oh! Didn't know other people had those
When I was maybe eight my good buddy convinced the tennagers to let us hang out with them
They had a hang out area out in the woods. You had to climb under a fence while one of the strong kids lifted the bottom of the fence up. On the other side was a "river" you could cross with a swing rope someone had attached to the tree above. (it looked like a massive river as a kid. But after having gone back as an adult you could easily hop over without much notice)
Anyway, we ended up going back there pretty regularly just as a way to get away from where the adults could find us. We ended up finding this massive stash of magazines one of the older kids had at the spot
I was too young at the time to be interested but my buddy ended up stealing a couple so we could look at them with our other friends
We should rename gravity to weakest force
I love how broken and unbalanced the first game is. Looking forward to ragdolling from wild animals while my character freezes to death again
Ya basically. I was with my partner and her family, some of which was from PI. Couple of her cousins who were teenagers at the time walked down the wrong street and got offered a "job" by one of the locals. Thankfully their uncle/dad was able to catch up to them and pull them out of the situation. We later saw call girls working that same street who looked even younger than the cousins
Having been to the Philippines can confirm. It’s crazy how many old white dudes just hang out in the sleaziest bars on the sketchiest streets
You're missing my point which is that that's a consequence of the choice not the choice itself. These people act out of fear and basic assumption and are capable of change just as much as you or I
Attacking them, ridiculing them, and otherwise dismissing them makes us no better than them
I feel for you it can be pretty hard. I think part of the issue is that what they need is the next step toward understanding and showing more empathy. Rather than people explaining where they aren't (hey why aren't you on step 200 yet?) Unravelling the propoganda and culture you grew up with takes great effort. If you personally have tried and not succeeded then good on you
My point here really is that posts like this don't support the actions that do help, but simply vilify people who are misguided
As an aside I was born and raised in Louisiana so I too have personal experience with right wingers. It can feel exhausting at times to get to people so entrenched in their ways, but it's not impossible. I'm sorry your family is that way
All you've brought up is abstract and assumption. If you actually believe this is someone's motivation or understanding you should go ask them. Maybe you'll change their mind
How many times has your first instinct to a problem been the correct solution? How many times have you needed someone to explain something for it to make sense?
If everyone is a result of their circumstances as the left claims (and as much of the research claims) then be the change of those circumstances you wish to see. Expose these people to the thinking and information you believe to be so transformative and true
Oh 100%. Most of the Great Culture War :tm: is a giant communication problem imho
We're just seeing it happen in real time and at a scale never possible before
But I will say that it seems clear to me that the screenshot itself is calling out centrists as a voting group. But I could be wrong about that
posts like this are always grating and show a general lack of understanding of how the average right wingee thinks.
I grew up around right wingers but considered myself centrist for a long time. It has nothing to do with the poor. Or more accurately it has everything to do with individuals.
If your life is hard that is a result of you failing to make it better (or so the right wing thinking goes). It's not that you deserve to suffer. It's that life is "equal" suffering for everyone by default and if your current situation sucks it's up to you to figure it out
The system is "fair" insofar as "everyone" can start a business, word hard, and live the "american dream"
This line of thinking is attractive because it calls to the herocomplex all (white male) American's grow up with. There's a problem, go fix it (yourself, by yourself). The suffering of it all is just a matter of existing
By failing to enagage this philosophy directly we fail to address the very real and human concerns that right wingers have. (That is to say their response to the status quo is emotional and thus understandble. Not to say it is justifiable) And as such fail to win people over in a culture war which very well may determine the future of all of us
Posts like this serve nothing but the ego. To truly break your enemy down you need to show them empathy and understanding. Meet them on a human level. Expose yourself to possibly being wrong about someone and their motivations
About half of my friends use TikTok but it's not as aggressive as this pic would imply. In fact most of them are pretty good about citing a specific user to checkout when they are sharing something informative
That said my friends are all 25~35 and are generally nerdy types who self educate so ymmv
Think part of the issue is the casual use of the word "average" really means "what I normally experience on a given day". So in casual conversation it is talking about something akin to the middle of a distribution curve. It gets lost in translation due to the same word being used in two different ways
Ugh. Remembering my days at help desk. Had to help this janitor for the library log into his computer for his yearly security training. It took literally hours to walk this man through how to hit CTRL + ALT + DELETE only for him to tell me he didn't have a password... (Ofc he had one everyone in the entire city had one. So I had to walk him through the password reset process)
I feel for the guy in retrospect but damn did I need a beer after getting home
At least here in the states reverse engineering is totally legal. So generally emulators are legal to build. That said Nintendo can and will make their life difficult regardless of whether or not the emulator itself is taken down
If you've played enough games you can (generally) tell from the way it's promoted and which friends talk about it
Who y'all voting for?
I’m still mostly new to the area and curious how the locals feel about this voting season
Joy seems to have a lot of support for District 3 but I honestly don’t know anything about anyone to have a real horse in the race
What is this windows 95?
