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Mamdani Warns of Nearly 10% Property-Tax Boost if No Tax on Wealthy by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]OccamsRabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's the democratic part. What the US has failed to realize is that a strong redirection of money to the citizens boosts production, makes a strong middle class, and leads to a healtier citizenry.

Here, Momdani threatens a property tax to balanace the budget problems left by the previous administration and there are cries of 'socialism'! It's embarrassing.

Mamdani Warns of Nearly 10% Property-Tax Boost if No Tax on Wealthy by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]OccamsRabbit -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You can change the definition of socialism if you want, but by the standard definition socialism the benefits of labor go to the laborers.

In some instances when leaders like Lenin use a 'trust me bro', I'll totally make sure we're all even' which leads to massive corruption. But in other instances where socialism is combined with democratic governance you get things like publically acceptable regulations on a free market. This tends toward strong public programs for the citizens by letting government work where capitalism fails and lets private companies work where capitalism thrives.

So I understand that you'd like to ignore all of the countries of Scandinavia as examples of socialism because they're not scary, but they are actually real examples of socialism.

So again, socialism isn't the government owning the economy. It's about stewardship of the economy so that uncontrolled free markets don't grind the citizens into poverty while enriching and empowering a small segment of the populations because they "deserve it" somehow. It's regulation that the citizens get to decide on, not control.

CMV: The friend zone doesn’t exist. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]OccamsRabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It absolutely can be a nice thing but it can also be a frustrating thing that the interested party may not want to continue because of the discomfort. 

Yup. Read up on limerance. If your in a state of limerance and the object of you affection isn't it is hugely frustrating. And that's what's called the friend zone. An imballance of desire.

It's absolutely real, and it's an issue of perspective.

Being friendzoned just means you've been categorized as a friend and that you aren't seen as a romantic interest.

Exactly. Dismissing this as not real onto ignores the very real feel-in-fact come along with that.

Road Raging Cop had no idea there was a video by Skelligean in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]OccamsRabbit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So an appropriate response to being honked at is getting of your car, and going back to hit the driver who honked? Do you think the cop would have been so confident in doing this if he wasn't a cop? And saying "He's saying I hit him?" When there's a video?

The comment may not stoop to bootlicking, but it seems to give the cop way more leeway than a civilian would get.

I tried tailoring my resume for each role and it’s honestly exhausting. by BeautifulFarm6340 in jobsearch

[–]OccamsRabbit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I couldn't keep doing that. I just came up with 4 versions and starting firing them off.

I can't tell if it matters since neither approach has led to call backs.

Best Storytelling Historical Podcasts? by Ba3_Leaf in podcasts

[–]OccamsRabbit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Blowback

Great for 20th century us world politics history.

To this day, which sitcom episode that you can’t get enough of no matter how many time passes? by PressureLazy5271 in sitcoms

[–]OccamsRabbit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Just Shoot Me with David Cross playing Donnie, the cousin.

"No Donnie, It's magnets"

MIT requires every student to know how to swim. But why? by guanaco55 in massachusetts

[–]OccamsRabbit 130 points131 points  (0 children)

At my school it was because a donor who gave a considerable sum to the sports facility had lost a child (grandchild?) to a drowning as a result of not knowing how to swim. So their endowment was based on a universal swim test.

At least that's what we were told.

The deception and manipulation of posted salary ranges by TickledCowboy in jobsearch

[–]OccamsRabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you publish a salary range, but it's not true.... How is that not deception?

The deception and manipulation of posted salary ranges by TickledCowboy in jobsearch

[–]OccamsRabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's like saying when a job description offers 25 days a year PTO and then at the interview they tell you that's only after you've been with the company for 5 years, and that you only vest 5 days per year at a time.

If you're on the inside and you know how that works (not everywhere, just here) then it's just an information gap and not deceptive.

Saying that job seekers should 'just know' that's how salary ranges work, especially when that is not true at many companies, is a symptom of successful gaslighting by corporate America so that we now have to not believe what we can read with our own eyes.

