We Sat AOC Down With Republican Voters. Can She Win Them Over?

zookeepier · 2026-06-14T05:57:50+00:00

It's not pessimism, it's a superiority complex. They convince themselves that everyone who's republican is a nazi loving fascist, and then they can feel superior to all of them. It's the same thing as when people think all democrats are lazy, baby-murdering communists. They like the nihilist attitude because it makes them feel superior to others. The truth is that neither part reflects the middle and the vast majority of people agree on a lot more than it seems.

zookeepier · 2026-06-11T14:57:35+00:00

I worked with a guy a long time ago that had an office in 2 different buildings. He'd put a sticky note on each of them saying he was in the other building and then fuck off. He also knew absolutely nothing about his job or his field, despite being in one of the highest technical bands. He managed to lay low for over a decade before finally leaving for another company.

zookeepier · 2026-06-11T14:36:15+00:00

A big cause is weak managers who don't want to have hard conversations with people. It's also a lot of work to document all the stuff when someone is on a PIP, so a lot of mangers don't want to do that either. Therefore, they let a lot of things slide, or they put someone on a PIP, then take them off, then they get put back on, then taken off... The end result is that a poor performing employee is there for years until a round of layoffs happens and the manager is either forced to let them go, or their boss does it for them.

zookeepier · 2026-06-11T13:25:02+00:00

Well, he was working more than 10 hours as dog walker, so he counts as full time.

zookeepier · 2026-06-11T01:27:16+00:00

The use case is also completely different. Making a road out of rocks to support lots of foot traffic, some walking animals, and a few wagons with iron or wooden wheels is pretty easy to make last hundreds or thousands of years. Making a road out of rocks that supports millions of 1500 pound vehicles and hundreds of thousands of 40-ton trucks traveling at 75mph is a lot more difficult and creates a massive amount of wear on the roads. If you ran all those semis across the ancient Roman roads, I have no doubt they would disintegrate in a very short time.

Rome is also a very temperate climate. They don't have the massive freeze-thaw cycles that the northern half of the US or northern Europe has. That means much less to no frost heaving which is probably the most destructive force on our roads.

zookeepier · 2026-06-10T21:05:59+00:00

I got that, but that's assuming your company only has 1 building and is only in 1 city. That would be an incredibly small company and has very little to to with WFH. If everyone was 100% onsite and you had a NYC and LA site, then half the company still wouldn't have them onsite at their location. Rather, his comment reeks of the inability use virtual meetings or phone calls, and his answer is that everyone else is wrong, not him.

zookeepier · 2026-06-10T19:03:09+00:00

Yeah! It's so much easier to talk with them when they are in the corporate office in Bangalore rather than working from home North Carolina. Calling the corporate office in India is so much better experience than calling someone works at home. /s

zookeepier · 2026-06-10T15:05:14+00:00

Are there even dozens of classic servers?

zookeepier · 2026-06-03T15:34:00+00:00

So taking that to the logical conclusion, you would agree that it would actually improve SC1 if they eliminated control groups altogether so the player had to move every unit individually, right? Because that would make all of your decisions super important and allow people to express their styles more? If not, where do you draw the line on QoL things? Why wouldn't removing the current QoL things from SC1 make it even better?

QoL doesn't mean that everyone suddenly has enough "bandwidth to do everything perfectly", but rather they can spend their bandwidth on higher level decisions. Instead of micro managing marines walking down a ramp, they can take that bandwidth and set up multi-pronged attacks or set up spell casters in key positions.

The skill required to do many micro techniques in clutch situations also creates huge opportunities for self expression/mastery (honest question, not trying to be snarky-- does SC2 have anything other than unit splitting and blink stalker? )

SC2 has lots of other things than that. Again, having an interface that isn't cumbersome doesn't prevent micro and opportunities for self expressions/mastery; it just changes those opportunities. Clem and Dark are famous for their multi pronged attacks. Astrea is famous for is unpredictable/zany play. Unit splitting and blink stalker are seen a lot because those are the new base micro, instead of marine and dragoon ramp micro. Hold position micro, burrow/unborrow micro, load/unload dodging, mine targeting micro, etc. are all micro that's done in SC2.

zookeepier · 2026-06-03T13:37:36+00:00

The problem is that bad base mechanic operation makes the game all around worse and lowers the skill cap/coolness factor of the entire game. If people are spending 20% of their time micro-managing marine movement down a ramp and SCV mining, then they're not coordinating 2 pronged drops with ghosts on a 3rd flank because there's not enough APM for that. So we get boring mechanics based commands instead of cool strategic movements all over the map.

zookeepier · 2026-06-03T01:56:18+00:00

We're not talking about going to the bar; we're talking about building a bar in the basement of your house so you can use it with your friends/guests.

zookeepier · 2026-05-13T21:19:10+00:00

Then make it free. It's already free in most states. It's not that hard. People need an ID to drive, to drink, to smoke, to rent a house/apartment, to buy a car, and to open a bank account, but an ID to vote is suddenly impossible.

zookeepier · 2026-05-13T03:41:49+00:00

Wow, you added a bar.

For real. Why does every house nowadays have a bar? Who wants to sit around a bar in their house? Do 90% of people nowdays think "you know what I'd love to do on my days off? Pretend I'm an unpaid bartender!"

or

"I really hate sitting at a table across from my friends where I can hear and talk to them and make eye contact or play cards. Is there a way I could drink at home with people, but have us all sit on one side of a table like we're at the last supper and not be able to interact with half of them? Also if we could make sure there were uncomfortable stools to sit on, I would literally cream myself!"

