MountingSuspicion

The sims has a family tree. It's possible that if they also made their grandparents/aunts/uncles/cousins/half siblings they'd want that to be reflected in game how they're related. Also, your sims can have memories, so maybe they'd want their sim dad to have the memory of falling in love with their sim mom. Those are often autogenerated if you make two married sims, but I forget the specifics for the sims 3.

I said "uncritically engaging in hedonism" is bad. Uncritically engaging in almost anything is bad, but they had said "it's pretty bad ass to be happy regardless of how others judge you" and that does not make any distinction between what does and does not negatively impact others. I have a concept of hedonism, sure, but I did not state it in any of my comments. I'm responding to that persons idea which seems to have no regard for others.

If you don't understand how uncritically engaging in hedonism is bad for society as a whole, I don't know what else to add. You're the one advocating for doing whatever you like with no regard for others.

I'm sure the ghost of Jeffery Epstein appreciates your support.

I will generally not fault someone for what they like, but engaging in whatever it is without regard for others is not a recipe for a good society. Sure, don't care what everyone thinks, but there are plenty of reasons to not do something that would bring you pleasure.

Why and how what? Why and how Trump? Yes, I've asked, but it's not sensible. The other commenter seems to have had similar experiences where the answer is tautological or not grounded in reality. Trump is going to "get rid of the deep state". How/why? More nonsensical stuff. It's a cult at a certain point and you can't logic someone out of something they didn't logic themselves into. I am willing to engage with them but it's hard to not write them off as bad people if they were willing to go against logic and against helping people. The article itself points out these people are voting against things they say they want. That's not logical unless they want other things more, and the thing they want more than a progressive tax rate is some nonexistent vibe they want to achieve.

I can answer for both sides but they're unwilling to see that their how and why is flawed.

Thanks for sharing. I was just recently suggesting that populism from the left has the power to retake the culture, but the Dems are not taking advantage of that. Hopefully our conversations prove somewhat helpful in the grand scheme of things. I am seeing some movement from them, but not enough to feel like it's been worthwhile. Keep up the fight.

I think I need help with this, because I also interact with some "low information" (I don't like that term) voters, who agree with me on a lot of policy. I struggle to extend the grace I need to because it makes me even more upset. At least fascists and racists have a real reason to vote for this. I'm having a convo with someone and they're ostensibly pro choice and pro gay rights, and they still voted Trump. When I ask about why they voted for him if Rs are historically anti those things it's because Trump is just "better for America". I try to reason and kindly ask questions etc and I hope I make some inroads, but internally I just dislike them as people. How am I supposed to square that? They care so little about their purported positions they don't actually care if they happen, so long as some other nebulous concept of America becoming great happens. It upsets me and I can't help but think they're just bad people who don't actually care about others, they're just too stupid to realize that. They know conceptually gay marriage is ok, they just don't actually believe it so are willing to throw it away for vibes? I don't know, sounds like being a bad person with extra steps.

Vibes based voting is stupid, but vibes over policy means you care more about vibes than policy, so how much do they really care about the policy? Also, what kind of person are you that you get good vibes from Trump?

I go back and forth with myself about this so much, but there's always a part that believes no matter how "low information" you are, you have seen or heard Trump do some heinous stuff that you are willing to overlook even though you don't know his actual policy stance. That's at least been my experience with low information voters. I wish there was just a magical phrase someone could say that would make me understand that not all Trump voters are bad people, but I've yet to come across it. Truly looking for more insight on this if anyone is willing to share.

On top of the other comments here about how capitalism is bad and coding interviews are generally bad, I wonder what your parameters are. Does the job description actually include your stack? Are you interviewing people who casually list JavaScript or python but don't have relevant coding experience? How much time is given and what is the extent of the question?

If you're not paying people for their time, and you're asking them to do an at home assignment that has potentially no relevance to their expertise or the job they will be doing, all within a short timeframe what do you expect?

Unpopular take, but I think a short practical question, or maybe some verbal pseudocode stuff is fine, but I've had to run interviews as well so I get the struggle of finding a good fit.

As an aside, I've known some good code monkeys that can't design or explain anything, but given a direction they will hammer out a mvp in record time. Sometimes you have to pick the right tool for the job. Good coders aren't always good designers and vice versa. That's my hot take for the day.

I think there's a big generational gap and people just don't understand how younger gens integrated technology into their lives. Plenty of millennials have "online friends" and their boomer parents would have told them that's extremely dangerous. Some of it undoubtedly was, but online friend groups are a real thing. I think the same is true of location sharing.

I have family who are older who share it and it's helpful to know that they're safe without having to bother them whenever I worry. I also have younger people in my life and they use it for scheduling purposes with each other. "Oh X is still at practice so can't help with this right now I should reach out to Y who is at home". Kids these days are just more interconnected and that is probably more ok than we think it is. There are definitely some problems with it, but it's just new and different. Kids will bully or create drama about whatever, so it may cause some rifts, but if it wasn't that it would've been something else.

What you said was pretty clear to me at least. I have that user tagged as a misogynist so it's not unusual that they'd go out of their way to defend incels for no reason.

For what it's worth, it's unlikely that the incel in question would have the location of both those people in the first place. Generally, location sharing is done among friend groups and not entire peer groups, so it's unlikely the crush and the person they were seeing would have both shared their location with this other person unless they were all close, which is not the case in my experience.

There's a handful of accounts I see repeatedly going to bat for centrist (or extreme right or antiwest) positions and they universally have thousands or tens of thousands of comments in less than a year or two. I will sometimes still engage because it's important people don't think it was just left at their comment, but they are clearly not average people. They are either astroturfing or some kind of unwell sycophants. No one posts that much regularly brown nosing to people who actively do not care about you. The platform I use allows tagging of users. I've found that helpful so I at least can recognize them without having to remember their names. I try not to bring too much attention to the fact I'm aware of who is likely engaging in bad faith because it encourages them to change tactics, but I'm sure they know their tells already, but we are not at the point where enough average Lemmy users care or notice. Once more people start to notice hopefully we see them shut down more often. You're not alone in noticing this.

Two were not in attendance and one was in attendance the day prior and today (the day after). With their votes it would've passed, or at least forced some maneuvering out of more Rs. I think it's important to note that.