“It’s not a principle if it doesn’t cost you anything”
Also just curious about your deeply held principles in general.
No political grandstanding please.
KISS — “Keep It Simple, Stupid”
Even when there’s more complex software with way more features, I’ll keep using the simple shit that works for me.
For example, I’m sure firewalld is great, with more features than something like ufw (maybe more secure?). But, the amount of work to add a single allow exception across the local network is more work than a single command equivalent in ufw. So, I would rather stick to the primitive approach of ufw.
Its another reason why I dont mess with stuff like tiling window managers, NixOS, and certain CLI apps that have GUI frontends. Just keeping it simple, even when it causes issues, simplifies things for me, leading to less manual upkeep from my end.
I needed to hear this today, thanks
Don’t know if that counts, but I will use my turn signals every. fucking. time. At dead of night, with no other (visible) traffic around, doesn’t matter.
Granted, it’s the law, but I can develop an irrational hate towards other drivers for not using them. And this will happen multiple times a day.
So maybe not the kind of inconvenient you’re after, but at least I’m sticking to it.
If you do it habitually, it won’t cost you thought or effort. You’ll just do it by muscle memory. The bar for obtaining and keeping a drivers license is too damn low.
Oh yes. I do the same. And I often fantasize about telling these dicks that their turn signals are broken.
When I was learning to drive, the government issued pamphlet included a phrase similar to, “Always use your signals, the car you don’t see is most likely to be the one that hits you.”
So I use my signals for any turn, any lane shift, no matter the context, no matter where I’m driving.
When I was carpooling to work a long time ago, a friend gave me some friendly grief over my usage of turn signals within an apartment complex’s parking lot. “Why are you using your signal? There’s nobody here.”
“Because the car I DON’T see is the one most likely to hit me.” “But there’s nobody here.” “Nobody that you see, but what about the car you don’t see?”
She didn’t get it.
A time when? How about every fucking year. Not observing Christmas or other human holidays. It’s inconvenient because everyone else becomes temporarily insane, which in turn causes my existential depression to give rise to ye ol’ seasonal depression. I don’t even celebrate my birthday, as it just reminds me I’m one year closer to never achieving my goals before I die a miserable death.
“Happy Holidays”. Pfft.
Bah, humbug. I feel it.
everyone else becomes temporarily insane
Yeah all these people having fun and participating positively in their community are crazy.
The point is that they could do good year round, not just waiting 364 days to give a shit.
Who says they’re not?
Ruined my relationship with my sister and was never part of my nephews lives because I declined to be their godfather because I’m an atheist. One of the aspects of being a godfather is promising to raise the children in their parents religion if their parents should pass. I told her, unequivocally, I cannot and will not make a promise I know I can’t keep, and that’s a promise that I could not possibly keep as it goes against my personal views and values. I will not raise your children to be Christian in your absence, and thus I cannot in good faith be their godfather. I thought I was being respectful of her belief by not lying and saying I would do such a thing. My nephews are adults now and I’ve seen them maybe three times in their lives. Oh well. I don’t have any good familial relationships so I guess it doesn’t matter. Fucked up families is as fucked up families does. I’ve always been treated like my life is less valuable by my family since I didn’t have children anyway, so fuck it I guess.
You’re just a dick. I’ve never seen a godfather/mother actually do anything beyond confirm they have a good relationship with the parent. Lmao. You saved them by showing who you are, a “reddit atheist.”
Ur a cultist enabler
I think that too. You don’t have to believe just respect and say words out of love. My goddoughter is an atheist now because of talking to me. Because I had the necessary relationship to tell her what I believe
That’s nice! Also shows you took care of them as I imagine a godparent should
You’re just an idiot. You think a reasonable reaction on the sister’s part is to keep her children from meeting their uncle/aunt? Dumbass take, sister is unhinged, fuck you for judging a situation you know nothing about.
Did OP say that the sister kept them from meeting them? No. I’m sure terminally online atheist didn’t go about it as smoothly as your brain.
Only met 3 times. Doesn’t say why though.
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Dude, the church my family followed was similar. I was asked to sign a document pledging I would do all sorts of things, like raise the kid in the religion if their parents died, also to live a “moral sex life” and resist the evils of gay culture and drugs. I didn’t sign and saw it as an act of honesty and respect to explain I couldn’t fulfill their request.
If you think so little of other people’s religious beliefs that you would lie to become a godparent, you do you.
If I was in that position, I’d have said the same thing. But my friend wouldn’t ask me to do that. And I am godfather to her kids.
The Reddit API changes around third party apps like a lot of other people here. It was so clear they were being disingenuous about the changes and that it was a de facto ban. Pretending it wasn’t a ban and that they “support third party developers” really pissed me off.
It’s one thing to charge for API access (which is not unreasonable, per se, since API calls cost Reddit money), but Reddit decided to charge an extremely unreasonable and unjustifiable rate to third party app developers. On top of that, they decided NSFW labeled content could only be seen in their official app and could never show up in any third party apps that decided to pay for API access. They claimed it was about “making sure children don’t see adult content,” but that was clearly BS since they could just not serve that content in the API for non-18+ accounts and require third party developers to agree to certain terms of use or have their app cut off.
