Imagine a context where the reader is looking at the news for the first time that day. They think they missed news in the morning, perhaps the US starting aggressions, and now China has dropped another bomb.

I’m sure you can imagine such a scenario

Amazing. I hope zohran does it.

Netanyahu has accused Mamdani of supporting Hamas, saying on a recent New York radio show: “I think, secretly, he hates America.”

Lol. Projection, perhaps.

As others have said, many managers are kind of stupid and don’t have good object permanence.

There’s a guy at work who’s very visible but most of what he’s doing is bad. He’s like writing a linter from scratch instead of just using the tools we already have. But he’s visible, and idiot managers that don’t understand how computers work think he’s doing great work. The engineers that actually get shit done competently are quietly whispering about how to block and delay this guy’s nonsense.

At my last job, whenever the manager and one of the guys would both be in the office together, by the end of the day they’d have cooked up some horrible idea. Then the rest of us would struggle to take stop it without losing all our social capital. Maybe if we’d all been in the office that would’ve been easier, but if they knew how to fucking collaborate it also would have been fine.

Maybe that’s your point. There are people who are incompetent at collaboration and communication. They will never get better. Being in office with them is maybe the only way to deal with that.

Most managers are incompetent. Just stupid emotion driven large children.

Making people go into the office is a pay cut and climate crime. The perpetrators should be punished.

One of the only things that changed minds (and behavior) is peer pressure. But as you said, it has to be peer pressure. Pressure from your in-group.

One of the big changes in our society is idiots and assholes can run off to Fox or 4chan or whatever slimy gutter appeals to them, and find their fellow idiots. Fellow idiots and people manipulating them for their own reasons.

It sucks that reasonable people need to spend all this effort to babysit large children, but if we don’t then they go shit themselves and vote for trump.

Because I thought China had literally bombed the US for a very tense moment before I finished reading the headline. Especially because of how the words wrapped. I didn’t need that stress.

Can we please not write headlines like that when we’re on the verge of ww3 and literal bombs might be dropped on the US in the coming months?

Something like that should be required for all drivers

I’ve seen Christians argue that good works should be from the individual not from the government. “But God acted to put this government in place so you can act” typically isn’t compelling, because they just make up stuff to justify what they wanted to do anyway.

There was a big thread a while ago where one subset of posters were like “you clearly CAN compare them this is stupid” and another subset was saying “but the point of the idiom is doing so is fruitless”. Not sure what’s so hard to grasp about using an inappropriate metric to judge something.

But then again maybe most people use the idiom in senseless ways.

This is violence against the bulk of humanity

Cool. Fuck Microsoft

We should make trump ride a bike. Up one of those busy streets with a painted lane and double parked cars.

I will continue not giving Microsoft money. Fuck them.

When the legal system neither delivers justice not makes people whole after being harmed, people start getting ideas. Like taking up plumbing

This reminds me of that time when Fox news tried to say that poor people don’t have it bad because 82% of them have a microwave.

Turns out if you’re a conservative shitbag you can just say stuff and for some reason you’re neither shunned from society nor beaten and left for dead!

I feel like citing AI hallucinations should lead to disbarment or whatever it’s called when you’re not allowed to do legal stuff anymore.

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.

I’ll continue to use free sources like the public library. Fuck Netflix.

Conservatives are famously kind of stupid. They’re bad at empathy and critical analysis.