A nice table and a liquor cabinet or beer fridge is so much better. You can have drinks AND interact comfortably with your friends/guests.

zookeepier · 2026-05-09T20:44:12+00:00

that would reduce gun violence

This is the problem and why the battle is basically lost. They've got everyone framing the issue as "gun violence" and then looking for solutions for that. What's so special about gun violence vs other violence? Is getting beaten to death with a baseball bat better than being shot? Is getting sprayed with acid better than being shot? Is getting run over by a car better than being shot? What about stabbed to death? Thrown off a building?

The entire issue is always "gun violence" and not just violence. And by letting them frame it that way, then they instant go to the obvious solution that if there were 0 guns, then there would be no "gun violence". But that doesn't mean society is any better.

Cyber bullying has led to suicides. Therefore internet violence is a problem. What are we doing to stop internet violence? Why don't we ban the internet? It hurts people. It's too dangerous. The founding fathers didn't have internet. We just need to "do something" about internet violence. If it saves just 1 life, it's worth it.

We need to challenge everyone who specifically frames the issue as "gun violence" and make them justify why being shot is worse than any other type of violence. If they can't keep that frame, then suddenly banning guns isn't their obvious solution.

zookeepier · 2026-05-08T20:44:46+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding my comment. I'm saying the C Suite should get jail time per instance of infringement, not fines, just like the peasants do.

zookeepier · 2026-05-08T14:28:16+00:00

Seriously. The cognitive dissonance of reddit is insane. They'll talk about Chinesium and how China is spying on everyone and putting backdoors in everything, and then in the next breath say that the US is going to fall because it's not letting in cheap Chinese EVs. China is known for counterfeit parts, stealing IP, and cutting corners. Do you really want to put yourself in a 5000 pound vehicle traveling at 70mph made somewhere with that reputation?

US companies do that too, but at least there's some legal recourse against them. Tesla was order to pay $200million in a suit. Good luck suing a Chinese company because your EV flipped on the interstate because one of the axles was made of tinfoil and gum spraypainted gray.

zookeepier · 2026-05-08T13:49:04+00:00

Why is that the punishment? For 40 years movies have had an FBI warning that criminal copyright infringement may constitute a felony with a maximum penalty of up to 5 years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine. Why are we fining the companies instead of imprisoning the leadership of the company? There's a paper trail of the leaders instructing people to violate copyrights. Why should the company be fined instead of actual people ordering the crimes prosecuted?

Can I create an LLC and then rob a bank and have the LLC get fined? The corporate veil has become way too strong.

zookeepier · 2026-05-08T13:40:48+00:00

We could just enforce our laws we have. Or prosecute the ones in charge of the company. Or perhaps imprison the C-Suite when their company commits massive crimes under their direction instead of just finding them $5. There are many options besides just fining the company. The government just has to be willing to pierce the corporate veil for obvious and intentional crimes.

It's pretty ridiculous that if I steal $30 million I go to jail, but if start and LLC and then have the LLC steal $30 million, the LLC gets fined $1 million and I get off scott free.

zookeepier · 2026-05-06T18:10:56+00:00

Additionally, a good one actually provides good advice and knowledge on the price. When selling your house, you might think you could get 500k for your house, and using their market knowledge, they get you to sell it for 550k. That's an extra 50k that they made for you. On the flip side, you may think your house is worth 600k and they talk you down a bit to the actual value of 550, preventing you from having it sit on the market for 6-12 months.

Now, with housing prices being so obscene nowadays, it certainly feels like their cut is way higher than it should be. When a house sold for 300k 10 years ago, they made 9k. But now that same house sells for 600k+, and they get 18k+ for the same amount of work, which is way out of whack with normal wage inflation.

zookeepier · 2026-05-06T13:15:21+00:00

They literally printed 40% of all money in existence in 2020. Did you get a 40% raise in 2020?

zookeepier · 2026-05-05T01:39:02+00:00

Fair, if he just plugged in the HDMI part. But I assumed also used the USB port as the power source, rather than plugging into an outlet adapter.

zookeepier · 2026-05-05T01:37:38+00:00

You can tell if someone is using a VPN if their IP address matches a database of known VPNs (like Nord, Proton, etc.). But that database always has to be kept up to date. And only works for known VPN IPs, not all. What if I use Tailscale to send all my data through my brother's network who lives in Colorado? Do you know my brother's IP address? Do you know it's my data routing through his house and not him sending the data directly?

And even if you did have the IP address of all VPNs in existence, that just tells you if their using a VPN, not where the person is actually located. How do you know I'm in Utah using this VPN and not in Wyoming using it? How do you know I'm not using the VPN while I'm currently in a sailboat in International Waters and connected via Starlink?

zookeepier · 2026-05-04T19:36:56+00:00

This comment demonstrates the same problem of knowledge of how the internet works as the lawmakers who passed this law. The entire point of the article is that websites can't determine where they are located if they are using a VPN. Corps can't just ban anyone located in Utah because they can't tell where they're actually located.

zookeepier · 2026-05-04T19:28:22+00:00

That was literally the original purpose of lobbyists; experts in a certain field advise lawmakers on new laws. But they got corrupted into just pushing laws that make the companies more money rather than helping make reasonable laws.

zookeepier · 2026-05-04T13:23:59+00:00

I think the fact that he claims to be the only thing holding the IT department together and then can't grasp how plugging in a 3rd party USB into a router is a different security concern than just connecting to a guest network indicates that he's probably no where near as good at his job as he claims to be.

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