Signtist

It’s important to understand that change happens when we force change to happen, not when we implore the people who have already decided not to make change to reconsider. Demonstrations are great to raise awareness of the issue, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they’re pretty crap. At best they can scare someone into making change if they think the demonstrators might get violent if they don’t, like how the black panthers scared politicians into that very belief during the civil rights movement.

The issue now is that nobody believes we’ll actually get violent, and for good reason. Generations have been raised on the idea that “violence is never the answer.” Basically our only option to really make change is to use our numbers against them, but that means that some people are going to need to overcome their conditioning and volunteer to be the first to make the choice to rise up, likely to their own demise. If we can’t do that, we’re screwed, so the question is how bad does it need to be for it to happen, and will it be too late by then?

Yeah, there’s an unwritten rule in my area that if something is left close to the street, it’s fair game, sign or no. I almost had my bike taken as a kid because I carelessly left it in the free zone to grab a snack, haha! There’s always cool stuff to find in people’s free zones.

I don’t want to be promoted, since I really don’t want to manage people, so I instead went on linkedin, waited for headhunters to contact me, got some job offers, and took them to my manager asking for a raise to match their offers. Since my job is a necessary part of the process, one of the other companies was desperate to fill the spot, and offered me 50% more than I’d been making at the time, but my manager knew he couldn’t afford to let me go, so I managed to keep my nice remote job, but now with much better pay.

It’s been 5 years since then, and my manager still understands that I’m one of the only people in my department who can actually do the work correctly every time, so I’ve got plenty of job security. I’m still somewhat worried that they’ll get rid of me when he retires and gets replaced with someone else in the next year or two, but I’m still getting plenty of headhunters, so all that would really mean is that I need to get used to working for a different company that probably has better surveillance to make sure I’m actually working during the entirety of my shift.

Well, there is an innate drive to be part of a community baked into our biology. We see people enjoying something, and we want to do it too. It doesn’t need to be framed so negatively as being an insecurity, though I wouldn’t necessarily frame it as peer pressure, either. It’s more just a human desire to share in a new experience with others.

From watching my mom fall into the web of conspiracy theories, I’m pretty confident that most of them don’t actually care about what the truth is, and just want to feel like they’re smarter and better than other people because they can see these made-up intricate connections that supposedly prove the existence of this crazy global coverup that other people completely missed. The complexity is the point; if it’s simple and easy to understand, they can’t claim intellectual superiority for having figured it out.

Funny you think they’d actually verify that you committed a crime and not just raid your house and kill you just because they can.

Honestly, doing my best to hold back the incoming splatter while desperately trying to scan the crinkled-up receipt that I haphazardly stuffed in my pocket on the way to the bathroom because I didn’t think it was important sounds like such a traumatizing experience that I’d probably never eat there again, and would be a lot more likely to result in the mess that caused the policy in the first place.

But what we’re saying is that the process is totally different - it’s only the result that is similar. The AI isn’t “misreading” the question - it understands that it’s comparing pounds of bricks to a distinct number of feathers. The issue is that when it searches its database for answers to questions similar to the one it was asked, and sees that the answer was “they’re the same,” and incorrectly assumes that the answer is the same for this question. It’s a fundamental problem with the way AI works, that can’t be solved with a simple correction about how it’s interpreting the question the way a human misreading the question could be.

The difference is that the human came to their conclusion with active reasoning, but simply misheard the question, while the AI was aware of what was being asked, but lacks the ability to reason, so it’s unable to give any answer besides one already given by a real person answering a slightly different question somewhere in its training data.

My job isn’t important at all - it basically just makes money for our CEO, but I am proud of how little work I can manage to do while still staying in the good graces of my manager, so there’s that.

Convictions have already happened as well. It’s consequences you’re missing.

Poor air didn’t stand a chance…

I’m definitely like that as well - even when I was pursuing my Master’s degree I was dreaming of retirement. I eventually found an easy, well-paying job that lets me work from home, so I’m set.

The issue for me was that, like many Americans, I tied my identity to my career, so I felt embarrassed that I wasn’t motivated enough to have something interesting to report in my work life. That led to me being unmotivated in seeking out non-work-related activities as well, like hanging out with friends or trying new hobbies. I just sat around wasting my life simply because I didn’t want to do anything with my job.

Eventually I realized that my life and my job were separate things, and that I could have as engaging of a life as I want without needing to have an engaging career. Now I pursue hobbies that interest me, and I spend time with friends and family, and when someone asks “So, what do you do?” I give them a nothing answer because that means nothing to me.

It’s totally fine to not have any career goals, but ask yourself whether that means you want to have no goals at all, or whether you’re making the incorrect assumption that your career is your life. Maybe you’ve already figured all this stuff out, and have a list of things you want to do in life that have no relation to your job, but this revelation was a big turning point for me, so I felt like I should share, just in case.

If you’re seriously asking that, then you need to actually look at the world and the people in it, and make more realistic expectations based on what you see. People pay significantly more time and money on what makes them feel good than what they know is good for them. It’s one of the most basic obvious truths of humanity.

Sure, some people focus enough on logic or have enough willpower to do what’s good for them, but when you get a huge group of people together, those individuals fade into the mindless crowd.

Humanity isn’t going to suddenly do what it needs to do simply because it’s necessary, no matter how much we might hope it will. Like a child who doesn’t want to eat their vegetables, humanity needs an authority figure to coerce it into doing what needs to be done, whether that be a governmental body, a revolutionary, or some other figure or organization. They simply operate on their most basic desires otherwise.

Yup. A lot of guys, especially teenage boys, would say that the left picture is normal, and the right picture is “saggy.” They’re the same people that look at a woman wearing plenty of makeup and say “You look great without makeup!” and when she’s not wearing makeup say “Woah, are you sick or something?”

It’s such a common occurrence on the internet that I honestly think the people who are “confused” about the post are just pretending not to know about it to appear even more separated from the idea than simply disagreeing with it.

What, you don’t put Red Hot nipples on your eyeball cookies?

I’d imagine someone who watches something illegal would be judged pretty harshly by their peers even if you can’t deny that they were trying to seek help. Like, if someone were to seek help for homocidal thoughts, and their employer and friends found out, I can’t imagine they’d have a job and many friends left. If there are any influential people who used this app, and were into some unsavory things, I could definitely see there being some blackmail going on.

Me after adding 3 things to my to-do list.

This is the “great” that the hats are referring to.

Well, he means himself and his friends, which is what all politicians have always meant when they say “we” are going to benefit from their decisions.