Angry_Maple

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

I am licensed to drive the end rider.

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

Go stand by the Gaylord.

(It’s not what it sounds like) airseacontainers.com/blog/what-is-a-gaylord-box/

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

Tbh I found the walking dead kind of boring after the first season. There is only so much you can do in a very specific setting before you start falling into a lot of tropes. It got to a point where I started paying too much attention to the wrong things. For example, if I was in a zombified world, I don’t think that staying clean shaven from neck to toe would be a priority lol.

No hate to anyone who enjoys it though, you do you. I’m almost certain that I enjoy something that you find boring.

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

Marinara flags 🚩🚩🚩

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

For me, that’s not the case. I enjoyed the amount of content and discussion, but I just lost interest in reddit over time.

I saw the same jokes too often. I got sick of seeing the ads. The admins perma-banned my fiancee’s account, despite her never really commenting or posting. They never gave a reason for banning her, other than going against “policy”, which they never specified when asked. It would be the equivilant of being banned from every single instance. Some of the “helpful” communities were becoming much more toxic over time. I stayed despite that stuff.

Then, the API thing happened. It wasn’t that reddit wanted to profit, but rather how they went about it. Had they been honest with the developers when they asked at the start of the contract year, it would have been much smoother. You can’t change the cost of a yearly subscription halfway through the year. I disliked the provable false rumors that were spread about developers.

I disliked that Spez heavily implied that people leaving reddit would harm reddit employees. He didn’t make that statement about someone who made those threats, but instead he made it about the people leaving. It left a very bad taste in my mouth. I’m not monetarily supporting someone like that if I have any say in the matter.

I disliked the sudden overwhelming toxicity that I saw start against people who were recommending Lemmy. I get being rude to people who are rude, but it’s lame to be rude just because. Someone told me that I would be back, that I should just wait to see them right. That person helped me stay off reddit, tbh.

I don’t understand fanaticism, regardless of the company/platform/group, etc. If I start to dislike a social media, I will move somewhere that I like better. If Lemmy becomes like what Reddit is today, I’ll leave Lemmy too. There’s always something else. I also don’t really care if Reddit sinks or swims. That has nothing to do with me. If I get sick of all social media, I won’t use it. There are lots of other things to do with free time.

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

It’s a cycle, too. It’s rough out there, especially if you aren’t lucky enough to have generous and wealthy parents. Schooling only does so much if the jobs in the field are still taken. Degrees aren’t the guarantee that they used to be for a stable income. It’s tough to even support yourself.

There are poor social supports. If you do have a kid while you’re struggling, you get a lot of anger over not being able to provide for them, regardless of if it was your choice to have children. You see this happening almost everywhere. You don’t want your possible kids to suffer or go without necessities, either. The current easiest solution to that problem is to just not have them, if at all possible. Of course, people complain about that too.

I would love to see articles about industries failing that don’t blame young people. Many of us don’t have the excess funds to really even make that choice ourselves, tbh. If I’m struggling to pay bills, of COURSE I’m not going to spend it on menial things that aren’t necessary.

Edit: Don’t even get me started on the backlash that happens any time someone tries to help young people earn adequate money. Not doing anything is more comfortable, so people don’t care to voice for their own wages to also increase. Instead, they prefer for other people to struggle to afford even the bare minimum. Of course many of us feel hopeless.

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

I think that’s what they meant, tbh.

There are a lot of people who don’t do well with the cold, or they might not find it enjoyable to live in. A lot of Iceland’s heat comes from the ocean. If that heat goes, some people would likely move elsewhere.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

What about the sneakier ways of advertising? Companies sometimes pay people to write reviews, even if they aren’t an influencer. This is because it looks like a “normal person” wrote it, so other people will be more likely to trust it.

