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GrayTextIsTruth commented on YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech   theverge.com/2020/6/29/21... · Posted by u/nickthegreek
danudey · 6 years ago
Keep telling yourself that, but it's all just a veneer over the same toxic, exclusionary, and racist bullshit.

> Imagine calling jews who want to have their own country in Israel "jewish supremacists".

Jews wanted to have their own country because of thousands of years of persecution by basically everyone, everywhere, after they were driven out of their own home. When that happens to white people, I'll accept your argument.

GrayTextIsTruth · 6 years ago
> Jews wanted to have their own country because of thousands of years of persecution by basically everyone, everywhere

which would never have happened if they had been separatists in the first place. it took thousands of years to figure it out.

But you're saying that after persecution its no longer "toxic, exclusionary, and racist bullshit"? That illogical and steeped in slave morality. persecution is not a currency.

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GrayTextIsTruth commented on Death of the Office   1843magazine.com/features... · Posted by u/eplanit
whateveracct · 6 years ago
> It set the tone of "what did you cook for lunch?", "oh wow, look at your view of the ocean in portugal" instead of kicking ass.

Sounds wonderful. If a move towards remote work makes it harder for those with capital to extract maximum value from their employees, all the better for society imo. I've seen a lot of propaganda on social media about how people should be excited to work _more_ (to 'kick ass') now that they don't have a commute lmao.

The employer-employee relationship is inherently adversarial to some degree, and remote work clearly shifts power towards the employee and gives the employer less ability to monopolize people's lives.

If your company needs people to drown in kool-aid to be successful, sorry! People seem to be slowly but surely leaving that capitalist hypnosis BS in the last decade.

GrayTextIsTruth · 6 years ago
it sounds great, but I didn't mention why I'm leaving. Got laid off because the company is stagnating, been doing lay-offs since before the quarantine. Turns out a kick-ass culture is safer for job security since the market isn't going to give your company a break just because you want to chill.

But i think you can have a high-energy culture but still be healthy, its just incredibly hard to figure out.

GrayTextIsTruth commented on Death of the Office   1843magazine.com/features... · Posted by u/eplanit
varjag · 6 years ago
Is there ever a business in life or death situation because of the wrong choice over offices/cubicles/remote/open plan?

Those who appear to be struggling are doing so mostly due to disrupted customer demand, supply chain or business relationships.

GrayTextIsTruth · 6 years ago
I'm just leaving a company which has been experiencing stagnated growth for a couple of years and everyone I talk to says that the 100% remote strategy has played a role. My company just couldn't figure out how to get momentum or rally the troops and "light the fire" again.

It wasn't just the remote, but the typical baggage people adopt with remote. For example, it made the mistake of adopting "work when you want" kind of attitude because that was always the norm with 100% companies, which is terrible for a VC funded startup. It set the tone of "what did you cook for lunch?", "oh wow, look at your view of the ocean in portugal" instead of kicking ass.

Obviously not the only problem, but remote was definitely an extra layer of hurdles. A lot of problems would have been easier to address in a physical office.

EDIT: the sibling post that says its a "path to mediocrity" is pretty spot on. But maybe you're fine with your company being a lifestyle company, a "good enough" company. That's fine for some people.

GrayTextIsTruth commented on Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling   theglobeandmail.com/canad... · Posted by u/finphil
Loughla · 6 years ago
So that's the positive, but you completely ignored the negative. I know you did it on purpose, but I don't know why.

The kids who were already statistically bound for a positive outcome due to family and income are fine, and locking that in even tighter. The kids who have hurdles have EVEN HIGHER hurdles now.

GrayTextIsTruth · 6 years ago
why do people need to be consumed by the negative all the time? must everybody be an activist? what do you realistically expect people to do besides talk about it online? is this really the place to virtue signal?
GrayTextIsTruth commented on How to detect web bots?   antoinevastel.com/javascr... · Posted by u/avastel
edoceo · 6 years ago
Ages ago I was one of those bots. Most fun I've had playing cat-and-mouse. Their team was actually quite good. And I learned that Perl can solve any problem.
GrayTextIsTruth · 6 years ago
Have you written about this? Sounds like an entertaining story.
GrayTextIsTruth commented on LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic   economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/edward
AnthonyMouse · 6 years ago
The reason mass transit works in Manhattan is that you can have a subway train arrive every five minutes and still have it full of people. The reason you can do that is that Manhattan has more than 25 times the population density of LA County.

To fill the same subway cars in LA would require intervals more than 25 times longer, i.e. more than two hours instead of every five minutes, and then it's garbage and nobody wants to use it. Or, in practice, you only run mass transit along the most popular routes and then the majority of people can't use it because it doesn't go where they're going.

Making it less convenient to drive doesn't really fix that, all it does is make more people miserable, because you make driving worse where no viable alternative to driving is available. The only real way to fix it is to reduce sprawl so that you have more density over less area -- and that's only possible in the long-term, so in the short-term LA is pretty screwed for traffic. But that's no excuse to not be working on the long-term solution.

GrayTextIsTruth · 6 years ago
you could increase train frequency during rush hour. One every 5 minute between 7-9am and 4-6pm.
GrayTextIsTruth commented on On Resigning from Google   alphabetworkers.org/resig... · Posted by u/matthewmacleod
GrayTextIsTruth · 6 years ago
Yeah, its just small drama compared to the real damage Google has caused. Its sort of tone deaf to include that in why Google is unethical. The SV bubble.

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