scarabic
@scarabic@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 1 week ago:
We used to have a print news sheet for job listings in the non profit sector, which is very large in my home city. It would have one or two articles as well but was mostly job classifieds. Wish I could give you a specific recommendation, but I guess I’m saying just find another job?
It sounds like you want to be in that job sector, but you experienced a disastrous turnover in management at one organization. To be candid it’s a mild story compared to many I have heard. Tyrannical EDs or crazy founders with too much authority, big funding swings, politics up the wazoo… the non profit sector seems to be particularly drama-laden. I’m not sure why. But take the hit and move on. It doesn’t sound like it was about you personally.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
If you don’t show them better content, they can’t know the difference. Watch YT with them, but put on good stuff made by humans. There’s plenty of that. Also consider accounts - once they have their own account they will tumble down the shit hole that is the algorithm. If you let them use your account, they will have a better established base, and you will easily see what they are watching. If this doesn’t work for you, created a moderated, shared account that you use and populate with good algorithm juju.
- Comment on I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom? 1 week ago:
When I was in college there was a big hike in fees as the university system started having financial problems. Naturally, students protested this. There was a general air of unrest on the campus. One day I was in Poetry class and outside the windows we could hear a lot of commotion and see a protest gathering. One of the students raised his hand and asked the professor if we could have permission to go out and join. He said “I don’t recall asking authorities for permission to protest when I was a college kid in the 1960s. You can go, or not, it’s up to you.”
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 1 week ago:
Since even the world’s worst dictators still hold sham elections, I conclude that there will be an election, and they will focus on how to cheat to win. If they even need to that is. This is way easier to do and conceal than canceling the election.
- Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975? 1 week ago:
Did Wikipedia mention that what it sees, Lo Pan knows?
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 week ago:
I’m certain it’s possible to obscure your face beyond the ability of any machine to recognize it. At that point your enemy is gait analysis, but there are countermeasures for that as well. As for utterly pervasive surveillance that is so redundant and automated that the government can know anything about anyone, anywhere, retroactively…. I don’t know if we are there yet. I’m not going to spend too much energy worrying about the prospects of Chinese pirates.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 week ago:
Wear a mask?
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 week ago:
Oh… clip 1 it’s climbing a curb… optical illusion - I thought that was a long ditch cut in the pavement, as for pipework, etc.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 week ago:
In the first clip there is a tuktuk in the foreground and a passenger car in the background so I don’t know how you got to “clearly somewhere cars should not be.
In clip 4 there’s some pavement but it falls away into a large hole that has filled with water… call it what you will. “Trench” is one word for it.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 week ago:
US streets aren’t always great but what’s up with all these open trenches right in the middle of the roads in this video??
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 week ago:
Automated cargo delivery is going to bring a new era of piracy. When you can easily trick the vehicle and there are no people in it, it becomes much more tempting to just knock it over and steal what’s inside.
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 2 weeks ago:
I have wondered a lot whether we could enshrine laws that would protect us from corruption like we’ve seen. Executive overreach in general is a problem but there are also smaller things like the fact that Trump filmed a fucking canned food advertisement on the Resolute Desk that seem like they should be eliminate-able.
It just doesn’t seem like we actually have laws anymore. The Supreme Court has declared presidents untouchable. And the way demographics are shifting, it’s harder and harder for Republicants to control Congress, but the electoral college favors red states, so Republicants WANT an overpowered president.
We could probably get them to agree to presidential controls during a Dem presidents’ administration, but could we get to a constitutional amendment or something they couldn’t just undo later when it suits them? I doubt it.
We are in a death match with an implacable foe who wants nothing more than our total destruction. There is no negotiating or agreeing our way out of this: the only thing we can do is win.
- Comment on Doom 2016 forces you to accept 4 agreements before playing. 2 weeks ago:
They’re not enforceable, binding laws anyway. It’s a bunch of corporate CYA. They want to be able to tell a judge someday that they did everything they could to inform you of their business practices and get you to agree to use their product responsibly. The company’s chance of facing a court action is much higher than a user’s chance of being held to whatever they agreed by checking a box.
- Comment on Doom 2016 forces you to accept 4 agreements before playing. 2 weeks ago:
Putting the “mildly” back in mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Chinese Maglev test vehicle sets world record, accelerating from 0 to 318 MPH in 2 seconds 2 weeks ago:
It’s completely not practical.
