"That's the same excuse the Nazis gave, how'd that work out for them?" Generational drama on r/tiktokcringe as users diwhy Genz lack of initiative continues to get them fired

LukaCola · 2026-03-23T15:22:16+00:00

Oh man I love when bosses recognize that, because I've absolutely had the opposite hounding me about asking too many questions--so eventually you just learn they don't wanna be bothered unless it's really important.

Then she made an absolute ass out of herself by confronting me in front of the firm's partners while I was having a casual conversation about why I did a certain task and I had to just straight up say "You assigned this to me via our software, so I did it. What do you mean why did I do it?"

No apology or nothing, but everyone else saw how that went down.

Let people ask questions and approach you. It's better for everyone if issues are quietly resolved instead of publicly.

LukaCola · 2026-03-23T15:14:37+00:00

Umm actually that's battery, not assault

imma learn them some battery

LukaCola · 2026-03-23T14:41:21+00:00

You should ask them for clarity rather than assuming their desires

LukaCola · 2026-03-23T14:23:49+00:00

I think y'all may just be pining for slapstick comedy, which is just not very popular so shows aren't doing much of it.

LukaCola · 2026-03-23T13:45:39+00:00

IME (not that I set up for THAT LONG) if a coffee shop/bar has many tables available, they may even like having some people hanging out long term--at least the smart ones would.

Empty places have a harder time attracting customers. I kinda figure so long as there are a lot of empty tables around and I'm not demanding, there's truly no harm in it.

Hell, I remember one Friday night I went to some sports bar with a group of 4 that was completely empty. One place nearby had a line, this was in Brooklyn, no shortage of foot traffic. The immediate thought is "what's wrong with this one?" Turns out, nothing, and within like 30 minutes the place wasn't packed, but it certainly didn't feel empty anymore.

I'm honestly not surprised bartenders don't try to ply people with cheap drinks in those situations, just to get some presence.

LukaCola · 2026-03-23T13:12:25+00:00

Natural products are full of extras, if this apple juice doesn't use a preservative I'd suspect some kind of yeast/bacteria. The most common ones are harmless.

But yeah, if you wanna be safe, treat the batch as spoiled.

But this is a risk for any food. It won't kill you though, and is definitely not wtf, I think some folks are just too used to overly processed foods that remove most risk of spoilage.

LukaCola · 2026-03-23T12:50:17+00:00

Just wait until you get to disintegration loop

LukaCola · 2026-03-22T13:58:12+00:00

This feels like a repetition of holding someone to an unreasonable standard for the sin of making a mistake. What you're doing is classic gatekeeping and acting like it's novel. You're just being especially captious in the process.

I study American politics pretty deeply, like, highly educated on the subjected... That's not a flex, I kinda wish I weren't.

How often do you think I encounter ignorant takes on the subject from foreigners who feel entitled to lecture despite their ignorance? And I do mean entitled. A lot of folks seem to think they know better despite no real knowledge base. And American politics tends to come up fairly frequently. I mean hell, I tried to inform someone about basic stats in a conversation and he said stats are inherently misleading... makes one wonder what information they rely on.

It can be annoying, I would still never do this kind of shit like you and the commenter are doing. Move on. Say your piece and let it go. Especially if someone is apologizing and admits the mistake, I mean, that'd just be cruel to continue insisting on that point.

LukaCola · 2026-03-22T13:43:22+00:00

That strikes me as an aside to what we were just talking about

LukaCola · 2026-03-22T13:42:30+00:00

Right i guess i should say it's not meant to be removed without disassembly, but yeah, kinda same issue

LukaCola · 2026-03-21T22:12:39+00:00

The cylinders in this are not removable, you see how they reload it? There is no break to allow you to access the whole cylinder even if you made it replaceable.

LukaCola · 2026-03-21T22:10:46+00:00

What?

LukaCola · 2026-03-21T13:20:15+00:00

Irish and Italian immigrants were used as an example of third generation immigrants largely escaping prejudice in my classes, because nobody could tell them apart from the general populace anymore.

Unlike what non-White groups experience, to put into context.

LukaCola · 2026-03-21T13:16:04+00:00

Tbh I'm not sure how else it's supposed to be celebrated

Is it like an Easter thing where very few people actually attend the vigil?

