Between the school system, parents and social media, GenZ is the wussiest, lock stepping, conformist, risk-adverse generation of all time.

“Gosh! What if I get in trouble?”

“Heavens me! What if I’m criticized on social media?”

“What if I’m told no?!”

Fuck me, asked one of my best friends (22) to do a thing with me. “What if we get in trouble?” “Uh, worst possible case? Someone says ‘Stop that.’” Like being told “no” might involve cops.

There was an eye-opening reddit post about the whole thing. 12-years on reddit, that post still sticks with me. Read it. It’s all honest discussion. (Yes, it starts about social skills, read on, you’ll see what I’m getting at.)

TWO college professors chimed in saying their students would sit in the dark before class because no one had the guts to turn the lights on. “Uh, we didn’t want to stand out or get in trouble.”

You weren’t allowed to take risks. Y’all have had the world stolen from you in 1,000 ways, ways you’ll never know about.

EDIT: Reading those comments again right now. I’m 54, but my kids are 10 and 12, I weep for the youth. You’ve been fucked and think it’s just normal life.

Excel has most businesses in a headlock. Can’t see why anyone else pays for M$. I have Office, but it’s a permanent license from my last job. When I upgrade, say bye bye.

Excel is the deal breaker on that. My last company was all Google products and auth, but I still had to buy Excel for the accounting and HR teams.

Never heard of them until this Streisand created issue.

Cut the explanation back out, let the idiots seethe.

EPA rules also play a part. Why we can’t have small trucks:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+we+can't+have+small+trucks

Pick any source ya like.

Putin doesn’t own a big red button he can push to launch nukes. There are layers in command that would not comply. And they’ve done it before. Same goes for Trump.

Unanimous?! Makes you wonder what they know that we might not.

That makes an excellent point to bring up with deniers. Love to see one stumble-fuck around trying to praise the military while saying they must be run by liberals.

Nah. I built the onboarding (IT working with HR) at my last two jobs. It’s a complex mess, very hard to get right, non-stop tweaking.

Told the dude that hired me today what a dream Lowe’s onboarding was. “Yeah. It was a clusterfuck a few years ago, they refined it down.” They went from 100 redundant questions on the app to 2. (It had been a stupid personality profile trap.)

Can’t speak to other places, but their managers are held to turnover metrics (I’m told). Hiring dumb assess and they keep leaving or getting fired, that’s on you. I like that idea. We shall see how it goes!

Me too, and that’s why I just signed onto to Lowe’s for a 75% pay cut. The onboarding process was a dream. I know, I built the onboarding at my last two jobs.

Done with all the bullshit. Dude wants 60 bags of mulch in his truck? I’m on it.

Liberals: Tax it!

Also Liberals: What about the poor people!

Lemmy tends to think everything is free, has no clue about real-world costs.

Just NOW swapped a failed micro cord, charging only. Never had USB-C fail me. Not that it can’t, but it’s always been far more reliable.

Old cable guy here. The cost is in laying the lines. That cost is astronomical. AT&T did the math, said, “Fuck it. Not worth it.”

Call 'em evil, but they’re not stupid.

LOL, and I got downvoted for saying the gun buybacks are stupid. People turn in crappy/broken guns for money to buy a better gun. Hell, I have 3 or 4 I’d ditch. Maybe more if you offered me $200 each.

Anyone notice Trump clearly didn’t write that, because it’s clearly written? Remember how bugfuck he was getting over the last year and how we rarely see that anymore?

Just how bugfuck is he now and who’s controlling him?

I do some amateur gunsmithing. The insides of a bog standard, single-shot 12-gauge blow my mind. As to how the internals work on my S&W Ez? No clue and I wouldn’t dare try a full tear down.

Do you know how many hours I’ve spent hunting springs in my carpet?!

You’ve got it exactly right. If you can print the receiver, you can get every tiny part off eBay.

2 pipes, 1 nail, 1 end cap, 1 12-gauge shell, done.

The legal notion of corporate “personhood” is in the very first words of US law:

the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;

Congress can choose to break this.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1