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The Heartbreak Prince

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Reasons being a designer for a university is maddening :

Everyone thinks an "info sheet" is an engaging piece of content that will drive participation in their program

So during orientation the plan is to hand freshmen folders full of "info sheets" so they're "aware" of your programs and the benefits and they can "make an informed decision", and in theory this is supposed to boost program attendance

Do my fellow sales and marketing professionals see what's wrong with this concept?

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You've just handed them optional homework

They're aware only that this is something they should do

Which is what haunts them as they proceed to not do it, because your program is now just one of a hundred "info sheets" they were told would be really valuable on their first day, and in their desperation to figure out what's really important they concluded none of it was important

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Most of you went to school here and have worked here a long time, you already know what they're going to do with your "info sheet"

yes, disrespecting the experienced marketer and micromanaging your content to your own demise is not really all that crazy: it's normal levels of crazy

What's over the top is watching shit not work and deciding it should stay that way: that you would like to contribute more broken shit and call it a day

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My take on AI is similar to my take on blockchain:

the best possible outcome is that it fucks up everything

Anything less than that is very shitty

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I believe in constant feedback

[no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop that, no, no, no, yes, no, no, no ]

is a significantly more useful dataset than

[no]

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You do not need to condemn Hamas to condemn Israel. Israel's actions against the Palestinian people are crimes regardless. It is not antisemitism to hold Israel accountable for Israel's actions

Did Hamas also do something condemnable? Certainly, but don't change the subject.

Lookin at you Daniel Kurtzer of Haaretz, who wants to know why Palestinians won't condemn US student protestors who support Hamas, as if a couple extreme quote pulls can compare to a literal active genocide

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Even if we take up the (deliberately false, propagandistic, purposefully twisted) assumption that phrases like "palestine will be free" are intended to be calls for the genocide of Jews,

Such rhetoric in that capacity still would not justify literal genocide as a response: genocide is not in any way a form of self-defense, justice, or accountability

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I know it's become acceptable in current usage, but it still grates on me when I see "invite" used as a noun in place of "invitation."

But that's just my problem.

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@WolfIsMe @MartyCormack Pretty much

"The team worked tirelessly to solution the technical glitch."

is a correct use that is basically (but not exactly) equal to: "The team worked tirelessly to remedy the technical glitch."

It's popular jargon in the software space (because if we're being pedantic a solution is not always a remedy)

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@WolfIsMe @MartyCormack That said I agree with Marty: your average jargonista isn't motivated by semantic precision

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And, like an idiot, I agreed to the book club

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Stakeholder-driven design is good, however

Be very skeptical of recommendations that you build your process around stakeholders contributing work

This generally signals that there was insufficient buy-in to start the process and the extra time and effort required from your stakeholders doesn't earn you a lot of gratitude like it's supposed to

They'd rather have been included in the decision to build or not to build something, than be asked to help build something they might not even want

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This is in the same vein as hosting a "brainstorming meeting" to build a doc

The framing of the meeting should be "do you need docs and why or why not", not "what should I put in this doc that leadership decided you need"

Do talk to them, do ask questions, but the more labor you offload onto stakeholders the less confidence they'll have in the results

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Classic example:

Sales says to marketing: "help me brainstorm what should go in this doc that you're then going to design"

So you've chosen a communications channel for me but you need me to help you craft the pitch

So that means you're communications and I'm sales, right? And this is my sale?

No??

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Chess.com: "Enjoy one free lesson. Only one. Buy premium for more. Stop pressing next lesson it's not going to work"

Also Chess.com: "😢 it's been 3 days since your last lesson come back"

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I'm just saying, while a during this would likely destroy a lot of our electrical infrastructure, it would also basically eliminate light pollution in affected urban centers while drastically reducing our collective carbon emissions in the process.

That's why I'm voting for

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@zrb Given it would take a miracle to save us, I think you've identified a most likely candidate

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News has been very quiet about the fact that EVERY SINGLE SEAT IN THE HOUSE IS ON THE BALLOT IN NOVEMBER lol

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So like,

an essential part of the history and ideology of the Soviet Union is that the partisan dictatorship tasked itself with acting in order to bring about Communism

Like, it's not that Stalin was viewed by anyone as a good guy revolutionary, it's that the negative outcomes were viewed as the byproduct of technical-political solutions intended to eventually create Communism

So when you point to that stuff like "Communism is bad" what you're really observing is "they never had it"

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If the idea had been Communism had already been achieved, mass murder would have been obviously absurd and indefensible

If the idea had ever been: Communism = mass murder of reactionaries, Communism would have been obviously absurd and indefensible

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What the USSR operated under was the something like "we will achieve communism in our lifetimes"

If you believe peace and harmony for all mankind is just a few more murders away, the moral math gets a lot more difficult

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Fact 1. the usual way one ends up with T. solium in their brain is by eating human feces

Fact 2. T. solium comes from a specific region of the world (Latin America)

=

Fact 3. RFK Jr. travels the world to eat ass

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Notice now that Biden is up 21 points in polling, Biden's poll numbers aren't a national news story anymore?

It's almost as if all of these "liberal mainstream" media outlets aren't interested in discussing Biden's strength as a candidate

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One of my textbooks this semester is a digital access subscription to textbook material and it expires after the end of the semester

Yes of course it's the same price as a physical textbook you can keep forever

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Don't forget to put your hard drives in your faraday cage before bed tonight btw

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Time to build: about 45 mins (not including soldering the power supply)
Materials:
(4) $5 Arctic P12 fans
(2) $10 10x20x1 1200D filtrete MERV-11 filters
(2) $7 20x20x1 1500 MERV-12 filtrete filters (pack of 12 off ebay)
duct tape
zip ties
cardboard
12V power supply (free because I soldered a random old adapter, but normally $10 plus $3 or so for a splitter. Or get the fans with built-in splitters)

Total: approx $55, next one will cost about $70.
Roughly 225cfm and extremely quiet.

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@Andres4NY @enobacon These are the only results that matter: is the air moving through the filter and does the filter filter

Moving air in a PC is about heat transfer not air filtration, anyway

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@Andres4NY @enobacon "It spends more time on because we can tolerate it on" is a great observation

You've probably already tinkered with this but I would think the filters used would have a significant impact on outcomes, too: you might see tradeoffs like more CFM with lower air quality

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