

I was the kind of kid to get good grades without really trying, and I think I would have been better off if I had been challenged. Instead I just coasted, and when I got to calc2 I failed. I still don’t have great learning habits.
I was the kind of kid to get good grades without really trying, and I think I would have been better off if I had been challenged. Instead I just coasted, and when I got to calc2 I failed. I still don’t have great learning habits.
We were about to lose our biggest client because we (not including me) had agreed to an impossible deadline to deliver a piece of software for them. I spent two weeks basically living at work and we (meaning mostly I) were able to deliver a bare-minimum product on time and keep our contract with the client alive. This kept our company intact long enough for us to be acquired by a major west coast tech giant - at which point I was rewarded with a layoff notice, while my bosses got millions in stock grants.
Did this radicalize you? This would have radicalized me.
In the US we have like no laws protecting labor. They’ll just tell you to go into the office, or fire you.
I didn’t go to a lot of these in my youth, but house parties definitely existed, and still exist. I’m ~40.
A friend of friend just had one this weekend, and I went as a +1. I don’t know what the occasion was but there was a lot of food and drink and socializing. Someone even set up beer pong like when we were younger.
Another friend of mine has pretty regular parties at his place. He just invites a bunch of people and has some food and drink, and it’s a good time. It probably helps that his friend network is massive and he’s generally well liked.
That seems like hubris and foolishness. Like, if you know you have limited experience with food saying the one you’ve tried is the best of all seems unlikely to be true. Maybe this is a bad example?
You are defending the Nazis from the Nazi fund raiser. You don’t want them to be exposed.
“Woke shit” and “Nazi shit” are not comparable.
You’re conflating “illegal” with “just” or “the right thing to do”. Those are two different attributes. Something can be legal and horrifying. Something can be illegal and just.
So this part:
It’s not illegal to be “woke” or whatever the fuck MAGA is calling people, and it’s not illegal to follow dumb Nazi shit. Therefore, NEITHER should be illegally survived.
Doesn’t work. It’s not a question of if it’s illegal. That is largely irrelevant. The proposed action of “we should find out who these Nazis are” may be illegal, but that’s irrelevant. Unimportant.
Nazis are a threat to everyone and should not be tolerated.
You’re giving very lawful-neutral vibes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you were lawful-evil.
You can make an argument that all laws should apply to everyone equally all the time, but that’s not how the world works right now, neither in practice nor theory, but you also should consider the “paradox of tolerance” problem. It is not a good idea to let Nazis just go around doing Nazi stuff.
They can believe they’re the good guys and they are wrong.
Stop defending nazis
Nine households? We could visit them all in one day!
I’m reminded of the quote from Sekiro about knowing the difference between honor and victory
I really want that fundraiser site to be breached so we can find out who the assholes are donating to him. Fire all of them, too. Ruin their presumably already shitty lives.
Is this getting news coverage?
Greene, and most of the GOP, just say stuff for feelings. Facts don’t matter. That’s it.
Anyone who says republicans are fiscally responsible should be laughed out of the room
Too many Americans are eager to lick the boot. “We have to work (for free) this weekend to get this feature out [for the deadline the owner made up and customers don’t care about]” was something my old team unironically said to me more than once
Everything is projection
As others have said, the problem is when people refuse to acknowledge new information or admit imperfection.
You don’t even need to fully admit fault in the moment. If someone provides some contradictory information, you can go “Oh, that’s new to me. I’ll have to read about it.”
But the problem is people (all of us, to some extent) are emotionally invested in this. Admitting being wrong or imperfect feels like an attack on our security. You have to let that go. No one’s going to hurt you if you admit you forgot the capital of NJ. You don’t have to fight and try to change the argument to “well it should be Princeton” so you can avoid feeling wrong.
I mean that seems like it would be pretty effective.
A 14 year old flirting with a 14 year old is fine. A 16 and 14 year old is probably fine. 18 and 14 is probably not, but maybe if they’re both in school together it’s okay. There was a sophomore-senior couple in my high school and they were about the same maturity. Beyond that it’s no good.
I think so, but not everyone realizes and not everyone says so out loud.
I think I wrote this recently elsewhere, but I just never drink nor desire soda. It just doesn’t even occur to me as a thing to want. When I was a kid, we mostly drank water. It’s kind of alienating to realize how many other people are seemingly fundamentally different on such a basic part of life like “drinking”