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Potatos_are_not_friends ,

spanked one 100 times

One 100 times or 1 time, but 100 times?

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

After the first 100, the other 300 kinda don't matter.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I am pro privacy and hiding your shit because as a engineer, my goal is to do cool shit. Cool shit like seeing what diseases your poop has.

Then some fucktard sees that data and uses it for evil.

Any woman tracking her period is getting Handmaid's Tale and it's bullshit, all because engineers want to do cool shit.

Potatos_are_not_friends OP ,

This line of work basically put me in the position that is the subject of commercials that try to convince suburban dads that they need a huge truck in case one day their family goes on a fictional camping trip to the middle of a swamp.

This is so on point.

So many defenders go, "It helped when I had to haul shit to the dump" or "I bring wood back to build my shed".

What about the other 95% of the year? Because I rent a van to move shit and I'm happy taking the bus.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Reminds me of the people who buy a expensive graphics card but use a cheap office monitor. Which is me.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I worked at startups and I'm not going to deny that I was absolutely horking my company as a solution for years on Reddit. Especially with niche products.

This was from 2014-2018, and then I left startups and worked in corps.

When Google has plans to slurp reddit comments, I bet I could gamify reddit even more.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

My whole company moved out of windows during the pandemic. It was all forced.

And surprisingly, after a year, it was pretty smooth.

Push your IT folks to do the same everybody. The money saved is significant. And the learning curve is annoying, but not as annoying as managing Windows.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/91aa2cd3-9446-4718-9174-a2ec1e0b99ba.jpeg

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

He has a new book?

I love John Romero and read all the books about Doom/his life.

Can't wait to check this one out!

How long would it take to create a Pyramid today?

Just a shower thought. Seeing how these structures took decades to build in their times, and that too entirely with manual labour, I was wondering how long these architectural marvels would take to be built in this post modern era with the help of our technological advancements....

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Yeah what are your hours and how is the health insurance and benefits?

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Science got rid of Pluto as a planet tho. 😭

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Im from the States and the moment RadioShack went all in on selling Cell Phones, they died.

The tech wizards shared ancient stories around the campfire of being able to buy radio parts at RadioShack. I was not of that era.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

You joke but if you want to troll Bible nuts at protests, absolutely carry a picture of Obi Wan as Jesus. Aragorn works too.

Or go wild and have Black Jesus.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Ewww Arab numbers in MY FREEDOM LANGUAGE?!

Potatos_are_not_friends OP ,

Google One was a pretty sweet deal on paper.

But unfortunately, Google's superpower of making really cool things and then killing it off continues to exist.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Don't have to imagine it. That's most companies too.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

That's insane.

Where I grew up, avocados were $2-3 each.

When I lived in the West Coast, it was less than a dollar.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I can see these rules being applied if you worked at a fast food min wage or a supermarket as a stocker in a bad store. I'm referring to places where Karens abuse fresh wide-eyed teenagers hoping to change the world. In my city right now, there's a bunch of places like that, like a Wendy's in the hood or a Supermarket that has to lock up mouthwash. Its depressing.

Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? ( old.lemmy.world )

Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

It's the same way neurotypicals learn the preferences of a neurodivergent person.

Many times we make mistakes. And many times we have to be told flat out or pick up cues.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

They're not wrong.

“Focus on your core,” Murphy said, speaking at an event organized by the Automotive Press Association where he presented the bank’s annual Car Wars report. “And China is no longer a core strategy to GM, Ford or Stellantis.”

Every American brand car in the past decade looks and acts like shit and is wildly overpriced. Foreign cars continue to outperform. And a few years ago, I would have gotten a Tesla until Musk revealed he was bat shit insane.

Potatos_are_not_friends , (edited )

Users who purchased Redfall's "Bite Back Edition" were promised additional DLC, which ended up being cancelled.

I am having an extremely hard time that there were many affected.

Potatos_are_not_friends OP ,

Thanks for doing this!

Potatos_are_not_friends OP ,

Same! I now actively noticed when a street doesn't have specific accessibility needs. I even went, "This bus stop has a bench AND a trash can? What a treat for riders!"

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

After being outted on Reddit years ago, I made a rule to myself. If I ever become known on a platform (or on Reddit, reach 100000 upvotes), I'd delete my account and start over.

Frankly, some of the shit I've said could get me in trouble at work or my real life. So the anonymity is a boon.

If I was counting reddit, this would be my 13th account.

Potatos_are_not_friends , (edited )

As a social activist and tech worker, my interests bleed into hacking, security, and doing the right thing. During my work with BLM, one of my aliases was targeted by right wing trolls. Easy to dissolve and make a new one. I worked with activists who have had their children targeted, their neighbors targeted, even their jobs threatened.

My friends and family, wife and children do not deserve any backlash for my comments.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I'm strongly considering it very soon!

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Https://Rockpapershotgun.com is one of the few sites I still visit on a frequent basis. I don't care about half of their reviews. Their writing and personality is just entertaining and the commenters are fun.

As a developer, I love https://js13kgames.com/. These masters of JS make games that are under 13k, smaller than font file!

This blog has been my late night addiction. https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ reviews old PC RPG games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder. Theyve been doing it for more than a decade.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Why do we need another social media site when Myspace exists?

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

It's like a hip version of livejournal

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Crunch wraps!

Soft taco around a hard taco.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

People on Lemmy, who kinda are on the upper echelons of technical aptitude, forget that the average user is really fucking dumb. Work a stint in level 1 IT and you will get the absolute wildest head smacking issues ever.

And companies capitalize on that by making it incredibly easy to give them money.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Amazons Mechanical turk in a nutshell

I think McDs always planned to roll out remote customer service to really maximize capitalism. And wrapping it under AI because that's a trendy buzzword!

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I like touchscreens because I can spend more time getting my order right without wasting the cashier's time.

I don't want to talk to a cashier and have them explain the difference between a bacon sandwich supreme, and a bacon burger deluxe.

I don't want to confuse them by asking for extra veggies and watch them put it on the side.

I don't want to argue that I asked for two packs of ketchup and they gave me BBQ.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

This is going to sound weird but Japanese companies seem to have a lot of problems with multiplayer. Im thinking of fighting games and Nintendo. Which is weird because Korea is big on MMOs and strong networking so I dunno.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I still remember when Big Data was the "hot new buzz word". Millions spent to collect every time a customer farts. What did we do with that info? Nothing really. Except be ready to apologize when it gets leaked.

Potatos_are_not_friends OP ,

That's brilliant.

I cannot believe my license lets me drive all sorts of vehicle sizes that can outright crush/kill, right off the bat.

But to operate a forklift or ride a motorcycle that is more likely to kill myself? Nah gotta have a license.

Apps that encourage/gamify walking?

Recently got Walk Scape which is a rune scape inspired game, but you do things by walking and just reads from the google analytics on your walking distance, so no gps and doesn't care where you go, just that you walk. So like to mine something, you take 10 steps, and so on. Also really nice that if you complete your current...

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Op pointed that out already in the description. Any other recommendations you can add?

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I know I'm preaching to the choir but for the people interviewing for their first software gig

First software gig? In this market, take whatever to get experience imo.

But that second/third/etc job? Culture, then salary, then everything else. Last interview I went to bragged about giving everyone brand new sneakers yet pay $25k less than average.

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