You might hear some and not know it, there is a lot of noise in a lot of places. Free samples are also a form of advertising, as the company is paying for them to be given out. It might even be a little sticker on a box of something that you already buy. Grocery flyers are a form of advertising. Someone you know may be advertised to and love the product and recommend it. In that scenario, advertising to them would also affect you, even if you didn’t see or hear an ad. Scary stuff sometimes.

The easiest way to fall for it is to believe you are immune. Believing that you are immune to propaganda usually just eventually leads to letting more things slide. The only way to be sure is to be vigilant. Even then, it’s an odds game.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ff628fc7-8959-4124-a09c-26f683188421.webp

It’s this one

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I don’t know what’s it’s like where you are, but there are definitely also a lot of young homeless people where I live. I don’t just mean house-less, I mean living in tents or worse.

It really sucks that so many people are suffering, and there isn’t even a good reason for it.

You can work your arse off day in, day out, only to get hit by someone driving drunk. Then, you get stuck on insufficient disability payments, even through you had no fault in what happened to you. Even if you manage get a decent court payout in a good country, you’re still probably looking at a lot of expenses accessibility-wise (ESPECIALLY if you live somewhere like the US.) A lot of that stuff isn’t cheap. Plus, you would have to try to make that payment last for the rest of your life. Food, bills, rent, clothing, and more would all still be costs you would have.

It sucks that so many people push back against any kind of support for these individuals. It really makes you wonder what they would do if they woke up with the shoe on the other foot.

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

If it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

That’s true, but that person wasn’t me.

I wasn’t defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

It’s an insult to everyone who actually earned their honour.

Angry_Maple, 8 months ago

I know someone who’s home flooded with poop water because of them doing exactly that. The plumber pulled a LOT of them out of the blockage. Apparently it’s a common mistake, although that doesn’t make the repairs any cheaper.

Just in case, don’t flush tampons or pads either.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I’ve never understood the frustration with what strangers are listening to. As long as it’s not being played on obnoxiously loud speakers, who cares? If the volume is that loud, I don’t really care what the genre is, tbh.

If music never adapted and evolved, practically no music would exist today, and that even includes most (if not all) old classical music. Beethoven would be unknown. There’s no way that rock music would exist.

Ah, it’s also a timeless thing. Anything liked by newer generations is bad, because new=bad. There was even push back when rock music first came out. I also don’t understand the “specfic genre-only” mindsets, either. If you like it, you like it. So what if it’s out of your normal scope? There’s music out there for every mood. If you don’t like it, cool. There’s a whole world of other things to listen to instead.

There are also various reasons that people listen to music. Soulless music is great for studying, because it’s easier to not want to dance to. Noise music can help drown things out. Some music can help validate how you’re feeling, and some songs are just earworms. Certain songs might bring nostalgia, or they might hype you up.

Life is short, enjoy what you can, especially if it’s something that’s just to yourself. Why limit yourself based on the opinion of someone who doesn’t even have to hear what you listen to?

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I love when their eyes light up after doing that. You just KNOW they’re about to tell you absolutely everything that they’ve learned about it, in as much detail as possible haha.

A few years back, my cousin learned about star wars. He became obsessed with it, and he figured that adults were too old to know about it. My cousin was APPALLED when I jokingly asked him who Star War’s version of Santa Claus was. Poor lil’ dude almost blew a gasket over that one.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

That was before my time, but my early schooling still had some marks from that era. Instead of giving links, we were taught to type out the entire URL. HTTPS and all. I didn’t understand why at the time, but it makes perfect sense. You really didn’t want to have a single wrong letter sometimes. Legally.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I mean, hopefully fewer people from the future generation will be homeless. It’s pretty rough starting out now, especially if you aren’t lucky enough to have a wealthy family.

What we’ve been doing for the last number of years just isn’t working. The solution isn’t to keep procrastinating it indefinitely. There has always been debt that’s pushed onto future generations, but this debt might actually help them.

I wish that people started building more housing many years ago. If housing was cheaper, increased taxes wouldn’t be as big of a concern. This is because there would also be more money available to spend. This means spending money for food, transportation, schooling, and more.

