TankovayaDiviziya

@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In all seriousness, human elderlies are actually evolutionary anomaly, because if Darwinian tenet of “survival of the fittest” applies 100% of the time, they would not be the norm. But the fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures that transcend cold evolutionary programming. We care for others and the vulnerable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That sucks. I work for an American company and I have to have mandatory pension contribution. I only put in 3% of my salary to it and stated I want them invested into medium risk funds.

  I don’t trust company pensions to be my source of retirement funds, and so I started my own investment portfolio. Even though I know US companies are more profitable, but with the way things are going, I limited my investments from select few US companies and I plan to invest more on Asian and European stocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shook⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid and Rock Hudson got AIDS the world was stunned to find out he was gay. Talk about in the deep closet!

  That is news to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With so many things going on in life outside of work and academics, there is only so much you could research and pay attention to to fully know what you could get into. Only practical experience will tell you if it’s worth it. As they say, experience is the best teacher. And even then, don’t regret and blame yourself. You made the decision based on what was the best available information at the time. I tell this to any people who tend to be anxious about decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an ignorant non-American who doesn’t know how 401k works, could you not redirect where your investment/retirement goes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨makes more sense than this shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Weasel: There was no other other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A boomer told me that he observes younger generations as being stand off-ish. I don’t disagree. I suppose having grown up with “stranger danger” message being drilled into us made us that way. I don’t want to start a generation fight and blame boomers, but who are the parents of millenials who taught us the message that made us hypervigilant? The stranger danger message has merit, but if older generations are complaining why we behave that way, you reap what you sow as the saying goes.

  Another consideration is that if Anon is Gen Z, it is very likely that his peers grew up with constant attention to online and digital presence, which makes them socially awkward. It didn’t help either that much of Gen Z spent two years in the coop during the pandemic. It does not take a genius to figure out what those two phenomena does to an entire generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not entirely surprising if true.

  Project 2025 goal is to spread their backwards ideology across the globe. They want to see the world burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This has happened to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am in Europe so I can’t relate. They screw us over by raising the wages tied to inflation, and yet we still don’t have enough at the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  laughs in non-gendered language

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt the parents called the police on OP for hacking. Parents just get angry or ground their kids for “hacking”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The landmark legal ruling on lay offs and pay cuts in Japan is great. Any Japanese company must objectively be in financial difficulty to justify lay offs and salary cuts. That’s why it is common for Japanese executives to take pay cuts, because they can’t do the disingenuous move of laying rank and file while giving bonus to executives, not because higher ups genuinely care about their employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have just read other people’s comments as to why Redditors delete their comments. But even before the enshitiffication, I and others find it frustrating when comments are deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I get so pissed when people nuke their comment history. Why do that when you don’t have too much of personal revealing information in that post or comment? Even one of the mods of AskHistorians expressed frustration of insightful posts and comments being deleted. I did not even delete my any of my posts before I deleted my Reddit account because there are no revealing information, and I know some of my posts and comments will be helpful for others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instacart is urging the Mayor of New York City to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone mentioned “growing more conservative” could mean holding on to the gains, specifically material gains. Like, one of the key contributing factors to the housing crisis is NIMBYism. Plenty of house owners are maybe socially progressive and feel bad about injustice; but many of them, especially old people, vote down proposals to build affordable housing because it affects their property value. If I bought a house for €300k and in thirty years it is now worth €16 million. I would not even mind if the house value depreciates by one or two million, or even ten. What am I even going to do with that much money? If my net worth is six million, that is more than enough for me.

  I think when the right say “becoming more conservative” as one grows older, it seems like a coded phrase to mean becoming greedy. And it seems to be the case that could happen to everyone regardless of whether one is left or right when they were younger. Which makes me realise that this is the point Squid Game is making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This just vindicates my long time thought: people make their own problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who have stocks better watch out. My friend sold out all his stocks because Warren Buffet sold his massively last year. Buffet does this just before an economic bubble burst. Rumour has it that it may come this autumn. I kinda want to hold out a little longer because I am looking at other indicators, primarily on unemployment rate, consumer price index and retail sales, before deciding. The rising inflation might affect consumer confidence, which could exacerbate the risk of recession. The unemployment rate, consumer price index and retail sales reports are coming out this coming month of August and we’ll see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can any scientists confirm this important fact?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So my cat’s grooming me is asserting dominance over me? The bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antidepressant of the masses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Religion itself is said to be natural antidepressant. I do wonder if exposure by our ancestors to psychoactive substances is tied to the development of religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My Catholic school is more grounded to reality than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨robot slurs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fleshies, smoothskins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mentoring⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging from what I have read before, some men genuinely think being greasy, sweaty looking and not being clean is attractive. I have read some comments in Lemmy before from men who feels like they found the secret sauce to attracting women: just being hygienic. The latter, I could pass it because they seem like they are neurodivergent. But the latter? I don’t even know. I heard it was more like a 90s and 00s trend. Maybe looking like you have a labour intensive job by looking greasy, sweaty and haven’t showered for couple of days will turn on women, which isn’t really the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is proof that rare dramatic instances are indeed, rare. And people have become hypervigilant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time I prefer to read subtitles is if the film or TV show is in a language I don’t understand. I prefer to hear the natural language for more authenticity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  most of the non-native speaker can’t really hear the pronunciation correctly.

  Either that, or the audio quality is just bad.

  (I’m looking at you, Christopher Nolan)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes sense to me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who knew it is all about asserting dominance. There is a study which showed monkeys with small penises howl the loudest. Not too dissimilar from humans who loves to make up for their shortcomings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nice to see a more reasonable response in the comments on Fediverse. On the itch discussion board people are frothing at the mouth posting death threats and the like against itch staff.

  Sounds like the bar is so low to be even comparing the two sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because spineless Establishment Dems have some obsession with "playing nice insider trading

  Ftfy.

  The Dem party is known as the party of insider trading after all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In some industries, job hopping is completely fine because of their nature and circumstances. But in my one, it is tolerated for those who are just new in their career, especially the newly graduates. In my field, the longer you are in your career, the more they expect that you to stay in a given company. Each companies in my field have their own quirks, so they appreciate people who stay on for long because they don’t have to train new starts on the nuances (some companies backstab their long time employees, but that is kind of expected in any industry).

  I am a pretty sociable person. I consider many of my previous and current colleagues as friends, but they are different kind of friend, which is work friend. I would hang out with them and go for drinks or talk about things outside of work; but I won’t share with them too intimate details of my life as I do to my long time friends I grew up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could only get away so much with job hopping. And besides, I have job hopped before, adjusting to new working culture and environment can be challenging and eventually drain you as a person.