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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also retired from a technical field, and I did bother to learn how to analogize and narrativize and graphically display many of the complex and technical things I often needed to convey to people that didn’t have my skillset.

  Nothing I said is false.

  I didn’t say marketing wasn’t important to a business.

  I just said I find it fundamentally disdainful, the same way I would find a chemist who specifically only develops neurotoxins disdainful.

  Yet, sometimes, in some contexts, necessary.

  Finance? I didn’t knock finance. Finance is very often highly intensive with complex math and series of complex rulesets.

  I often find finance disdainful, because often, finance just uses their extremely complex skillset to functionally lie via statistics.

  Anyway, yeah finance is needed.

  ‘Leadership’?

  Do you mean, ‘owners’?

  Or do you mean people with actual team leading and decision making skills, who have a solid and broad sense of responsibility to employees and consumers, and ability to own their own mistakes?

  Because in my experience, ‘leadership’ in most complex and large organizations display the exact opposite qualities as those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Most technically minded peoole can study marketing or negotiating and become proficient at it.

  Its not hard or complicated, compared to their technical skillset.

  But it would be a waste of their time, because their minds can quite literally be put to better uses.

  And, it would require them to be ok with lying and being deceptive as a job, so they might have moral objections.

  Marketing is literally using psychology to gaslight people into buying things or believing dubious things.

  Negotiating is half decorum and half lying, correctly.

  Most technically minded people innately work that out very quickly… its not that they don’t appreciate these skills, its that they actively find them disdainful.

  Doesn’t seem to bother MBAs or HR or Marketing though, I guess its all relative to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody values actual leadership, they just pretend they to, they cosplay that that’s what they’re into.

  People value kissing up to your boss, being type A, jovial, having no life outside of work, being attractive and charming, and most importantly, having connected friends.

  MBAs are the idiots who couldn’t actually learn real math or some subset of practical applied physics, but wanted to be important in a business.

  They’re the ones who just make up bullshit and believe it untill it becomes reality. This generates not so much technical debt, as literal debt, malinvestment, capital misallocation, financial risk.

  But, they don’t pay that risk, they fire everyone to pay for their mistakes.

  And then when they do that, that is called ‘leadership’.

  Why is this the paradigm?

  Because our society is deeply, deeply corrupt and fradulent, all the way through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still counting this as a very broad win.

  The corruption is hilariously obvious now, they had no other choice.

  They’re afraid.

  Them being afraid, the lying and bullshit being undeniably obvious to anyone with ~+90 IQ, and there now being actual substantial public awareness and concern, and real organizations dedicated to combatting this corruption?

  Should have been that way a decade ago, but better late than never.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was starting to run low on the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  … well now I have to try that, just to see how much I hate it or not, hahaha!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was starting to run low on the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh.

  I’ve not seen that. Everywhere I’ve been, its the little mini pallettes of… 10 or 12 or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, humans can have basically one bone.

  They are horrible and agonizing conditions, perhaps similar to being slowly partially or totally mummified by your own body.

  Ankylosing Spondylitis, Pfeiffer Syndrome, Klippel-Feil Syndrome, etc.

  Imagine your bones all fusing together. You can’t bend, or maybe walk, move your jaw, or maybe even breathe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨belt tight around my neck being pulled back hard in doggy >>>⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh so good, you weren’t dead, contrary to earlier rumors.

  I suspected you were just having perhaps a bit too much fun in… some where in south east asia, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was starting to run low on the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually no, never tried it.

  I’ve only heard it is notoriously awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Windows users find the Threadiverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, peaked at 7.

  And its been literally all downhill from there.

  I actually could not believe what was happening, when they rolled out 8 on us.

  “We’ve removed… the windows… from Windows.”

  Saying that outloud made my boss very angry.

  We spent a month pleading to let us go back to 7, to use some kind of standard, non tablet UI.

  For a month they told is that didn’t exist in 8, the UI was all totally new and redesigned from the ground up, and no we can’t go back to 7.

  But, they were lying, of course. There was a sequence you could to to override the new UI that had indeed been slapdashed over 7’s UI, to go back to 7’s UI.

  (Where 7’s UI is modified XP UI, which is modified 98 UI… etc)

  We figured it out, they’d patch it to not work, some other email chain would figure out some other override, they’d patch that out.

  After about a month of that they actually admitted that the 7 UI was indeed still there and was not just some kind of emergency fall back mode.

  Some months later, 8.1 is basically just them making the 7 UI mode fully work.

  Again, I literally could not believe how stupid this all was, to the point of sometimes literally dissociating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was starting to run low on the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna know how you buy just two packets of ramen.

  What, do they sell the packets individually at a corner store?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was starting to run low on the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  See, the way I like Jack, I like it because its horrible and shitty.

  There are many much better, much more well rounded bourbons and whiskeys.

  But sometimes, the point is to basically kick yourself in the face, with a drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you Jensen, jaywalking is a fake made-up crime.

  No you really, ask your AI model to figure out the most creative way in which to go fuck yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Windows users find the Threadiverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  … I worked for Microsoft.

