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Time to make the doughnuts
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Time to make the doughnuts As promised/threatened it's the return of the never popular mailbag post ! "Do you like chocolate ?" - RosePalm77 I’m glad you asked . I feel I get misrepresented on chocolate . My position is that chocolate is fine . It tastes good . I don’t mind chocolate at all . But many other people are all CHOCOLATE NOM NOM NOM WHY YOU NO EAT MORE and then they start making out like I’m some kind of chocolate hater . Like I’m a chocolate bigot , just because I only like . I’m not . I promise you , I’m no chocolate bigot . I’m pro-chocolate . I’m just no t, you know , insanely , off-the-charts , everyone-should-eat-as-much-chocolate-as-possible , let’s-round-up-people-who-don’t-want-to-marry-chocolate-and-put-them-in-camps kind of pro-chocolate . This is the trouble with moderate positions . "Are we doomed ?" - TitAAAS69 Only in the sense that the future will be a nightmarish hellhole by our standards . I’m sure it’ll be fine to the people who live in it . I base this on how young people seem happy all the time while old people complain that the world has gone to hell . In fifty years , the world could be a desert scorched by permanent war between rival corporate city-states and people would still be like “I would hate to live in 2017 , when people got the flu and just had to live with their original genitals .” You value the stuff you have and don’t miss what you don’t have. Also morality is malleable as much as people don't like to admit it . I feel they misled us about this in school . Back then , I definitely had the idea that the future would be filled with difficult moral decisions about which technologies we would pursue and which we would reject in favor of human decency and dignity . But in reality , what’s happened is anything gets to exist if it works and people like it . Take Uber. Before Uber , cities had all these rules about who could drive a cab and how , and for the most part they were eminently reasonable attempts to keep people safe and not ripped off/murdered . Then Uber came along like “Hmm , hat if we DON’T have any rules” and people liked I t, so now we have that . So the world is doomed always doomed in a way . But also full of promise , in that it will have things that I will personally dislike and not understand but which would have defined my life if they’d been invented when I was eight years old . I’m optimistic that we will avoid destroying ourselves with nuclear weapons or runaway artificial intelligence . Not for any good reason . Logically, I can totally see that happening . But I have a good feeling . "What are you doing to support net neutrality ?" KingKongDong44 Nothing . I just think it’s hypocritical to say we should live in a world where corporations are free to shape laws and pay no tax but not fuck the internet right it in it's internet asshole . Don’t get me wrong : You definitely want to keep ISPs’ hands off the net as much as you can . ISPs are like water utilities that realized they should come right into your home and decide what kind of showers you can have , since it’s their water . You don’t want a bunch of water engineers trying to sell you eight-minute shower bundles . No-one wants that . But I’m not comfortable with the portrayal of net Neutrality as a fight between good companies and bad companies . There’s just something about people praising the kindness and decency of an amoral profit-making machine that doesn’t sit well with me . I mean , I’m glad some companies are better than others . I appreciate that they’re not all dumping oil in the oceans and poisoning and telling employees they’re family right before they fire them . It’s definitely a good thing that companies who get financially punished if they have a bad public image are compelled to act nicer than ones who don’t . I just don’t like pretending they’re champions of freedom . Last time I checked , Apple and Google and Facebook and Netflix and all the rest were super-interested in sealing everybody into their own sections of the internet for money . As a rule , they are big fans of the principle of removing user choice in exchange for cash . In this particular case , abolishing net Neutrality means they might have to pay cash to ISP s, so they’re against that . But they’re all still busy working on their own forms of user lock-in . The other thing is that this keeps happening . How many times has the battle for net Neutrality been won ? Four times ? And each time the ISPs go away and sulk with their paid-for politicians and wait for everyone to stop cheering about how they saved the internet and then they return with a new version that tries to do the same thing . So I would like to dispel the illusion that we’re actually accomplishing anything substantial here and instead take a look at the system that allows a thousand things like this to pass a year , only more quietly because they’re not opposed by major corporations , steadily entrenching inequality , selling out the future for the short-term gain of a powerful few . But since we’re not doing that , net Neutrality is okay , I guess . "How do you become a banana for a week?" - Immaassman Start by becoming a banana for a minute and each day try to beat that record and go longer (TWSS) "What would be your preferred (if not favorite) way to kill someone?" Monkeyballs22 You are sick . Get some help . Many years of therapy for you . In order to get away with it I think there must be one layer of misdirection . You want the kind of murder where people’s first reaction is “What the hell , how did that happen” then a minute later “ohhhh” . They think they’ve figured out the secret . But they haven’ t. That’s when people stop thinking . No-one wants the thing they figured out to be wrong . For example, let’s say shall we that I just strangled you to death. The first thing I’m going to do is strip you naked . Then I’m going to drag you to the bathroom , dip your head in the toilet , put a pair of tongs in your hand , roll you in flour , and throw you off the balcony . So the cops are in an unfamiliar environment . That’s important. They’re more experienced with murder than I am . They know what to look for . But they won’t have dealt with too many naked wet flour-encrusted tong strangulations . That puts us back on even ground . Now for the misdirection . I’m leaving a note signed by you . I CAN’T LIVE IN A WORLD THAT WON’T ACCEPT MY TONG-BASED SEX RITUALS . But it’s not convincing . The cops were already going to be suspicious and here it is , the thing that justifies their feelings . That’s when they find your phone, with angry messages to your girlfriend . WILL YOU SHUT UP ABOUT THE TONGS . I’M NEVER GOING TO DO THE TONG THING WITH YOU . Bang. Case closed . That girl is going to prison , because one twist is plenty . Putting first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibilities and leveraging profitability towards exceeding by empowering our employees to put (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first. |
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Sometimes they write "donuts" , I like "doughnuts" better . Because they're nuts of dough . Putting clients first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibilities and leveraging profitability towards exceeding by empowering our employees to put clients (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first.
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That was cheery. But you're absolutely right, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Netflix aren't the heroes. Oh and let's not forget Amazon. I was reading an interesting opinion piece yesterday about how Amazon Prime is a clever psychological tool to make people only go to Amazon and not comparison shop - they've already sunk their $99 a year, so they subconsciously want to do as many orders as possible to feel like they've covered that cost with free shipping.  
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