folks fully understand how much more people are asked to do now. I once obliterated an older colleague when he complained that youngs these days don’t put in half the hours he used to. I was like “Um, you used to go to the print office and wait four hours for prints to come out, take them back to the office, proof them, then take the documents to the courthouse and file them in person. In the same time, I’m responding to 100 emails, reviewing 20 documents ON MY PHONE, conducting 3 conference calls, listening to 2 coworkers’ breakdowns, and drafting, reviewing, printing, proofing, and submitting the documents you used to sit and wait for.” To his credit, he said I was right and I never had a problem with him again.

    All of which is a long way of saying that, sometimes, more often than I would like, I can’t just “go to the restaurant” because of time or because I’m no longer commuting. For all their problems, the apps mean that I’m eating fewer frozen pizzas and more poke bowls and salads.

    Perfide ,

    If you’d said anything other than pizza I’d give you slack, but you’re a damn fool wasting money doordashing/ubering pizza. Order from them directly, it’s cheaper and the restaurant gets bigger profits.

    wlsnt ,

    I think the goalpost moved a bit here. I still order trough their website (if they have it) or call

    mycelium_underground ,
    @mycelium_underground@lemmy.world avatar

    I got delivery from the restaurant. They do not do deliveries anymore. To ignore the fact that the landscape has changed significantly and just blame the people ordering is to miss a majority of the picture. Turns out life has nuance.

    Kerred ,

    I felt a better question is why so many people with transportation don’t get their own food.

    I am fine with driving anywhere so I think in the past 7 years we only had delivery once. But we try to cook mostly at home nowadays

    ricecake ,

    So, a few use cases, but it tends to boil down to convenience.

    Some people work from home, and don’t have time to go get food, nor cook anything significant between meetings, and they’re just tired of cold sandwiches and microwave soup.

    Spending however long traveling to and from the restaurant isn’t always a valuable use of time compared to whatever else you were doing.
    If I’m playing games alone or with friends, I’d rather do that than drive around for half an hour.

    If you’ve got kids, loading and unloading them into the car can be a chore.

    Or just plain “comfy, don’t wanna leave”.

    Delivery is a convenience that people like. Companies switching to a service with more fees that drive the cost up so high is annoying.

    Kerred ,

    All what I was thinking 😊

    Bytemeister ,

    Thought about doing Uber eats/grubhub one time when I had a meeting early in the morning, and I was out of coffee and breakfast items. Went to order my food. Food cost was 6.50, total bill was 20.50, and then it asked for a tip.

    Fuck that. I went hungry.

    FierroGamer ,

    I’m curious, do businesses not do their own deliveries anymore? I personally never stopped just ordering directly from the place I’m eating from. Couldn’t tell you how common uber eats and others are in my area, I just know I don’t use them.

    ricecake ,

    A lot of places have, yeah. They viewed the delivery staff as a fixed cost, and thought the services would mean they only paid a fee per delivery, making it a net savings.
    Hard to blame them, since that’s what they were told, and it sounds reasonable on the surface.

    FierroGamer ,

    Oh, that’s interesting.

    Elaborating further, small businesses here usually contract a delivery business instead of hiring delivery personnel, I think they just arrange the cost of the delivery instead of a fixed cost, so it’s basically no impact to the cost of the business.

    Not a perfect system, but at least small places can do cheap delivery without jacking up the prices.

    To be clear, I live in a corner of Argentina, even if that sounds good, we have other problems lmao.

    ricecake ,

    Yeah, what ended up happening is that the services increase the cost of the items the customer buys by a percentage, and keeps that cost. Then they add a delivery fee that they keep, a service fee, and a tip that goes to the driver. Then they pay the driver a small portion of the fee and markup. Overall they take about 30% of the total cost of the order.

    Then they treat the restaurant like a subsidiary and make them use their pickup app, and sometimes advertise a menu that the restaurant doesn’t actually offer.
    They also make it difficult to give feedback on the delivery itself, since they take any negative feedback and forward it to the restaurant.

    I got a credit for $50 from one of the delivery service, which got me a a normal lunch plate from one of my favorite places (usually $15), and a ~20% tip. Driver tossed the food onto my porch, making most of it spill in the bag, and their system had no way to say “the driver did a bad job”, “give me back the tip”, or anything like that. All I could do was say the restaurant messed up, which they didn’t.

    Needless to say, I don’t use them even if it’s free anymore.

    ManOMorphos ,

    As someone who used to be a Doordash driver, I had the opposite experience. I got angry texts because the food I delivered was cold (I received it at nearly room temperature and immediately put it in a quality thermal bag). It’s not too uncommon to be banned as a driver for reasons beyond your control.

    One time I got a deactivation warning for attempting to complete an order in a flooded area. It was already an hour late because everyone else was accepting and dropping the order. I got punished for actually trying.

    ricecake ,

    Maybe it’s just GrubHub then, or their UI and customer service is garbage.

