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  • Sure, if you want me to do your homework for you, listen to all the episodes of these podcasts since Oct 7: Chapo Traphouse, TrueAnon, Bad Faith.

    Wait, you surely don’t have time to do that. Let me provide a similar UN finding, to be in kind with yours:

    In May 22 the Associated Press published a report detailing two false accounts of sexual and gender-based violence on October 7.[139] One of the accounts was given by Yossi Landau, a longtime volunteer for the ultra-orthodox ZAKA paramedic and rescue group. Landau claimed that as he was working in Kibbutz Be’eri, he found a pregnant woman lying on the floor with her fetus stil attached to the umbilicated cord and removed from her body.[139] The AP reports that Landau then “went on to tell the story to journalists and was cited in outlets around the world.”[139] ZAKA spokesperson Moti Bukjin said it took some time before they realized Landau’s account was not true, and they told him to stop repeating it, however he continued to do so as he remains convinced it is true. The United Nations also confirmed Landau’s account is false.[139] Along with other first responders, Landau also told journalists he had seen beheaded children and babies. However, the AP notes that “No convincing evidence had been publicized to back up that claim, and it was debunked by Haaretz and other major media outlets.”[139]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_7_October_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel#Controversies

    I’m not suggesting that there was no sexual violence. I’m stating that the NYT ran bullshit stories and didn’t retract them.


  • They never corrected their bs claims about murdered babies and systematic rape on Oct 7. Neither of these is true. Mouthpiece for zionist propaganda. That’s when I lost all trust in them.

    I still have a subscription, which I recalled when I was forced to sign in to read an article last night. Now, I’m putting some thought into whether the balance of bullshit vs information has tipped too much.

    The ads don’t get me because of multiple ad-blockers, but I agree that paying for an online sub should nullify them. It’s not like it costs anything to publish on the web vs printing an actual paper. Sure, servers and bandwidth, but for one article to a person paying for a subscription? Unjustifiable to me. Fuck capitalism. It’s destroy[ing/ed] everything.




  • Aha, something I didn’t mention it my sibling post about interviewing for DreamJob™: once I was on the team and on the other end of the interviews, the theme from my manager was always to see how the candidate thinks and solves problems. He always stressed that they don’t know our tools and processes. It was less about getting the right answer and more about demonstrating that they’d have the ability to do the job once we onboarded them.

    There was a guy who I congratulated on his first day joining our department who was surprised. He told me he thought I disliked him in the interview (I actually wrote him a solid post-interview review, he was great). That was back when I thought it was a good strategy to be stone-faced in interviews and before I got enough wisdom to just be casual and approachable. Maybe you interviewed with a dickhead like the old me who didn’t know any better yet!


  • Don’t worry too much about it. I landed an interview at DreamJob™ before I was ready. The phone screening went great and I came for two in-persons, two people in each. I bombed all the way to hell and back. I could tell one of the people in the first meeting was thinking to himself that his time was being wasted. It was a nightmare. Needless to say, I didn’t get it.

    A year later, I came back for a different position in the same department at DreamJob™. The first in-persons went well (three of them, each one-on-one). In fact, the third person was about 35m late, so the second guy had to fill time and started throwing logic problems at me to give us something to talk about. I hadn’t had to do any real math in a handful of years, so that was stressful, but I made it through. When third guy showed up, he seemed to like me and we had a nice fit-for-culture kind of chat.

    The next round was a day of interviews, eight rounds. Most were pairs, but also two one-on-ones. The guy whose time I’d wasted the year before was one of those. I was terrified. He didn’t remember me (why would he, I was just an inconvenience the first time). He seemed to like me, stoping to ask if I understood how a technology worked when I was having a hard time answering a question. So he explained it to me and said, “ok, so now that you know that, how would you approach the question from before?”

    There were two more one-on-ones on separate days with the head of the department and then finally his boss. I got the job. My entire career and everything since is built on that first major success in the industry.

    Lesson to take from the story is that no matter how much shame you may feel at this moment, you can try again and have a totally different outcome down the road. Just keep working on your skills and building yourself into a more suitable candidate and, when the time comes, try again. Bad interviews happen. They hurt for a while, but they aren’t the end of the world. Invest in yourself and you’ll get there.

    (I usually wait five minutes when I type anything this long and then proof it, but I’m in a rush so you get my first draft, lightly edited.)