Here’s the thing. I follow US politics but like, the whole “you’re not hurting the right people schtick” is wearing thin on me. I don’t care. Sort your shit out. We’re losing businesses on our end too due to this shit. We’re going to look after ourselves because obviously you guys (the dems) aren’t. These Dems don’t seem to want to help us … they want business as usual and that shouldn’t be what we’re going to be encouraging.

Also the messages they send are weird, it’s like, if you come here and can make it through border security and don’t get captured by ICE … we’ll give you a 15% discount!

The Mormon Church is an illegal PAC. They should be taxed, minimally.

I think so many of these churches should be taxed to be honest. I mean, the megachurches partake in politics and if you do that then you should lose whatever exemption you have in my opinion.

I’m having trouble finding stuff about this specifically but:

https://religionnews.com/2015/12/01/thank-you-ken-jennings-for-speaking-out-against-new-mormon-policies-on-same-sex-families/

The linked source is the Savage Love podcast with Dan Savage and it seems like he’s been alongside the LGBT community but I understand what you mean with the tithing going to an organization like the Mormon Church.

I don’t see anything about Ken Jennings supporting Prop 8?

How dare you imply that we’re not already pirating HBO! 🏴‍☠️

Hey, let’s all listen to the spousal abuser 🙄.

She’s actually even more empathetic to men because of what she went through.

I think UK divorce laws are very down the middle. I remember Russell Brand was able to take half of her stuff and was entitled to $20 million but he turned it down.

Their voter base are being played like a fiddle …

They just check their watch and are like … “time to throw more culture war stuff to keep them engaged”

Truth is, there’s a ton of insecure men that would not like to date a woman that earns significantly more than than them. And due to her personal trauma, I can understand wanting to clear things out.

I don’t mind if a woman earns more than me, but when I dated a few women who did … I did notice not being myself …? It’s like that thing where you’re like “don’t screw it up” or second guessing myself. I did notice that the women I went out with were more straightforward with what they wanted and told me earlier on and I think those threw me for a loop as well.

I know quite a few of my friends would hate to date a woman that earns more for sure, 'cause they want to be the one that “takes care” of the house.

lol sorry, another funny anecdote about my friend is that she went on a date with a man that thought he should earn and she should stay at home and have kids. Instead of being “repulsed” by it, she decided to go along with it and say, “do you earn enough to take care of me and a kid?” and he was like, “well … not yet.” I just thought that was funny.

With that said, I would not bring it up on a first date. Pretty distasteful, and makes it sound like you just care about money. But not everyone has the same holdups with talking about money.

She really hadn’t been dating as much so she doesn’t really get the dance. I mean … I earn what I think is decent money but if a girl asked about it on the first date. I would be like … what’s her game?

Remember this every time they tell you to sacrifice your freedoms for protection.

Thanks I’ll make sure to avoid them in the future!

Reminds me of defenders of Israel. Screaming anti-Semitism while these guys are committing atrocities.

I can live with a system that causes mass killings but I draw the line at killing people that enable it.

I know this is a men’s lib community but I just wanted to share a story about a woman friend of mine who is successful (not first-class everywhere successful or anywhere near these people). Let’s just say that I work in UK tech (just typical senior salary – not silicon valley FAANG salaries) and one of her bonus checks is my annual salary.

She met the love of her life in school and he never worked and just wanted to be an actor while she came up from boiler rooms to be an exec. When she hit her 30s or so he left her and took half her shit despite not working a day in his life.

She has trouble dating now and we talk about it often. She wants kids and wants a man that earns around her salary (even below but within her range) and she’s finding it tough. I told her that on her dates that she probably shouldn’t ask how much the man earns. She says it’s to get things out of the way and that she typically earns more than them. I just said that it can be off-putting.

I thought women were the sensitive and empathetic gender who cared more about personality than looks or income? At least that’s what women claim. I don’t see those qualities anywhere here.

I think it’s best to see them as people with just as many flaws as any of us. Also, these are wealthy people in the upper echelon of earnings. I think many men likely have many flaws there as well.

Also, this could be selection bias as the women that are featured in an article or to reach out to a service like this is too picky than the many women that aren’t.

he’d let claude do everything and he didn’t actually care how it worked.

😱

I hired someone that recently put up PRs and when I asked what they were for, he had no idea … he hasn’t ran or tested a single one … just vibing everything.

When I saw his Terraform PRs … I was like, “show me how you run this”. I shortly found out he never had Terraform installed and didn’t know how to switch AWS profile at all. He let’s AI do everything. Also, he kept sending me AI convos and I was like, “if you send me another one without reading it first and summarizing it for me, I’m going to lose my shit”. He said, “I wanted to send you the proof” … I said, “you sent me half a page of nonsense where you didn’t respect my time enough to read yourself first”

I much prefer conversational style interviews. I also like having them tell me about shit and then getting into the weeds of what they’ve been through.

I’ve been through so many stupid quizzing type interviews. I remember one where they wanted to ask about covariance and contravariance and I roughly stated I learned about it when writing my own compiler and it’s about types and how one can follow the typing direction of typing, for let’s say parameter/return values and the other can go the other way but I forget which is which typically. The guy was like, “guess which one is which?” I said, “why? it’d just be a guess, I thought I demonstrated that I’m at least familiar with the concepts”, he said, “I can’t mark down you got this question is right unless you get the right answer” … I said, “let’s skip it then”.

Another one was where he asked me if I knew “WPF” which is a Microsoft framework to write desktop apps. I said, “it’s not on my CV, and I’ve only used it at home a few times but you can ask me questions if you’d like”, he then said with a smirk on his face, “if you want to answer the WPF portion, and you get it wrong then you look bad, but if you get it right then you look good, so what do you want to do?”, I said, “I think this is up to you as an interviewer – I’ve told you where I stand”

There was a lot of that … like based on THEIR questions – I don’t know shit … but they’re not quizzing my experience at all.

doesn’t really imply anything except something about the json being turned into a string

yeah that’s basically it, I know you’re leaning into your existing knowledge (of likely C-based stuff) but your line of thinking is about right about how you’re inferring things … naming and stuff gets a bit “different” or less serious when you go into JS land sometimes.

What’s funny is if this were a real job interview question and you answered in the way that you did … the way you answered it told me more about yourself and your qualifications than just getting it exactly right

When imposter syndrome meets an actual imposter!

I refuse to believe you couldn’t infer what this is, you’re way too smart and you could definitely just guess.

I’m a former vegan that tries to eat mostly veg. It was so much easier when I lived on my own but when you live with your Asian parents, as an adult, things are tougher :/

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