My tolerance for inconvenience is rather low.

Christmas is fine in moderation. The problem I have with Christmas is that people try to stretch Christmas out to have it take over other parts of the year.

I also feel like Christmas is the holiday that requires the most work and I’m not a fan of holidays that require me to do a lot.

I don’t think they are linked, but the financialization of the health care system has caused issues like the opioid crisis.

I would interpret the anti vax movement as medical conspiracism.

I have a couple of aunts that I can have deep conversations with. I also get along with some of my cousins. I’ll say that my family isn’t as hierarchical as other families are.

and Tron: Ares

I thought that was a water gym trainer in Pokemon.

Not everyone is compatible to be in a happy marriage and not everyone who is compatible is with someone they are compatible with.

There are also some fields that attract a kind of guy who sees himself as a provider for his family first and foremost, leaving his wife to perform the familial labor. This separation of work can lead to some unhappy marriages lasting longer than others.

Computer UI has been made to follow mobile UI when the two have very different sets of constraints. It is ok for a computer program to look cluttered; that’s how you can access everything easily.

Even if it is a bad choice, I’d rather be part of a bad choice than not.

Using your cooking analogy, what I’m talking about are people who can’t even describe the basics of how to cook.

What ingredients do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

What cooking equipment do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

About how long will it take to bake bread and when do you need to start? I don’t know.

I’m not talking about how to communicate being an expert at a craft and teaching it to someone else, I’m talking about understanding the basics.

You’re digging in your heels in that they only can communicate in one medium. You then pick a language which I don’t know what your competency is.

If you can’t communicate an idea in any method of communication at all to a point where an educated person in that field can’t see what you’re trying to communicate, it shows that you don’t understand the idea. This is especially true if you can’t repeat the ideas in the media it was presented.

How else is someone supposed to show how they understand an idea?

Which is why I mentioned other ways to explain things. If you’re dealing with a spatial problem but can’t draw what you are trying to explain, that is indicative that you don’t know what you’re dealing with.

It’s the reason why I mentioned communication beyond the written word.

I’m not a stickler for vocabulary when I ask people to explain something. You can use other words if you want, describe it like you’re a caveman, draw a sketch, even explain it with interpretive dance for all I care.

And it is fine if some detail is lost in the explanation. However, you should be able to communicate it in some manner.

It depends.

My issue right now is having to supervise “tech” equivalents and they get caught off guard because they try to do shortcuts that they think they can get away with and I point out how those shortcuts break what they are trying to do.

Not really.

Salaried employees don’t get time and a half pay for overtime, but many companies will offer straight time over 40 hours as an inducement to work OT.

The cost of insurance, benefits, equipment, rent, and overhead staff to support people gets spread over more hours, so the effective overhead rate drops and the company makes more money per extra hour worked.

In some industries, the support costs are so high it is cheaper to pay time and a half than it is to pay the overhead costs for a new employee.

WFH would work a lot better if junior staff asked anywhere near the level of questions they ask if they were in the office.

If you can’t explain how something works, you don’t know how it works.

If you’re going to talk about Reddit, I’ve found that there is a somewhat sizeable Indian community on the platform. Some of the videos I watch have the same tone of local American politics videos on Reddit.

My Reddit usage has gone down over the past few years, but a lot of the videos I see on Reddit about India seem to be by Indians for India and have people writing in various Indian languages in the comments. A lot of them seem to critique India as other countries would critique themselves.

That said, you and I may be seeing different videos.

The problem is that the Internet has become more dangerous and complicated than before. Companies and people don’t choose the cloud because of the storage, they choose it because they don’t have to maintain the server.