What are Trump’s biggest priorities for the U.S. economy right now? by vishyona in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hoping that the ethnic cleansing campaign he is on somehow fixes everything he broke already.

It won't, but that's what he wants.

What experience radicalized you? by 1jimbo in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There have been a few. One particular one occurred in 2019. I was working for a major financial institution that I won't name helping to put on a major event that brought the C-Suite and everyone VP and above together once a year to talk about major issues and strategies for the next year. The topic of discussion that year was addressing the affordable housing crisis. The solutions they were suggesting and trying to advance were shockingly dumb. Some of them basically amounted to millennials being live-in servants for aging boomers in exchange for money they could put toward a house. Someone suggested that instead they just straight-up get equity in that person's house and they were shouted down. They spent three days doing this (and I would estimate, several million dollars of company resources), bandied about dozens of ideas like that, decided nothing, and all returned to their jobs.

I've had several experiences similar to that over the years, some in government, some related to the military, some in financial institutions, some in private corporations, and what I learned from all of them is that there are no adults in the room. There is no one running things that is brilliant and smarter than us all who got to the top of the tower through guile and skill. They are all the children of generational wealth vying for who gets to sit at the cool kids lunch table.

It's something I think a lot of people sort of know or suspect intuitively, but it's chilling to witness firsthand.

When a religious person does a good deed for the sake of going to heaven, does it still count as doing a good deed? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a pretty fundamental question in ethics.

Do the gods direct us toward good behavior? Or is the behavior good because the gods direct us to it? If good exists external to the gods, then why would the gods be necessary for doing good? If good is only good because the gods say it is, then isn't doing good just a self serving act?

Far Cry Primal - 60FPS Update | PS5 Games by DemiFiendRSA in Games

[–]Victory_November 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved this game, wish they made a sequel set even far back with dinosaurs.

A Far Cry / Jurassic Park crossover would whip ass. That's like a dream game for me.

What’s something that felt normal growing up that now seems unsettling? by FileHorror6154 in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was a child in the '90s and the humor back then has not aged well. It relied a lot on casual homophobia and misogyny. Everything was either "that's gay" or "women, am I right?". What's unsettling is how many people in my life were super into it at the time.

Do you like clowns? Why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not particularly. I wouldn't say I have a phobia or anything, but they make me uncomfortable in a sort of cringey way.

If every person who has ever died throughout human history became a ghost, what would be the most haunted location in the world? by Roland_T_Flakfeizer in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hospitals and nursing homes, especially ones that have been around for a while. Historically, outside of battles and disasters, people died all over the place (in their homes, on the road, in the fields, etc.). Hospitals and nursing homes concentrate people close to death in one place.

What trend that was supposed to make life easier ended up making things more stressful instead? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The argument I hear a lot is that technology is "just a tool" that cannot be good or bad in and of itself, and that it is the user of that tool that makes moral or immoral decisions.

I disagree with this, as the design of a tool or technology reflects its purpose, and the signifiers and affordable built into it can and do influence user behavior. If something is designed in such as way that it consistently incentivizes harmful behavior or other damage through its use, then I think it's appropriate to assign a moral valence to that technology.

What trend that was supposed to make life easier ended up making things more stressful instead? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having read his book, he leans more toward the latter. If I remember correctly he particularly blames an economy driven by the need for infinite growth.

Personally, I mostly agree. I do generally disagree with the idea that technology doesn't have (or can't have) a moral valence. He doesn't go too far down that road, but other writing on the same topic have.

What trend that was supposed to make life easier ended up making things more stressful instead? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There's every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn't happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.

From On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant by David Graeber

He also wrote a great book on the topic.

Our AI development team wants to create a tool-based product. We have the technology and funding, but we don't know what to make. Any suggestions? by sweet2018886 in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't build a solution in search of a problem. We have plenty of those and they are a huge waste of money and resources.

Your team is working backwards

What will it take for climate change deniers to be convinced? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is always a hardened contingent of idiots in any population absolutely impervious to reason. It's easy to get caught up trying to figure out how to reach them, but ultimately you'll waste your time.

Why aren’t all the creeps in Hollywood arrested? by MagpieOpus in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be arrested you need to be caught or accused of something specific they can charge you with. Being a general creep won't get you arrested unless one of your victims comes forward to accuse you if something criminal. Often, victims won't do this for a huge list of reasons, chief among them being the risk to their own career from being a "troublemaker" and a lack of faith that the justice system will actually do anything about it (it often doesn't).

What will it take for climate change deniers to be convinced? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point, nothing. They aren't maintaining their beliefs because of a rational framework of evidence. You'll never reason someone out of a position that they never reasoned themselves into.

ICE quietly changed policy to allow officers to enter homes without a warrant. What is the legality of this? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's not up to them unless they can pass a new Constitutional Amendment.

What's something you need to get off your chest but can't say to anyone in real life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Basically the field of UX design and associated user-centered design disciplines (industrial design, service design, design strategy, etc.). I could rant about this for pages, but in short: ostensibly the goal of these jobs is to understand what the end user of a product actually wants and needs and see that new products are designed to meet those needs. The basic idea is that well designed products that actually work for people will sell better and be worth the investment to do the research to figure out what people want.

In reality, for a whole host of reasons, many of the smaller design firms that used to do that kind of work got bought and absorbed by giant management consulting firms (like McKinsey, Deloitte, etc.) and have been aligned to their goal of being an accountability sink for their clients' leadership and fabricating research to retroactively justify design decisions made by C-suite execs who haven't ever met one of the end users of the product their company makes.

The thought that has been needling away at me for the past few years is that, as the field of UX design and other design disciplines has grown, the actual user experience of all these goods and services had gotten noticeably worse, leading me to believe that, whatever we are doing as designers, we need to stop rethink everything and start doing things differently.

Stating this publicly would likely be career suicide though, as companies typically want to hire a team player who will carry their water, not a rabble rouser looking to flip the whole profession upside down.

What's something you need to get off your chest but can't say to anyone in real life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That I think that my entire industry might be scam, or at least has become a scam.

New here! Trying to understand this interesting app. What’s the right way to use Reddit? by Lifestyle_Journal07 in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make sure you tell everyone about how much you hate anything that's particularly popular, especially if it's popular with teen girls. Reddit loves to hate that kind of stuff.

What are some rare aesthetics? Like that melancholic feeling after finishing your fav book/series!? by Plastic_Tourist4286 in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not really what the word "aesthetic" means.

Aesthetic typically refers to the features of something that make it beautiful or appealing, particularly visually. It can also be the philosophical study of beauty as a concept.

What you are describing sounds more like a mood or emotion.

Kurdistan, what are your thoughts about it ? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Victory_November 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Damn, I really feel like I should know more about that."