BlameThePeacock

By failing to get a job that I was the most qualified applicant for, then having a mentor (who was one of the people already in that role) help me understand why I didn't get it. I was steaming mad. It wasn't fair, it wasn't reasonable, but it wasn't something that I could control either. I could only choose how I dealt with it.

2026-09-02 22:49:15 UTC

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You can only control your own actions.

2025-12-17 23:02:28 UTC

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As he should, absolutely his first amendment right was violated.
If the right can spout pure hatred and bullshit with impunity, so can everyone else.

2025-12-06 17:12:31 UTC

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I was working at a call center, and applied to become a supervisor, I didn't get the position.
My supervisor at the time gave me some offhand feedback about how I was approaching other people and coming off as too cocky because I was really really good at my current role, I was #1 out of over 1000 agents on my call metrics.
Not sure if it was just the right person, the right time, the right method of delivery, whatever, but it finally clicked for me. That one piece feedback changed my whole personality and has given me so much opportunity over the last 20 years.
I got the supervisor position the next time I applied.
Edit: Just wanted to add that teenagers are stupid, including myself.

2025-11-11 02:14:38 UTC

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Just a reminder that
https://www.wiktionary.org/
Exists, and is part of the Wikimedia foundation

2025-10-21 15:47:31 UTC

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Baby wipes are really useful to just have sitting in your car, and next to your bed for those lucky enough to have nocturnal company.

2025-02-19 03:12:01 UTC

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And it's pretty disturbing that despite the absolutely massive avalanche of evidence that these tools have valid use cases that improve productivity, you're pretending they dont.
I don't care to argue, you keep ignoring them, I'm gonna keep making more money for less effort.

2025-02-18 22:28:16 UTC

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Depends on how you count.
I have four regular clients in post secondary education, local government, finance, and transportation.
Given that I'm doing work inside those companies, it could be argued I work in four different industries.
That being said, the tasks I do happen in almost every company larger than a handful of people.

2025-02-18 21:50:35 UTC

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Am I not in an industry when I do work?
I'm not the only freelancer I know using this and making more money.

2025-02-18 21:46:14 UTC

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GenAI isn't meant to address every single situation, so it failing to address specific situations is perfectly normal.
I don't know why anyone is doing generic worker studies when clearly half the people have been handed a hammer, when their job is cutting lumber. Of course it ain't gonna fucking work for them.
Give people GenAI when their task is suited to GenAI, then do analysis on just those workers for just those tasks.
I never use GenAI to produce research documents, because it isn't good at that yet. I tested it a few times, found the results lacking, and went back to doing it the way I was before.
I use GenAI to summarize my notes into Statements of Work for clients, because I tested that, and found the results excellent (and hours faster than me doing it the old way)
I use GenAI to create complex powerFx formulas, because again I tested that and it's quite good and saves me time.

2025-02-18 17:20:25 UTC

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I'm a freelancer, I use it myself, I know it's increased my productivity because I'm able to get more work done than I was doing before.
I think a lot of companies are trying to force it into jobs that it's currently not suited to, but I can tell you that even today if things didn't get any better than they currently are I'd keep running my local 14B parameter model to assist in the tasks that I've found it works well for.

2025-02-18 01:38:53 UTC

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Smile all the time and then people can't tell. Plus people will find you more friendly.

2025-02-18 00:36:58 UTC

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It's not going to fall apart, genai tools are already increasing productivity in many industries.
Just because you haven't seen any benefit doesn't make it false.

2025-02-10 18:41:56 UTC

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You provided an argument, I tore it down, and you moved the goalposts, and now you won't even tell me where the goalposts are. Great conversation here.
At the end of the day, Trans women are going to get banned from competitive sport in the women's divisions.
Which is how it should be. I wish them well in everything else they want to do in life.

2025-02-10 18:06:02 UTC

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Lol, they're censoring the small R word.
If I'm not supposed to trust your argument in your original comment, then pray tell me what exactly is your arguement?

2025-02-09 22:42:28 UTC

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Are you *removed*? Go back and read your own godamn comment.

2025-02-09 19:39:45 UTC

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The argument you made was that ALL trans women had to be better than Britney Griner for it to be unfair.
I countered by saying if even a single trans women, because of their male puberty development, was better than Britney Griner then it would be unfair.
The entire point of having a women's league at all is to exclude men, specifically because their bodies are vastly stronger when comparing two of the peak athletes in that sport.

2025-02-09 08:29:41 UTC

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Taking hormones does not undo all of the benefits of male puberty body development. This is science that has been proven.
You simply cannot say that no trans women has an advantage, it's just false.
Given that at least some have an unfair advantage, they should not be allowed to participate in a division created specifically to avoid having to compete against that advantage.
It's that simple.

2025-02-09 07:18:56 UTC

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They are fucking relevant, because you said that trans women need to ALWAYS beat cis women for it to be unfair.
I'm providing an example where in an even more extreme situation where cis men were involved directly, some cis men could lose and the situation would still be unfair.
So your argument that they all had to be better is false. Trans women participating in women's sports if even one of them is better because of their natural doping is an unfair situation.

2025-02-09 06:15:41 UTC

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And I was giving you an example where cis men could both win AND lose to cis women, and it would still be unfair.

2025-02-08 01:18:47 UTC

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I'm not calling trans women men, I'm saying that if a cis man were to show up.

2025-02-07 20:55:37 UTC

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That's not how fairness works.
If one man shows up to every woman's weight lifting competition and wins every time and at the same time three other men show up and place last every time, the situation is still unfair to women because someone still had an unfair advantage.

2025-02-07 18:24:18 UTC

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I did not use the word always in any of my comments on this thread.

2025-02-07 18:06:47 UTC

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Why does every trans athlete have to be better than Britney Griner for it to be unfair?
That's an unreasonable stance.
Women's sports leagues exist to eliminate men from competing where it would be unfair. Letting in anyone who surpasses ANY woman in that league simply because they were doping with Testosterone as a teenager breaks the entire spirit of why that league exists.
There was an example of a high school wrestler who was transitioning to male that was forced (he wanted to wrestle in the boys category) to compete against girls and went 52-0 that season.
I have no problem with Trans athletes competing in open or men's leagues, but there hasn't been a single trans man that has ever participated in the Olympics because without the benefit of natural testosterone during development they simply can't compete at that level. There was one trans man who almost made the Olympics (he got to the trials leading up to the Olympics) but he didn't succeed in making it there.
No matter how much we want to be inclusive, and I'm all for being inclusive as much as possible, if we've intentionally created a lower category for competition then it should only include the people who actually belong in that category.
We should just rename the categories from Mens and Womens to be "Over X Testosterone from ages 10-20" and "Under X Testosterone from ages 10-20" because that's what they were really meant to represent.

2025-02-07 17:39:07 UTC

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That's not even close to similar since race has no significant bearing on physical capabilities as is easily proven by the Olympics results even when black people were still being excluded in North America.
The top female athletes get absolutely wrecked at strength based sports by even mediocre male athletes. Just go look up the Williams sisters vs Braasch (tennis)
Anyone who keeps claiming that trans athletes have zero benefit are lying to themselves. There are some who have no benefit, especially if they transitioned pre-puberty, but it's clear as day biologically that they were literally doping for a decade of their development if they transitioned later.

2025-02-07 15:56:15 UTC

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Completely agree.
The whole point of women's sport leagues is because it's unfair to have them compete against men. Trying to impose fairness with something designed to be unfair is folly.