BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 4 days ago:
You? You think you are important enough to make me angry in life over YOU?
THAT is your entire problem - you think you are important. YOU. ARE. NOT. You were raised to be a princess, with everyone kissing your ass. in your little bubble universe, everything revolves around you.
Now you are in the real world, and finding out that NOBODY cares about you. In fact, most will see a person like you as in their way. The first rule of life is to either learn how to get along, or you will be trampled by many, many people who will not indulge your narcissistic nonsense at all.
Grow Up.
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 4 days ago:
As a business owner, I can even predict the immediate outcome of rejecting OP. They would come to me, and say “Why did they get the job? I thought it was mine.”
“Well, you indicated that if you took the job, you wouldn’t be able to work with members of the team, so we chose someone who could. Maybe you’ll be a better fit for the next one.” And then they’d never be offered another promotion.
Ultimatums like “It’s them or me,” seldom work out well for the issuer.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 5 days ago:
There’s always been facial rec. In the old days, they recognized that “He looks black, I bet he’s up to something.”
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 5 days ago:
We can wear masks, too…for health reasons. I predict an increase in germaphobes.
Imagine if they actually try to ban medical face masks, not for some cockamamie pseudoscience reason, but because we don’t have the right to evade their facial recognition scheme?
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 5 days ago:
Even worse
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 5 days ago:
You sound angry. Are you angry?
I have a history degree and I live in MAGA America. Damn right I’m angry.
But this isn’t about me, and it doesn’t have anything to do with your ridiculously entitled attitude, and your hilarious defense of it.
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 6 days ago:
So right up front, you want to inform your supervisors that you won’t work with two of the long-established members of your new department because they don’t meet your personal interaction standards? And you think that’s going to go well for you?
If someone came to me with that demand before even starting the job, I’d breathe a sigh of relief that we discovered their weirdness before it was too late, and choose another candidate for the job.
Welcome to the working world! You don’t get to choose who you work with, you just have to make the best of it. If you need this job for advancement, then focus on that, and put up with whatever else goes with it, like EVERYBODY ELSE. Who told you that you could go through life without the minor inconvenience of having to deal with conflicting personalities? This is Real Life, you don’t get some protective bubble from the icky, inconvenient parts.
- Comment on Betrayal 6 days ago:
The Americans did it in reverse.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 6 days ago:
I used to have a cat that loved to jump up under any truck that would be delivering something. We used to tell them not to leave until we had eyes on our car. Even with that, he was such a varmint that I’d give them my business card, and tell them that if they got to their next delivery, and found him in their truck, to call me, and I’ll come get him.
Luckily, our precautions worked, but he was a troublemaker.
- Comment on Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: 'This will devastate us' 6 days ago:
It all comes down to the fact that MAGA simply doesn’t care at all about providing quality health care, they only care about increasing profits, which requires providing as little as possible, in exchange for as much money as possible. Quality of care doesn’t figure into their calculations.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 6 days ago:
They didn’t use to be that way. I went a decade with no bans or warnings, but the last years got crazy. It fell completely apart after Trump was inaugurated.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
Exactly. In the case of men, that has turned out to be the most effective method in blocking a literal flood of sperm.
People claim m that men would use a daily pill, but guys don’t want their women getting pregnant any more than the women do, at least not until they are ready. If it existed, most guys would gladly take a pill that would keep them from 18 years of child support, just like most women do. In fact, having double contraception would reduce unwanted pregnancies significantly, which would also reduce the abortion rate, which might help bringing down the political temperature a bit (no, it won’t).
It’s not us men resisting male contraception, most of us would love it. It’s just not mechanically as easy to do for men as it is for women. It’s a science problem, not a market segment problem. Make it, and there will be customers for it.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 1 week ago:
I like Lemmy, I certain only am freer to speak my mind, although the mods can get pretty weird here, too. Mods are mods, whaddayagonnado?
I miss the multiple massive forums devoted to hobbies and interests. I love guitars and animals, and Lemmy doesn’t do either one very well, or any other lifestyle forums, for that matter.
I can scratch my political itch, but not much more.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 1 week ago:
After the Inauguration, Musk visited Spez on February, and they permabanned thousands, perhaps millions of their most active users. I had a 12 year account, nearly a million Karma, and I was permabanned for repeating an opinion that I had posted numerous times without a word from any mod. Trump gets inaugurated, and suddenly it’s enough to get me permabanned.
And there were lots of others. The purge gutted Reddit, and left it filled with nothing but bots and trolls.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 1 week ago:
This was the plan all along. It became enormously influential, so Trump is forcing China to sell it to MAGA and become ANOTHER mouthpiece for the Conservative Propaganda Machine. They did it to Twitter, they did it to Reddit, and now they’re going to do it to TikTok.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 1 week ago:
A lot of American women really admired her, my wife included. She was heartbroken at her death. We stayed up all night watching it.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 1 week ago:
Easy, JFK’s assassination. I was 4, came in from the yard and found my mom and a neighbor were sitting at the kitchen table, crying. I asked what was wrong, and she said someone had shot the president.
After that, I remember being irritated that all my favorite TV shows were blocked by news coverage for days.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
Dumb. It’s a lot easier to stop one egg a month, than zillions of sperm multiple times a day. Simple as that.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 week ago:
Where I live, we’ll get to 100° on hot summer day without AC, so it wouldn’t take much more to get it up to 120°.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 week ago:
Demon
- Comment on Go Green 1 week ago:
That’s an extra item. Upcharge. They always get ya.
- Comment on Go Green 1 week ago:
Dude, shut up and pass the bong.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 week ago:
Trump just channels his childhood accordion lessons. He doesn’t even realize he’s doing it.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Yeah, I tend to go pretty heavy. I once went to shake in a bunch, and the top fell off, and about a quarter cup fell in! I scooped out as much as I could, but it was still pretty heavily dosed.
It still tasted great! Strong cumin flavor, but still yummy. I ate all of it.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
I first saw that movie in the theater when I was about 7. I thought Captain Von Trapp was badass as fuck when he pulled up to his house, and tore down that Nazi flag.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
Julie Andrews didn’t sing Edelweiss, that was Captain Von Trapp’s song. He’s the Punk you should admire.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Recipe? I’ve been perfecting my chili game for decades, and I’ve never used a recipe. We don’t need no stinking recipes!
If it ain’t got cumin, it ain’t going to taste like chili. Period.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
I have been in multiple debates about whether chili should be thick, like a stew, or more liquid, like a soup. I maintain that the proper consistency is right in the middle, but that’s hard to keep when it’s simmering on the stove, thickening up.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
Get a bidet, use deodorant, and you can skip a day between showers, as long as you haven’t been working in the yard all day, or just got done at the gym.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