I was spinning up Chrome while trying to move around a Firefox window to my other monitor. Crazy though I haven't seen issues like this on any OS in at least a decade
Interview Help With UK Based Company
Hi everyone.
For context I'm a software engineer who lives in America.
I've been job hunting for a couple of weeks now and have started to land some intro calls. The first one went great and ended up lasting nearly an hour.
Unfortunately this post isn't about the intro call I had that went well. This other one seemed to have the exact opposite response. The person interviewing me was UK based (so maybe there's some kind of cultural difference?
But anyway basically what had happened was we started out being pretty casual and chatty. Talking about the weather (the usual). She asks why I'm looking for work I tell her the company isn't doing so great and we've already gone through a number of layoffs. She doesn't really have a response to this other than something about it "being smart to look now". She asks what kind of notice I would need to give and I tell her the standard 2 weeks is fine given the situation at the company.
She asks me some questions about my skills and then I ask her if she wants a rundown of the projects I've worked on and my role in them at my current job. She obliged so I go into a high level on each on. The product, the client's buisness, and some high level architecture to (hopefully) hit the buzzwords she's looking for. I even hedge a little bit here and apologize for talking her ear off, but she confirms it's all good stuff.
Anyway, she asks if I'm okay with the salary range on the listing and asks what I'm looking for next. I give her some blurb about how I've been getting more and more into data modeling and architecture so I'd like to continue that route. (She doesn't really say anything). Then she pivots totally and asks if I'm self taught and wants to know my story (seemingly interested). I give her the normal story about being a struggling worker shortly after graduation and this that and the other thing. She tells me she thinks it's fascinating to learn everyone's different perspectives. (Which imo is a green flag right?)
But then at that point she's like "alright. Thanks for your time. It was nice talking with you. I'll speak with the team and see what they think. Get back to you Monday?" So obviously I'm a little shocked at the abrupt ending (it has been a total of 15 minutes) but I echo her words and we wave good bye. (She didn't even ask me if I had questions!)
SUMMARY: the meeting felt very short and had a lot less chit-chat than I'm use to. If they were American I would mark the interview down as a failure, but I wanted to ask here if anyone has experience interviewing with a British company? Am I missing something? Should I have focused less on the projects? Is there some British social norm I'm not aware of? 15 minutes feels painfully short even for an HR call
Experience vs Specs
First post here so hopefully not stepping on any toes.
Hi !apple I wanna talk about the weird world of talking to non-apple users about apple products. Specifically, the phenomenology of personal experience vs the weird focus on technical specs that a lot of people get hung up on.
I've been a long time computer user since I was about 6 years old. I remember getting our AOL disc at the front door and my mom booting up our PC with windows 95 for the very first time. I spent hours and even days combing through every inch of the operating system and learning all of the secrets it had to offer.
In my teenage years I became friends with some mac and ios users and become instantly jealous of how much nicer their experience was (I was on windows xp at the time). Growing up with little to nothing to our name I knew it would be out of reach for a long time. So spent time getting into gaming and building my own PC from spare parts here and there. I even learned a few lessons after killing explorer thinking it was some rogue instance of IE running in the background.
Right out of high school I got my first full-time job at a local restaurant and ended up saving for a 2015 12-inch macbook pro. I instantly became obsessed with it. I remember skipping college classes just so I could spend more time programming, more time learning how the shell worked in unison with the OS. It's the first machine I learned to program on. It's the first machine I bought myself. It's the first machine that really made using a computer feel right.
To this day that laptop sits lovingly entombed by itself in my desk. Covered in countless hack-a-thon stickers and a beat-to-hell plastic case, yet it still runs when I boot it up for nostalgic reasons.
For me this is what macOS (and being an apple user in general) is all about. It's about the personal experience. In comparison other operating systems feel fundamentally broken or half baked. When something is wrong in macOS it makes you sad, like how losing your bike as a kid would. In contract, when something doesn't work in windows it feels like it's to be expected (no hate I know plenty of people love windows, this is just imo). I've even had the pleasure of watching some of my close friends slowly come around to the idea of getting an iPad or a macbook when looking for an upgrade. Normally this has happened only because they had some expose on their own. Their significant other got an iphone, or their work offered macbooks. Never did describing the experience seem to take a hold on people.
All of that is to say I'm curious how all of you feel about discussing why apple's operating system(s) feel better, why it feels like home. Moreover I'm curious how y'all's experience has been when talking to non-apple users. For me it's largely been this weird alienating experience where you want to talk about why something fits like a glove, and instead the other party would rather talk about price points, or ram specs. To me this feels like the conversation around computers is immature. Immature in the sense that for any other hobby, enthusiasts are happy to talk about specs, but what they love is so much more important and often not grounded in the physical.
edit: I'm bad at spelling