SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

The C-Suite at this news: “This was a triumph! I’m making a note here: “Huge success!” It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction!”

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This is exactly what they wanted to happen. Stealth layoff without having to give your most senior employees things like severance or unemployment. Senior employees cost more, and any way to get them all to flee without having to pay out for it is viewed as a big win.

They knew their best would fly the coop. They didn’t fucking care, that was the plan. Honestly, this shit should have been class action lawsuits under “Constructive Dismissal.”

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

It was the whole getting rid of senior employees without having to pay severance or unemployment thing.

It was never about “returning to office.” It was always about making the most well paid and senior employees walk so they could save money.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

The cake is a lie.

https://i.giphy.com/YHGbhLyWk3ckg.gif

Milton knows.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

What’s worse is they’ll make young upstarts feel like “heroes” for figuring out a problem that wasn’t a problem until they lost all that senior staff.

Never realizing it wouldn’t have been a problem to solve if they company hadn’t purposefully shitcanned all that institutional knowledge and that they’re being way underpaid for solving the issue.

Then this same cycle will happen to them too, when they’re too old to change careers easily.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago

Did you just re-invent Progressive Web Applications?

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I’ll go a step further:

You have to separate the art from the artist because there is not a single artist I’ve ever encountered who wasn’t some kind of fucking trashhole of a person.

Artists spent their lives on being artists, not developing good interpersonal skills or understanding politics or philosophy.

Beleiving an artist is a “good person” is just setting yourself up for disappointment. Start out assuming they suck dogshit and you usually end up being right.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago

Trash lyrics fucking up an otherwise good song. It happens far too often.

That’s why I’m just a bit of a fan of Thom Yorke’s whole “using my voice as an instrument, the words don’t mean anything” vibe because at least he purposefully isn’t trying to make meaningful lyrics and instead is just trying to add another instrument to the music.

SnotFlickerman, 10 days ago

It’s why I got so into Busdriver for a while. Not a lot of rappers out there trying to rap to a melody instead of just a beat.

Further, even if they are out there, they aren’t as popular.

SnotFlickerman, 11 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

You can only sort of ever keep up.

The main issue preventing you an Old, from finding more about people who are Young, is that the Young don’t exactly love the old filling up their spaces, trying to remain hip.

This is exemplified by the slow death of social networks as they grow in popularity. A new social network pops up, its quickly populated by the youth. Slowly, as it becomes more popular, Olds start creeping in, until there are so many Olds that the youth want to go somewhere else because they no longer have privacy.

When Mom and Uncle Jim are in the conversation, everything is suddenly less cool.

Happened to MySpace first, and it’s happening to Facebook right now. It’s basically ghost towns of people who will be dead soon.

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We are limited because the youth will always want their own private spaces where they can truly be themselves without their weird expectations of the older generations. If you’re older with zero expecations for the youth, congratulations: you’re unusual, so don’t hold it against the youth that they assume you’re just another boring old person who is going to judge them for something. Most adults are out here judging them, so give them a break on assumptions they might make about you.

I used to keep up with music through YouTube channels, but even the ones I used to follow are aging up and soon enough those people I was listening to are Old now too, and they’re doing the same thing as me, trying to keep up with what’s hip and good.

I understand the desire to do so. New music is often so good, and I really get sick of people who act like the music they grew up with is the best in history. It’s not, and it never will be. Music is always growing and making music is more accessible than ever, which means its really exploding and evolving. There’s never been a better time to love music.

However, as Olds, we’re just going to miss a lot of what’s cool with the kids simply because we’re Olds. So much is just going to naturally be hidden from us.

SnotFlickerman, 11 days ago

It’s fine, no worries on your thoughts being all over, it’s the internet. Who cares? You got your points across fine.

I don’t think trying to know what the youth are into is creepy at all! I think the real issue comes from the youth being used to adults being shitty and judgy to them. Like I said, it’s great if we’re not shitty and judgy, but we have to be patient with the youth and their expectations of older people because they’re absolutely colored by the fact that most older folks are weirdly judgy. So it’s more that we have our work cut out for us because most older folks could give a flying fuck about being interested in the art of the youth, and the youth know that and feel it viscerally. It takes time for them to feel “safe” and open up. Like you said, how we grew up with Boomers and most of them are just dogshit and judgy people when it came to the youth. We like to think our generation is better… but it’s not, sadly.

Anyway, it’s not impossible to make inroads with the youth, but you have to be okay with them ribbing you and smile and laugh when they joke about how out of touch you are. They’re going to assume we’re just like any other jerk of an Old, so it just takes more effort on our parts to prove we’re not just some judgy jerk.

I am thankful for every old person who has genuine interest in what the youth are doing and what kind of art they are creating. You’re right, it IS a good thing to be interested, and it’s a good thing to pursue, because it helps break down the very generational barriers we dislike so much.

SnotFlickerman, 11 days ago

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SnotFlickerman, 11 days ago

Underrated suggestion.

SnotFlickerman, 11 days ago

TikTok has already succumbed to the Olds invading.

That’s why I thought it was hilarious that the US government wants to “ban” TikTok after it’s on the decline with the youth. TikTok at this point is mainly millennials hanging out, trying to find what cool stuff the youth are into.

Wherever the cool kids are hanging out, by the time we find out about it, they’re mostly going to have moved on to something else.

SnotFlickerman, 12 days ago

I forgot that Binkley started with dark hair.

SnotFlickerman, 12 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

I’ve been trying to find this interview with Mark Hossler for over a decade. It was around 2006-2008, it was pre-youtube and hosted as an mp4 file on someone’s blog… I have been unable to find it, nor have others. If you can find it easily on YouTube… it’s not the interview I’m talking about.

Anyway, it spoke deeply on this point. I’ll try to make my best summation of what Hossler discussed in this interview.

Basically, his position on art and how you can have “control” over your art was this:

If you want to control your art: Keep it in your home, don’t take pictures of it, don’t post it online, keep quiet about it and maybe let people who enter your home view it.

The key is this: All human minds function on copying and memetics. We inherently “copy” ideas that we see in real life, without even thinking about it. Taking this a step further, anyone who wants to “copy” your art can simply do so by viewing it, internalizing the details in their mind, and then (if they’re a talented artist) recreate your art themselves.

In other words, there is no real way to have complete control over your art short of locking it inside of a box and never showing it to anybody. The act of sharing it with others means you’ve put the idea of that art into their mind, and if they wish to do so, they can absolutely copy it. There is no stopping this act, this is innate to how the human mind functions, learns, and adapts.

So if you want “control” over your creations, you better not be sharing them with anybody.

Once you’ve shared your creations (art or engineering) with the world, someone out there will be capable of copying what you did. Further, with billions of people on the planet, someone out there will be capable and willing to do it.

The point I personally think Hossler was making is that in sharing something at all, you’ve already destroyed any of your own attempts to control the use of the idea. Stop trying to control your creations and instead hope society will do it’s best with them.

SnotFlickerman, 12 days ago

I remember this dogshit Charlie Sheen flick!

SnotFlickerman, 13 days ago

https://i.imgur.com/eV8fzKQ.jpg

SnotFlickerman, 13 days ago

There is seemingly no threads on this on hackernews and this isn’t getting much traction here. Spreading the word will help, if you can!

SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago

Heart of Gold.

SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

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SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago

Free Open Source Software

SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Podcast links? Please and thank you. Sounds interesting.

SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago

You figured out the Fediverse, you’re not that much of a luddite.

SnotFlickerman, 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Needs to have his fuckin kids taken from him, if they’re not yet adults. Psychopath.