Pizza that traditionally comes with sauce on top would be better if you did no sauce on top and instead dipped the pizza in sauce as you ate. I like my crunchy.

yeah I’m autistic this happens very often

That smart phones are surveillance/psyop devices, and that they own you, not them. I’ve been 100% phone free for 5 years now. I’m a 30+ Year IT expert. Also, fuck A.I.

I’m a structural engineer. It is part of the job.

I’ve been mostly right.

It’s cheese curds and gravy that make it a poutine, not cheese. You can put cheese AND cheese curds on a poutine along with other stuff, but without cheese curds, all you have is fries and gravy with assorted hangers on.

Bigotry is bad. Segregation is bad.

In progressive spaces this is USUALLY met with agreement. That’s easy whenever we are talking about equal rights for people who have been historically been oppressed. However, a dark corner of progressive spaces likes to hate. Hate on men, cis people, white people. It’s usually just one or two people, who have probably been personally hurt by people who happen to fall into those groups, and the rest don’t feel like they can say anything.

I strongly believe that things like segregation are fundamentally wrong and make the world a worse place. Not that they were tools that were used for evil and can now be used for good in the right hands. Not just temporarily as balancing measures for society. Equality isn’t just something you can pick and choose when to believe in, when it’s pretty and convenient and makes you feel good.

If you’re walking down stairs or an escalator you stand/walk on the right. always. If you live in a country that drives on the left side then you apply the same to stairs.

When walking on the sidewalk you pass on the right.

People who walk down the opposite side are a cancer to society.

Playing noise on your phone in a public place is wrong. Violators should be put in one those midevil contraptions that lock your head and wrists in a plank of wood so that we may all pelt you with rotten fruit and vegetables.

No one wants to hear that shit. You’re an asshole and should feel bad.

I said in a meeting “that’s a really bad idea”

They still did it.

During years, we had trouble with it. I kept saying “I told you it was a bad idea”.

After 6 years, they finally removed it. I said “well, I said it was a bad idea”.

I was once a consultant for wine companies. I was working on helping establish a new wine brand. The client was really clear that they did not want to rely on the idea of terroir, nor their vineyards closeness to the ocean as selling points.

My boss thought the brand should use a bunch sails and anchor imagery to sell the terroir and the vineyard’s closeness to the ocean.

I told him the client wouldn’t like it as they’d been clear that’s not what they wanted. He said I was wrong. If he’d told me the client was wrong that would have been fine but he insisted that I had heard it wrong and started gas lighting me.

Turns out the client felt they’d been really clear that they didn’t want a brand that focused on the terroir and closeness to the ocean and refused to pay for that round of work.

At work, I had to design something for a new software product and realized that if we applied the same approach as our old product we were going to run into major scalability issues. The problem is the whole organization was basically used to the product working this old way. For months, people tried to ignore the scalability issues and push forward with the old approach in the new product. I kept being a pest though and pointing it out. Eventually, I wrote a several page document with data and graphs explaining exactly what the problem was and presented it to other teams. I also did research and found that our competitors were doing it my way, which I attributed to the scalability issues inherent to the problem. This forced everyone to accept the problem and eventually my solution. It was really hard to basically be fighting against a mob mentality and feel like the only sane one. It was also hard because even after the solution was accepted people were still upset about the change. In my view, this was like being angry at the laws of gravity. You can feel that way, but it doesn’t change that they exist and you have to accept them.

They tried to argue that all math was useless bullshit because it couldn’t deal with infinity.

I tried to show different ways math has been useful for me personally, and for humanity generally. None of that mattered to them. I tried to explain how math can actually work with infinity. They insisted I was lying.

A part of me thought they were just trying to troll me, but after seeing and interacting with them multiple times afterwards, I’m pretty sure those were their genuine beliefs. They were also a moon landing denier, but after the whole math discussion I didn’t touch that topic with a ten foot pole.

I have to be “that guy” sometimes when it comes to fire performance safety. There’s huge risks involved so there really isn’t a lot of wiggle room. I try to treat any fuckups as learning opportunities though, I don’t want to scare away the newbies

Yes, we had a tooling design and it was going to fail because the angles and mechanisms were not right. My boss overruled me, under protest, and we built it how the customer wanted it with no changes.

It failed in production.

There was a big meeting with everyone upset. I said I told you! And tried to reexplain why it doesnt work. They denied knowing about the issues previously.

Thankfully the president stepped in and said, I was in the initial meeting and remember you warning of the potential failure. Then everyone shut up.

We redid everything my way.

I believe that GenAI is a scam that should’ve been treated and criminalized/prosecuted like one long before it got to the point of destructiveness that it’s currently at and I’ll die on that hill.