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4h ago

Is working with people always like that?
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hansolo @lemmy.today 4h ago
It's actually deeply strange to consider what we see in the mirror isn't what other people see because it's flipped. How you fix your hair that you like is what no one else sees.
There was a Radiolab episode about this years ago. https://hairparttheory.com/2011/04/22/radiolab-show/
Go find 3 or 4 iconic portraits (Abraham Lincoln was the example given) and flip them. It's like a whole different person. But that's how HE saw himself every day.

9h ago

Bipartisan bill aims to block big investors from buying single-family homes

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hansolo @lemmy.today 9h ago

Might as well say invisible unicorns will enforce this.

9h ago

Just a Coincidence I'm sure

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hansolo @lemmy.today 9h ago

I feel like if I upvote this, it'll be referenced in court one day.

14h ago

Is working with people always like that?

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hansolo @lemmy.today 14h ago

Unfortunately, yes, this is common for customer-facing or customer service jobs.

People have outlandish expectations, and for some reason their motivations are that they're so lazy that "I'll take my money elsewhere!" is gone and the ego-soothing dominance display of "I'm gonna Karen this shit up!" is now the standard because people have already gone somewhere and so they can't comprehend going somewhere else.

People have fragile egos, and then when forced to look at themselves, they expect your work to be every IG filter they've ever used to fix their faces, but 10X better since they're paying $2 for it. But they want it for free anyway. People are generally irrational, bad with money, look to blame anyone else for everything else rather than bear responsibility for something as personal as how their faces look, are unable to understand the world around them or how things work, and more than ever are combative for no reason. Even trying to be genuinely nice with some people results in unnecessary antagonistic behavior.

I recommend you realize that just because a couple assholes come in each day, they don't own your day and shouldn't be given permission to ruin your day. Their days are likely shit 24/7, so if you can emotionally separate their negativity and stupidity from your life, it's healthier. Be yourself and do what you can within reason.

14h ago

New single: Skin head soldier?

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hansolo @lemmy.today 14h ago

As usual, for entirely batshit crazy irrational reasons. These are the same people who prior to 9/11 worried about the "New World Oder" and UN Agenda 21 meaning that French troops in blue helmets would go door to door and take guns away from Americans. If there was a Polymarket back then, how many of these people would have bet their life savings every year on that outcome and been wrong every. single. time. And kept on betting on it year after year.

Then after the Patriot Act created DHS, FEMA became the boogeyman because it would be the conduit for executing emergency powers, and 9/11 was the first national emergency in the lives of most conspiracy nuts. Sort of like how ICE is the specific agency under DHS murdering people, DHS, other than PuppyKiller herself, is largely removed from the day-to-day operations of sub-agencies. I imagine there was also a certain racist stripe of "yes, we want homeland security....from brown people. Keep doing anything you want to them, that's fine." Then the discordant wish to not let FEMA get some Deep State cancer and Obama put all the Good Ol' Boys in camps. Functionally, it makes no sense, but the same people think the President is a King or God, so who fucking knows.

Structurally, there was a basis in fact only so far as "this agency does things during emergencies." Past that, it's all to sell newsletters and books and tacticool powdered eggs. Combined with the fact that any new agency created in the US government immediately gets populated by idiots that wouldn't get promoted if they stayed somewhere else, DHS and FEMA have consistently demonstrated significant ineptitude and being too slow-moving to do much in the way of dealing with an actual emergency. Under DHS, maaaybe CISA and the Coast Guard are/were competent and that's about it. Meaning that anyone seriously fearing conspiracy-style "FEMA camps" for their NWO national roundup would have 6-18 months of lead time to know the camps are being built (poorly by the highest bidder) and maybe never even get done due to cost overruns.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk about Classic Conspiracy Nuts and you.

15h ago

AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)

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hansolo @lemmy.today 15h ago

Yeah, I looked at myself and one data broker that either I missed or hasn't honored my takedown request lists my political affiliation for a state where that's public info.

That's free info to scrape where available. No need to waste LLM subscriptions on it.

1d ago

AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)

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hansolo @lemmy.today 1d ago

Oi crikey mate, I'm a 6'4" tall Swedish Olympic carpenter named Liam. Pip pip! I love to eat lingenberries!

That ought to buy me a few days...

1d ago

AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)

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hansolo @lemmy.today 1d ago

Are you sure that's not a data broker site? They collect publicly available into, which an include political party, and can get supper invasive like this.

1d ago

The final boss

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hansolo @lemmy.today 1d ago

"Heya, just one more question for ya. What ever happened to Ceti Alpha V?"

"THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!!!!!!"

1d ago

funny prakn

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hansolo @lemmy.today 1d ago

I'm upvoting the absurdity of this being posted here.

1d ago

US State Colorado Wants Operating Systems to Tell Every App How Old You Are

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hansolo @lemmy.today 1d ago

As Hema Le Tube? Learning French isn't a crime!

2d ago

New single: Skin head soldier?

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hansolo @lemmy.today 2d ago

During the Obama administration, some honkies felt every day was oppression. The FEMA camp conspiracies were off the chain.

Yet...here we are. Who made the camps now?

2d ago

It do be like that sometimes

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hansolo @lemmy.today 2d ago

Are you my niece that's about to drop out of college because her religious BF wants to fuck and will 1million% get her pregnant?

2d ago

EU OS - Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a common free Operating System for the EU public sector 🇪🇺

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hansolo @lemmy.today 2d ago

While, yes, this is based on Linux, the point is to provide all public sector offices, from schools to hospitals to police, courts, and military, a standardized, EU maintained digital public good. This leverages economies of scale. Instead of a school, hospital, mayor's office, municipal sanitation office, etc. each fielding their own over-worked IT support team that is probably one or two people holding together a temperamental distro, one team of 6 people can handle each site, all on the same budget, and all working on the same distro.

3d ago

'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'

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hansolo @lemmy.today 3d ago

I love so much that there are real, hilarious consequences for overzealous early adoption. You can't make this shit up.

3d ago

Worst day of my life

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hansolo @lemmy.today 3d ago

Yeah, it's a surprisingly widely held belief. Iv'e heard the same thing in both West and Southern Africa. IIRC, it was the Sierra Leonean Civil War where it was a documented practice.

3d ago

Worst day of my life

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hansolo @lemmy.today 3d ago

There are cultures on earth that are straight up homophobic, but will accept the use of force for a man to penetrate another man as a show of dominance.