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.

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".

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 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.

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.

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.

Climate change is real and damaging to everyone and we need to take action to mitigate its progression. People who deny it are just insane. Not sure why some folks think losing freshwater and having more extreme weather events isn't a problem but it will end human civilization as we know it and eventually our species as a whole. We need to get with the program and stop politicizing a global issue.

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.

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.

From watching the commercial, I had an immediate revulsion to the Lunesta sleep aid because of the green moths that would fly in through your window and land on you and you would fall into a beautiful peaceful sleep.

I had friends and family that took it and they said it was the only sleep aid that worked for them and that I was being irrational.

And then it came out that people would take the shit and then sleepwalk and go for drives and wake up in their underwear out in the middle of the fucking woods because the Lunesta sleep moth had taken over them and made them do all kinds of crazy shit.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-adds-boxed-warning-risk-serious-injuries-caused-sleepwalking-certain-prescription-insomnia

Oh my ex wanted me to cut his hair, but just pulled it over one shoulder and said cut it off. He wanted to see it cut, understand? No, neither did i. I said "no, it will be slanty because it's all pulled to one side, let me cut it into a haircut." He said no, it will be fine, just cut it. "It will be slanty!" He was getting mad, JUST CUT IT! Finally he just took scissors and cut it how he wanted. "Oh no, it's all slanty!"

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.

Nobody likes candy corn and anyone who does is trying to gaslight me personally

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.

Random programming one, but some of the changes in C++20 are terrible and do not belong in the language. I will die on the hill of just because something is easier to learn/work with doesn't make it better.

Yes. OS Security. A bunch of "don't do that or you'll learn why" stuff.

Have I been right on all of my positions? Not yet.

Yet.

I think having pets is fundamentally unethical. Your dog lives in a tiny fraction of the world with absolutely no agency and only “loves” you because it is literally programmed to after centuries of breeding for traits that promote that. Your pet did not choose you and if it “loves” you at all, it’s only because they are utterly dependent on you because they have been taken far from where their species can survive or that place has been ruined by humanity. Animals cannot consent period and by extension cannot and never do consent to being property.

I’m not a PETA freak. I don’t shame people for having pets, but I’m unable to think of pets without considering these facts and it makes the entire thing seem gross and wrong to me. I rarely bring it up because it never leads to an engaging or productive conversation. No one ever really has an argument against it besides something along the lines of “Humans have had pets for millennia” or “It’s too late to put them back” which don’t actually prove me wrong in any way.

Happens often and most of the times is it because of a misunderstanding. Usually we actually agree with each other but we think we are disagreeing and arguing about how the thing we agree on is correct. I have seen this happen with two coworker many times and it makes me laugh every time until it gets too serious. I actually had this kind of "discussion" yesterday, my coworker said he couldn't see change x in my PR and I told him how it was before and how it is after the change and then it became heated (I assume it is because he wrote the code and the tests) he stepped back when I told him even the tests expected the faulty state then he understood what outcome we needed and saw that the change was there and it was actually correct.

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.

Yes, and yes.