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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Then stop.

    You made your position public. That public posting opens you up to criticism. No one obligates you to write paragraphs defending it.

    Your rewrite was better. As was this argument. But you’re not going to convince anyone that they should subject themselves and their families to being less safe in order to be safer to others. Covid deniers proved you can’t even convince people to be safer for themselves, and get the bonus of helping others. In fact you had politicians out there saying grandpa is happy to die for capitalism.

    I still think your lashout was childish and I had the time and inclination to call that out. But let’s be clear I never even implied you were a bad person for your position.


  • I don’t get your first statement at all. I have no problem opening anything in office 365 and I’m the only one in my office with 365, everyone else has a version of office suite that you could buy outright (which is my biggest complaint about 365, personally I’d rather own it) and we have 0 issue transferring documents back and forth.

    Including our insanely complex payroll excel sheet that should be a database. We pay people on 7 different pay schemes, from hourly, to commission, to peice rate, with base rates and bonuses, to special pay programs, using insanely complex macros and external sources, most of which are Google sheets. And that workbook functions from 365 to 2003

    I always get warnings that I can break, but it never actually does

    What are you doing in office that causes it to break between versions?




  • I’m not looking for any validation.

    I just think the take of “you’re part of the problem” is reductive and childish. And nothing you’ve said changes that.

    Gas guzzlers contribute to man made climate change yes, but even if everyone went to an electric sedan tomorrow, it wouldn’t slow climate change by more than a couple of days. The average person has no measurable effect on climate change by themselves.

    And yes, you are. Because your resentment is pointed at the wrong person and is like a childish temper tantrum. The person you were speaking too isn’t “attached” to the truck or suv, they actively said they would have no problem getting a different vehicle if their safety concerns were resolved. So calling them part of the problem is just lashing out.

    Resent the people you’re actually calling out. Not the person with a well reasoned argument and the desire to see change that would aid them the peace of mind to support your position. Snapping out at people like the previous poster puts people on the defensive and to dig in their heels, then you just alienate the people who would support you.







  • You entirely missed the point of this picture.

    This picture isn’t about breaking Steve’s fingers so you can both play shitty guitar. It’s about making sure you can both access a guitar and lessons to learn.

    The equality picture would be shoving a guitar in each of your hands and a coupon for lessons, while failing to address that you live 2 hours away from the teacher while he lives next door.

    Eta: equity would be providing you with a free buss ride to the teachers house 2 hours away. This gives you all the tools to get guitar lessons, but, you might not be able to take advantage of this because a 5 hour commitment isn’t the same as a 1 hour 5 minute commitment and you lose out on opportunity cost. You get free guitar lessons and a ride, but the system is broken. Justice is fixing the system so that there’s enough guitar teachers within a reasonable distance. Like say, making sure that no one is more than 20 minutes from a guitar teacher.