So Reddit forced third party apps to have to charge a subscription fee to their users and those users would not get full access to Reddit content anyway. Gee, I wonder what users will do if they have to choose between paying a subscription for less content or using the crappy official app with worse and fewer features to get all content for free…
The disingenuousness of the justification for the changes and pretending there was no ulterior motive was worse to me than the changes themselves. I missed Reddit a lot at first, and occasionally I still do, but I haven’t been back since.
I have not been back since as well. I was so optimistic at the time that the community would force reddit to back down with the whole black out. Was so sad to see many people just went back to business as usual.
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Weighing this decision right now, certainly is tough.
Leaving behind a workplace with a really cushy schedule and commute because I didn’t want my professional license attached to the people and things within that place.
I got fired for filing a discrimination lawsuit against my employer for barring me from wearing the kilt I’d worn at least 2-3 times per week for two years. The banning was because they decided it was not “professional attire”, but all the yoga pants, miniskirts, and sleeveless dresses are just fine.
There’s a lot more to the story including a trip to mental health urgent care and the actual firing call happening while I was on FMLA.
I mean, wear what you want by all means, but as a Scot who’s worn a kilt a handful of times at very formal occasions it seems pretty odd to wear it on the daily. To each their own, of course, but it is a bit unusual. What made you decide to push ahead with this, knowing that your work wasn’t keen?
I’d been wearing it to work for 2 years prior to this. I also worked at the same company over 10 years ago in a department with a strictrr dress code and wore it for 3+ years in that role.
The meeting about the kilt happened the day before the c-suite were coming to visit the office from out of town, which I suspect was the real reason for it. Last time executives came visiting I brought up pay equity and raised the matter of inflation, COL pay adjustments, and merit raises when they got done telling us how well the company was doing and that our te am had a direct effect on boosting stock value. I got pulled into a meeting first thing next day to tell me I could not discuss salary with fellow employees, which is a violation of labor law and company policy. My ethics complaint about that was swept under the rug and when I cpntacted the NLRB (national labor relations board) to report the violation of the law the respondent basically said they could file it but the odds of the complaint going anywhere vs a company this size was almost zero.
Yay USA!
What is FMLA?
Family Medical Leave Act. Let’s you leave work and get paid for a period of time (I believe at a reduced rate) if a family member is having medical issues.
Almost always it’s unpaid. Any paid leave you have is accrued separate from FMLA leave. The only thing it guarantees is you’ll have a job when you get back from any number of protected leave reasons.
It’s a thing USians can envoke, to not come in to work, when they can’t even. Edit: spelling
Honesty is a big one for me.
Doesn’t always mean speaking the whole truth but not saying anything that’s untrue. This has led to a handful of situations where I would’ve prefered to tell a white lie but I didn’t.
In the long term honesty is almost always better for everyone involved.
This is my main thing as well. Always telling the truth. Even when the consequences of telling the truth reflect poorly on a choice or decision I made. ❤️
Digital privacy can often be a bitch. But I just turn every “why don’t you just use X” as a chance to proselytize for people to take back what privacy they can.
I’m sure, like when I do that, they totally understand and love it. /s
Well they shouldn’t try and sell me on their privacy invasive bullshit if they don’t want to hear about my privacy respecting bullshit. They start it, you think I want to hear it any more than they do?
I practice the lost art of nuanced discussion.
Yea, well fuck you
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My parents were changing ISPs and we were told by the guys doing the connection that a cell phone number was necessary. We have been with this ISP a few times before and a cell was never required (we change when the other company has a sale).
I was the only one in the family with a cell at the time.
This happened a short time after I started degoogling so I had no problem saying no when someone asks me for personally identifiable information. I asked the tech “I just got home from work, what would you do if I wasn’t here?” and “Not everyone has a cell phone, you must have a procedure for those people” He seemed dumbfounded by my questions and refusal to hand over a cell number.
Bud kept insisting, I kept saying no. He caved and used Dad’s email address.
I was working part time as a tutor in a community college. I had applied to work for AT&T or maybe Ameritech as a tech. It would’ve been a very good job, but I had to start training full time around late April or May. I had some students that were really relying on me to help them prepare for finals. I asked if they could put me in the next class, but they said now or never, so I told them I had to turn them down.
They gave no shits, of course, but it was a big deal to my students. And the school that was having trouble staffing math and electronics tutors. It changed the course of my life, but things turned out just fine, eventually.
I applied for a tech job with AT&T years ago. It was nuts. They had a big bunch of us meet at an office building for testing. Before we started the tests, this woman spoke to us, talking up the company, telling us how lucky we’d be to get a job there, etc. I think she’d brought a couple other people to tell us how great it was. Then she casually mentioned that they had a ridiculously high turnover rate because they fire people for just about anything, which is why they’re always hiring. If you’re late one day because you have a flat tire, or miss one day because you’re sick, even with a doctor’s note, you’re fired. The test was simple. I finished it quickly and got everything right, but when they emailed me to set up a second meeting, I just deleted it. No way would I want a job like that.
I ratted out the VP of the Utah chapter of Pride at Work for being an aggravated sexual abuser. I was inconvenienced because he kicked me out and then my life imploded.
I highly suggested reading my posts from the beginning if you want to see how much my principles have inconvenienced me.
It’s been “fun.”
I work in IT and have the knowledge and tools to scam a lot of people but I don’t, I keep being poor.