7Gs is also not categorically lethal hut average people will start to pass out around 4Gs if the acceleration is vertical, and 9 is about the upper limit that trained, fit Air Force pilots can experience without losing consciousness.
So 7 is nothing to sneeze at even under ideal conditions.
- Comment on Chinese Maglev test vehicle sets world record, accelerating from 0 to 318 MPH in 2 seconds 2 weeks ago:
Well now we need to design the train with all seats facing forward and restraints to keep people in place, and we need to have staff abord to do do a safety check that everyone is seated and strapped in before we can get those 2 seconds of theoretically-survivable acceleration.
Come on. This is cool from an engineering perspective but will never be used on an actual passenger train.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t control geopolitics but you do control your own outlook. If you can’t accept a someday threat but continue living today, then you are losing the battle before you even know if you have to fight. Yes, losing the ability to get through the day is overreacting, even in light of the threat potential. I could give you 6 other things to worry yourself into paralysis about if I wanted to. But you control your own outlook.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 3 weeks ago:
It will eventually get heaped on there no doubt.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 3 weeks ago:
Check the wind first.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 3 weeks ago:
A “strategically placed” incendiary device that is placed in your next door neighbor’s lot? Right over the fence from your own house? That doesn’t seem very strategic at all.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is a case where some kind of HOA or city blight regulations would actually be a good thing.
- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 4 weeks ago:
Yes you can see this culturally in the old stereotypes about “old money” versus “new money.”
Rich family with a hereditarily passed down fortune, lands, and control = old money = feudalism.
Entrepreneur who came from nothing but tok advantage of emerging economies to become wealthy overnight = new money = capitalism.
Old money hates new money because capitalism dethroned feudalism.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 5 weeks ago:
Inheritance. Your move.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 5 weeks ago:
“be part of the owner class” they said - not “be a business owner”
It’s completely possible to own a piece of this and a piece of that and just sit and watch the checks come in. You just need to enter the picture with enough liquid cash.
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 5 weeks ago:
If you want to support a Reddit alternative, be praised to invest some time and create some content. Moderate without big delays. You may put in more than you get back, but guess what? That’s what it takes to build something. Honestly given the tone of this post I would say don’t bother, you are not cut out for it.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 5 weeks ago:
Sure, it can happen. The anecdote sounds ludicrous to me: gatekeeping someone with that much experience over checking a box like that. But the good news is, if you’re in that situation you will know it, and can then act appropriately. If one is not in such an obvious situation, I think what I said is still good baseline general advice.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 5 weeks ago:
Did she do it for the joy of learning? Or personal growth and satisfaction? Or was it for career enhancement?
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 5 weeks ago:
There’s not one specific age you’re going to find is The Answer to this.
When you are young and still developing and have lots of time to find your path, it’s worth making the long term investment of some general schooling to maximize your own growth and development, and prairie yourself for a broad set of possible futures.
However, as your career progresses, it becomes less valuable to invest in general schooling, but specific training for your specific career can still be valuable.
There’s no cutoff point where all this flips. If you are 5 years into your career and still aren’t certain of what you want to do, an MBA may still be valuable. It will expose you to a range of skills and possible roles and give you some good general foundation for things like leadership roles, or starting your own business.
If you are 20 years into your career and want to rank up to earn more money, an MBA is probably more expensive than it is worth. At that point, your experience is much more valuable than shy degree. Sure, you might look better in a job interview with MBA on your resume, but getting an MBA is expensive and whatever small advantage it gives your resume will probably not pay for the cost of the MBA.
You need to figure out where you are in this journey. Do you still feel that you are exploring and looking for your niche? Schooling might help. Are you on a specific path and hoping to power up? Schooling may not help.
I am 20 years in. I took a class for $300 last year that was highly specific to my role and only required two days. That was worth it. Spending $40k on an MBA will not be worth it for me. I could be 38 or 54 years old, age isn’t really the point.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 5 weeks ago:
I think at some point you may need to admit that this post is essentially “I don’t like this thing, why does everyone else?” This is subjective and cultural, not logical. You don’t have anything objective against celery, you just think it ”tastes horrid.” You’re entitled to that opinion. But I don’t understand why you seem to struggle so much with the idea that others don’t share it. Personally I think garlic is absolute magic, but I can 100% accept that others may not like it the same way, and some may be violently repelled by it. 🤷♂️
- Comment on All glory to the techno viking. 1 month ago:
Nothing gets the blood pumping like a little confrontation. Hardly looked necessary TBH. The dude tripped into someone. She was fine.