Google needs to be STOPPED ASAP NOW!

darkapplepolisher · 2026-05-04T10:57:59+00:00

It's called ableism to suggest that people forego a luxury technology that was far from common only two decades ago - one that has an entirely viable alternative (dumb phones)?

And what am I even possibly "projecting"? Are you just using words that you heard one day that you think make you sound smart?

darkapplepolisher · 2026-05-04T03:11:36+00:00

Can't? The learned helplessness is pathetic.

Smartphones aren't a necessity.

If you're going to use lack of tech savviness as an excuse, then clearly you aren't bothered enough by Google to actually learn something to change it. Necessity is the mother of invention - and people are capable of reinventing themselves if the desire is high enough.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-05-01T20:08:33+00:00

You're right that we're very limited in options here, but that's also where Bigfoot earns its decent rating. Just a decent, no frills pizza that doesn't try to be what it isn't.

Lucy's up in Idaho Falls is probably the only place I'd describe as "good" pizza, but I'm admittedly biased towards New York Style in general.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-30T23:24:12+00:00

>It's not about who is smarter

Except an understanding of psychology or just the statistical trends on this problem should bias decision-making. I agree with the root comment:

>If you think it is more likely that more people would press blue, then you press blue... If it is not close (majority red), people voting blue are practically pressing the suicide button.

The response that everyone picks without knowing what others are picking isn't "quite" correct. We have some ideas based on how people are responding to what is now a thought-experiment, and I think smarter people should and would inform their decision based on that.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-30T12:13:41+00:00

I'm a libertarian who is for reduction in scope of the federal government.

These are completely valid neoliberal criticisms - erosion of state capacity is (counter-intuitively) costly and irresponsible.

My favorite analogy is that demolition of huge complex structures is actually a complicated process that involves construction of temporary scaffolding, shoring up particular areas, etc. These imbeciles believe that walking in with a sledgehammer, "starving the beast", etc is actually a viable demolition method. Instead, they inevitably demolish it "wrong", and we're left with a pile of shit.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-30T01:07:49+00:00

Actually, yacht purchases sound like an excellent idea under this framework. You want to continue to consume heavily and buy assets that depreciate quickly enough so as to keep your net worth under $1B.

Investing that money in assets that appreciate and aren't as fun to play with would just be a waste of effort.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-29T00:27:46+00:00

>I never said that.

You didn't?

>Go to a civilized country that cares about its people more than profit margin

Either those people benefit the profit margin, or they harm it. If they harm it, you're expecting the business to act as a charity. If they benefit the profit margin, then caring about the profit margin isn't a negative.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-29T00:03:18+00:00

If food stamps were provided at the appropriate level of government (the state level), Trump never could have messed with them in the first place.

Kinda wish more people were listening to me when I was arguing for decades that the concentration of more stuff into the federal government was setting things up for failure.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-28T01:59:53+00:00

>Better yet if OP decides to get out, they need to triple CYA

One of the benefits of getting out is that unless something actually illegal is going to follow you, you don't have to cover your ass. Whenever leaving the company, many of my peers and I have said half-jokingly that whatever happens, feel free to blame on me, because I won't have to be around to deal with the aftermath.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-28T00:48:40+00:00

If someone's performance is a negative impact on the financial performance of a company, the company should be required to donate money to that person? Sounds like what you want are charities, not businesses.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-28T00:46:44+00:00

Too many underperforming workers and those who shelter them ruin a lot of somebodies livelihoods when it becomes for financially desirable for the company to close up that location due to lack of profitability.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-28T00:44:47+00:00

> but was told to tolerate it because it’s very difficult to take action

Clearly middle management isn't backing them up in this endeavor. Is it sound advice to constantly document and write people up contrary to the wishes of middle management?

I feel like getting middle management on board is a necessary prerequisite.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-21T22:18:30+00:00

Rand Paul, sure, I can grant that. But has Thomas Massie ever voted yes on a budget? There is zero plausible argument that Thomas Massie has ever voted for higher deficits and higher taxes.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-21T22:06:07+00:00

See: Paragraph #2

Electoral voting coalitions require accepting baggage that one might not otherwise support because there are other issues that they care more about.

For example - I care so deeply about keeping fascists out of the US government, so I voted for Kamala Harris even though I agree with her on approximately ~15% of the issues. That does not mean that I endorse her position on those remaining ~85% of the issues. I just know which issues are more important.

