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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a teacher, I feel the opposite. I think the teacher now has entertaining stories that they can show to co-workers about how messed up the kids are these days. It’s a kind of therapy for everyone involved.

  The only tricky point is when kids write things that are NSFW and then you have to require that they revise them to be SFW, when many kids are not good at understanding the difference, and specifically why it matters in a school environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words, inflation is actually a tool for the rich to steal money from the rest of us. Interesting how that works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can any scientists confirm this important fact?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How to say you are not a cat owner without saying you are not a cat owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you mean. He can do almost any single act he wants. But depending on what it is, the response could possibly come back to bite him in the ass.

  Like his fucking around with Epstein or his claims of ending various wars. He fucked around and is in the process of finding out. But he’s rich, so he won’t get locked up, because that’s how the justice system is designed.

  In reality, most of the world doesn’t respect him, including most of the U.S. And like any scam artist, he caves when he has no other choice, and then lies about it. So, is the U.S. totally fucked? We’ll find out, won’t we. There’s no guarantees in life. And it also depends how white and how male you are, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of comments similar to yours and every time I see them I wonder, what industries do these people work in, and how much work experience do they actually have. If you’re doing something highly competitive like certain kinds of sales or finance, it makes sense that there’s going to be a lot of jerks around you. But in a lot of other jobs, like if you’re working at the grocery store or something, it’s not like anyone gets any advantage by trying to manipulate you. So I’m really wondering, what are these fields that are just completely full of totally worthless human beings?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of that is going to be job specific. If you isolate yourself, you could run into various problems. First, you probably won’t be communicating with union members, and those members might be the kind of people who can help you if the bosses try to fuck you over. Second, sometimes work is stressful, and you might want support from people who technically have no duty to help you. If you treat them decently on a somewhat regular basis, they might make time for you even if they don’t need to. This also connects with your friends. It depends on your relationships of course, but some friends don’t want to hear about work complaints. If that’s the bulk of your friends, then you might want coworkers who are willing to listen to work complaints.

  And it’s all nice and fine to say that you only attend work to earn a living, but the reality is you could have worked at a dozen places, and you chose a specific one. No one’s forcing you to be there. You could have gotten a job at 7-Eleven or Walmart, but you didn’t. You’re there of your own volition.

  I don’t think anyone takes for granted halfway decent co-workers. We’ve all worked with total jerks, and people often have natural reasons to act like total jerks from time to time. If you’re one of them, that’s okay, you do you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Novels and Movies Offer Closure. Video Games Should Too. [The New York Times]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck the Times. Classic shit article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a guy become his most confident around women?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your baseline? Did you really live thirty two years never talking to a woman before? More information would be good.

  And what are your goals? You’re hinting at something romantic or sexual but didn’t say anything clear on that subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hold hands and say it like me The most shady, Frankie baby, fantastic Graphic, tryin to make dough, like Jurassic Park did quick to spark kids who start shit” -Biggie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jury shown CCTV of alleged assault on police at Manchester Airport⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you are not a lawyer. Neither am I. But I have learned that in many countries, a guilty verdict could be tossed out by the judge if the pigs’ actions were bad enough. You can also get jury nullification, if you’re lucky.

  And sometimes it turns out the officers actually fucked shit up before or after the video, which might only be uncovered before or during trial. Depends on the details.

  All of those possibilities go to zero if you plead out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re renting, maybe it’s not your problem. The landlords jack us for rent, so we mess with their drains. Meh.

  Should we respect our landlords, you might ask? That depends on them. Respect is earned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contributions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And since a grad school thesis isn’t published, there’s definitely no restrictions on the author sharing it. Maybe it’ll get a few citations in the future. Not many, of course, but anything more than zero is nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should know that in many countries, and now also the U.S., the government will revoke the visa of “political irritants”. In other words, your question is actually a historical one, and it is equivalent to, “Is it immoral to immigrate?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Patriotism leads to nationalism and racism. Fuck patriotism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting how THIS happened at every place that I've worked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although that sounds cynical, I think it’s often the opposite. People learn what their job actually is, and they do it, and good for them. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO there is no definitive mainstream any more. Hasn’t been for a decade. There’s just too much music out there for you to know all the “popular” stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US senators reintroduce bill to open Apple and Google's app stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine it passing, but good for trying. Let’s see how it goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When you say most countries, which countries are you talking about?

  And if you’re wondering where the US goes for help, I’m not sure what you mean, but there have been a variety of peacekeeping missions and wars over the past few decades where other countries worked alongside the United States. Whether you think those military operations were justified is a different question, but if you’re looking for which countries worked together, you can easily find out by browsing Wikipedia for 20 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true and this is not an example of such a situation, because he knew exactly what the reaction was going to be. He probably felt that he could ride that AI bubble away from it, but he knew the reaction was waiting for him.

  The other thing about that claim, when it could possibly be credible, is it means that essentially the boss is not qualified to do their job. The one thing they should have done is been chatting with ordinary workers or customers to see what the actual needs are, and they’re admitting it to somehow deflect from a bad decision they made but in doing so they’ve unwittingly shown that they’re basically incompetent at their entire job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is partly true, but also he’s a strong narcissist. They make up their own stories. They’ll play up the feud to take eyes off of other bad shit.

  Don’t think for a second he lost or he’s gone or it’s all over for him. He doesn’t see it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DOGE still around if Donny and Elon aren't getting along?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The federal government lawyers have said in court that Elon Musk was not the leader of that organization. Therefore, the fact that he said he has departed from Washington would not affect that organization.

  Of course we know that he was leading it, and the president has said as much, and the above claims are all being contested in court by quoting the president. But anyway, if you want the official answer, now you have it.

  But the official answer also changes over time. Because if Musk was not the leader of that group, then many of the actions that he claimed to take and many of the actions that people attributed to him would now be actions of a private individual, which would expose him to massive civil liability. Therefore, we can be sure that the government’s lawyers will continue to change their story about when and where and how he worked for the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this genocide denial?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitions are important, but you don’t get to unilaterally choose them. Depending on the person you’re talking to, sometimes it’s more effective to ask them to define the terms first, or to ask them which dictionary they prefer.

  So depending on the situation, it might be more beneficial to bring in the quotes from various Israeli leaders about how they’re trying to get Palestinians gone, and how they’re happy with Palestinian death, and then bring in those graphs that show the numbers of the dead, and ask whether they think that’s acceptable.

  Another way to think about it is that sometimes questions of definition can distract us from questions of morality, and if the person that you’re trying to talk to is running away from the issue. By doing so, you can reasonably adjust your focus back to the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course what you wrote is not what it actually says in the Bill of Rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you just described is a system that mistreats your workers. Those temporary hires, if they lose their jobs, they can’t put food on the table. But if the company loses a temporary worker, it’s not going to be troubled, they’re just going to go hire another person.

  That all being said, if you’re working under contract and your company has robust protections for retaliation by employers, some of the risk of telling them in advance goes away. That’s great, but there’s still some remaining risk. Many bosses will be vengeful, bitter, and they may sabotage your work however they can for the last few weeks or months. And you won’t be able to stop them, because you’re leaving, so even if you filed an internal complaint, it wouldn’t go anywhere.