Instead, currently many people are using the limited housing as investments and retirement plans. Life expectancies are increasing, and births are still happening. Where do you propose people live if there isn’t housing available?

Rural forests in uninhabited areas also aren’t a legitimate option for most people. No running water, no heat, no medical care available, no pharmacies, no stores, no places to work, and nowhere to buy tools to build shelter. That sounds like a very bad time for most people.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Thank you for being open to change.

It sucks seeing so many people recognize that the current system isn’t working, and then insist that the fix is to keep doing the same thing.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Adding on to your point, the populations perception of the police would play a factor, too. If everyone within a community truly believed that police only caused more problems than they solve, many crimes wouldn’t be reported.

In other areas, the police might not care because it’s easy for them to ignore the problems that they can’t see.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I’m thinking that a lot of the people commenting might work in pretty homogeneous environments.

I work with people from almost every group, and from every background. Calling people out on this horrendous behaviour maintains a safe work environment, and helps eliminate workplace toxicity. You can’t insult a group without also insulting a coworker. Work culture wise, even if they aren’t the target, people get very angry at the people who talk like that. “Why would you say that about Nimmy? Nimmy’s awesome!”. People should be able to earn their livelihoods in peace, imo.

At my job, if you insult a coworker through bigotry, you can expect (at minimum) a long talk with HR for the first offense. (Our HR department is also diverse.) A manager was just fired a few months ago for being bigoted. The best part? NO ONE misses them, not even the company a-holes.

Even from a completely corporate standpoint, it makes sense. You really don’t want that kind of reputation if you want to keep your investors or a family friendly reputation. Media would chew them up and spit them out if they allowed bigotry like that.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I think that a lot of people here are confusing “introversion” with having social anxiety.

Being an introvert doesn’t mean that you’re scared of socialization. It means you generally prefer quiet time over socializing.

From Merriam Webster:

A person whose personality is characterized by introversion : a typically reserved or quiet person who tends to be introspective and enjoys spending time alone.

You can be both, but they are definitely not the same thing.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Why does almost no one clear the area in these posted experiences? That was covered in my (very) basic first aid training. It was emphasized, and it came with a heavy reminder that patient care should be a very high priority. I’m honestly just suprised to read all of these.

Y’all need better trainers and better Good Samaritan laws to protect you. What a world where someone just dies when they could have been saved by someone who was already nearby. Society sucks. Neither “angle” is great.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Historically speaking, it’s sadly far from uncommon.

They just cross their fingers and hope that it never happens. Companies have a bad habit of deciding that they would keep more money paying for a lawsuit than they would keep by paying employees. If a company is worth billions, a few million is a drop in the bucket.

There’s a VERY good reason for many safety regulations. A lot of these regulations have been paid for with blood and death.

I wish we were better as a species, but here we are.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

At the current level of autonomous vehicle abilities, I agree with you, in a broad sense. Vehicles will need to still be able to differentiate between shapes, even during bad weather. Weather like blizzards, sudden downpours, heavy fog, dust storms, and the like. You still have to be able to see to safely pull off of the road.

Until we can guarantee with 100% certainty that they can truly drive without aid, I completely agree that these vehicles would not be safe on their own. Weather is very well known for being unpredictable at times. Life in general is also known for being unpredictable at times.

What happens if the sensors are unknowingly damaged? What happens if someone is wearing a costume that makes them look like a giant cereal box instead of human-shaped? What happens if there’s a software glitch at a bad time? What protections are there to guarantee that it doesn’t happen? Are those protections temporary? How often should they be reviewed?

It should be OK to acknowledge that we aren’t quite there yet. Yes, it seems cool and all, but it’s silly to risk lives over impatience. If it will happen, it will happen. Forcing it to happen sooner than it should could very well lead to it being banned altogether, especially if enough people die or get injured as a result.

