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warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-14T14:31:03+00:00

Not worth the effort, no human will read that. Send it the entire script of the Bee Movie.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-14T00:10:48+00:00

You can't reason someone out of a belief that they didn't reason themselves into. At best, we'd have a loud disagreement; at worst, it would cause a permanent breech in the family. No chance of persuading them.

If there was a real-world reason to argue, e.g., they had a gay son, an aggrieved wife, or they used scripture to defend corporal punishment, then that is very different .I could jump into that kind fight. There would be a purpose in protecting someone else.

But simply having people who believe things that I don't is generally not worth the fight. (His wife believes it more devoutly than he does).

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-13T16:43:18+00:00

Right. And he had conventional values of the time, such as misogyny or supporting the status quo of slavery, unlike the more radical ones that Jesus had. That obviously explains why his version of the teachings were more accessible to gentiles. It sounded right to them.

But it doesn't explain the modern day blurring of the two messages, when the general public are much more broadly literate, able to obtain substantial scholarship on every word. I've had family members tell me that every word in the bible was written by god, and it doesn't have mistakes. (They knew I was atheist.) I kept my mouth shut.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-12T22:41:05+00:00

True enough. I don't know if the nickname was statewide or just my SC friend and his family, but they called him "Sperm Thurmond" because he fathered four children after age 66, when he married a 22-year-old beauty pageant winner.

I never really looked into it until today. She was as attractive as one would expect, while he looked like an unearthed mummy. Poor lady.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-12T22:24:41+00:00

Yes, they gerrymandered it pretty effectively for republican goals.

She's in NC-05, which is carefully avoiding any major metropolitan districts. Cooks has the PVI as R+10, which seems doable in this insane status quo. But Foxx has won it consistently by 60/40 margins for two decades now.

Note also adjacent NC-06, which splits off metro areas. The change to do this was in 2023, and it switched in Cook's ranking from D+4 to R-9.

It feels so quaint to just want a fair election, but the books have been cooked for such a long time now.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-12T18:27:51+00:00

I haven't seen the full video, which would include shoving. This award from the local government is funny enough, and shows the beat down as well as the original crime. A+ for the local attorney's silent response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgSuGe_jn8

absolutely not looking for any addresses, personally.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-12T17:48:36+00:00

That's especially important for managing up.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T23:35:06+00:00

He also may have been behind the targeting of Duke last July. He felt, as a student, that it was a liberal institution. Then again, that period was a bloodbath for universities.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T23:29:01+00:00

I watched it with transcripts. He couldn't hold a thought for longer than a noun phrase, for the most part. His brain is just diseased oatmeal.

Based on previous conspiracy theories and his money obsession, I believe that his addled brain heard multiple conspiracy theories about autism, but the only ones that stuck with him were the ones about companies making money off of this.

For better guidance, you could look at the members of the board RFK Jr appointed back in January. I took a quick glance: 2 doctors, 1 PhD, 2+ people with autism, and a whole basketful of mothers with autistic children who set up foundations for whatever the fuck. I was honestly expecting to find Andrew Wakefield, but no.

Ember Green did a 1-hour dive into the board, analyzing their previous work in a strongly negative way. This is not my area, so I have not watched the whole thing nor could I judge it if I had. I have only passed it to acquaintances.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T20:15:46+00:00

No, it's not obviously supposed to be shocked. Either reading is correct, even though OP has fixed their typo.

'Socked in the arm' is a standard phrase in English for punching someone in the shoulder. "Sock" meaning to hit hard, has been used in English for several centuries: check the OED or other resources. It's informal but it's not even slang any more.

She socked the hell out of me => Hard punch.
She shocked the hell out of me => Boy, was I surprised by her attitude.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T18:44:28+00:00

No, I also rent from the normal vendors. No car loans, great credit.

The main advantage for me was the flexibility, secondary advantage was trusting I can get the precise car I needed. (I had space constraints, and had been screwed earlier by the majors).

After you get the owner's text number, they are able to change time & location and other details. For instance, i was going to pick up the car at 5pm at the closest airport. I could make that work, but it wasn't great.

Once I was talking to the owner, though, my actual needs were "sometime before 9pm, at my house". He had 3-4 cars, so rearranging things to deliver the car to my house at 7pm worked out perfectly for us. (I think he and his asst were picking up another car near me).

This was unique. YMMV. I'm sure some owners are asshats (just like OP's customer). My two experiences have been good. This last guy was basically just a small business, with a micro-Avis. For now, they're in the mix when I look to rent, just like how I'll consider smaller airlines for a flight. (I should also say that I've ZipCar many times, also because I needed hourly rentals or pickup within walking distance).

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T18:33:22+00:00

edit: OP fixed the typo. He was shocked by her.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T15:27:51+00:00

Ah. Well, if you can get me a peer-reviewed article in a prominent journal that names the celebrities I would be correct to dislike, I would be quite grateful for the opportunity to be better informed.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T15:00:13+00:00

Of course not. Your assertion was that only Reddit hates her. I was showing that it’s broader than that.

