I guess your world is only black and white ay?

This meme is a bit dishonest because its about Chinese government harvesting this data not about companies harvesting it. Both are bad but ones substantially worse.

lol fixed- thank you. I think you are on to something there - I don’t necessarily think he is a bad MENTOR but I don’t think he’s taught programming before so he doesn’t have a formal system for teaching us. I am wondering if there might be a way I can try to work with him to try to make what we are learning/teaching easier to digest for myself cause i am certain it would benefit the other devs.

Honestly, appreciate you all confirming this. Makes me feel less crazy or less of the problem. I was at the point that I felt like I needed to go get tested for ADHD cause of my inability to focus on these presentations at times.

Thank you for responding. I think you may be on to something in that sense regarding the new developers. I think they are still so new in software dev that they probably aren’t even sure what is the most effective for them but the reason why I say they are probably learning better than I am is due to the fact that they worked (watched) him design and create business rules DLLs and standards which we didn’t have when I first created my first program (I started about 2 years before others, while the team was still brand new and we couldn’t get devs from outside to stay longer than a year).

Thank you - I appreciate the response. That is what I do but I felt like I wasn’t being very helpful in both situations because I was attempting to multitask and I am honestly terrible at it. Recently, I’ve tried to try my best to focus on the content, thinking I was struggling due to multi-tasking but I think it’s just the way he’s teaching. He is an amazing supervisor/boss so I know I can talk to him but I feel like I need to come to him with concrete suggestions before doing so. I don’t like raising problems without solutions personally. I do appreciate the thought though, maybe that is what I should revert to doing.

Yeah and we need to stop those too.

I think the distance I need to go probably makes it unfeasible for my particular scenario but its definitely something to pay attention too. Thanks for the back and forth.

Okay so what I’m hearing is you want companies to make investments in artists directly - so a form of profit sharing essentially. Why would a company invest in artists if artists get all of the profits when its successful and the company loses all of the capital if it fails? Why would any business want to partake in a system like that?

Do you think if we stop the war on drugs, that will reduce the number of homeless drug addicted people? I don’t think it will. There’s need to be more to it than that, otherwise you’re literally not preparing for the 2nd half of that foot drop.

I largely agree alot of these problems are a result of criminalizing drug use but decriminizing doesn’t solve some of these problems with homeless folks which is probably more related to mental health services.

It’s a relevant point. We don’t allow cigarette companies to advertise to children so should it be acceptable to advertise crack or coke?

Do you think kids should be subjected to people shooting up drugs when playing outside or when going to school?

I am anti drug war personally but if any situation led to it being easier for kids to be subjected to that, that seems like a worse world.

People need to expect to pay for art and entertainment. People should. It’s immoral and unethical to not pay for art and expect art to be there.

How far of a distance was it? I’m trying to plan a trip right now and if I drive by myself the plane is easily cheaper. If I go with a group of people then driving is obviously cheaper.

the cost

The reason people use planes typically is its cheaper or roughly the same price when compared to driving - especially if you do t have the efficiency of being able to travel with multiple people.

the chance of getting sick because of the recycled air

Do you have anything to back this up? My understanding, during covid, air plane travel was relatively safe in comparison to other enclosed spaces due to the air filtering equipment.

Suffering isn’t pointless. It makes me and many others feel good if horrible people like Brevik suffer, its justice for the people who suffer everyday due to Breviks crimes. Governments through history have been responsible for a ton of suffering - this is one of those rare instances where it’s fully justified.

But I’ll admit, wanting revenge isn’t great and you’re right, we shouldn’t setup systems to enact revenge. That being said, some people are so terrible they need to be locked up and separated from society permanently. Since enacting a death penalty is both expensive and takes a very long time if you want to have the proper checks and balances to ensure innocent people aren’t being executed, that tells me life imprisonment is the only option for people that would or should be otherwise executed.

Maybe he changes his tune in 10 years and becomes a voice against the terrorism he tried to inspire. That could end up with an at least beneficial outcome for society.

I personally beleive the death penalty shouldn’t exist for people like Brevik. The best case scenario is he suffers for the rest of his days. He can’t be rehabilitated and he shouldn’t be.

His acts were so evil he deserves to suffer. Laws should change to ensure people like him can suffer.

I got banned from a subreddit for being to aggressive when calling out people who were justifying and calling for fire bombing of churches.

I’m pretty sure that was also used against me when I got banned from the whole platform but I’ll never know for sure.

The current right wing talking point is its not fraud because it wasn’t successful lol. Even if it was successful, it still wasn’t fraud because trump believed the election was stolen from him. Oh and state legislator can pick any electors they want at anytime.

It’s ridiculous

Those people will get banned if they are in a subreddit where people will report it. It’s pretty easy to get banned from reddit if you don’t follow certain social conventions and beliefs.