lavander

u/lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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on How are you doing? · c/autism · 2 pts · 8d

If there is something that can be done, well then it means that I have some control.

If all I can do is burn myself out… it would not make the world better

on How are you doing? · c/autism · 7 pts · 8d

My coping mechanism: when I feel that I am going to be overwhelmed by bad news or the cruelty for the sake of it.

  1. Is this something I can influence in a way or another? The answer is typically no (otherwise I would have already worked on addressing)
  2. Spending emotional energies on this would change anything for this instance? The answer is always no
  3. If I keep on wasting emotional energies on this topic that I can’t change, will I have the energies for having an impact on things I can have an impact on?

This makes me realise that the best I can do for the system is, sadly, ignore the problem. Not because I don’t care but for a strategic effort in doing what I can

Historical fascism wasn’t like that: big companies were watched more closely. Each director board of a large company needed to have at least one representative of the fascist party.

Of course, the question is what you do with that power. And there probably fascism fails the “evil test”

But in principle I think that business (especially big business) should serve the common interest (represented by the state) and not the other way around

Not US but the answer is simple.

IDs are a taboo in the US (otherwise the government would interfere with your privacy or something).

So they have

  • Passports (too bad that a small percentage of population has)
  • Birth certificates (yeah, super secure /s, in practice just a way to bar people that changed their name/surname)
  • Driving licenses/liquor id: these are the closest to IDs but technically they are not ID. The proposed changes are exactly for stopping accepting driving licenses
  • SSN: don’t even make me started

This is the case now.

US is adding extra requirements to keep the status quo.

Now either EU accepts it (this proposal) or hard line (and consider that US has other ways to access the data of Europeans). Problem is that if the EU decides to not give access, likely on this administration they will stop EU to enter visa free.

Exactly like for the tariffs, EU can either do the same or accept the US citizens visa free.

Typically this would mean require visa for US citizens that means a lot of lost opportunities for everyone (exactly like tariffs)

on What? · c/fuck_ai · 9 pts · 13d

If I went on a date with this person and I don’t realise what’s going on, I hope so much that Claude would suggest to not date me… if I realised, the date would not last enough to help Claude with the training 🤣

As always in these cases… it depends if backdoors will be mandated. Maybe not in the first version… maybe in the cond or third… you need to make people to accept things a bit at the time

This is actually an interesting question.

They experimented with “office hours” for doctors and patients were dying more than double/triple shift.

This because the information lost during handoff was more valuable than doctors being more tired (and by consequence doing more mistakes).

This is a textbook example of the risks of lost context

You are bringing two unrelated points:

  1. pay should be proportional to the environment. that is a reasonable point otherwise it can be unfair to teachers in high wage areas… and not necessarily against to the spirit of what it is proposed

But then you switch to

  1. teachers should not get a rise. That is not supported by your example since it could also be that everyone deserve an higher pay. Plus your example is not generic (if your circle was LA or NYC probably your teacher friends would not be “rich” and would deserve a raise)

And then you close to something aspirational (kids should get better) after advocating for not increasing teachers salaries.

For making your aspirational goal come true you want the best people as teachers… and for that you need high salaries.

Now I don’t think you are a bot or a troll but in times of scarcity it’s common that poor people argue with each other and pull the ones that have a little more down…. I would say that in your community maybe you should aim to have everyone an higher salary not teachers having a lower salary