Random thing you loathe right now.

Ok, you being in Belgium I can't tell if you mean 50 miles or 50 meters.

dejanzie wrote:

I live 50m from my office, took me 2 hours to get there due to traffic.

Why are you driving 50 meters? Also, that's some crazy traffic.

Newpage-hausered.

Sorry, 50 minutes (and kilometers actually).

Had two interviews week after last at places I'd actually like to work at. Just got shot down by both on the same day. Back to the grindstone.

Sorry to hear that Grenn. Job search is a real Female Doggo. I spent a year doing 12 interviews (3-5 rounds each) only to have the job go to an internal position, the company ghost me, the company looking for someone with high end retail experience (for an IT job mind you), the job went away, the company didn't hire any of us finalists, etc.

It was nice when the last 2 companies hired me it was one and done. One of the companies told me they were going to hire me for a more senior position at the end of the interview. The other told my recruiter they wanted me 10 minutes after the interview finished. So there are some bright sides to the mess that is getting hired in corporate America

My loathe lately: the modern (or perhaps it's always been) cycle of a new company making a great product or service, attracting lots of customers, then selling off to another company who turns around and monetizes it up, down, and sideways or destroys "reworks" the entire structure/design to fit their established brand. Either way, effectively nuking the very reason it attracted customers in the first place. There has to be a way to support great products and services without the always-looming threat of a buyout regardless.

Antichulius wrote:

There has to be a way to support great products and services without the always-looming threat of a buyout regardless.

Eradicate only-growth-matters financialised capitalism?

MikeSands wrote:
Antichulius wrote:

There has to be a way to support great products and services without the always-looming threat of a buyout regardless.

Eradicate only-growth-matters financialised capitalism?

Or to paraphrase - "there isn't."

Jonman wrote:
MikeSands wrote:
Antichulius wrote:

There has to be a way to support great products and services without the always-looming threat of a buyout regardless.

Eradicate only-growth-matters financialised capitalism?

Or to paraphrase - "there isn't."

Well, there isn't because we haven't found it yet. Let's revisit the topic after we eradicate capitalism.

Connecticut DOT.

MaxShrek wrote:

Connecticut DOT.

there i fixed it

I should enjoy open world games. I can see the fun but for some reason if it is not spiderman or ghost of tsushima I just cannot get into it. I even fell off elden ring. How does one get burnt out on a whole genre except two games?

Because a lot of time they are quantity over quality. Even now as game devs get better about filling in space, there are games with copy pasted quests and recolored enemies.

I am genuinely not a fan of open world when they say "its THIS many square kilometers" as opposed to "you can start wherever and can solve quests in no particular order."

On Sunday, my father-in-law crashed his car through his garage into the family room.

No one was home, and he is fine. But he lost control when his foot slipped off the brakes. A foot he has no feeling in after multiple bouts of infection and poor circulation due to type-ii diabetes.

Insurance will cover everything, from fixing his mustang, repainting the walls, cleaning the couch, and even replacing the beer fridge. But it may be time for my wife and her brothers to talk to him about taking his keys away.

For context, he is 71 and in great mental health. But he almost had that foot amputated a few years ago, and really shouldn't be going anywhere on it.

Oof. That's a rough conversation. It's tough to give up the independence of driving even when you know it's the responsible thing.

I cook low and no-cost meals for senior citizens. There's one man who always comes and picks up six to go, for himself and all his neighbors. He's north of ninety and the walk from his car to the kitchen to pick up the trays makes him winded sometimes. But he waves away all offers of help.

We didn't see him for a couple days once, and we all kind of wondered if we'd seen the last of him. But then he showed up, same as ever. Told us he'd been in the hospital for a couple days, and the doctors told him that this time he wasn't going home, but he said, "yes I am. I'll tell you when it's time to go."

I believe him, too. He'll go when he's good and ready.

That all wandered far afield, just something that came to mind.

My dad decided to give up his drivers license before his Dr was forced to take it from him. As I explained to him: If you cancel it, it is relatively trivial to get it back. If your Dr forces the DMV to take it from you, it is next-to-impossible to get it back.

I had a friend who was paralyzed from the waist down and could still drive, as her car had been modified to allow her to accelerate and brake with her hands, rather than her feet.

Such disability modifications potentially cost a lot of money, of course. But, UpToIsomorphism, perhaps this is an option to investigate, rather than removing vehicular access entirely.

My grandfather had his taken away when he turned 90. He failed the test twice and then still re-insured his car. My Dad still has no idea why his sister allowed that to happen.

Edit - nvm.

The use of these in real life conversation:
gaslighting
whataboutism
fake news
gatekeeping
brb
wtf
lol
irregardless
antecdotes
newcular
..
When people get mad at you when they ask "Do you mind doing this?" and you say "No."
..
Double negatives in regular conversation.
..

Irrational loathing, but I loathe them.

MaxShrek wrote:

The use of these in real life conversation:

gatekeeping

I can't believe you're gatekeeping gatekeeping.

I'll add "toxic" to that list. It's one of those words that's been overused to the point of effective meaningless beyond "thing I don't like but I can't be bothered to articulate why."

Yeah, its a shame because it is a valid and effective word. It just is overused and misused.
A toxic work environment and toxic person are very real but everything you don't like doesn't inherently make them toxic. And that is how it is now commonly used.
We have too many people who don't want to be checked at all and people that do nothing other than check others.

Interesting, I haven't heard anyone use "toxic" in the sense of "thing i don't like."

Sorry, slow edit. More in the sense that "I can't handle anything that challenges my world view."

beanman101283 wrote:

Interesting, I haven't heard anyone use "toxic" in the sense of "thing i don't like."

I would say it’s use has increased here in the UK over recent years. I actually think it’s a good word to describe a lot of what it being called out. A lot of it exactly that - toxic - to a whole variety of established and often hard fought for freedoms, ranging from gender equality, anti-discrimination, human rights and a whole host of other subjects. The rhetoric heard these days is getting worse. In some places it’s not far from what The Third Reich were doing during Hitler’s rise to power.

I know people will respond to that with ‘don’t be so over dramatic!’ But honestly, I don’t think we are any more.

merphle wrote:
MaxShrek wrote:

Connecticut DOT.

there i fixed it

It's... beautiful..

Had a weird dream that made me feel like a worthless piece of scheisse. I think my brain is trying to tell me something.

bobbywatson wrote:

Had a weird dream that made me feel like a worthless piece of scheisse. I think my brain is trying to tell me something.

Stop watching German media before bed?

Mixolyde wrote:
bobbywatson wrote:

Had a weird dream that made me feel like a worthless piece of scheisse. I think my brain is trying to tell me something.

Stop watching German media before bed?

That possibility is less depressing than the one I had in mind.