drdeadringer

What science should we not be trusting?

All of it? Some things and not others? Which things? Which others? Do I take your word for it? Do I not take your word for it? Do you see how I've watched 'Reading Rainbow' in questioning you like this?

Off and on I have been reading about Peak Oil articles dated from at least 1970 since 2006. Isaac Asimov even wrote a [perhaps speculative] piece about it.

Is this one of the "X will the the coming Y and always will be" topics?

> is really asking for every project management problem ever discovered

"Oh but they can just google the solution. Welcome aboard."

I have regularly seen a lot of "advice" to lie on your resume.

I don't take it and I advise against it.

However, there are folks who swear to high water that lying on the resume is the only way to get a job.

Perhaps not luddite, but perhaps frugal [not cheap].

One can be forward-thinking/innovative/minimalist/environmental/insert-favourite-ideology-here with Great Depression thinking.

I wonder how this is.

People don't Google-search them?

Bad/no SEO or similar?

"Facebook-Only" ads? Is there no other "as effective" ad platform or method? Is there some sort of cult mentality around Facebook ads [and/or ads on other platforms]?

People in 2021 just don't think "Gee, I wonder if that place has a website"? My local nobody "mom & pop" drycleaner seamstress has a website, or at least is Internet-searchable.

I recall reading how there are people in the world who conflate Facebook with The Internet. The only Internet they experience is through Facebook. They have have no idea about what is outside Facebook's garden.

> Emergencies should go through other media.

I wonder how soon, if it has not already happened, that people "report" emergencies through "Insta-Tok-Whats-Book" first and/or instead of dialling 911/999/&c.

> I looked into it, mostly by checking other social media sites, and assured them it wasn't on their end

This speaks to how more people need to know about sites alike to "Is It Down Or Just Me".

But that would take using The Google.

> in junior high and HS (back when they had Morse code tests!)

I was in the same framing of age and schooling as you describe, and in an affluent area as well; perhaps the difference between your technology classes and mine was that mine were not "ham radio oriented".

Not that I'm disinterested.

IT: "Please do this fix."

Person 1: "I can't, I don't have physical access."

IT: "Please do this fix."

Person 2: "I can't, I don't have digital access."

Why? It's [IT's?] policy.

One American example quote that holds true for countries outside of America:

Direct quote: "That website on Facebook."

There are people who believe that "Facebook" literally equals "Internet". Facebook, Internet ... Internet, Facebook.

Rinse and repeat for your alternative echo chamber regarding Google, the Microsoft Bing, &c.

Assuming you told HR that your mother had died as to the why, how did HR respond given their ignorance of your situation?

Note: Condolences for your loss.

In the film "A Good Year", the main character reaches a crossing point between his successful career [high, big finance] and his budding rediscovered life [a vineyard].

He is offered the coveted, prestigious Partnership. Rich for life. Known around the globe. Power. Influence. Move mountains. Meet Kings.

Or.

He can make efforts to reboot a vineyard in another country. It's fallowed somewhat over the decades but it has promise if given attention. The wine was and can be again good; there is a reputation to (re)harness.

His boss calls him to carpet. "So, here it is. Your money or your life."

A vineyard isn't brain cancer; the point remains the same. There are times when you need to choose over the other.

Reminds me of a story where a company's internet would regularly drop at the same time every day -- let's say 3pm.

Nobody could figure it out so they called in an expert.

After lots of attempts and figuring, one day the person in question happens to look out the window at the time in question ... and sees a service truck park exactly in line-of-sight between the business and their internet-signal pickup broadcast point.

Ah ha!

I understand your point even to be surprised you don't cite "Run Lola Run" to illustrate yourself.

However, there are valid reasons people -- including criminals -- still use cash.

What I'm hearing is that it's gotten so bad that people are now wanting email spam in order to combat data tracking, if not wanting email spam to combat email spam.

> old.reddit.com

This is what I use.

Wild times?

That's what I call this: reading an advocation FOR ads. Ads being great and wonderful instead of -- at best -- a necessary evil.

Do you eat food? Do you breathe air?

Somehow coffee is completely different.

Somehow coffee is on the same tier as tobacco or cocaine.

It's not.

Relax.

Enjoy a cocoa.

Kids can tell when they aren't being given straight answers.

Kids may not understand that they're doing "The 5 Whys", and//or that doing so may be annoying for the umpteenth time.

But non-answers like "because" as the be-all & end-all has an expiration date. That bill comes due for somebody. If that somebody ends up being your grown-up kid when it's time to pay, I wonder how much sympathy I'll have and for whom.

Reminds me of a joke:

There is a factory at the edge of town which employs one human and one dog. The human's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to keep the human away from the machines.

Also: "Has this been invented before?" // "How shall mine be better than the dozen already created?".

Wait until you here the phrase "nanny state" regarding the UK.

I recall that a musically-inclined UU minister riff'd a particular lyric off of an Eisenhower quote regarding along the lines of "If the people want peace, better get out of the way".

I also recall the meme-like time management thinking about 10 years ago regarding having a block of uninterrupted time to think and produce stuff [be it coding or otherwise]. Someone randomly dropping into your cubical all "did you get that email I just sent you" completely derailing your thought process and hard-booting you back to zero when they scuttle onward with their coffee mug thinking they did nothing wrong in being so sociable. The "I get my best work done between 3am-6am because everyone else is asleep and not in the office" thinking.

This came to my mind as well. I've worked on satellites in clean rooms and have also had cause to change the bulbs in my car's headlights. The packaging on the bulbs made it clear that touching the glass was not good.

The neighbourhood I live in has exactly one artery in and out.

This artery has multiple splinter-off points after a point, but there is a choke point where if things go bad you have no choice but to wait or fight for your chance of which escape into the wider//bigger world of roads you want.

I'm not sure why I noticed this whilst I live here yet I did.

Perhaps reading "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why" had something to do with it.

I took two psych classes in University. One was "Death and Dying". Perhaps a morbid class to take in your 20s, but it was a full class. The professor happened to be dying herself as she taught it. Very useful and enjoyable. It's one of the few textbooks I've kept since the long-ago graduation. A very useful course to take.

What will happen to you when you retire? Will you ever retire or will you work until you're dead? Are you someone for whom retirement, or not working, quite literally means death?

Honest questions.

It's OK not to know something in the moment.

Leave it at the tip of your mind and roll.