    Doesn’t surprise me that it’s shitty on all ends, since I think the only people it benefits are “people who see marginally reduced delivery staff costs”.

    Lightor ,

    Everyone survived. We all survived before the internet too. But the world changes. If I’m injured or disabled it’s a great option. If I’m sick, maybe I don’t want to expose everyone to what I have.

    There are a lot of valid reasons to use it beyond “lazy”.

    Blackmist ,

    Especially city dwellers. There must be easily a dozen takeaways within half a mile of your house.

    Galli ,

    I just tossed a coin out the window at the nearest child and told them to fetch me the plumpest turkey in the butcher’s window.

    comrade_pibb ,
    @comrade_pibb@hexbear.net avatar

    ugh, we used to have a REAL country

    Potatos_are_not_friends ,

    Apparently some people love getting their food held hostage for more tips, and not knowing if someone finger banged their food.

    RaivoKulli ,

    Before that I ordered online from the restaurant. Before that by calling them.

    Adkml ,

    I became further radicalized by the indignation of the petty bourgeoisie getting whipped into a frenzy because their sub minimum wage delivery drivers didn’t jump through hoops enthusiastically enough for them.

    Anything short of the delivery driver beating you with the food while calling you a useless lazy slob is exemplary service as far as I’m concerned.

    gibmiser , in Sowing chaos

    Mother fucker tired of thru traffic on his street. Not gonna just bitch and moan, man of action right there

    ImplyingImplications ,

    This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.

    Sharkwellington ,

    “Nobody drives down that street anymore, it’s too crowded.”

    Manifish_Destiny ,

    Nobody drives anymore. There’s too much traffic

    Viking_Hippie ,

    Actual thing New Yorkers say 😄

    gornar ,
    @gornar@lemmy.world avatar

    Is that a Yogi Berra quote variation? I love it, my dad would always say that

    Sharkwellington ,

    I couldn’t tell you who said the original, I was riffing on a version I read in a joke book where it was a restaurant instead of a road. “Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore…”

    Pelicanen ,

    The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist’s original post doesn’t mention anything else.

    RaivoKulli ,

    No, as far as we know, it was just an (art) experiment of sorts

    KoboldCoterie , in Please don’t nuke me
    @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

    What the fuck did you just fucking say about America, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit about America over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” meme was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

    Custoslibera OP ,

    Least aggressive response.

    Viking_Hippie ,

    It’s a copypasta meant to make fun of overly aggressive keyboard warriors but yeah, it’s very un-chill indeed 😁

    riodoro1 ,

    Holy shit, its been a while since I read this.

    uzay ,

    I love the gorilla warfare bit 🦍

    Viking_Hippie ,
    uzay ,

    This is starting to turn into gorilla marketing

    Viking_Hippie ,
    jaybone ,

    Assbro turfing

    andrew ,
    @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

    Stars and Stripes out for Harambe.

    pottedmeat7910 , in Yeah seriously ,why ?

    My wife is a surgeon… Or as she puts it, “Standing in the way of God since 2005”.

    dingleberry ,

    Metal

    zloubida ,
    @zloubida@lemmy.world avatar

    Meanwhile, God: 😏

    abfarid , in So happy this is something we left behind (mostly)
    @abfarid@lemmy.world avatar

    One of those is not like the rest and doesn’t truly deserve to be on the list – “username checks out”. All the others provide absolutely no value, while “username checks out”, at least, lets you notice a potential humorous situation which you might not have noticed otherwise.

    ptrknvk ,

    Username doesn’t check out.

    abfarid ,
    @abfarid@lemmy.world avatar

    Sadly, I was born with uncheck outable username disorder.

    Klear ,

    The only time my username would have been relevant was under discussions of Glass Onion, as that was the name of the maguffin, but I took a loooong time to watch it and was avoiding any discussions about it because detective story.

    Aikawa ,

    Wouldn’t that make you quite unique?

    Username checks out!

    PP_BOY_ ,
    @PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

    Same

    Samsy OP , (edited )

    Good point.

    Edit: ahh, I mean: Underrated Comment.

    Selmafudd ,

    The real LPT are in the comments

    xantoxis ,

    I’ve been on the receiving end of “underrated comment” and I was surprised to learn it’s not actually just vapor. You don’t usually get comment karma on a post 24+ hours after it’s posted, but on the couple of occasions when someone said this about my comment, it started the ball rolling on people reading and upvoting my comment. In other words, apparently it was underrated, because people weren’t seeing it.

    There’s no karma totals on lemmy so who cares, but it was interesting to learn it isn’t entirely fluff, it’s performing a duty in the comment thread ecosystem.

    Sternout ,

    ^ Underrared Comment

    Jumper775 ,

    This

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