IMO, anyone who causes serious crashes from using these things in “fully autonomous” mode should be charged as if the vehicle wasn’t autonomous. As if the accident was caused by sleeping behind the wheel or texting while driving. The company should be charged similarly in that scenario, as their programming and marketing would also play a part in the crash.

Hey, if they’re truly safe, none of these charges would actually happen. If there isn’t an “oops” death in the first place, there won’t be an “oops” death to investigate.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Let’s hope they start making it easier for those mechanics then, lmao.

I used to want to get into the industry, but that stopped when I heard about all of the ridiculous things you have to move around to preform basic maintenance. That was bad before, but now? Woof.

My buddy had to do a recall replacement, that took many hours. The manufacturer however, decided that it should only take less than half of that time, so they only paid him for the time that they wanted to pay for. Not for the actual number of hours that it physically took to disassemble and reassemble the thing, but instead what was convenient to them. Nope.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

That kind of comes down to values, though. Does a person value Oreos over honesty and integrity, or do they just enjoy Oreos? Someone might also enjoy most foods, they might prefer to fence, or they might prefer to knit.

TBH if I was filthy rich, I would help my loved ones, keep a decent retirement savings (reasonable), and then probably give the rest away. I would feel pretty bad keeping that kind of money if I knew that other people were starving and homeless. Happier people make for a better society too, imo.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

The bombing that happened when he was 8, or was there another one?

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

It’s so vile. I detest that so many people are so willingly and freely hateful of complete and utter strangers, over things that don’t effect anyone else.

This is slowly turning into everything history lessons warned me of, and it’s insane. We are in 2023, we have the damned WORLD at our fingertips, yet people happily choose blind hatred, even if it means they also get harmed in the process themselves.

I hate all of this. I used to believe that way more people were actually caring and intelligent, but it seems like many are very eager to prove that as wrong as possible.

If you ask me, it’s fuckin’ ironic that “facts over feelings” is a point that they try to make. Science supports transitioning, so that doesn’t even make sense. Many animals change their full bio sex in nature. It really shouldn’t be rocket science that humans change genders. It’s not a new thing either, historically speaking. We’ve been transitioning for a pretty long time, throughout many years and cultures.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Poor lady. Her labia was physically fused together from the heat, but she was still called dramatic. I can’t imagine everything that she had to go through.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I think I’m suited to answer this. I manage multiple people, including Gen Z. I am also Gen Z. People are actively trying to work here.

One of the biggest factors is employee appreciation and respect. A lot of companies will half-ass that front through just giving their employees an occasional pizza party. The problem with that style of management, is that it removes the human aspect. It kind of just turns it into another thing to just “check off the list” for corporate. It’s something commonly thrown back at employees who complain. We’ve seen that happen enough to not want to deal with it.

It’s also important to focus on the little things. Small details are what make up the big picture. If you leave those out, the big picture will be incomplete. Congratulate them when they reach a new goal. Tell them when they do work that would make the company proud, within reason. Encourage them, and actually work alongside them sometimes. If you want to throw free food on top, maybe poll your staff for their opinions on restaurants/food trucks. Show them you care.

Regarding the human aspect, a happy employee stays, and a happy employee is also usually a productive employee. Get to know your staff a bit, casually. Try to give reasonable allowances for time off during stressful life situations, like when their home floods or their sibling dies. Most companies will only allow the legal minimum.

Don’t expect more from them than what you are willing to do yourself.

Accept their imperfections and work with them towards improvement. Instead of shouting, go straight towards the solution, and include them in the process. Allow them to learn how to avoid the mistake and learn how to fix it with you. Don’t baby step it, but maybe show them a cool trick for that process if you have one. Remember that they are human and that there was also a time where you didn’t know how to do it.

I’ll be frank with you. Many of us don’t see a great future over the horizon, so we’re kind of making the best with what we have. We want to enjoy as much of the time in-between as we can. We’ve seen our grandparents, parents, siblings, and other family members become burnt out and emotionally overwhelmed, and we don’t want that for ourselves.

