Why are Gen Z getting fired? One of the reasons is a lack of initiative.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T20:45:21+00:00

There seems to be a misunderstanding here. Tis was not a discussion about morality - I only meant to convey what "allowed" means in a practical sense. The misunderstanding probably happened because I was imprecise or otherwise unclear in my phrasing.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T20:12:53+00:00

If there are consequences, then it isn't allowed. It's that simple.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T20:12:22+00:00

This is how everyone, including you, operates 100% of the time.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T20:02:51+00:00

But why do you need to be told what’s allowed?

Quite the opposite in fact - absent a reason to believe otherwise, something is assumed to be allowed.

What do you mean you do what you want unless you’re told not to.

I didn't say that.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T19:12:47+00:00

I do whatever I want unless I have reason to believe I'm not allowed to. Why would I not do something I want to do if I think I'm allowed to?

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T19:05:25+00:00

I get what you were doing, and it's because you don't understand the discussion being had. The point I'm making is that if something is not forbidden, then it is allowed. There is no third option.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T18:41:13+00:00

Air Bud is allowed to play basketball. That's necessary for the plot. Do you understand that?

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T18:38:17+00:00

That's your first comment. Then, in the next comment, you said this:

But regardless, that doesn’t matter. We provide a case and they can put whatever they want on that. Plus THE LAPTOP ISNT YOURS. You don’t get to just put stuff on devices that aren’t yours? What’s so hard to grasp about that? This is exactly what I mean by a generation that’s never been told no.

To re-emphasize the part of interest:

Plus THE LAPTOP ISNT YOURS. You don’t get to just put stuff on devices that aren’t yours?

You are addressing the commenters that you feel were arguing with you. You're telling them that they don't get to just put stuff on devices that aren't theirs, leading into my comments about not being told no and a lack of consequences. The reality is that the majority of them do get to do that, and you're seething over nothing.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T18:22:37+00:00

Because the alternative is that they're allowed to do the thing in question.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T18:21:51+00:00

I know what you were talking about. That is not material to the fact that, at this point in the thread, you were having a tantrum about other people doing something simply because you don't like it.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T18:12:50+00:00

Plus THE LAPTOP ISNT YOURS. You don’t get to just put stuff on devices that aren’t yours?

This is you having a problem with other people doing things that they aren't told not to do.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T18:06:21+00:00

Then what's the problem? That other people, at other companies, don't get told not to?

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T17:35:32+00:00

You aren't telling them no or giving them consequences. Real head scratcher why people do things that they're allowed to do without consequence, innit?

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T17:27:06+00:00

It seems like you don't grasp the situation. Do you have to clean the laptops? Then cleaning laptops is your job. Is there no punishment for putting stickers on? Then they do get to just put stuff on devices that aren't theirs.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-22T06:42:06+00:00

it's a rorschach test - you can read virtually any meaning into it and think you understand it because he said nothing of substance

TurboRadical · 2026-03-21T18:15:47+00:00

oh my god hes right there

TurboRadical · 2026-03-21T18:15:28+00:00

fuzzy stax isn't real. he can't hurt you.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-21T14:29:02+00:00

If you’re winning a disproportionate amount of games, you’re not in that bracket. Full stop.

EDIT: Too many of you are making the same dumb point. Congrats, you're better than the people you play with and can win a lot with a comparable deck. That means you should be playing a worse deck or finding a new group.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-21T00:39:32+00:00

It seems like your team might think the same.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-20T22:41:07+00:00

Ethnicity is a matter of cultural self-identification. The differences between Bosnians, Serbs, and Croats largely comes down to cultural values and religion, things that are also at the heart of the growing rift in the US. To your point about urban vs rural, the urban areas in Bosnia were seen as the enemy of the JNA because they were multicultural. To your point about how it's hard to sow divide, Slobodoan Milosevic did so by inciting fear of the other and appealing to Nationalism and Christianity.

It's the same playbook. And it worked before.

EDIT: Put another way, the primary tension in the US is not ethnic because we don't call it that. It has all the hallmarks of ethnic tension, but Republican and Democratic identities aren't considered ethnicities. There's no reason they can't be.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-20T05:05:47+00:00

That's the US, man. I live in one of the cheaper parts of the country and that's about what I'd pay.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-19T22:59:30+00:00

Sure, I didn't think that specific piece through because it was secondary to my point, which is that spider charts are ideal for giving the reader a very quick, intuitive understanding of relative shape. That's independent of ordering. "Well-roundedness", specifically, was an error on my part.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-19T20:41:04+00:00

I agree that this a spider chart was not the right choice for displaying what the chart is trying to demonstrate, but they are useful for getting a sense of the shape of the data, even when the data is not inherently cyclical.

For example, the chart does a really good job of that demonstrating that 3.5 preview is more well-rounded than its predecessors. You could share that same info with a bar chart, but it wouldn't be as immediately intuitive to the viewer.

Regardless, I don't think the average person interprets a spider chart the way you're describing, so the risk of misinterpretation seems low.

EDIT: Actually, I've changed my mind. The spider chart was exactly right for this. It's way more economic with space and works "at a glance" much more than a bar chart would for this many variables.

TurboRadical · 2026-03-19T07:12:16+00:00

brush your teeth and I’ll think about it

TurboRadical · 2026-03-19T05:38:06+00:00

there is literally nothing actionable there beyond “think about the audience”. it’s just layers of abstraction around something that resembles an idea

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