Cargo cultist stem aficionados write sentences like “Can we fix it back?”
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This is an inane argument. If one were to, for example, attend a public protest of Scientology, one might rightly fear for one's safety and be entirely convinced that one is in the right, regardless.
Might, or fear thereof, does not make right.
Not a compelling argument.
These people are putting their bodies on the line. It is a public protest. I cannot infer anything other than that they’re willing to risk everything, including their privacy to defend their ideas.
droopybuns commented on Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012) justinsomnia.org/2012/04/... · Posted by u/redbell
What's the downside of HTTPS that you'd want to remove the encryption feature?
Captive portal detection is endlessly buggy.
droopybuns commented on What not to say to someone who has just been laid off sifted.eu/articles/what-n... · Posted by u/lylefong
I wish we weren't culturally in a place where a layoff is treated like the death of a family member. We need to stop tying our identities (and basic healthcare) to our job. Getting fired from Amazon should really be a reason for celebration.
Loss of revenue puts people at risk of famine and indentured servitude.
This isn't a cultural thing. Human evolution is ugly. Evolution's filter function is death. If you can't feed yourself, nature will use you for food.
You are coming from a place of extreme privilege lamenting that people get stressed about losing a job. It's not a minor inconvenience if you're working on something you think is important. Button pushers have little to mourn. People working on big projects have to establish new goals for themselves & align themselves with an entirely new professional network. These are not minor things.
droopybuns commented on NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts donaldgmcneiljr1954.mediu... · Posted by u/FillardMillmore
also, as Stephen Fry famously said, “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
It does serve a purpose. It announces to everyone in their vicinity that this fragile human is deficient and should only be interacted with via great caution.
edit: I don't understand the downvotes here. Is it considered poor manners to point out that people don't get to control how people perceive them?
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droopybuns commented on Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life smh.com.au/world/north-am... · Posted by u/danso
This story is like a true crime story written by an unreliable narrator.
“It was dark by now. I was tipsy, but not more so than a regular Saturday night.”
What a strange piece of [fiction || non-fiction].
droopybuns commented on In-person DEF CON 28 cancelled forum.defcon.org/node/232... · Posted by u/tptacek
What do you think would be better?
Altspace vr
droopybuns commented on The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017) cuberule.com... · Posted by u/zdw
These kinds of sites give me anxiety.
It isn’t good to see large communities of humans burning mental calories to come to the same set of conclusions (I’m on team sandwich because $REASON | I’m on team taco because $REASON). It is a mental D.o.s. directed towards humans that tend towards herding.
AI pushed down everywhere. Sometimes shitty-AI that needed to be proved at all cost because it should live up to the hype.
I was in one of such AI-orgs and even there several teams felt the pressure from SLT and a culture drift to a dysfunctional environment.
Such pressure to use AI at all costs, as other fellows from Google mentioned, has been a secret ingredient to a bitter burnout. I’m going to therapy and under medication now to recover from it.
FWIW: I realized this year that there are whole cohorts of management people who have absolutely zero relationship with the words that they speak. Literal tabula rasas who convert their thoughts to new words with no attachment to past statements/goals.
Put another way: Liars exist and operate all around you in the top tier of the FAANGS rn.