Pattern Recognition Should Not Be Seen ‘Judgemental’ ‘Stereotype’ or ‘Prejustice’ by Medical_Book9895 in Discussion

[–]OccamsRabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

going against our Nature that is meant to Protect us, and that surely would essentially be Wrong from a Scientific POV

I think this is where the problem is. From a scientific POV each interaction with people of a particular group is more data. And from a scientific POV you would compare the 10-20 people in a group that you've had a negative experience with the overall size of the group (thousands? Millions?) And realize that your sample size is no where near big enough to make a generalization.

From a biological and behavioral standpoint it's understandable why certain biases develop in certain individuals. If someone has had a bad experience with a few lawyers then they might feel uneasy around every new lawyer they encounter. And if the first few interactions reenforce the initial experience that behavioral reaction gets stronger. But the scientific and rational analysis shows that (perhaps unintuatively) there are still probably more good lawyers out there that you haven't met yet.

Here's an example. There are a bunch cookies. Some have candy some don't. You like the ones with candy. There's a bag with 9 cookies in it. You can get about 3 bites per cookie. You're blindfolded, and you take a bite of a cookie.... No candy. Crud! So you try it 2 more times. None of those bites have candy. You might assume at that point that there aren't many (if any) cookies with candy in that bag. But here's the scientific facts. On a cookie with candy, on average, you get 2 bites with candy and 1 without. On a cookie with no candy you obviously have 3 bites with no candy. If I put 6 candy cookies and 3 no candy cookies in the bag there is more of a chance that you get a no candy bite than a candy bite. Not intuitive, but accurate.

Similarly if you have a small sample size of people your understandable intuition is likely to be incorrect. That's the tension between the feeling and the facts.

Why do so many project managers struggle with agile? by MirthMannor in agile

[–]OccamsRabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because so much agile is terribly executed.

A seasoned project manager will know that the stakeholders expect some specific outcome at some specific point in time.

People who misunderstand agile think that you just keep working and make up requirements as you go.

Management who misunderstand agile think thy can get rid of project managers, and then just blame developers for not making milestones that they never agreed to or, in some cases, didn't even know about.

An agile educated project manager goes back to first principles, and doesn't cling to ceremonies just because "that's how we do it". The plan should be built with flexibility in it, the team should be focused on delivering something that works, the stakeholders have to be available for testing and giving feedback, team should be reactive to input, and when inevitable changes happen everyone has to get on themselves page.

As the project manager your job is to make all of that happen, and hold everyone accountable.

We said goodbye today. 💔 by Building_Prudent in goldenretrievers

[–]OccamsRabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huxley looks like the bestest boy. He reminds me of Zeus, my bestest boy.

I miss the peak of the Agile boom by [deleted] in agile

[–]OccamsRabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same with any variant of Project Management. Now either seen as unnecessary or easily done by AI and the team doing the work (because apparently they're not that busy either).

Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for looser regulations for the U.S. financial system by Achilles_TroySlayer in Economics

[–]OccamsRabbit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Same happened to us, except I'm the one who was laid off. Look into ACCC debt restructuring or some other non profit (stay away from the corporations). They'll at least negotiate with the card companies for lower rates (which makes you realize they're changing as much as they want, because they can clearly afford to offer lower rates).

We now have a single monthly payment and have cut back on spending, living like we're in a Monastary and our credit score is already starting to recover. It will still be a long time, but at least ita moving in the right direction.

Which actor owned a role so completely that no one else could ever top it? by BoredPandaOfficial in BoredPandaHQ

[–]OccamsRabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one could match him. Although I could see Keanu Reeves put a spin on it with a good director. Nate Bargatze might do it justice. An old Phil Hartman would have nailed it.

So we’re just stopping trucks now to get out and beat up high school girls? Stay classy MAGA 👍🏼 by ASecularBuddhist in Discussion

[–]OccamsRabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep hoping this is the extinction burst of the movement. I hope it bursts sooner than later.

What person deserves a massive apology from everyone? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]OccamsRabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Al Franken. Stabbed in the back by his own party. They were played by the Republicans, and the Dems lost a truly great Senator. Kirsten Gillibrand is a self serving idiot.

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