The best way to not have that, is to not go along with it. So, hypothetically, I would go to the next job that treats it’s employees well, even if the wage is the same. Why would I waste my efforts and hard labor on someone who doesn’t value it? Why not spend it somewhere where I can learn, improve, and thrive?

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I don’t disagree with you in the slightest.

In my mind, no one really asked to exist. On that basis, we should all be treated equally and fairly. You can’t pick your birth year, home country, etc. In my opinion, it would be wong to judge someone on those aspects, or to treat them differently. In ny workplace, we’re all just people trying to get by.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I don’t disagree with that. For some reason, a lot of places think that Gen Z will put up with it like their parents and grandparents did. They treat them like crud, then they’re shocked when they leave.

Of course Gen Z might change jobs within 2 years. Most people don’t have their entire life plan figured out in their 20’s, which I think is fair. It’s even more understandable with the craziness of everything going on around the world.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Some crips in California wear them, IIRC. It could be regional, too.

Smaller gangs will sometimes use a colour that’s unused in their area, even if it might already be known to represent something else in another place.

My school has so many problems with that that they banned any non-black shoelaces and also implemented an expensive uniform that was ugly.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

It’s referring to that meme with the astronauts.

In this case, one would be in the background, in front of the earth saying “Both of these religions are controlling and toxic”.

The second astronaut would be in the foreground, with his gun aimed towards the first astronaut, saying “Always have been”.

I think it’s a meme from a movie.

The point is that religious zealots have always been bad like this, but the commenter put that into a meme.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I don’t get why so many people feel the need to defend big corporations this much. It’s not like they’re going to share the profits with the people who defend them, nor do they probably care.

If anything, the industry will just use whatever ammo they can to exploit more people.

Without maintaining and creating protections, they will roll back until there are almost none. Our current labor rights didn’t come for free, they were fought for.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

It’s only anecdotal, but a lot of the people I know who were hateful like that while growing up actually did come out as LGBTQ+. Some were trans, some were gay, some were bi, etc.

Some of them are just a-holes though. One dude complained about a gay classmate. He never liked it when I asked him why he was thinking about what the other guy was doing with his bits so much. I’ve always thouht it was a fair question. I never did get an answer, though.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I wonder if they would be able to team up with eachother against unity.

I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t know exactly where everyone involved resides. That being said, I imagine pooling resources might help with those costs, if possible. There’s certainly more than two gaming companies that are being screwed by this.

To be honest, I would contribute to a legitimate go fund me for them. Fuck unity.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

For real, though.

I’m tall, but I’m not THAT tall. I already have lots of back problems, even though I always bend with my knees when I’m crouching or reaching for something on the ground.

Most of the world simply isn’t built for tall people. You might have no leg room, you might hit your head on many car door frames, amusement park rides are too small/short for you, many normal shirts fit like crop tops, and many pants fit like water-highs. Of course, you can’t forget people’s incessant NEED to announce to you that you are in fact, tall. (Gee, I haven’t noticed lol.) Forget about many long-sleeved tops, too. That’s a fun one in the winter sometimes.

It’s also really annoying to have people regularly tell you that your own personal experience with being tall is wrong. Like I’m sorry to hear that some people may wish they were taller, but it doesn’t magically make the legitimate problems that being tall causes go away. Not having those problems would be so nice.

I’m not at all saying being short is a walk in the park, but being tall isn’t always a walk in the park, either. You can be tall and still lack social skills, confidence, charisma, etc. I can promise you that. Becoming tall probably won’t fix that, either.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

What bathroom should someone born with both parts use?

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I think they should follow suit with some of the other extremely spicey foods. A retailer that I used to go to made you sign a waver and required that you prove that you were at least a certain age to buy it. Part of getting the waiver to sign was being told what it can do.

I didn’t buy the hot sauce myself, but the staff explained that it could legitimately burn your skin if you left it on for too long. I wish I remember what the sauce was called.

