yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
1yr ago
This thread is pretty much the only time I use the downvote arrow. (My apologies, I've done so for your post here as well, hoping to let Zorba and the other devs treat this like a prioritized backlog).
TheMotte is far better than almost any other sub is in terms of respecting what up and downvoting is actually for. You can tell this frequently by the fact we rarely have any negatively voted posts. I'll also, by default, upvote anything that is close to zero even if I disagree with it as long as it's a quality contribution. This is one of those changes I just don't think we need to make.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
put yourself in a situation where you don't have to care about those things, and can just spew out words without much thought and second guessing
So, participate more on this site?
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
The pitch timer took in-person minor league games for me from intolerable to fun. I understand the gamesmanship of long pitch cycles and how it would "ruin" the sport to remove them but.... so many other sports have timers as part of their rules.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
On the level of the people who actually produce and write the series there may be some conscious ideological commitment, but on the corporate level where the decision to make this series was actually made, I doubt it is more than just pure indifference to franchise itself and a simple desire to make money
But shouldn't they, in theory, make more money if they make something that's remotely high quality? Wouldn't someone be more likely to subscribe or keep their subscription 20 years from when this woke shit expires?
I'll push it further - the people who produced and wrote the serious do have a conscious ideological commitment, and the check writers were too cowardly to make the maximum amount of money possible. They said "OK... we'll make $100m instead of $300m but at least we won't have to have a tough conversation about respecting the source material".
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
All of these are just volume numbers. There are a lot of guns out there, but some of them are Nintendo Wiis (They've been bought and get used once or twice) and others would be handled by people that, even with practice, can't shoot or are cowards. Plenty are "Fudds" that support gun control as long as they have a bolt action to blow away deer.
The DGU numbers are going to be high with that broad of a definition. It's also a DGU at any time, presumably, not in the past year. Even so, 44% and 27% seems very high.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
If you've been in a situation like this, the difference in that "secure knowledge" of having a gun vs not having one is.... significant.
Having the gun enabled JTarrou to confidently approach the "Pastor" and verbally talk them down. Having a use-of-force upper hand that allows you to de-escalate a situation is using it.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
As others have mentioned, there's plenty of just vanilla apathy.
I, unfortunately, have the same prediction /u/matt does. I've already seen one divorce because of a changed mind when it comes to kids, and my older coworkers who waited till their late 30s/early 40s to have them regret not starting earlier.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I haven't had issues as severe as yours, but it did take me years to develop a healthy enough ego to be assertive and realistic about my value. No promises they'll work for you but:
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I looked at patterns that I'd seen repeatedly in my life - correlations that had been happening too often to dismiss. This could be consistent validation from others, success in difficult circumstances, or goals repeatedly met. You need to draw on those as happening to you because of you.
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Attributing success to luck is healthy when you have a well-developed ego. Until then you need to look at it rationally with the above. How often can someone get lucky, realistically? Nobody ends up friendless and penniless on the street solely because of bad luck, nor successful because of great luck. This is a lie oft-repeated by those who haven't met enough people.
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Attributing it to genetics is worse. It's a form of self-hatred. You've been given tools, sure. Dwelling on whether you deserve them on your fruits is - to put it bluntly - a huge fucking waste of time.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I've been making this argument for a long time. Calling Voter ID racist is absurd. If you can't save up $12 and a bus trip every 8 years to go vote (especially given Democratic "Voter Outreach" programs), I'd go beyond calling those voters illegitimate. I don't want those people participating in any democratic process at all.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
"Check out this scalp I just claimed" doesn't seem like "leaving the rest of the internet at the door," or something
When the "scalp" is calling out a 2-bit liar who just copied and pasted a /r/mensrights post that a bunch of sheep believed, it's a lot more like pulling a hair off someone's arm.
What was lost here? A grifter had their 15 minutes of virality and spent a couple of days feeling very seen and popular. Now that account is memory-holed and they've faced no real consequences. It's a pretty far cry from them getting fired or blackballed.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I don't need 100%, but I do need something better than what we have now.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
Yeah I could have (and uh... may have) slept with many of my fast food coworkers. But let's not pretend that the caliber of women that are assistants to c-level execs are the same as girls like "Kassie".
The men who have the most sex, the adventurers, are rarely at the top of any social hierarchy except - though more rarely than you’d expect - in terms of looks
A mediocre musician can get laid, but an excellent one has an order of magnitude better prospects in quantity and quality. The guy starting out at the climbing gym may get lucky occasionally, but the one that's known as the best one in the gym will have his pick of the litter. All of these things are power, and have access to different pools of women.
One of your points - that the highest echelons of corporate power don't have the price/benefit ratio of others - is correct. I'd argue further that amassing wealth as your vehicle towards greater sexual opportunities is a net negative as it makes you a target for some of the worst sort of women out there.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I absolutely drag my wife to work events for precisely this reason. Of course earning respect without them knowing what she looks like is a constant process, but there's a small but marked difference between people who have met her and those who haven't.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I honestly can't agree with Caplan that "don't fuck your subordinates unless you're gonna put a ring on it" is 'one of the most repressive anti-freedom thing we've ever done'. Right now, I do genuinely think that for men in a position of authority, it's protective - and if they still can't keep their trousers buttoned, what happens after that is on their own heads.
But the reason why it's so dangerous is because of the social/political pressure we've put on it. You've pointed out some egregious examples of work relationships but then you also have the McDonald's CEO. Is meeting someone on Bumble really preferable to seeing someone in their element for 40 hours a week?
