blackbelt352
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yup, you 100% need to work on reading comprehension. I never said nothing sketchy happened, actually I explicitly said other sketchy shit did and does happen, I’m saying the specific example you originally pulled did not support your argument.
The article you pulled, in the literal first sentences said that Hunter Biden was paid as a consultant by MBNA in 2005, 3 years prior to the article and that the consultancy, despite being legally above board, doesn’t look good and happened at the same time a bill favoring credit card companies was passed.
That’s not a direct bribe to Joe Biden in exchange for a favorable bill as you described it.
But instead I’m the shill for Biden because you have done a shit job defending your own point with an article that explicitly contradicts your point in the very first sentence. All I did was read the fucking article and point out it doesn’t say what you think it said.
Again be accurate in your criticism, back it up with anything that doesn’t immediately contradict your points because at this point, I highly doubt you even read a single article you posted in your last reply.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Good lord you need work on your reading comprehension, or did you just look at the headline and ignore the very first line of the article?
Hunter Biden was working and being paid as a consultant for MBNA and had no direct ties to any kind of lobbying. That’s just what consulting work is. How much was paid never gets disclosed, especially to the public.
Is there other shetchy shit? Sure, but direct bribery from MBNA isn’t one of them and now we’d have to veer off into a discussion of campaign finance and corporate contributions to politicians in a post-citizens United world.
Be accurate in your criticism or nobody will take you seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
MBNA didn’t even exist anymore in 2008. It was bought out and subsumed by Bank of America in 2006.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBNA#Mergers_and_acquisit…
If you have information on that bill/law post it. I’m curious what it actually said.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
The 4th of July falls on July 4th. I can assure you as someone who has lived in the US for my entire life, we say it out loud, month, day, year and we write it to match that.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
It’s american/Canadian English. We say December 11th, 2024, we write it like we say it.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
It is and makes an ok, but reproducible cup of tea. As per the relevant Tom Scott video mentioned in the article.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
Glad to provide some honest perspective.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
If you really need a specialized toolset to handle managing dates and times in a program beyond whats already there, then find a library that has the tools you’re looking for or make it yourself if it doesn’t exist. Extending the date class is always an option.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/…/Date.html
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/system.datetime?view=…
Looks like someone already did. Been around since at least JDK 1.1
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
I used to be a programmer myself and it’s why there’s a specific default data structure built in to most programming languages to handle dates and internationalization of those dates.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
The dates are written to match how it’s said. In the US we say our dates as month day year, and before you say “But the 4th of July” my counterpoint is that the 4th of July takes place on July 4th. And Cinco de Mayo takes place on May 5th. And May the Fourth Be With You takes place on May 4th.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
I fail to see how getting fired because you said your work environment was stressful is a benefit. Losing your income is a significant stressor.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 week ago:
Oh yeah the comments from all sides of the political spectrum are absolutely dragging him.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 week ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRnWYn-GTQ
Honestly, I’d private window that link just to avoid it polluting your recommended page with right wing garbage.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 week ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRnWYn-GTQ
Honestly, I’d private window that link just to avoid it polluting your recommended page with right wing garbage.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 2 weeks ago:
I need to see where Shabibo is getting torn up by his audience.
- Comment on Intruder 3 weeks ago:
I never said the kid should have actually gone over and given any kind of first aid, but he should still be taught basic first aid if his parents are teaching him how to use a gun.
It’s still psychopathic to mock someone who you just shot.
- Comment on Intruder 3 weeks ago:
I don’t expect a kid to do much of anything after shooting a person, intruder or not, not mock them for being in pain of a literal bullet wound.
Granted if the parents taught him how to use a firearm they should also have taught him how to use a medical pack because accidents can and do happen with firearms and he should be able to patch up himself or someone else if an accident does happen.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
That’s just how language works. It changes and morphs as time goes on and culture leaders change. And in my last, idk 20 or so years on the internet I’ve never really seen the word suspension used. It’s always been temp ban, ban or permaban.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
And what’s to stop people from still saying “I got banned” even when it’s called a suspension?
This feels a lot like the “We have 15 different cable standards, let’s make a universal one!” creates new cable standard “We have 16 different cable standards now…” situation.
