I stopped using social media as much because the ragebaiting and echo chambering got to be too much to deal with. I'll occasionally check in now but on Facebook, I'd say 50% of my feed is sponsored posts from random yahoos in other states posting things I care nothing about. I'm always tempted to comment on. their posts 'who are you and why should I care about this?'. Finally in between the sponsored posts are 10-15% ads from companies that swam you any time you view or like a post that has anything to do with their industry. It's become an unusable mess and I'm sad I miss important updates from friends or family, especially if someone passes away, but it's a terrible experience now. Plus between the dozens of big social media companies and having to be on multiple chat apps (slack, discord, whatsapp) for work or hobbies, I feel like I am playing whack a mole with notifications or things vying for my attention and I just don't have time for that nonsense. It literally gives me anxiety to think I may be missing something important if I dont click a bouncing icon, so I gave it all up. Instead of push notifications, I poll once a week or so :)

I was at Atlassian for 4 years until laid off during their shedding of HipChat. Mike Canon-Brooks (MCB) is a totally stand up guy and really takes care of his people, and the company does take care of its customers. One of their mottos I still live by today is 'dont fuck the customer' (Aussies, am I right?). Despite being laid off, it is pretty close to one of the best places I've ever worked at and I hold him and the company in the highest regards. Sure some of the software suffers from founders code problems but despite this it works well and its still highly used by many orgs.

This would pair well with $30 avocado toast

Fifteen minutes? FIFTEEN MINUTES? Ha! That's kiddie stuff! *laughs at you in Social Security calls where wait times are 2-4 hours"

As a manager, I loathe workday as does my VP fiance at her job. There is no greater hell than trying to do anything quickly or efficiently in Workday and if this is the best there is, the bar is so low for literally anyone to swoop in with a competitor.

The same companies and micromanagers who want engineers back in the office 5 days a week so they can track their bathroom breaks and clock in/out time under the facade of 'company culture'

I played WoW probably way too much in my 20s and a bit in to my 30s. The storylines were amazing, the gameplay and raids great. I think somewhere along the way it lost its edge though. We went from regicide, blood, murder, death, demons and soap opera like stories to one of the most recent expansions with transgender Dragons in it being a highlight. At the same time Blizzard removed the /spit emoji because "it was offensive" (and/or because folks were spitting on people who rode store-bought mounts). To paraphrase Bill Hicks : "When I am burning down a village full of little green kids, I don't want to have anyone spit on me -- I just don't wanna see it!".

As I got older I just couldn't justify spending cycles on the loot treadmill, arbitrary gates that force you to come back week after week, all with a sub par story and Blizzard, after 20 years, still being unable to properly tune classes in between patches and expansions leaving me to often believe I once again picked the wrong class this time around.

I think Blizzard as a company lost its way as game developers . They used to put out great games that I would wait up until launch to play -- but since Diablo 3 and WOTLK, they just don't hit like they used to.

Copper mines for green energy puts holes in the earth, fossil fuels put holes in the atmosphere.

Women flashing their breasts in public to breastfeed is apparently not harassment because its 'natural'. There are women who will publicly post pictures of their breasts hanging out while a child sucks on them just to force the point that it should be acceptable. Guess what is also natural? Sex. The thing that makes the baby that is being breastfed.

(for the record I dont think a minor should be exposed to any nude non-family adults after a certain age, so this dude is still a perv for sending pics to a 15 year old. It begs the question did he know how old she was? This IS the internet, after all).

I interviewed for pagerduty some years back, for a senior SE position. They told me that they would need me to come in and pair with people for 6 hours a day, for 4 days, to see how I worked with the team. I told them thanks but no thanks. People looking for jobs usually have ... jobs that they are looking to move from, and having a long interview process where you need to be there in person for the better half of a week, or take home a project that takes you a week to complete, only serves to benefit recent college grads without jobs or people without families or other obligations. These days if an interview process from start to finish will take more than 4 hours of my time (across multiple days), I won't even bother. If you need more time than that to assess candidates then I'd suggest getting better questions to ask and assess them.

I had a Telsa Model 3 performance for nearly 5 years. I loved it when doing city driving, but once I had 2 kids and wanted to start driving them around to cities an hour or two away, it became a hassle. My 300 mile range battery only got about 200 miles in reality - due to weather, driving speed not being 60mph on the roads, wind resistance, etc. It's about 100 miles from my house in Round Rock TX to Six Flags San Antonio. I'd start at 100%, would get there at 47%-51% remaining, and fearing running out of juice on the return drive, would have to turn my 3 hour round trip commute to a 3 hour 25 minute one for charging. I never took it on any extended road trips because I don't think I can stop that many times or for that long. Theres only so much gas station / strip mall stuff one can take on a trip.

It also was not large enough to haul a family plus gear in -- which of course is due to it being a compact car, but even the Model X didn't have a lot of room for a family of 4 plus bikes or whatever else you're hauling around. We wound up renting gas cars for any trip over 2 hours, which itself was a hassle.

My car was taken out by a pothole and I debated getting another one, but at least for my family and my situation, it was hard to justify another EV for now - and I went with a Hyundai Palisade like a good suburban Dad. I've heard rumors of a megawatt charger that can charge a Tesla from 10% to 70% in 5-7 minutes. I think that or the kids moving out will be the tipping point for me to reconsider another EV -- but I am 1000% on board when it happens. I do miss my Tesla every day though.

Things spoken in 1 language often do not have equivalents in other languages. Things are often ... lost in translation. Other times there is contextual knowledge needed to understand what someone is saying. Case in point Sai weng'ss lost horse. You can say to a Chinese speaker and they will understand all of the nuances about a longer story of good/bad fortune -- similar to in english saying 'it can't rain all the time' or 'its a blessing in disguise'. But without that knowledge, it sounds weird when it would be translated literally on screen as "Sai weng's lost horse". It's like Darmok in TNG, or the way kids speak in memes these days. In other cases like Japanese's (yoroshiku onegaishimasu), there is no literal translation. It has a meaning, but nothing exists in English to represent it properly.

Trains are only good for people who really like to travel by train / are scared of flying. They are slower and almost always more expensive because it costs more to keep a train staffed , fueled, and running for 3 days and nights straight than it does for an airplane for 5.5 hours. Expanding the train network without improving the speed of the trains to match Japan or China is like expanding the telephone system so you can support more landlines instead of building more cell phone towers. This smells like rail lobbyists -- or Biden is really stuck in a 1950's mindset.

I had an iPhone 4 that worked perfectly. Battery lasted 36 - 48 hours before needing a charge (unless I got a lot of calls). iPhone 5 came out and I decided to skip on it. I upgraded iOS to the latest one that was made for the iPhone 5 and suddenly my battery lasted 6 to 8 hours and everything was noticeably slower. Decided at that point to never upgrade iOS if a phone newer than mine was out unless I was forced to because of an app I'm using (and Apple ensures your apps made for slightly older versions of iOS will not be compatible with their shiny new toys, for sure). I'd switch to Android but it's terrible in other ways. At this point I just want to be able to see how far out the bars of the Apple prison extend.

In Japan many governments provide after school programs for younger kids so they don't go home to an empty house if the parent(s) is/are working. Junior and High schoolers are often in after school programs (bukatsu) for the same reason (and also to keep them out of trouble). Lengthening the day to accommodate working parents doesn't necessarily mean lengthening only the school portion.