Don't get me wrong - I think that treading carefully is super important with work relationships. But it's insane to me that we're forced dating through a phone-app pinhole and think that this was some sort of upgrade. I got out of the game before the App "revolution" and I'm overall very glad I did.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
My concern with this sub leaving Reddit is we will become like them. As Reddit subs are isolating themselves from the right they become just talking points to the left.
Besides the practical reasons like the fact that this community was slotted for inevitable destruction, by implication you're also saying that we could attract and retain a critical mass of intelligent leftist posters.
The fight is already lost on reddit. You've even in your post pointed out that the side-wide culture is infantile and censorious. Even the good posters we DID have ended up leaving when they would find a topic they believed should be banned from discussion.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
I had an employee call out from work after the war in Ukraine kicked off. He's a 25 year old DJ-on-the-side who lives in the southeast.
We've let the children say that they can just bust out of work whenever they want and fuck the team around them. When we were a double-digit size company I could filter this effectively by being part of every interview, but not so now.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
As others have mentioned, smart watches and exercise apps actually have been a huge boon for me. I've always liked bicycling and running, but watching your performance increase along segments and routes, leaderboards etc. is honestly excellent. I'm getting the fun out of playing a game and the benefit of greater strength.
Like gaming though there's a certain tier of competitor I can't touch since I have a job and am no longer in my 20s. Knowing I won't have a KOM on Strava in my life is tough, but being in the top 10% of people who bother gamifying exercise feels awesome.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
Strava the app is the most widely used and is constantly being updated. One thing I ended up getting later that gives you a bit more info is a Bluetooth heart monitor.
I got a Fitbit and was unhappy with it.
Besides that it's just the exercise equipment which I can give advice on but would change based on what you're doing.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
The only thing I can pick out here is that it's an man or men's fault. There's more oblique references that they might be white and cis.
Are they being vague because they know it will look stupid and petty? Some minor, dongle-level micro aggression?
I suppose I'm buying into this sort of marketing. I'm fascinated at the weaponization of "consent" language here:
Be mindful when someone has confided in you. That does not mean they have consented to have their name and story shared widely across the field....Please do not share detailed accounts of stories which are not your own. Everyone has to have their own agency to tell their stories themselves, on their own terms
Distilled down, this is "Shut the fuck up until the head of the serpent decides they can release.... whatever this is for maximum impact" but it's couched in truly impressive nothingspeak.
But yeah I'd love to see what happens next.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
Over the past weekend I read an article entitled “Offensive Naming” (Note: There’s a paywall but you get the gist from the preview).
Essentially, the article cites 2 named people. One of which is a totally unremarkable Canadian paleoanthropologist, the other a president of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. The former believes that the system of special naming, which has been around and relied upon for almost 300 years, must be destroyed because of offensive names (including Hitler, Gypsy, the usual suspects).
In a sense, I’ll put my own Cancellation hat on here and say, hypocritically, that Mirjana Roksandic should never have been given tenure, much less the mouthpiece of one of the most respected publications in the world. Here we have an elegant system, that for hundreds of thousands of species on our planet has worked almost perfectly. A couple of trivial edge cases of malpractice cannot be enough to even think about altering such a thing.
I’m a stickler for well-defined systems that effectively cover the vast majority of their use cases. I find myself recalling the hullabaloo over the use of master as a git branch name a couple of years ago, which culminated in every single Application Lifecycle Management software pushing out new defaults for any fresh code repository. As the person who built nearly all our deployment automation around these conventions, I was fucking furious. I reverted the change in our organization and pre-emptively bowed up if any of my employees would complain. Thankfully, none did, probably because they didn’t want to rewrite everything. Nobody’s done a cost analysis of these pushed-down changes, but given software engineer salaries and what I’ve seen personally, it’s in 7-figure territory at the very least.
I’m not sure how cohesive this is, but I think one of the fundamental issues here is how disconnected the people who want changes to systems are from the costs of doing so. Ms. Roksandic doesn’t have to write the software to manage taxonomy or anything else. Doubtless, she’s working in some backwater excel spreadsheet and thinks adding an alias column is as hard as it gets.
I want systems to be discussed and improved upon over time, even if some of those are for silly social reasons, as long as the costs are remotely reasonable. Ideally, these are net-new ones instead of those that have worked well for centuries.
Does anyone in fields that use zoological nomenclature frequently have a comment as to the scale of this sentiment? Is my worry about the toe being in the door of another massively net-negative change to the overall chaos of the world unjustified?
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
You're correct - my post has to do with both the norms of the system being changed in the future to provide some sort of external actor with more power (such as the ICZN) getting to decide which names are acceptable, and retroactively changing others already made.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
Taxonomic names are regularly changed, often because species weren't related in the manner previously thought, so it wouldn't be that disruptive to do a few more.
TBH I appreciate you saying this though. I was under the mistaken impression that there would be downstream effects, of mass renames. Perhaps there would be at the scale that would "satisfy" those who want to, but it makes sense that the system isn't totally fragile.
yofuckreddit
1yr ago
The situation combined with paying identical tuition for 1/10 the experience would lead to pretty lax morals on my part, for sure.
I'd disagree with your opinion on this. Artists/Musicians/Writers are almost all blue tribe - both in the actual sense and in the "I'm actually unemployed and on twitter" sense. They're excellent at being loud and punching above their weight from an optics point of view. I don't think whatever grey-tinged faction looking forward to progress (and helping build it) has time to mount a strong PR campaign in support of it.
For at least this use of AI, I'd expect to see red tribe glee at the potential demise of these professions and lefty tears being the dominant narrative. I share that feeling and absolutely love the ability to spec out niche images using these tools, it's been fucking awesome so far.
When the first mass-produced AI to replace blue-collar workers arrives I expect things will be different.
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