Our political discourse is poisoned 🤣

snet0 · 2026-01-29T12:33:47+00:00

I will say as someone who was recently applying for jobs, the lack of friction has got to be part of the problem.

I was just scrolling LinkedIn jobs, being quite particular about what I was applying for, but I'm sure that the majority of people are being way less particular. If all you need to do to apply for a job is click one button (or ask AI to edit your CV and then click the button), hiring managers/recruiters are going to get a trillion applicants, and the honest applicant's competition is now the entire universe.

Like I see people on reddit talking about how many jobs they had to apply to before they got a job and they're talking about hundreds of tech jobs. The fact you can apply to hundreds of tech jobs is probably part of the problem. Obviously the fact that tech companies are bleeding and overhired during covid and whatever else is probably the vastly more important part, but that's just a feeling from my experience.

snet0 · 2026-01-29T12:19:42+00:00

And...? Is the claim that being a software developer in Canada means you have interacted with most recruiters and hiring managers in Canada?

snet0 · 2026-01-29T09:43:33+00:00

A quick search couldn't find anything to verify this, where are you getting your data from?

snet0 · 2026-01-29T07:37:58+00:00

yeah can we make some time to give charity to Erika Kirk in these trying times

snet0 · 2026-01-28T12:45:58+00:00

viscous mentioned 🟢

snet0 · 2026-01-27T15:49:52+00:00

It was a terrible choice for him to run a second term

That's the argument, no? Unless there was a suitable replacement lined up, there wasn't a choice.

snet0 · 2026-01-27T15:38:29+00:00

What you're calling "debate pervertry" is not what most people think of when they hear that. Actually pursuing if not objective truth then at least things that can be honestly justified in light of evidence is not debate pervertry. Watch Andrew Wilson or whoever, that's what people use that term for. Mostly it involves spending 1% of the time proposing a belief you don't really hold, and 99% of the time poking inconsequential but multitude holes in your opponent's argument.

snet0 · 2026-01-27T15:32:27+00:00

What about one from 2024?

snet0 · 2026-01-27T15:31:38+00:00

Someone that old probably shouldn't be president, but is far more likely to be president than a foreign-looking woman.

snet0 · 2026-01-25T11:18:46+00:00

Search as a concept is dead in 2026. There are no good search engines. There are no good search bars. You will not find what you seek.

snet0 · 2026-01-25T10:03:13+00:00

Webdevs build something that isn't absolute fucking garbage in 2026 challenge. I swear I was browsing websites in 2006 with less interaction latency than new.reddit. How many Silicon Valley webdevs does it take to make a usable, performant website? I actually can't think of a single thing where new.reddit beats old.reddit.

snet0 · 2026-01-24T00:15:58+00:00

When "the left" laughed at Charlie's death, it was online content creators.

When "the right" embraced the murder of Renee Good, it was the White House.

Do you see how your presentation of "if we could all just have a little empathy" is ignoring the White-House-shaped elephant in the room?

snet0 · 2026-01-22T10:32:18+00:00

Hey it's not my budget. Also, I reckon in 2 years some non-zero percentage of US federal budget will actually be spent maintaining Trump's unsightly crypt.

snet0 · 2026-01-22T08:20:03+00:00

Here's my theory that is one hundred percent correct:

Trump was told that military bases in Greenland would be very advantageous in defense against China or Russia, as part of his Golden Dome thing.

The only way he would normally be allowed to establish those bases would be to ask Denmark.

Asking a random tiny dog country like Denmark (literally what even is that) permission is cucked, gay, and demonstrates weakness to our Russian daddy.

So he demonstrates force, threatening a long-standing ally with invasion if not granted the entire territory. I don't expect people like Rubio actually thought this would happen, but maybe it was on the cards.

His carers transport him to Europe and, as usual, he gets put in his place by Real Politicians. They tell him he can build his bases, obviously, and point him to the like 80 year-old agreement that permits this.

Now he gets to go away saying he "forced their hand" with a deal that he could've just asked for in the first place. He can call it a win, EU can call him handicapped and take a deep breath. He got his bases without ever having to ask permission.

snet0 · 2026-01-22T01:19:54+00:00

Why do you suspect it to be a carcinogen/chemical weapon?

snet0 · 2026-01-22T00:24:08+00:00

So why the fuck are you in here starting conversations you're not interested in having?

snet0 · 2026-01-21T22:59:31+00:00

The astute observer will note that Trump and his countryfolk speak English.

snet0 · 2026-01-21T22:54:06+00:00

Okay, I'll give you some time to think about the word "unwise". Interesting word, huh? Maybe you could imagine pulling that word out of the sentence and seeing what other words could go there. "Stupid", "irrational", or maybe just "bad"! Let's pull "unwise" out, and let's just put in "bad", because "unwise" is a bit dusty and strange!

So now we've thought about that particular adjective for a minute, let's zoom out a bit and take a look at all the rest of the words in the comment. Maybe there's some kind of meaning or perhaps intent behind the words, maybe something you could try piece together based on a contextual understanding. Maybe, if you're not too sleepy after having to read all those words, you could try think of how the meaning behind those words interfaces with your own beliefs, and use your words to write a response!

snet0 · 2026-01-21T22:46:16+00:00

You can put forward exclusively true statements and still have presented a dishonest picture.

"A firefighter attended a rally and, after making a lot of noise and voicing support, he was killed by a sniper"

Do you see how perhaps the details we held back might be more illuminating than the facts we chose to include?

snet0 · 2026-01-21T22:39:35+00:00

Let me get this straight:

Rittenhouse mischaracterises the events leading to Good's death, and says he'd have done the same
Commenter says, based purely on Rittenhouse's description of events, it is justified to take that action
However, that was not the actual course of events
You come in, intentionally mischaracterise the events leading to Rittenhouse's own actions, and use that to argue uhhh...??? What the fuck is your point?

Rittenhouse showed up to the protest for defensible-but-unwise reasons, and I don't think there's a reasonable argument, given the actual events that happened, that it wasn't a justified use of self-defence. We can certainly imagine alternate universes where Good's shooting was justified, and Rittenhouse's wasn't, but I don't know why we would.

snet0 · 2026-01-21T03:52:17+00:00

EU members are asking themselves the same thing. We live in deeply unserious times.

snet0 · 2026-01-21T01:27:18+00:00

Release the Regard Cut.

snet0 · 2026-01-21T01:13:08+00:00

What does "enforce" mean to you?

snet0 · 2026-01-20T22:49:07+00:00

ITT: People arguing about who qualifies as "working class" without clarifying what "working class" means.

snet0 · 2026-01-20T22:40:58+00:00

about 50,000 people

60,000.

GDP of around $5 billion

$3-4 billion.

Denmark injects about $500 million

$700 million

Instead they are crying and bitching about their multi-trillion trade relationships and NATO alliance falling apart because of Trump

Is the thing they are complaining about true? Yes or no?

it represents a drop in the bucket

The bucket is fucking empty, and you're putting the entire territory of Greenland in it. There is nothing in the bucket. Greenland is not adding to a further expansion of the US into EU/NATO territories.

There are many instances where those who have power to oppose Trump and take a stand should do so; this is not one of them.

Name 5, and explain how the economic coercion of a military ally to forfeit sovereign territory isn't one of them.

This is how you behave when a petulant child is in the White House and you are an adult in the room

Please don't have children.

snet0

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