It sucks for everyone but the people in charge are too stupid or apathetic to change anything.

I applied to an internal role like 2 months ago and they’re just ghosting me. Like, I see them on teams. I send them follow up messages. Nothing. Bunch of AI brained assholes.

WTH is a beat cop going to do though?

Enforce hierarchy

I remember once on a forum a big cis het guy was saying that he’s never seen cat calling on the street. Never him, and never at any of his friends. Someone pointed out that since he’s a big dude, he’s probably not going to be catcalled, and other shitty dudes are likely not going to bother people near him because of patriarchy.

To everyone’s surprise, he came back and was like “ok that makes sense. And I asked my women friends and they told me a lot of stories”

Rare to see someone change their mind like that.

I thought the conservative stance was that there’s no systemic racism.

I mean, there’s no limit to how stupid people can be. But I think a lot of conservatives like to say that the racism of the past doesn’t matter anymore. That a family that was enslaved 160 years ago (just beyond living memory now, but potentially someone’s great-great-grandparent), and then subject to Jim Crow and other cruelties through… generously the 1960s but realistically the 1980s, that family has no long lasting effects.

But really it’s important to remember that conservatives just say things. They don’t care about facts or truth. They care about power, and their emotions. So even if you proved that racism was systemic and had measurable effects (eg: The Color of Law), it won’t matter. They don’t care about facts. They care about feelings.

This is funny because many conservatives say things like “facts don’t care about your feelings”, but it’s well known that conservatives project more than movie theaters.

Yeah, the Senate is a bad idea. If the US was a collection of little sovereign states mostly independent maybe it would make sense. But it’s not.

Get rid of the Senate. Add more seats to the house.

Get rid of lifetime appointments of supreme court justices. Pull them up from lower courts to hear cases, then send them back.

I used to care more about work. But this job pays garbage and is frothing over AI, so fuck them.

My current partner I got to try FromSoft games. Sekiro did not go well for them.

Conservatives just say things to try to justify their emotions, or to seek power. They don’t really care about truth or consistency.

I remember as a kid I was so excited when I got a blue chocobo in FF7 (I’m old) I ran upstairs to tell my mother. She did not care, nor pretend to care. Made me a little sad, and what could have been a nice moment did not materialize.

I try to listen to the children in my life. If little nephew wants to tell me about his robots and pokemon, I’ll be there and try to engage

Seems like another example where the people making decisions are not qualified to make those decisions.

If that’s the case, I imagine it would be better to charge people for frivolous use, rather than charge everyone. Or come up with a system where dispatch sends something else for non-emergency, if you can tell.

I’m not a policy expert, but the current system is bad for everyone.

I don’t believe there is a problem of people needlessly calling ambulances.

If that was the case, the appropriate response would not be to charge everyone bank breaking fees for it.

I’m a broken record on this but the book “Dying of Whiteness” haunts me now.

My team assigns both hours and points to tasks. I’ve never seen the points used for anything but they still spend time on it.

Has management known that?

A lot of problems seem to be downstream from “management are idiots and assholes”

You cannot assume that the people making decisions are rational, smart, people. They may believe falsehoods, and act accordingly. They may be chasing a hidden goal (eg: “I get a bonus if I hit X metric, so I’ll kill good parts of the site to do it”)

I worked at a place where management was like “we want to increase time on site”, and the lead dev was like “I can just add loading spinners everywhere then”. Luckily management was a little smarter and move involved than that, and didn’t approve that strategy.

Because they’re assholes. They don’t care about making a good product. They care about making money. Even though they already have a lot of money, they need more. No matter the cost.

No shit.

One of the problems is all the people who were fucking wrong don’t suffer any lasting consequences. They will be listened to again.

Perhaps I should have written “simple” instead of “easy”.

But yes, the road to implementing solutions is blocked by rich people and class traitors.

People online often use “introvert” interchangeably with “social anxiety” and “agoraphobia”. Someone will be like “if I have to make a phone call I have a panic attack and vomit lol so introverted right?”