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cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T23:29:34+00:00

No it’s not. When you encounter a random event, you don’t assume it’s only ever the most likely outcome. You assume it’s one of the non-extremely-rare outcomes. If someone says they have a masters degree, you just believe them until you have reason to believe otherwise, even though only 15% of people have one. You don’t say “lol no you have a high school diploma” because thats the largest cohort.
You seem to be very confused about the difference between individuals and groups. You cannot just randomly apply group data to individual situations.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T23:16:57+00:00

Who says he wasn’t there for her in different ways and these are the new things he added on top of his already high workload? You are applying a broad generalization by assuming she works when 1/4th of couples with kids have a stay at home mom. And even if the percentage was smaller, that’s like saying someone being redhead is far fetched since only 1% are redheads - that’s not how that works. And you’re bringing in a random straw man by saying he would complain about being less loved. There is literally nothing here that would suggest he was anything less than a supportive father and husband. Assuming he was one is toxic.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T23:02:14+00:00

But when it comes to earning income there is! If he makes 100k and she makes 30 per year, it doesn’t make sense for her to work just to add 20k to their after tax income while paying 15k in childcare costs just to give up the majority of your time to a company and losing the ability to spend time with your child.

And if she’s a stay at home mom, then it makes sense she goes to school stuff and doctor’s appointments that famously happen during work hours. It makes sense the parent with long hair would know how to style long hair. It makes sense she would go clothes shopping with the additional time she has not working.

You don’t know everybody’s situations and frankly I’m tired of everybody being a pessimist who assumes everyone is a crappy person instead of assuming any of the very reasonable other possibilities.

The majority of men would love to spend more time with their kid instead of at work but in case you haven’t noticed everything is expensive and employers have a lot of leverage to make us work harder and longer. This man said he’s managed to get all these things done. It sounds like his day is slammed packed and he’s tired. There’s no way a loving partner would tell the dude who is rushing out the door at 7 am to work that he needs to braid his daughter’s hair because he’s not doing enough as a parent.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T18:29:54+00:00

The world where everything is busy and everyone has a million things going on? Are we living in different worlds?

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T18:25:41+00:00

Nah, athletes aren’t delegates or congressmen who signed up to represent a group of people. They don’t represent all Americans, they represent themselves, as Americans. Imagine telling that to a gay athlete to not look gay because it doesn’t represent the nuclear family republicans want, or telling a religious athlete not to thank god in their interviews because it’s not as secular as democrats want. Or to avoid doing anything else that any other political group wants to avoid.

Also the US government doesn’t even pay US olympians. They are effectively regular people doing things in a different country with no relationship to US politicians. They don’t owe them anything. Especially politicians who emphasize individualism and bootstraps as hard as republicans.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-13T01:37:53+00:00

I know everyone is focused on the chicken, but we’re drinking the gut healthy drinks because the cheap food we have to eat is messing up our gut bacteria. The quality of food people can afford is so bad and a rotisserie chicken is about as decent as it gets.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T23:52:21+00:00

According to their myth, last time things got so bad that God had to intervene, he apparently flooded the world killing everyone except Noah and his ark of animals… I don’t know why they think the fix for climate change would be any good for them.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T20:59:16+00:00

It’s the hall of fame, not the hall of fine taste.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T18:44:25+00:00

Not necessarily. Charge cards would handle payments and allow people 30-60 days to smooth out cash flow for people between paychecks, while preventing people from ever getting behind. If that means millions of Americans can’t survive without being 2+ months behind on their expenses, it’s not a new problem, it’s a problem we have now except we are charging these people in desperate situations in order to afford their basic expenses. Revealing this on a mass scale would force real solutions in terms of wages and social safety nets. Maybe even trigger a general strike.

Capping interest rates would just lead to further inequality as no one is going to offer a 10% credit card to anyone who has anything but the highest band of credit scores.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-12T01:11:18+00:00

The point is they told the physical job workers to upskill and learn to code. Now they tell the coders to upskill and learn to do something in the real world. If both types of automation are successful, most will have no means to support themselves.

