AFKBRBChocolate

@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world

Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

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AFKBRBChocolate,

Nice pic.

That’s a kind we have a lot of where I am.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Here’s a really good paper on SovCits. I think it’s intended to educate judges and other officials. It’s a little focused on NC, but most of it applies broadly.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I was around when texts were limited in the number of characters, and most phone plans had a cap on the number of included texts, so people really started with the abbreviations (e.g., “r u gonna go?”) and it started spreading to email and other non-texts (people stayed doing it before then on BBS’s, but it really took off then). But I wrote a lot at work and I was always worried if I got in the habit of using them I’d forget and use them in work emails or whatever. Very conservative company, so it would be unprofessional.

Long way of saying that I consciously avoided anything like that, and that extended to emojis. Now I feel a bit like a fossil for my texts with full sentences and punctuation, but I sort of am a fossil, so it’s okay.

Of course, all that is kind of ironic given my username.

AFKBRBChocolate,

It’s where the Mississippi River was at the time (and still largely is). It’s not like someone just drew it that way.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Talk about doubling down…

AFKBRBChocolate,

Did you know a number of states have fought efforts to raise the age of consent or marriage with parental approval?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Not inherently, but I think there are some factors that can make it feel that way, including:

  • There was a higher bar to getting air time back in the day. Having decent quality recording equipment wasn’t something a normal person could afford, so they had to rent studio time. There wasn’t an internet to put stuff out there with, so you had to get your music heard by the right people, who then had to decide it was worth playing. Today is a lot easier to get something out there.
  • Though every kind of media has been subject to crafted and pushed personas for decades (e.g., The Monkeys), in these days so much of what we’re exposed to is what algorithms and corporations think we’ll buy. Way more true today than ever before.
  • As someone else mentioned, when people compare “today’s music” to music from a prior decade, they’re usually comparing everything on the air today to everything that’s stood the test of time from the prior decade. Classic rock stations don’t play everything, just the stuff people still like. There’s a lot of junk that’s been forgotten.
  • This is anecdotal, but from what I’ve seen, people’s musical tastes are based largely on what they liked in their late teens and twenties. Even if they like new music, it tends to be music that’s influenced by that same earlier music. As with any generality, there are lots of exceptions. But I think a society’s tastes evolve over time more than a person’s tastes, so it’s not unusual to get older and think everything new is crap.
AFKBRBChocolate,

Is it working now? I did it again - working for me.

'Staring down little tyrants': Kristi Noem's book includes false anecdote about Kim Jong Un (www.usatoday.com)

“I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un,” she wrote in the book set to be released Tuesday. “I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all).”...

AFKBRBChocolate,

I just don’t get how evangelicals can support people like this. Once upon a time, it was career suicide if a republican politician wasn’t seen going to church on Sundays. Now they get kicked out of theaters for groping their date, cheat on their spouse with a porn star, get caught in lies almost daily, and the Christian right says god chose them to run the country.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I think it’s most important for the candidate to hate the same things they hate.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Yeah, kind of dumb. I didn’t mind it as much if it’s a community for posting pics or videos, as long as the bot isn’t dumping huge numbers of posts. What really annoys me is when they do it for communities that are more discussion based. They were doing it in AITA and other question-oriented ones. It makes no sense: someone asks a question on Reddit and people here are going to answer it?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Yep, mine too. If I could take care of the problem by blocking the account, I did that, but a lot of times I ended up blocking the community.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is

As opposed to humor boomers actually like…

AFKBRBChocolate,

My point is that lots and lots of us didn’t really love that kind of stuff at the time. It’s just that those kinds of jokes stand out, along with race jokes, because they’ve aged so badly.

AFKBRBChocolate,

What sucks is that people attribute stuff like that to the whole generation; we get painted broadly as very right wing conservatives who are against any social programs. But look at things like the age demographics of the last couple presidential elections. Yes, you’ll see that more older people voted conservative than liberal, but not by a large margin. You’ll also see that, though more younger folks voted liberal, that margin wasn’t huge either. And in our society, it’s not unusual for folks to get more conservative as they get older (the opposite for me personally, but it’s often true), so it won’t be surprising if younger folks today vote more conservatively when they’re older.

