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[–] amio@kbin.social 33 points 6 months ago (9 children)

"You're welcome" was always taught to me as the proper thing, but sounds slightly stilted. They express the same sentiment, roughly, but "[it was] no problem" is arguably clearer about it. I personally just think it's a slightly "nicer" nuance.

Of course, sometimes maybe it actually was a problem, and then I'd only say it if going out of my way to be nice about it.

[–] amio@kbin.social 17 points 6 months ago

This doesn't explain shit. It tosses a bunch of graphs at you with the feeling of someone suggestively waggling their eyebrows. Some of the graphs have completely valid points. Some are of unclear relevance. Most of all, the page busily works to correlate all these in your mind while carefully not actually arguing anything. That should basically always make you thoroughly fucking suspicious - no matter what the message is.

Maybe the site is completely right about whatever its carefully-only-implied point is: that's the beauty of not really taking a clear stance at all, but just throwing information at people that is likely to allow them to extrapolate whatever you want them to. You also don't have to do pesky things like providing citations, justifying your reasoning, or even explaining what that reasoning is.

I would absolutely recommend against using this as a teaching tool. It could (generously...) be used as a reference for yourself, sure, if you can otherwise back up the implied connections in a way this site did not even try. The fact that its implied point, "wealth hoarding bad" (I assume) is a fairly good one, does not mean this is a good way of communicating it.

[–] amio@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

They really will keep pushing this until it's 1% content, 5% sponsorshit, and the remainder ads that are injected straight into your eyeballs like Pulp Fiction. With a fire hose.

Tried showing some people some YT videos on a "smart TV", instead of my usual uBO+SponsorBlock+BlockTube on a PC. It is fucking awful. It verges on being literally unfuckingusable by being so much of a bitch it's easier to just not watch anything on it.

[–] amio@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

It's not like that's a worse metric than MBTI

[–] amio@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

I'd assume they were trying to pimp me to some buzzwordoholic. I don't see any reasonable interpretation of it that's insulting, though.

Having it be (perceived as) the norm is absolutely stupid - but the issue is with ignorant management and recruiters, not people who get into entire stacks honestly for fun or profit.

[–] amio@kbin.social 65 points 6 months ago (4 children)

That is probably literally Filch, poor bastard.

[–] amio@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So where in Florida was this?

[–] amio@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago

Damn, I hate it when bathroom supplies don't available.

[–] amio@kbin.social 42 points 6 months ago

Ooooh! No, my bad, I'll have that fixed in a jiff now that you've pointed it out. Thanks!

[–] amio@kbin.social 75 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't surprise me. If you're not into ragebait, tankieism, linux smugness, the painful minutiae of corporations fucking everyone, US bullshit, or all of the above... this place is really pretty slow.

I only really browse "all" on this site and it does seem like fresh content trickles in at a fairly slow rate. At least part of that is that it needs to squeeze by what is now pages and pages of blocked communities just trying to avoid the doomposting.

[–] amio@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, bad faith participation is awesome if you have an excuse.

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

I was just expressing surprise at exactly how shit this health-related, science-related advice was, and consequently what a bad idea listening to it would be. It is not my field, as stated. Do I need to post a treatise to be able to say "whoa, that's not how good advice looks"?

Sorry you didn't find it constructive, I don't find this productive or constructive or any other metaphor either. Guess you can't please everyone.

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