You Mean the Trash Gets Trashed?

Chill Annoying, Tech

Why!?

This seems extremely common for users to do and I’ve wondered about it also over the years. People will store important emails in the “Deleted Items” in Outlook and files in the “Recycle Bin” on Windows and the “Trash” when it used to be called that.

I think because it’s easy to do? Even though it’s dangerous. I assume they are attempting to use these places like an archive. Stupidly, poorly, and with no thought behind it at all, but I guess that’s what is going on. At previous roles I’ve had to make announcements via email and Slack that, “We do not back up the Windows Recycle Bin or Deleted Items in Outlook. Do not store needed or important items in those locations. They will be deleted and will not be available for any recovery or restore.”

It worked better than nothing, but people still did it anyway.

Use AI

Chill Annoying, Clowns

To those (idiots) claiming no recruiters and no ATSes use AI, the company I work for absolutely does use AI for filtering submitted applications. Extensively. We do not use any AI interviewers or other horrible abominations like that, but the first and second pass of all resumes and job apps 100% use AI all the way through.

This is the common case now, no matter what anyone on Reddit says.

As Reasonable

Chill Evil

Nuclear power haters are so weird and detestable. Like, we find free magic rocks that spew power with 1/1000 the impact1 of fossil fuels and we…just don’t use them.

Because people are a little scared. And we treat this as normal and these people as reasonable.

  1. Yes, even including nuclear waste storage and maintenance.

Verity

Chill Regular-ass Post

It seems like in a lot of life, people want to be conned. They have no interest in the true nor the actual. That’s the case on both the right and the left; this affliction is by no means restricted to one leaning or political party.

The comforting or belief-affirming lie is nearly always preferred to the verifiable and the real.

Chill Links

How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2.

Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes.

Make Medical School Three Years.

One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement. Heh.

Aristotle on Immigration, Diversity, and Democracy.

The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net.

Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study.

The Monks in the Casino.

70% of ammunition used by Russia made in N. Korea: Ukraine analysis.

Got blamed for an AI tool’s mistake that ended up costing me my job.

‘Ghost job’ postings are adding another layer of uncertainty to the stalling jobs picture.

Fresh signs emerge that the U.S. labor market is weakening as the government shutdown draws to an end.

Lawless

Chill Annoying, Clowns

As much as she is a huge dumbass, she also does not deserve Iryna’s fate. We must also protect the weak and the clueless; I do think it’s noblesse oblige to do so. The truth of the world is just too much for some people.

She’s a good example of someone with “suicidal empathy.”

Truly Unnatural

Chill Rant

It really is strange how it’s treated by so much of the left as hateful and anomalous that, broadly speaking, people wish to live near other people like them who speak the same language and hold the same values as they do.

Because, brothers and sisters, it’s the most natural thing in the universe to want that. I’d even say that it is part of human nature. Of course, leftists insist human nature does not exist. They are wrong, of course. If it did not exist then neither would we.

On the other hand, inviting millions of people into your country who want to destroy it and would kill you if they could and will rape any women they have the chance to is what is unnatural. It’s kind of sad that has to be pointed out these days. But it does.

Buffeted

Chill Regular-ass Post

I agree. The woman is the one in the right here. I have no interest in proposals or rings in this sense and neither does my partner, but if my girlfriend said she wanted to go on vacation to a national park as her dream getaway and I took her to play the slots and eat at buffets in Vegas, she’d be right to be angry about it.

It doesn’t sound like this woman is a gold-digger or unreasonable. It more appears she’s not being listened to, which is death for any relationship.

Reading Speeding

Chill Books

I can finish a medium-hard 200 page book in about two hours. I can get through a difficult 300-page book (prose) in about five hours.

I can finish the average potboiler book in an hour and a half. The last time I read a book on a flight, I started and finished Tilt by Emma Pattee on a one hour and 21 minute flight.

Sorry about all y’all’s limitations, but they aren’t mine. Not in this realm.

Booking Through

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Bro, I used to read 200 books in 7-10 weeks. It’s not actually that hard if you read fast and can devote a lot of time to it.

This is a great example of just because you can’t do something doesn’t mean that I can’t do something. And I promise you I understand those books better than you do when I’m finished, even if I read them three times as fast.

I read more than 200 books a year now despite the fact that I hardly even pick up books anymore (for me). Back in the day, I’d read 12-16 hours a day nearly every day.