It’s going to be a glorious disaster. Didn’t they slash the initial IPO estimate about six months after announcing it and shortly before the whole API thing? I haven’t cared enough to follow it closely, especially since abandoning the platform, but it really seems like the stakeholders wanting to cash in on a sinking ship before it finally goes down.
I don’t know how this works for help desk level jobs, but I do know that big tech companies generally avoid the massive job sites and recruiters. They also frequently have at home advisors. Have you tried hitting up the individual company sites?
Thanks! I will check back.
I can’t say anything about Soylent but it might be a good substitute. I thought there was some kind of issue with them (I think their target market was the “code academy” types), but I might be misremembering.
However, I can recommend Boost. It has something like 100 more calories than Ensure, and like Ensure I can down a bottle in a single go.
I’m currently going through something similar (although I did mostly stop getting sick in the morning), and I’m toggling back and forth on the solid food thing. I’d be interested in learning more about your diagnostics.
I cannot find the lemmy thread, but here’s an older reddit thread which itself contains a link to this video.
Based on a recent discussion, I think it was decided that Paul Bunyan (and, one would infer, Babe) should be classified as kaiju. It feels a bit racist (or at least specie-ist) to single him out compared to the damage done by all the others.
As someone who has been playing in the stock market since the 90s, I feel these folks may be over invested in GI Joe and might want to diversify to reduce risk.
If you start college (assuming you’re an American) do not under any circumstances drop out. This goes double for grad school. What will happen is the at you’ll still owe money on your student loan, but will not have whatever advantages you might have accumulated as a result of having a degree.
I don’t want to derail the discussion with a debate about free will, but I would suggest you check out Robert Sapolsky’s most recent book. Sapolsky is a neuroscientist and neurosurgeon at Stanford who has been working on the subject for years. I had previously been of the position that there was a very highly constrained version of free will (so, free within very tight bounds, like an animal in an enclosure), but he presents such a coherent argument that I ended up abandoning that position. His arguments include addressing randomness and complexity theory, and I have not yet found a counter argument that consisted of much more than a rejection of the conclusion because of the moral implications.
My concern is that I believe the approach you’re advocating is predicated on humans as rational actors. That’s not a belief I subscribe to for a number of reasons including my own research. I don’t mean that in a “do your own research” sense of the word, but based on my own academic publications. In fact, I don’t really subscribe to the idea of free will at all at this point, but even when I did believe in it a bit, I still understood it to be highly canalized and extremely susceptible to social and mass media influence.
That’s why I tend towards pessimism on the idea of reconciliation. I think that groups of people can get wedged into a position that makes it very difficult or impossible to get unstuck from. If someone sincerely believes you’re gaslighting them, saying “I’m not gaslighting you” just continues to feed their belief.
I think if we were to take neuroimages of large portions of the population today, we’d find hypertrophied amygdalas and hypotrophied prefrontal cortexes, along with a easily triggered fear reaction and an ego-identity that has, as you point out, parted ways with reality.
And that’s just something I don’t know how to address at the population scale. I don’t think our concept of reality. - which is still very much grounded in the rational actor model - even allows for that kind of concept.
One of my biggest areas of disagreement with Chomsky was that he presented conservative politicians as, essentially, liars. He felt that they knew very well that the policies they were advocating were objectively bad. They’d want their own children to be able to have abortions, for instance. They just took the positions they took because the culture war is easier to fight than the policy wars that would cover things like lowering the cap gains tax.
To whatever degree that might have been true when he wrote Consent, it started to unravel by the mid 90s at the latest. We started to get more and more true believers in positions of power. You still had bomb-throwers like Gingrich, but you started to see an influx of people who actually believed what the so-called paleo-cons claimed to believe.
What’s most dangerous in your argument is that it’s no longer a difference of opinion on policy. It’s a different and infinitely malleable reality. And it’s not just the radio and TV hosts - it’s people with real authority and power.
I don’t know how we’re going to come back from this.
She just wants that golden fiddle.
But seriously, a golden fiddle would sound like crap, I think. It’s really no wonder why the devil lost that one.
I think you mean “critical of” and not “critical to.”
