FlickOfTheBean

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[–] FlickOfTheBean 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, it's just billionaire funding, not gumption.

Left is king of grassroots movements that go nowhere because they can't get funded while the right has daddy koch and murdock making it rain all the way down to altright and neonazi youtubers.

But call me a hippie conspiracy theorist and move on with your day, because you're obviously not too bright.

[–] FlickOfTheBean 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ah right, scream into the void and get ignored because I'm not a multimillion dollar donor. Forgot to waste my time, no I have not.

Do you have any more useful suggestions or is void talking all im allowed to do now or get shouted down with "you haven't done enough" bullshit?

I guess perhaps I'm just disenfranchised in which case, nothing systematic is gonna help.

Guess I'm the doomer after all.

[–] FlickOfTheBean 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Ah yes, me, the demigod who can act up on all my worries. Tell me again my plan to get trump to fuck off the 2024 election?

Not to be too sarcastic at you, it's a good sentiment that I do sort of agree with, but it places too much "you can do anything" blame on the observer who literally is already worried. Aka, this runs a major risk of demotivating people straight into doomerism when they're faced with worries there's really nothing that they individually can do about.

Unless I'm wrong and there is some legitimate answer to that sarcastic opening question that I, individually, can do about it, in which case, I'm all ears lol

[–] FlickOfTheBean 1 points 1 year ago

I think the commenter you're replying to made some logical enough jumps.

Like it seems that they're assuming people in Republican rural counties who start doing this to random candidates would move out, causing a localized housing crisis in that area that banks could come in and capitalize on like the vultures that they tend to act like. That would lead to the pattern that they're painting in their comment.

So I can imagine how it's all connected, but that said, I don't claim to know the inner mind of this poster so I could be very wrong.

[–] FlickOfTheBean 4 points 1 year ago

As long as you're not being a douchebag, or, if you were, you immediately stop being a douchebag, I don't think anyone has basis to eat you alive.

[–] FlickOfTheBean 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calling me chronically online has literally no effect, but since we're gotten to the name calling stage, allow me to respond in kind:

Next time, state your stance instead of playing shitty word games, coward. You didn't state your stance when asked, you only responded with "what do you think". Therefore, I told you. And now you're trying to backpedal instead of owning the fact that you're acting like a smug asshole instead of just changing your behavior.

It's a shame though, we could have had an interesting conversation about this. But I guess all you have is pointless trivia and no actual opinion. Why do you even bother to talk, then? Like I'm actually asking, why did you even bother to respond "what do you think?"?

[–] FlickOfTheBean -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Your position and lack of answering the question implies to my naive mind that you do advocate for killing all the sheep that have been bred to need shearing. Do you not? I really can't tell lol your stance seems to imply that would be where you land, but I would also call that pretty fucking ghoulish if that's the case.

Since we set the world up this way, now we have a responsibility to treat the animals kindly. That's my stance. Supply and demand is technically irrelevant. Obviously I'm gonna have an issue with factory industrialized wool though... Mistreating animals, especially species we specifically messed with through selective breeding is absolutely inexcusable. And the PETA route of annihilating all the selectively bred animals is as abhorrent as factory farming to me.

[–] FlickOfTheBean 2 points 1 year ago

Nah that's one and done mentality. Just gotta take a shitload and random different angles and lightings and one is bound to be good. Same logic as fishing, just keep trying till you catch a good one lol

But I guess at this point I'm only pushing the point as a PSA for anyone who could use the advice. You're right though, a bad selfie is much worse than a good fish pic.

[–] FlickOfTheBean 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's fair. Part of my job is converting non-technical users into technical users by teaching them things like problem solving approaches that are supposed to help them teach themselves how to learn whatever they need to actually do their job. I don't teach them what to do, I teach them how to learn what to do.

I agree that you gotta meet people where they're at, but I try to teach them how to poke around any code repo site, like GitHub or gitlab, so they can use it. Usually I point them to the docs and start by pointing out my favorite parts so that they have somewhere to kind of start by themselves, but it is a skill set that can be practice, or at least I am convinced it is.

I'm not very good at this part of my job, but also, no one is, so it's not a bad thing, I just want to do better. I guess I never thought of it from a truly non-technical and not wanting to be technical perspective before. This could be solved by a secondary interface designed specifically for this kind of user. It would not allow code download or interaction, but it would allow for issue logging. I might put this idea in my ever growing project list because it sounds like it would be a useful product...

[–] FlickOfTheBean 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm interested in where the limits to expectations lie here. I'm not trying to be a jerk when I say this next part but I do worry I may come off that way but I'm trying to figure out the boundaries of what a "reasonable" expectation is so I can make tasks like this easier for my own team (completely unrelated to this project but it's essentially the same problem).

Is it not reasonable to expect people to type into a search engine something like "GitHub help" and then poke around in the links that come up?

.... Well I'll be damned, I tried my own method before commenting, and the first link that comes up is a red herring, how obnoxious. I was hoping it'd be a link to the docs, not GitHub support. I guess I just answered my own question: no that is not reasonable.

As a technical user, I am still at a loss for how to help a non-technical user in an algorithmic way that will work for most non-technical users x.x guess I'll be thinking about this problem some more lol

(I guess I'm rambling but I'm gonna post this anyways in case anyone wants to chatter about it with me)

[–] FlickOfTheBean 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just don't understand how someone can get on a dating app that's in a phone and not think to take a picture... Like there's a camera in the device that you're using to access the app with.

But fair is fair, it happens, that must be at least part of it, if not all of it. Ty for the explain!

[–] FlickOfTheBean 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

But you're on a dating site, why not make some fresh? Genuine question, but that's usually just what I do. Like I'll get dressed up in my favorite clothes and take a nice picture to show off a bit. Seems like that sort of approach would only help?

Like I can't think of any reason to add a fish pic unless they're just genuinely proud of it, in which case, fish fearing ladies probably shouldn't apply anyways...

Idk, now I think it's both good to have the fish pic AND create new pics, imo... Helps screen out the people you don't actually want and helps showcase your more preened side, if one exists (and if not, that's also good data for a potential mate to have)

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