I once made the mistake of saying something against Luigi and had the comments jump on me. This is as much of an echo chamber as anywhere else.

I don’t get how people are still pushing this nonsense. Over 200 million people have taken the Covid vaccine inside the US alone. If it was that dangerous we’d see SOME kind of evidence of it by now.

I was in a meeting today that was supposed to only last 30 minutes, but ended up almost 1.5 hours because the PM spent 45 minutes complaining about a design, before they even read the design, then spent the next 30 minutes after being explained the design walking back their complaints without ever admitting fault or acknowledging they were wrong.

The worst part? Just an average Friday sync.

Republicans are geographically dispersed while Democrats are generally packed into urban areas. We lose 100% of the time if we try the same gerrymandering tactics. We need to be smarter, not play their games.

If you think I’m wrong, show me a single state we could flip from red to blue by gerrymandering. You need to show your work though. You can’t just say X state, you have to show HOW you could flip the state by gerrymandering.

3/4 of all states are needed to amend the constitution. So 38 of them. I can’t imagine getting 38 states to agree on anything.

Brain surgery is like a fart, putting it off for too long is going to cause major health issues.

I don’t want to spend any time with my in-laws and I’m over 40.

There’s a term for this. A “self-fulfilling prophecy”

As an Italian American I would have so much fun jarring all those tomatoes into sauce.

Just waiting a couple more weeks for my step-dad to harvest all his tomatoes so the fun can begin.

I could see why you were banned from reddit.

You definitely could use AI to code, the catch is you need to know how to code first.

I use AI to write code for mundane tasks all the time. I also review and integrate the code myself.

Honestly, that wouldn’t even be so bad if the majority of them weren’t dicks.

I totally agree that the current institutions that are US police forces are terrible at best, having a police force in general is needed. Unless you’re talking about anarchy which while interesting, is a completely different conversation.

Oh you got added to the top-level security clearance discord group as well?

She

Well that was an unexpected pronoun.

Some interesting facts about excel I learned the hard way.

1. It only supports about a million or so rows
2. It completely screws up numbers if the column is a number and the number is over 15 digits long.

Not really related to what you said, but I’m still sore about the bad data import that caused me days of work to clean up.

I just don’t buy it. I’ve worked at plenty of companies and I never saw it work that way. Sure, I’ve seen “we have to interview more candidates” or “we need to write our job applications to be more inclusive”, but I never saw “we need to hire the lessor candidate because they’re x”.

In my experience when someone is whining that they lost a possible job to a “DEI hire”, they’re usually just butthurt that someone was better than them.

I’d love to hear a coherent reason backed by facts and evidence about why DEI is bad?

Whenever someone tells me they don’t like DEI and I ask why, it’s always some unhinged spiel about women and immigrants taking their jobs.

This is such a crazy assertion. I know plenty of democrats who own guns. They just generally don’t make it their personality.

It also ignores the massive arms difference between a government of today and its citizens vs when the constitution was written.

Lots of change has happened in the US as the result of protests that go violent, but none have ever succeeded using guns.

On the flip side, I feel like his daughter would appreciate it.

I would bet that there’s a rule that not only says what you said, but redirects people to something like r/askplumbers or whatever for these kind of posts.

I haven’t used reddit regularly since the API exodus, but I was part of plenty of communities like that. Mods can’t allow exceptions because you’ll get regulars complaining about the rule breaking content and new users complaining that their post was removed.

Like you said, they were mostly professional subreddits, but others had similar rules (like r/churning, but they were extra crazy. They’d require all discussion to be in specific threads so the content was less likely to be indexed by search engines).