Huge hunks of boomers are fighting for equal rights for all people, are big proponents of social programs that help those who are disadvantaged, advocate for universal healthcare, and all sorts of other progressive issues. Large numbers of younger people are against those things. The fact that total numbers might tip one way or another doesn’t change that, and applying a stereotype to millions of people is always wrong.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Okay, but there were go again. Remember that the oldest boomers were in their mid 30s when Regan was first elected. Take a look at these demographics. Boomers were the ones mostly voting for Carter.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I understand, and I didn’t mean to come off too strong, but you have no idea how many times I’ve seen people in these communities saying that all boomers are horrible, some even going so far as to say that the world would be better if we were all dead. Unironically. Can you image the backlash if someone said that about any other demographic? A gender? A race? It gets a bit frustrating to be worse than dismissed because of the year I was born, regardless of the fact that I’m a pretty progressive liberal on the same side as most of the people doing the dismissing.

AFKBRBChocolate,

You can choose both English and “unspecified.” You’ll still see some non-English stuff when people don’t set the language, but it will filter out all of the posts where the language is set to something else.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Not sure why you think I have trouble getting good talent.

This doesn’t make my life easier. I still get a mess of resumes that I have to read through and rank, then go through the interview process. It’s a lot of work. But I do get good results generally.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I don’t struggle to find good applicants. I have a really high success rate in a very challenging field.

AFKBRBChocolate,

The struggle i have is that a giant percentage of applicants want fully remote work, which I respect, but a lot of our work requires being hands on with hardware, so at best we’re hybrid. Oh, and it’s of course harder when I’m looking for something very specific. If I need someone with ten years of real time control software experience who has a software degree and hands on hardware experience, that’s for sure harder. The reason so many companies are having a harder time is that unemployment is low but salaries haven’t caught up. It’s not that no one wants to fill out the application form.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I can’t tell you how many interviews I’ve been in where the interviewer was clearly not technical but asked questions around your technical background.

That’s just crazy town, I can’t imagine doing that. I manage software engineers, and I did real time control software for a couple decades before I became a manager. Here’s roughly my process:

  • I get the matching resumes from HR - I try not to ask them to assess anything besides degree and very rough background.
  • I read through all the resumes I get looking for qualifications and red flags.
  • For the top three to six, I’ll set up a phone interview with me and our top technical person. But the questions there aren’t especially technical, they’re mostly to get the person talking, look for motivations and interests, make sure we understand the things on the resume, see how they communicate, and get a sense of how they’d mesh with the team. It’s also to answer every question they have as honestly and candidly as we can; I’d much rather find out that we’re not a good fit in a phone interview than later.
  • For any that do well on the phone screen and are still interested, I’ll set up in person interviews with one or two groups of my team. I make sure it includes people who have been here for decades, people who are mid career, and people who have only been here a couple years. I do that in part because I think they look for different things in the candidate, and partly so the candidate can get different perspectives on our work environment. I try not to have more than three of our people in an interview so it doesn’t feel like an inquisition. I’ll talk with the candidate for 30 minutes when they come in to let them know what to expect and to make sure they take the opportunity to ask questions, and then afterwards me and the top technical person will meet to see how it went, if there are any other questions, and to get our in-person sense of the candidate.

Then that’s, no other interviews in the vast majority of cases; I get feedback from the team and then make my best call. If none are good fits, I’ll repeat the whole process.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Understood, but I didn’t want anyone to think it’s a good idea.

AFKBRBChocolate,

There seem to be more and more people who are just bad at their jobs these days. Part of that, from my vantage point, is companies expecting ever-increasing productivity with ever-decreasing resources.

In my early management days, when I wanted to hire someone, an HR person would come and meet with me to go ever exactly what I was looking for, what was critical, what was nice to have, etc. They’d post the position, but they’d also attend career fairs, connect with other agencies, etc. Then they would read through all the resumes and give me what they thought were the top candidates. And they didn’t do a bad job of it. For the ones that I didn’t like, they’d ask me to explain why so that they could get better.

Now it’s more and more self-service. Same with IT, and other areas too.

AFKBRBChocolate,

It’s been a lot longer than that. Here, take a look at this graph comparing productivity to average worker salary. They were completely in sync up through the 70s, then in the 80s worker salary flattened while productivity kept on the same increasing rate. 1981 was when Reagan took office and we started with “trickle down economics.” Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that was supposed to “trickle down” to the worker. Conservatives still tout it today, but it’s never done anything other than make rich people richer and screw the economy.

The problem is that those two lines are continuing on their respective paths, and businesses are expected to grow their productivity at that rate while keeping costs (including salaries) down. So we get squeezed to do more and more with less and less.

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