It’s like…the solution is right in front of their noses. Just treat people better/not like robots

I’ve been saying this in response to a lot of things lately, but… people are emotional. It’s an emotional problem. Management feels a way, mostly contempt, and any studies about how treating people better would be cost-effective don’t matter. Studies show that a 4-day workweek is good for productivity and profits? Nope, feels wrong, can’t be true.

Essentially, people are stupid and I don’t know how to fix it. Can’t just bop a CEO on the nose with a newspaper when he’s being bad, unfortunately.

This is like a monkey’s paw wish of “We shouldn’t send people with drug problems to jail”

Yeah… definitely conservative men and “not political” or “moderate” men should be shunned.

But how do you tell who’s actually a good guy and who’s a secret shithead?

I like to imagine that there would be uprisings, like the kind with molotovs, if a national abortion ban was passed, but I think the not-right is too disorganized. It’s all very handmaids tale.

And aside from infighting, there’s a lot of people clinging to “we should follow the rules.” Rules don’t mean much if only one faction is following them.

I’m pretty sure monopoly was supposed to show how it’s a bad system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game

I failed calc2 and am gainfully employed as a mid/upper level software engineer.

One guy at work really saved the day because he’s good at math, and made a very slow process much faster because he knows … uh… vector math? He did magic with numpy

My mom is also deeply paranoid and superstitious about the phone. I’ll be like “why don’t you delete this second weather app you don’t like that’s sending you all these notifications you ignore?” And she’ll be like “NO YOU’LL BREAK SOMETHING IT HAS TO TO BE LIKE THIS”

Politics are complicated.

People are fucking stupid and care more about in-group good-feels than reality or policy.

Many Trump supporters like feeling like they are part of a larger group. That’s it. That’s really, deeply, stupid. Like, dogs are smarter than that. But they see the symbols and the faces and feel good about themselves.

Some people are deeply racist or sexist and such, but a lot of people just want to feel like they’re part of a group.

I think a lot of people are irrationally scared of “socialism” and “handouts”. If a party was like “we’re going to take some of the ultra wealthy’s stuff and use it to build free housing, health care, transit, and public spaces” they’d be like “no that’s communism I’d rather live in a box eating lead paint than get a government handout”

Surely there’s a couple people still working there.

I feel like people are just rolling over and taking it? He shouldn’t even be eligible because of the 14th Amendment “no insurrection” thing.

Yes. And no one’s going to do anything about it.

Most people are too lazy and thoughtless to stop using it .

The engineers that work there certainly aren’t going to stage a coup.

And no one’s going to just do violence to Musk.

Sure, but you’re still going to say the fourth word is “research” and not “study” or “reindeer”.

There was an example in a story about kids learning to read poorly (I don’t think this one) about how a kid reading about WW2 got that “Poland was invited by Germany” because they didn’t know the word invaded, so they dramatically misunderstood the history.

My understanding is XFCE is lighter weight and simpler. Little to no animations, for example.

https://itsfoss.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-mate-xfce/

I think intentionally avoiding taxes should be a very serious crime. It’s stealing from everyone.

This is what I’m always saying. The more dollars you have, the less each one matters. Going from 40k to 50k is a big jump. Going from 400k to 500k is a bigger jump in absolute numbers, but will make far less of an difference.

I knew a guy who told me that “his family struggled, too” when both parents were bringing home mid six figures. I’m sorry but like what. Learn to budget.

I am extremely basic and I’m using the XFCE that came with Linux mint. I don’t need anything fancy.

I think you have to also account for the kids’ ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.

best solution could probably be good public transport in the city and self driving cars in the countryside.

You don’t even need self driving if it’s mostly just the countryside. That’s just not a lot of people and the resources required to get it working would be better spent on building mass transit and walkable areas in cities where people actually live (and thus where culture and economy actually happen)

I really don’t believe you went with the archaic spelling over the standard one on purpose. If you did, why?

https://www.grammarly.com/commonly-confused-words/indict-vs-indite