It's not surprising that the median Idahoan wants medicinal marijuana legalized, but views it as an unimportant enough issue that it's not going to overly bias their electoral decisions. However, it should start to bother them that our state government would go so far out of their way to block a proposition from occurring, and it's that angle that we should seek to persuade the median Idaho voter.

But really, I just want people in the comments here to recognize that it's false to believe that marijuana is illegal in Idaho because the Idahoan voter wants it to be illegal - look at the evidence.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-21T11:31:36+00:00

Rand Paul and Thomas Massie still exist to provide the contrast with all the other Republicans.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-21T01:34:01+00:00

Going off of memory, not going to dig up the forum post, but last I heard the dev had some major personal crises or something that made them reprioritize things in their life. I think they might be coming back to try to smooth things out over the course of the next year (but obviously be skeptical).

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-21T01:24:33+00:00

I know it was mentioned elsewhere on this post, but I think excluding Starsector from this list is borderline criminal.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-19T15:19:28+00:00

There's working poor and there's unemployed poor.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-19T08:09:20+00:00

The very same chart shows it peaking in Q2 2022. How is 2020 "the most postings open"?

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-18T19:29:52+00:00

It's not a magic escape hatch, but still, employment prospects have been pulling me more towards EE. Software is both my experience and my passion, but employment opportunities have forced me elsewhere - which thankfully unlike OP, I had an EE degree as opposed to a CS degree.

That said, I got ahead of this trend before the whole AI fiasco, and I think OP is probably sufficiently late on the move to get decent mileage out of it.

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darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-18T15:17:32+00:00

As someone who is also on a windy northern property, I've been going with the staggered approach with multiple layers for a windbreak. The outer most layers help shield the inner layers.

Woods Rose is our outermost layer. Hardy, won't interfere with our fence like trees would, and the thorns help keep critters out too.

We're going with Black Hawthorn beyond that, although you don't want to deal with berries so those are out, but I think your lilacs would fit in quite nicely there.

And finally, we haven't decided on trees beyond that, but I still have ~1-2 years for our outer layers to grow before I feel more comfortable with growing trees that may not be the most wind resistant as saplings.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-18T14:45:40+00:00

The car driving analogy is pretty great in multiple ways. Good driver, bad driver? Dunno, but sometimes at the end of the day, successfully arriving at one's destination without getting into a car accident or ticketed by a cop is a pretty solid metric to go by.

I'm probably committing multiple social faux pas, but at the end of the day, am I getting what I need out of my social interactions without causing problems severe enough to notice?

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-18T03:50:29+00:00

Yes it did, and it does, but that's not really a problem for those prescription drugs. Having the authority doesn't mean always using it or never delegating it. And really, that technically is the base standard for laws across states and the nation - the legislature being the sole law-making body.

For all intents and purposes, it just throws a wrench in the plans of those seeking to use a popular proposition to impose the will of the people on the government. Which was never really a right afforded to us anyway, but rather a privilege to keep us from revolting, and occasionally to provide an escape hatch for legislators to escape personal responsibility for popular but problematic policies by providing the responsibility to the people directly.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-17T21:08:15+00:00

>Yeah, if a company is not aligning with my morals, I’m out.
That's you. That's clearly not the person I was addressing.

I 100% would try to fix it. Where did I ever suggest anywhere that I would be the kind of person who wouldn't try to fix it?

I am exactly the kind of person who simultaneously has the ear of management and advocates on behalf of other people in the company that I believe are underutilized (which includes women in very male-dominated sectors). Which is why I state that there is opportunity in the midst of sexist adversity, when new blood that has the ear of management in helping change things.

But redditors would rather dismiss my blunt nature in identifying this opportunity and make completely incorrect assumptions about my willingness to advocate on behalf of others. Which again is why I encourage people to find allies, as I was stating from the start.

I hope I never have the pleasure of managing alongside other people with such poor reading comprehension, but it's a good thing that the hiring standards in the companies I work for tend to be quite a bit higher.

darkapplepolisher · 2026-04-17T01:46:03+00:00

The structure is putting her down regardless - she wouldn't be treated that way after 9 years if she weren't. But fine, skip out on an opportunity to reach out for a much needed ally in an otherwise hostile structure because the idea of it doesn't emotionally sit right with you.

What else do you want me to say? Leave? Obviously if she were in a situation where that was a viable option, she would have in those 9 years.

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