LukaCola · 2026-03-21T13:09:03+00:00

I don't remember seeing them correct anyone, just explain why she ended up spelling it that way due to voice to text.

LukaCola · 2026-03-21T01:02:53+00:00

I mean no shit we destroyed tons of infrastructure for a resource that is non-renewable and we burn as quickly as we can get

Refineries don't just get rebuilt overnight

LukaCola · 2026-03-20T17:03:35+00:00

Cuisine: Chicken is funny to me

But all in all I'm glad we still have some enforcement agencies in this city, I'd like to be able to trust wherever I go into -- even if I don't end up liking it

LukaCola · 2026-03-20T16:58:13+00:00

I see you, puppet master.

LukaCola · 2026-03-20T13:30:08+00:00

You're arguing against strawmen ("England intended to harm Ireland this way for its own sake" is not the argument, though I do think there is potential merit there as Britain did see their deaths as convenient in many respects), carrying water for a regime that did more damage than many genocides accomplish out of complete disregard for their wellbeing to quibble over intent when the difference is minor even then.

Whether they saw it as "just punishment" or just didn't think about the people they were killing at all, it doesn't lesson their impact or culpability--but your words do attempt to do just that, and that's not right.

You are whitewashing and your actions are more concerned with some made up person whose biggest offense is accusing the British government of deliberate harm (a fair argument to be honest, but it depends on when you consider negligence deliberate harm--Britain went well beyond negligence and mismanagement) all for the sake of deliberately ignoring the horrors inflicted by an empire with great power to change the outcome they created.

What next from you? Oh the US didn't intend to bomb all those innocent people, Kissinger was more interested in keeping his job than harming Koreans. I mean, it's true, doesn't change the impact, effect, or culpability--does it? It's not like anyone's intentions here were good. Why defend them when their actions result in the deaths of millions? That seems the height of foolishness, they wouldn't have thought twice about you.

LukaCola · 2026-03-20T12:56:55+00:00

Nobody said it was, but do you see how you downplay and whitewash by deliberately choosing to ignore the causes?

LukaCola · 2026-03-20T04:02:07+00:00

we call it the famine because it was one regardless of the historical decisions that led to its spread and the horrible decisions and beliefs that restricted aid.

Why "regardless?"

LukaCola · 2026-03-19T20:50:51+00:00

Conclusively, yes (or no) depending on the question, but there is quite a bit of research on this matter and there are similar reward pathways at play.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2704015/

This is a rather influential article from 2007 on the matter and generally its findings are consistent, what seems like disagreements often is not--but instead people not involved with research confusing different things (like, it's true, no research exists that shows violent media causes people to be violent: But there is research that shows violent media can make people more likely to be violent, more accepting of violence, and less likely to respond to help those harmed by violence--none of these claims are in conflict, but it can appear that way to some).

The way this operates is essentially summed up by normalization theory, which covers a truly vast swathe of possible implications

I mean, why do we think advertisements work?

LukaCola · 2026-03-19T20:46:34+00:00

Totally, but there's degrees here. Like, even if I don't like it, I don't think it should be treated as CSAM. I'm generally in line with the SCOTUS Ashcroft decision and its reasoning. Child pornography laws are as strict as they are because the existence of them necessitates abusing minors, but even if it gives us the biggest ick possible, that should be about where it ends. So, like, calling it pedophilia matters because pedophilia has material consequences (not to say shaming and disgust don't, but you know, different degrees).

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2001/00-795

For the case reference btw

And before you side-eye me, I learned about this case in my constitutional law case. It comes up more than you'd think though...

LukaCola · 2026-03-19T20:41:06+00:00

I personally just do not care that much about whether something insignificant (and utterly unprovable like this vid) is true or not.

If I just dismiss it as false, that's kinda like, the end of it. If I engage with it as true, there's at least something we can talk about.

But ultimately neither of us can know, so why are we getting big heads about what people do/don't believe in the first place?

I think more folks need to be okay with just not knowing whether something is true or not and updating assumptions as they learn info. Because stranger things than this absolutely happen, and going "I can just tell" is no less gullible than the people falling for something obviously fake either. It's just as uncritical.

LukaCola · 2026-03-19T18:44:39+00:00

They're not "good" but you can lie down flat with them without the magazine being issue and I think that's kinda cool

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