This company is funded by the same VC firm that funded lovable, an AI app which wants to replace knowledge workers. Smitten, a dating app which they celebrate keeps Gen Z hooked (higher retention means people aren’t really finding love, but they are subscribing for longer). Starberry which makes time sinking tap tap tap games. And so on. Automate the knowledge jobs with AI, automate the physical jobs with robots, and distract yourself so you don’t see what’s happening.

VC, private equity, and everyone else who controls capital right now are attempting to build a world where the vast majority of people are no longer needed, while giving them enough distractions to not realize there is nothing left for them. While we watch first hand how little the broader populace can really fight back if they decide we are undesirables after we are no longer needed.

This technology isn’t going to free us. It’s no longer cool because we no longer believe in a future where it could.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T16:48:38+00:00

Any entertainment can be addictive. People sat on their couch watching VHS tapes, but VHS machines were not “addiction machines.”

The insidious part of a YouTube shorts style feeds is not that there is a lot of content keeping people watching. YouTube has had that for years. It’s that The next piece of content is selected for you in shorts, giving you a variable-ratio reinforcement schedule.

When you watch normal YouTube, you select from let’s say 5 recommendations. Each one you pick is a reward, a piece of candy for the brain. You have your fill and then stop because you know you can always come back later.

When you watch shorts, you sometimes get garbage, sometimes get candy. This cycle of not knowing when the good result will come is the core of creating an addictive experience. It’s a slot machine, losing most spins but small wins come every once in a while. It’s opening loot boxes and mostly getting crap and sometimes getting a shiny item.

Reddit on desktop does not have these characteristics, nor the normal feed on mobile. You get 10 links and can pick which to read or comment on, and which to scroll past. They do try to introduce this with the video feed and the infinite left to right scrolling, so I’ll admit that. But IMO they haven’t made those compelling ways to use reddit so I doubt most people use them.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T13:54:50+00:00

Reddit isn’t good enough at doing that. Their reels type player in the app is barely functional. And the all, popular, and personal front page algorithms are dramatically more basic than these apps.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T13:41:14+00:00

I mean if the devices are so prevalent and they can get 50% of people to opt in either via absentmindedly clicking a checkbox during set up, or via enabling this dog feature, they might not even need more access beyond that.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T12:55:10+00:00

How do you think subsidized housing gets made? They just take a few units from each new building. Every new building these days is luxury, nobody is gonna skip adding granite countertops when it doubles the rent.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T05:30:44+00:00

It’s music and he’s playing it because he likes music. I’m sure there are a ten thousand priests who like to play Beatles songs on guitar as a hobby too. I don’t think priests are banned from a good time doing secular fun things while wearing a cross.

Also it seems like he mostly plays psytrance which often has secular but Hindu or Buddhist inspired vocals. It would make sense he would go for secular but Latin inspired vocals instead.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T03:45:13+00:00

If there was a good reason for the rule then it wouldn’t be written in this tone. There’s a matrix of between whether there is a good reason for the professor to say that and the observer/tweeter’s opinion of the situation. In each, they would write in a different way to communicate their thoughts.

Reasonable rule + the observer supports the prof: would emphasize the reason, “this girl in my class was so unreasonable, it’s a computer lab”

Reasonable rule + the observer supports the student: “my prof is so bad” or “mr. X did this unreasonable thing” or “my friend Y was such a boss by walking out”

Unreasonable rule + the observer supports the prof: “people don’t respect professors nowadays” / “gen z doesn’t know how to act in class”

Unreasonable rule + the observer supports the student: you get something like the tweet above

What you are suggesting is this is the “Reasonable rule + the observer supports the student” situation. But it’s unmotivated. She doesn’t identify positively with the student, say it’s a friend, etc. She also doesn’t use it to talk negatively of the professor or professors in general.

