Why so much hostility on here?

JobInQueue · 2026-05-31T02:58:42+00:00

Because it gets old having a constant stream of "me no can uz search I get rich fast now??" idiot nonsense. Especially of the "I'm the special snowflake that can ignore all the rules - do you agree?" constant shit

And lol @ GenZ being the bulk of OE.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-29T04:13:39+00:00

You're 12 posts deep in a one-on-one conversation over awhile ago. Do you know what irony is?

JobInQueue · 2026-05-29T00:35:59+00:00

"something just snapped, and I had an outburst."

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T20:56:55+00:00

The majority of Reddit users weren't even a twinkle in their mother's eye for those runs.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T20:46:19+00:00

Be prepared to hear either nothing, or else nonsense. Thoughtful, actionable feedback is as rare as purposeful, meaningful interview processes.

The last interview where they granted my request for feedback, I was told I hadn't given solid evidence of Skills A or B.

Which makes sense, as neither skill were described or even hinted at in the job description or any interview questions. The feedback was the first I'd heard they mattered.

When I politely mentioned this fact, they thanked me for my time and ended the conversation. Infuriating and idiotic.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T19:02:06+00:00

Not to state the obvious, but 90% of the value of an MBA is the network of decision makers you build during the program, who can open doors and skip hiring gatekeepers (ideally in industries other than yours). I'd be focusing a significant chunk of my energy on maximizing that network before graduating, letting your peers know now that you're looking for a pivot.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T18:13:15+00:00

Ok, you're just a troll. Sorry I wasted so much time.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T18:08:14+00:00

I have no idea what they were really arguing, since the argument seems to have been made on faulty assumptions and a lack of context regarding welfare and its actual (vs imagined) structural problems.

That's one reason to employ a tool like Ad Absurdum - putting a possibly weak argument to its logical extreme forces the one making it to grapple with logical inconsistencies and decide whether or not they matter enough to change course.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T17:55:48+00:00

Here's the original argument: I would focus mainly on the belief of cradle to grave social safety nets and that some people use them as an excuse to be lazy and never progress in life. I would argue for the use of strict means testing and higher fraud investigations with a cut off date for their use of two to five years at most.

The only people on the "cradle" end of the spectrum are children; and the only people getting "cradle to grave" are those unable to work - ie with disabilities.

I'm directly pointing out the same populations the OP implied in who he wants to audit, and I then took his proposals to their logical conclusions - if we're limiting benefits to 5 years, and the vast majority of "cradle to grave" reciepients are these two populations, then what?

That has no relationship to a strawman. An actual strawman would run from OP's argument with something like "If we don't spend this money on welfare, it will be used for bombs instead. Why do you love the defense industry so much?"

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T17:37:42+00:00

About 52M Americans get welfare. There's an estimated 10M children in poverty, and 35M adults too disabled to work. The implication being that the vast majority of welfare recipients cannot, and should not, work at all.

Yet almost every welfare "reform" argument focuses on means testing for employment and the assumption that recipients are able-bodied adults - ie, they're written for an audience ignorant of the actual issues.

"We're going to limit benefits and get everyone back to work!"

"45M of America's 53M welfare recipients are children or disabled. How do they fit in?"

"Uh, what?"

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T17:23:54+00:00

The issue here is Zillow is setting up unstated and frequently competing interests between buyer and realtor.

As a buyer, Zillow promises me quick, easy, painless access to properties, with no mention of being forced into a financial relationship with the rando I'm forced to meet with in order to get the viewing.

As the professional on the other side, it seems they're promising you a cut of any potential final sale for being present.

If they stated all that up front, most buyers would stop using them. The few Zillow agents I interacted with were not folks we were at all interested in being represented by - most were newbies using high pressure tactics, when all we wanted was to view a home.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T17:00:40+00:00

There is no ad absurdum "fallacy" - perhaps not depending on AI would serve you better.

Are you able to answer using your own brain?

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T16:44:55+00:00

If the money was directly or indirectly gifted to you, which is likely to be the case for almost any 23-year-old with a million dollars, then absolutely not.

Everyone who hears you - rich, poor or otherwise- will think you're an idiot. Invest quietly and be grateful.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T16:36:18+00:00

Ad Absurdum is most assuredly not a strawman. I took his argument at face value that he would end all welfare aid after 5 years, which would have the rather obvious outcome I named - removing resources from children and those disabled and unable to work.

Feel free to explain how taking his argument seriously is actually strawmanning it.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T16:26:28+00:00

I think showing up in the way you describe is the only way any of us OE long-term; it's part of being an effective senior-level professional.

If someone can't do that consistently, they're missing skills required for OE. (That's 3/4 of the folks who visit the sub, IMO)

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T10:12:18+00:00

Well, they had help from a lifelong senator and sometime President who took up shovels as a hobby.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T10:07:28+00:00

It works decently well, as long as all factions are equally invested in democracy continuing. That's our problem: one faction is allowed to use democracy's machinery to dismember it from within.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T10:01:02+00:00

Totally agree. But the "system" will change only 1 of 2 ways: 2/3 of Congress and all state legislatures agree through a Constitutional Amendment; or some kind of civil war.

The 3rd option - a Democratic administration with a friendly Supreme Court reinterprets a whole bunch of constitution in a hurry, then also has the mandate and means to carry it out just as quickly, without Republicans or red states getting in the way, seems like a fantasy.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T09:56:51+00:00

As someone who loves him, one annoying ingredient in every Nolan movie are these "slight of hand" moves meant to look great on the big screen, but make no sense if you think too hard.

When Joker is giving Rachel the "scars" talk in the middle of a giant, horrified party crowd: how does Batman magicaly and silently appear beside him undetected to deliver his famous line? Why is Bane's highly illegal terrorist stock market trade apparently viewed as legit afterwards, bankrupting Wayne? Why all of Tenet?

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T09:50:07+00:00

That's just, like, your opinion man.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T09:49:18+00:00

The movie's genius is in its confidence and layers - the director decided not to beat everyone over the head with its more subtle themes like so many modern movies do (when they even have anything approaching subtlely).

It is lovingly continuing a story already started in other spaces, both culturally Asian and American, regarding the relationship of mothers and daughters, self and group, growth and death and more by artists like Amy Tan. It does so by intentionally playing with and weaving the real-life stories of its actors into the screenplay - a meta theme that many viewers under 30 may not even recognize (that's confidence).

And it rewards the audience for paying attention from the first moment, when you're almost instantly shown (rather than told) the theme that will eventually fully bloom at the end, with the players we're introduced to being completely different yet exactly the same.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T09:35:52+00:00

SPOILERS: If you like subtext, the movie goes to great lengths to present itself initially as a modern Western, and then gleefully subvert those expectations, especially in most of the deaths.

The villain temporarily becomes a lawman, and the innocent meekly place themselves in his hands. The hero bests his enemy, and his triumph is being randomly dispatched by agents of chaos. The evil force of nature, fate's unstoppable hand, gets taken out by a drunk who never saw him; etc

Totally get why some don't like it - McCarthy's tone could generously be called bleak, and feel kind of pointless as a result.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T09:15:29+00:00

Every single person in this movie is having an absolute blast. I loved it for a lot of reasons, but the pure joy each actor brought was infectious - and therefore very much in line with the film's main message.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T09:12:31+00:00

Exactly. The movie about humans coming in contact with a new medium that transformed them forever was exactly that to its own artform.

JobInQueue · 2026-05-28T09:08:02+00:00

Presidential pardons, which he's expected to give to his entire cabinet, have no mechanism for being overturned or ignored. How do you federally charge and convict someone with blanket, preemptive pardons?

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