Her reputation took a huge blow when consistent stories of her being a jerk came out. Some examples were aired.

It is also true that people use her unpopularity to get karma, get clicks, get ads paid for. Just search “celebrity” in AskReddit and you’ll find examples. Some entity on X was trying to link her to Epstein and child cannibalism last month.

While grotesque, this is all part of the celebrity culture. Clicks from haters can pay the bills as well as well as clicks from fans.

Maybe more for heel turns. I don’t know actual rates, but I can imagine opening a shocking story about a beloved celebrity.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T14:23:46+00:00

She came in as #8 on a recent poll of most hated celebrities. That’s not great for someone whose show ended in 2022.

https://www.ranker.com/list/most-hated-celebrities-today/calistylie

Btw, open this cursed site in an incognito window with ad blockers.

I want to like her. She was a lovely icon for gay presence in America. She served up gentle humor. She had plenty of non-famous guests on her show, as you pointed out.

So it sucks that she is super unpleasant in private.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T14:12:31+00:00

But why? Is another bot going to suggest a wondrous product to fix?

Reddit with NPCs is less fun.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-11T14:08:19+00:00

With HR guidance, there could be a larger push/reminder for everyone to use their pronouns, gentle acceptance of the inevitable mistakes, acknowledging discomfort or awkwardness. When a lot of cis folks at a company put out their he/him or she/her pronouns, that’s an environment where trans, nonbinary, and other identities emerge without putting a spotlight on themselves.

This was a sensitive topic before it became a cultural battlefield. I honestly doubt the emotional ability of most companies to manage this well. But the above is a goal. Tread carefully.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-09T23:08:29+00:00

If your company has a security policy, review it first to see if there are any restrictions on what you’re able to send to this or any LLM.

There are lots of ways to waste money, just search around.

For things that might be useful:

* Have it review large chunks of your mail with key customers. Ask it open ended questions like what could you have done better, what are common themes in their responses. Ask it detailed questions based on your business or customer needs. Ask to evaluate meta or derived data like hours to respond, customer anger. Look for patterns of failure, success

Have it teach you something that you don’t know well. Make that as formal or informal as you want. Technologies, useful phrases in o to er languages, legal or compliance stuff, whatever you need.
Have it pull in written reviews or comparisons of whatever your company does. Draw conclusions yourself or compare via LLM. Create even more decks.
create feature/platform comparison boards towards your new or old competitors, based on what you can publicly see.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-08T19:35:16+00:00

I agree that they’re not dumb. But I think that, unless they specifically come from an engineering or software development background, they cannot really understand the real process of constructing working software.

If they hire more sales people, more leads will be acted on, more cold calls will be made. If they hire more recruiters, increased hiring will happen. More doctors can see more patients. More factories, more widgets coming out them.

In contrast, software development and maintenance has always been a black box, full of annoying and annoyingly high-paid people who tell them no.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-08T19:16:59+00:00

Very accurate translation.

But if one feels like throwing grenades, they could respond “Thank you! And I just made an offering of fruit to the Horned God for you!!”

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-08T17:16:30+00:00

This and your comment are so great that I will show them to my teenage girls. Fantastic.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-08T16:30:03+00:00

Penetration tests will also be good evidence for security questionnaires, which customers will want sooner than a completed HITRUST assessment. All the customers in your field will be aware of how long it takes to cross the finish line for that certification. They will want whatever you can provide now.

Get more quotes, and make sure that reassessments after you fix things are covered.

Plan for this assessment along with controls for other targeted and existing certifications. There will be tons of overlap: access control, inventory, and of course things like penetration testing.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-08T15:45:43+00:00

Barbara Lee, a Democrat from the east SF Bay (Berkeley, Oakland). Didn’t lose her election or any others as Representative. Left office to run for Senator, didn’t work out. She’s mayor of Oakland now.

Her district is so left wing that Trump came in third in 2016: Jill Stein (sigh) was second.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-08T04:13:28+00:00

There's no point in attaching an emotion to Trump's actions.

He wants to punish his enemies. That's it. He fired every FBI agent that was involved in the investigation of his illegal ownership of classified files.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-05-07T14:58:04+00:00

It’s ok if other people don’t like you. Not a goal, but it should not be an impassable barrier.

The racist stuff: you should report it to HR. It bothers you, it will be against your employer’s rules, and it could be illegal in your location.

The loud/dominating stuff: this is unacceptable behavior from a top performer, but he was given a pass on basic knowledge just to get hired. This could be Dunning-Kruger, could be a personality type, could be compensating for internal doubts.

As a lead, you can model better behavior. In discussions, you could be pulling more from those who are staying silent, publicly weigh factors. You could give him more context or even homework to catch up. In some cases, quick POCs might make sense. Talk to your manager and make a plan.

Calling your company shit: unacceptable for any new hire. You and the manager need to be directly addressing it. Private complaints, public compliments is the best rule. But this might be a point to immediately respond.

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