And while there is welcomed and active debate in the community on our approaches and domains of concern, people who are actively hostile and unwilling to engage in a well-intended discussion are not welcome, in the same way that homophobes aren’t welcome in the LGBT community and far-right types aren’t welcome in socialist communities. We don’t want racists in spaces for Black persons, and we don’t want to engage with transphobes in trans spaces.
In men’s lib, we study the semantics and semiotics of masculinity both in specific cultures and how the ideas developed over time. We study sex, sexuality, and gender. Most importantly, we try to understand these things as they impact the communities we live in. While most people would be happy to discuss any of those issues, someone coming in from a “feminism bad” perspective is not going to be interested in discussion. They have a lot of learning to do before they’re ready, and they’re usually more interested in arguing than learning.
Yes, exactly what this guy is saying is true. This is the kind of person whose presence is unwelcome in the men’s lib movement. This is the kind of crap up with which we shall not put, which is why I feel comfortable recommending it to people.
So, buddy, let me be clear. The harms we see and talk about and try to deal with are inflicted by toxic masculinity. It has nothing to do with “radical feminism” and I honestly have no idea what that means to you. I’ve heard the term used for everyone ranging from women who point out and fight against rape culture to women with purple hair. But, yeah, if you’re the kind of man who complains about radical feminism, especially when the discussion is centering around issues affecting men including everything from education to economics to the culture of violence and racism… well, your input is probably going to be disregarded.
I’d just like to make the note that the men’s liberation movement is the exact opposite of the men’s rights movement, despite the two sounding similar.
The men’s lib movement was founded specifically as being complementary to women’s lib and uses many of the same approaches and intellectual analyses. It explicitly rejects the MRA/red pill narratives while still trying to figure out masculine toxicity and honor cultures, as well as trying to elevate the idea that too few men seek or are able to receive the care they deserve. It’s very much against the patriarchy.
Unfortunately, like many communities on lemmy, it’s less active here than it was on Reddit, but it’s worth using the term as a search of nothing else.
Hey man, I’m really hoping you have been able to get someone to speak to about your situation as well as medication to help manage your symptoms. I did not take those options, and it has taken me years to recover.
It sounds like you’re still carrying a lot of that weight, and I hope you can put it down.
I’ll change my socks every day, and more if I’m swapping out workout clothes for fresh clothes.
Oddly, I really don’t experience foot odor. Other bits can get rather ripe, but whether I’m wearing boots or going barefoot, my feet just do t get funky. That said, I have had athlete’s foot and I’ve seen what happens when someone doesn’t change their socks after days of marching and working in the field. I know it’s not a major danger for me at this point, but I’ve got a whole drawer full of socks, and in any case I want them to match with my shoes and pants.
I know. I’m old enough that I worked through the Y2K problem. Not me literally - I was working on a different class of systems - but I literally sat next to COBOL devs who were paid to work on green screens on an IBM midframe for more than half their time to get rid of the two digit date representations on systems operating cellular communications as well as the ones that ran sales and services for a large telecom company. It was my first real job in the industry, and I remember the Gateway type computers sold at Sears with the “Y2K Compatible!” stickers on the front.
My phrasing was both tongue in cheek and a callback to another problem that similarly had some people dreading the end of the world with nuclear reactors running amok and planes crashing from the sky.
In any case, he had a bigger impact on the world than most humans ever will, and going out peacefully at 85 really doesn’t sound all that bad.
It would have just been really funny if his gravestone could have listed his dates as Born June 6 1936 - Died December 13 1901.
TFW when all of your bugs are like cockroaches that run away from the light but hide in the dark where you can’t see them.
Yeah, this was an easy one to call. It’s repeated in other countries as well.
One other factor that they don’t mention is that the surge in street opioids corresponded to a crackdown on doctors writing opioid prescriptions. I saw this coming when I was doing policy analysis and looking at unintended consequences in complex systems. I don’t remember much about what degree of a surge we saw in prescriptions, but I do remember all of those “pill mill” headlines. That always struck me as a pretty manufactured crisis - but even if not, the crackdown certainly didn’t improve the situation.