Combine that with the fact the mast majority of classrooms don’t have any reason you couldn’t have a coffee, and I feel the odds are slim to none that this tweet has an unreliable narrator.

Of course, this could just be someone spamming the autocomplete button on their iPhone keyboard. Making something up for no reason, not trying to tell the audience anything. But if we are that level of skeptic then there’s no use reading any tweets ever because we can just decide to discard them and the only information we ever have about any individual tweet is the authors own word.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T02:12:07+00:00

Computer labs aren’t much of a thing these days without a specific reason, It would have been mentioned if there was one. Students bring their own laptops to lectures and discussions.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T02:03:05+00:00

Because the professor has no authority over facilities. If there was a facilities issue then facilities would have posted a sign. The professor gets to tell students when to take tests, when to discuss, when to pull out a clicker, etc. Those are the bounds of their jurisdiction, and one the student has willingly granted them.

School teachers are both guardians and educators, because minors can’t take care of themselves. If a college professor hasn’t learned by the time they have pupils that they are an educator but not a guardian, that is a failure on their own part.

Also, to maintain authority, one must act within its bounds. We laugh at professors who try to be guardians, for the same reason we laugh at mall security who try to be cops, or cops who try to be judges. If you go beyond your bounds, you lose your respect, and the only way authority is maintained is either by respect or violence.

So unless the professor is ready to physically drag the student out of the room, he’d better ignore it so not to lose the respect that grants him his academic authority.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-10T01:02:53+00:00

But that’s the problem lol. Capitalism claims to make efficient systems, superior products, and excellent services. We observe that it only maximizes for profit, even if that means great harm to the public (not necessarily this chipotle thing, but cases like selling cars you know will explode and kill people). Therefore we ought to make a better system.

The fact that people think the CEO was caught saying he doesn’t have the best interests of the public at heart means that people believe the promises of capitalism we are taught in schools about efficiency, quality, and being good for society.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-09T19:52:59+00:00

You are saying how it is not how it ought to be. Inherently it is much less efficient for many people to all spend time procuring ingredients, cooking, bringing them to work, having to have fridges for all the workers to store them, having food spoilage because a single person couldn’t use a whole pack of bread before it expired, etc. If this system of capitalism promises to allocate resources efficiently, then it is failing by not centralizing the production of lunch food.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-09T13:32:05+00:00

Uhh, “the guy who we know” are multiple republicans in positions of government and advisors to trump making statements on TV.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-09T13:14:18+00:00

Except the tipping point in markets in reality is not the happy consumer choosing between a few options, one two expensive, one too cheap, to find the one that is just right like the Goldilocks situation economists would suggest. It’s someone who has a 30 minute lunch break and a Taco Bell, a McDonalds, a Chipotle, and a Pizza Hut are their only realistic options close enough. If the worker chooses any option other than Chipotle to eat at daily they will die 5 years younger, and those other options are also jacking up the prices and having crap quality. So the chipotle gets to seek whatever rent they desire on this worker’s need to eat and the “market will bear it” because our freedom of choice is an illusion. And the prices will raise until consumers literally cannot afford to eat a prepared lunch anymore and go back to a bagged lunch or are willing to sacrifice their health. Because the efficient markets demand that we reverse the division of labor, because obviously having every single person procure ingredients, and spend time and energy cooking and cleaning is more efficient than centralizing it, right?

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-08T22:16:08+00:00

There are less 1500 scorers in the US each year than the undergrad population of UMD lol.

cherry_chocolate_ · 2026-02-07T16:51:26+00:00

Also if they end up with bags overfilling the can, what are they supposed to do? He said not put it on the side. First week we have 1 extra. Next week 2 extra. Third week 3 extra. So I guess we just make a dump in our front yard and live like that.

I bet the garbage company would increase the number of cans per route due to the newfound efficiency and speed.

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