  … during the time the rolled out Win8, by dogfooding it through every employee and contractor.

  I don’t know anyone that hates Microsoft and Windows more than I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, excellent motivation for reconfiguring your entire personality and life.

  You dodged that bullet like an Agent in the Matrix, fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Likewise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Guy probably would not need the gatorade if the woman was Amazon riding him and doing all the actual physical work of fucking.

  Gal would then probably need the gatorade.

  Yeah, men have a refractory period, women essentially do not, can’t really fundamentally change that, though guys can do kegels and such to last longer/maintain erection/do their own orgasm control.

  Guys also can get off 7 to 10 times in a row.

  It’d just take longer, due to the refractory period, and would also literally require more physical work.

  You ever literally fucked for an entire today?

  You both need breaks and gatorade, guy and gal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the corrollary to that, that even less people want to talk about, is that straight, traditional cis men and women will then mock and shame men who actually do try think outside the box.

  So, many men are victims of patriarchy, and many women are perpetrators of patriarchy.

  Then you get to the incredibly confusing ‘now’, where many women will claim to be a feminist, yet will also mock and shame men who do not conform to stereotypical male lifestyle/relationship norms.

  Actual feminism vs Pop feminism.

  Actual feminism seeks to identify and challenge and critique societal gender roles and norms. All societal gender roles and norms.

  Pop feminism is basically psuedo (meaning ‘impostor’ or ‘fake’) feminism, that pretty much just boils down to misandry, using a set of buzzwords and terms basically bastardized from actual feminism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well see thats the thing.

  I am autistic.

  Autistic people tend to only info dump when its either a very low stakes, close to anonymous environment… or, when they actually really really trust or admire someone. In the latter case, the infodumping itself is a sign that they basically like you, are comfortable with you.

  To me, normies that peacock most or all of their personality… they just think their masks are themselves. They seem to barely even be aware of what they are doing.

  Whats actually happening is that really, only the mask actually exists.

  Theres not very much underneath, beyond basically the mindset of an immature child/teenager.

  And that kind of a person, frankly, is so mentally childlike, that at least to me, I can’t be turned on by or sexually attracted to that… they’re just a child in an adult body. They have too little self awareness and self understanding for me to view them as a responsible adult capable of giving informed consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, by far most women I’ve met are some flavor of sub. Sometimes they’re confused and say they’re something else, spend at least a few weeks to months with them… nope, they’re subs.

  Then, a fair number of woman are genuine doms of some kind, and know it.

  But a woman switch? Who not only can, but has to switch the power dynamics, who can’t help themselves from doing that?

  Yeah, at least in my experience, about as common as a shiny pokemon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’d prefer to avoid the right wing kinksters, but… fine. Fine, maybe the time has come to finally make a fetlife account… grumble grumble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there does seem to a dynamic like that at play… a bunch of people just say shit about themselves, that they think will make other people like them.

  It would be nice if people were actually self aware and honest, with both themselves and others, but apparently that isn’t the meta.

  That being said… converting to fundamentalist Christianity?

  That’s some legit insanity right there, either that or a person who is deeply insecure and needs validation/meaning imposed on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  To the best of my knowledge there just isn’t one, in or near my current location, pretty solidly red, conservative area, and back when I was in a bluer area… well frankly I didn’t have any need to join a community to try and find people interested in sex.

  And/or if said community involves making something approximating a Facebook account, ahahaha fuck no, no I actually value Palantir and the NSA not knowing exactly who I’m fucking and precisely how.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, tone is somewhat difficult to convey via text sometimes… I am basically trying to sigh in acknowledgement/agreement witht you, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Yep. Basically that is what I’m talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dear god do not do the donkey punch, no no no no, noooooo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You really don’t wanna go there, because it involves both donkeys and pedophilia as axes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a guy who is a genuine switch.

  I’ve only ever met a single female switch, and she was literally a diagnosed nymphomaniac.

  I’ve met other guy switches, uncommon but not too uncommon… never ever met another female switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely anecodotal but:

  Nearly every woman I’ve met/dated/etc that’s described themself as a pervert or a freak or kinky, that’s a significant element of their personality?

  They’re the absolute most boring and lazy in the bedroom, and they also tend to have fairly to extremely serious mental/personality disorders/problems.

  Conversely, not all, but far far more of the ones that do not describe themselves as that?

  They are actually quite often the most active and creative and willing to try new things.

  Absolutely no clue if this is any kind of representative sample, but it is my experience.

  The literal only exception to at least the first half of this was the actually disgnosed nymphomaniac, who was, other than that, a rather meek and reserved person, 95% of the time.

  Also I guess for the record, I don’t consider myself ‘perverted’, just sex positive and I guess kinkier than your average bear twink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you’ve got it now.

  The chains will continue to exist, mostly, even though a lot of ‘underperforming’ locations are gonna get axed.

  Real restaurants? Either gonna have to be actually by basically business savants, which is … extremely uncommon… or maybe have a very substantial amount of local community support… or, they’re basically gonna have to be or become luxury restaurants.