Even if the language we currently use is slightly ambiguous, one or two questions clears up the ambiguity and still gets across the idea of “I can’t post right now.” And comparatively asking an extra question sounds a lot easier than reworking something culturally ingrained in our lexicon.
- Comment on if you're the kind of person not to burn bridges when leaving a toxic job or toxic coworkers, why? 3 weeks ago:
I won’t burn them theatrically but I’ll let ones I don’t particularly want to keep around quietly just fall into disuse. The bridge is still there but Id have no intention to reaching out across it any time soon. Once in a while people do change over time, sometimes they mellow out or realize they fucked up. A disused bridge is easier just easier to deal with than a burned bridge.
Good bridges aren’t about pretending things are sweet and dandy, good bridges are honest communication and connection, burning them means passing people off on the other end and pissed people are more likely to retaliate. People who feel mostly neutral or a bit annoyed don’t retaliate.
When you leave, wherever you’re working be honest but professional. Say you felt your coworkers didn’t value your time and work you did and at times their unprofessional behavior impacted your ability to work. Don’t name names, don’t finger point, but be honest with what dissatisfied you. If you have an at least neutral professional relationship with your manager maybe they could be a reference for future employers.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
Online there’s basically 3 levels of ban, temp ban, ban, and permaban.
Temp ban, the offender is not allowed to interact temporarily usually for a set amount of time before its automatically lifted, they get put in timeout for a bit.
Ban, more permanent sibling of the temp ban, doesn’t automatically lift after a set amount of time, can be lifted manually by admin/mods, usually leaves one possible channel of comms open for the offender to make appeals to the admins/mods. They’ve been kicked out of the bar, they’re not allowed back, but maybe in a while management will soften their stance.
Permaban, you do not pass go, you do not collect 200, you’re permanently gone, no take backs, these are basically never undone and basically no one except for the highest level of admins can undo it. You dun fucked up, the bar’s management is beyond pissed at you and you will never ever be back again, bouncers have your photo and it is damn near on sight with them.
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 4 weeks ago:
Not just hamlet but the entire body of works accredited to Shakespeare
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 month ago:
Control of the house, senate, presidency and Judiciary.
- Comment on Ahoy me hearties 2 months ago:
Def email the researchers, so many of them would gladly give you access to their research papers because they also hate the science publishing industry.
- Comment on This moon decoration my wife got 2 months ago:
Then the half eclipse would be wrong, 50% eclipse wouldn’t be a straight line across the diameter. An eclipse is two circles intersecting, not shadow sweeping across a sphere.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 2 months ago:
Oh I get it, you’re either just a moron, or your being purposefully dense and wasting all of our time responding to your drivel.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 2 months ago:
That sounds a lot like the k-8 class I grew up with from 1999 to 2007. We were rowdy, constantly got in trouble, constantly interrupting class. We got in trouble so often that for our 8th grade year we lost both our New York and Washington DC field trips. Ours is the only class that either of those trips were taken away. Substitute teachers always reported back horror stories of what we did while the teacher was away. Desks and seat assignments were constantly moved around to separate the disruptive problem groups to little success.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 2 months ago:
I’ll admit I certainly came off a bit more sarcastic than I was intending, and it’s been a good while since I’ve been in grade school, but times of entire classes of students just fully misbehaving have existed before and will likely exist again. I remember even back in the early to mid 2000s the class I was in caused a lot of major problems for my teachers throughout the years to the point that in our 8th grade year, our class was the only one in in years to lose the privilege of going on our New York and Washington DC school trips and the only one in years after to lose those class trips.
Many of the kids were flat out obnoxious jerks and we didn’t have an excuse of “we had multiple years of virtual learning to stunt our development” to lean on.
Believe me I feel sympathy for these kids going through one of the many recent once-in-a-lifetime mass human tragedy events. They’re in a tough circumstance, with teachers trying to do their best in a criminally underfunded education system, after living through the collective trauma that was the pandemic
My intention, albeit sarcastically, was pointing out that our hard wired desire to be social is generally a good thing and what has given us a huge advantage over other creatures. For as much as teachers want to and do make a huge difference in kids lives, the overarching structure is not actually geared to help teachers do their jobs best. There is so much administrative bloat and inefficiency and funding that goes to the top of the structure that gets in the way of teachers being able to focus on teaching their students and provide them with the tools and material necessary to educated kids.