I was shocked at the time that you had to sign a waver to buy hot sauce. It was a weird concept to me. Incidents like this must be why. It makes sense, now that I think about it.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

You made better choices than I did

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

This exact flight was from Atlanta to Spain though.

It’s near the top of the article.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

Ok, let’s forget the trees or any scenery for a moment. Let’s say they don’t exist, and that the plane is in an open, and empty area.

Planes are very finicky things. If the angles aren’t right, it won’t be able to fly. If you look at an airplane wing from the side, they are normally shaped a bit like long tear drops. After gaining it’s initial momentum, the plane is kind of lifted by gliding through the air pressure. Plane wings are shaped that way to make the air move faster over the top of the wing. When the air moves faster, the pressure of that air decreases. So the pressure on the top of the wing is less than the pressure on the bottom of the wing. The difference in pressure creates a force on the wing that lifts the wing of the plane up into the air.

Airplanes are full of many things that are pretty complex. If we changed airplanes to be able to “roll over” for safety, we would lose that special system that allows the lift to happen.

Since planes are so finicky, planes with different purposes will usually be built differently. Since they still have to be able to fly, adding one thing may sometimes means removing another thing. Those particular planes were never meant to make those maneuvers, and they weren’t built to handle them. It would be like upgrading a car’s engine block to be turbo-powered, then keeping the same coolant system and expecting it to run fine. You have to respect the equipment and follow guidelines, as they are usually there for a good reason.

The idea was that everyone would know not to do that (via their pilot licence), and that it would be ok to have specialty planes. The plane was never meant to move that way, and the wings weren’t fortified for those angles.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

I would need to see the whole interaction. Some people are just “lovely” individuals.

I have no clue if the poster was one of those people based in what’s here, so I can’t say myself.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

One day, I had to tell someone that they should research pet safety before giving other people pet safety advice. This person was recommending people to feed their dogs things that are well known to seriously poison and harm them. Apparently, according to that person, all dogs can eat anything because their grandma’s one dog was fine.

I responded with links showing that the food was in fact harmful, and a lovely mod banned me for “arguing”. It filled me with rage. Not because I was banned, but because the OG misinformation was still up, but all of the corrections were removed. Other people’s comments correcting it were removed, too. Fuck accurate information intended to keep pets safe, I guess.

I hope that the random people who saw the post looked it up before trusting that person.

Angry_Maple, 9 months ago

It might be a perspective thing, and how you both define “rich”.

If someone gets by every week on ramen, a salary of $100k/year would seem like a crap ton of money. Doubly so if most of their community is also living off of ramen. One year on that salary alone would be life changing for this person.

If someone lives in a pricy area and maybe has a few kids, a salary of $100k wouldn’t seem like nearly as much. Doubly so if most of their community makes that much. One year on that salary is just another year for this person.

For some people, “rich” is not having to worry about starving and knowing that they have a roof over their head. It’s about finally being able to buy non-necessities, and it’s about being able to have things just for enjoyment. Some people are very month to month in terms of costs and bills.

To others, “rich” is being able to buy expensive boats and cars. It’s about having excess wealth and never having to worry about any monetary problems. These people might think of millionaires and billionaires when they hear the word “rich”.

Of course some people would consider $100k/year rich. I’m certain that MANY people would take that salary boost in a heartbeat.

I’m not saying that $100k would set you up anywhere near as much as $1m would, but it’s a hell of a lot more money than many people can make.

In 10 years, that salary is $1,000,000. For someone making $50k/year, it would take 20 years for them to make that much. For someone making $25k/year, it would take 40 years for them to earn that much. I would feel disingenuous telling someone who makes $25k/year that making $100k wouldn’t be becoming “rich” to them.

Maybe that’s their monetary sweet spot, and they rely on other things to finish fulfilling their personal definition of “rich”. Family, friends, hobbies, etc.