mad_lentil
@mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 5 days ago:
While this sounds intuitive, I’ve crunched side-by-side with a coworker (literally couch-coop, sshing into pods to solve a production issue), and then having also done the same over Discord with screen sharing, I can confidently say that once you actually embrace remote there is no marked tangible advantage to in person.
Other than it’s easier to recruit for a union push on company time because people are constantly jawing, rather than doing their job when in person.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 5 days ago:
IMO It’s still useful to have an actual human in the loop who is up to date on what a bunch of people are doing, to help coordinate as well as deflect ad hocs
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 5 days ago:
B-b-but I was told big tech companies love disruption!
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Team apathy! 🙌
- Comment on From the outside looking in 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s a mistake to write it off as recklessness. Some very few people will materially benefit from this chaos.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
If it would REALLY mean a thing?
Yeah we’re on the same page. I might be a little more tolerant of imperfect or half-assed attempts at a solution is all.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Just for the thun of it
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, I think something’s got to give if we’re to have any future worth living. Probably very many things should change. I’m a bit of an misanthrope myself, so getting used to more communal arrangements is painful.
Would you be more likely to champion a less attractive option if it was part of a larger initiative to make a better world?
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 weeks ago:
You’ve got to invest in it before it gets good. You’ve got decades of car centric infrastructure inertia making cars the more convenient choice. All you’ve got to do is invest just enough to make alternatives actually possible.
I don’t know the challenges of your specific infrastructure, but there are certainly improvements that could be made
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 5 weeks ago:
With adequate public transportation, it becomes much more comfortable and convenient.
My city installed a few additional bike paths, and added some more buses, and the difference is huge.
I don’t even need a car except when traveling longer distances.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 5 weeks ago:
Agree with this take. It’s like yeah electric cars are technically better, but any advantage they have over combustion engines is blown away by things like public transportation, or designing walkable/cyclable cities.
Our solutions can’t just rely on swapping out for “greener” tech. We need radical changes to how we are currently living in order to ensure a livable future.
There is no future that is not radical. This gradualist, neolib (let’s make sure all the investors get a chance to divest from dirty tech before switching!) fantasy will fuck us. It’s been fucking us for a hundred years. It’s time to try literally anything else.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
But, Superman is such a good, kind-hearted hero that it’s basically impossible to be a good person and be anti-Superman.
Right, the main complaint is that he’s so perfect it’s boring.
And also that he has a pretty Western/USA centric sense of morality, which you think Western chauvinists like conservatives would eat right up.
- Comment on U can make a difference 2 months ago:
AHHHHHHHHHH
Well done.
- Comment on The stand makes the difference 2 months ago:
I’ve never seen these two together. Now this is cinema.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 3 months ago:
Yeah the wild swings in exchange value instantly preclude its use as a currency.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 months ago:
Right? Like I don’t understand the mindset.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 months ago:
Orgies still happen. Open relationships, too.
If you don’t want to be exclusive then don’t enter into an exclusive relationship.
I agree we could be less uptight about open relationships, but this is really about a rich filthy person being humiliated at a time when most of us feel powerless to stand up to money in any real capacity.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 months ago:
Is this deep or am I just stupid?
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 3 months ago:
Yeah, he’s shit but if you’re impressionable and self-centred, you can get sucked in by his bit.
Like I remember watching a couple clips and thinking sounds like he’s just saying common sense reasonable stuff with a side of pop philosophy – I don’t get what people are mad about but I have a good relationship with my parents and was raised to respect myself and others, so he had no to Morty’s Mind Blowers for me. I just moved on.
Later of course, thanks to others writing about it, I discovered that he has said some legitimately heinous things, and despite being so pathetic is actually an incredibly dangerous individual, meme-wise.
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 3 months ago:
And we wonder why Jordan Peterson telling someone like this to make their bed blows their whole mind.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 3 months ago:
Me too—sometimes
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 3 months ago:
I just got into them and I’ll be damned if I’ll let some toaster ruin a perfectly beautiful bit of punctuation
- Comment on we are not the same 4 months ago:
:'s
- Comment on we are not the same 4 months ago:
Why are dream bathrooms so ffucked up, like seriously
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 months ago:
Heh, nice
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 months ago:
k-hole’d
For any confused readers.