D61 [any]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: October 7th, 2020
  • D61 [any]toAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•How to teach liberals and children to think in dialectical materialism?
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    15 days ago

    Its an terribly dirty and overly simplistic and isn't the "end all be all" but you might be able to make headway by demonstrating it either through a "troubleshooting of a situation where there's a problem" or "kludging a solution" to a problem.

    First iteration troubleshooting:

    • I have an unsliced loaf of bread.

    • I need it to be sliced.

    • I get a butter knife to cut the bread.

    What happened? The butter knife didn't do a good job of cutting the bread into slices.

    Second iteration troubleshooting:

    • I have an unsliced loaf of bread. I now know that using a butter knife kinda works to make slices but its not very good.

    • I need to slice the loaf of bread. But I don't want the results of using a butter knife.

    • I get a steak knife to cut the bread.

    What happened? The steak knife did a somewhat better job than the butter knife at slicing the loaf of bread.

    Third iteration troubleshooting:

    • I have an unsliced loaf of bread. I now know that the butter knife does a terrible job at slicing bread. I now know that a steak knife does a better job at slicing bread than the butter knife but the results still seem to be lacking.

    • I need to cut a loaf of bread into slices with better results than I get from a butter knife and steak knife.

    • I get a bread knife to cut the loaf of bread.

    What happened? So far, I get the best results from the bread knife. Now I know that of the three options I've tried so far, the bread knife is the best solution going forward.

    So every attempt to solve this problem has increased my knowledge and experience. I didn't forget what I learned in the early iterations so I get to build upon previous experiences and now have that moving forward.

  • D61 [any]tochapotraphouse•Representation [CW: meat]
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    16 days ago

    Not a single drop of sweat on that shirt for a guy standing over a "lit" BBQ...

    Also... a very very empty cutting board. No empty trays that held the dogs or burgers, no wrappers, not even a clean plate to put the cooked food on...

  • D61 [any]tonews•More Reflection on Putin’s Stark Warning to the West
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    16 days ago

    Reactionary source.

    If there's something of note here, add something about it in the body of your post to editorialize.

    Probably don't let our traffic go to that site directly and use an archiver service like archive.ph and use that link instead. (Looks like the checkbox in the post creation screen isn't there anymore.)

  • D61 [any]tochapotraphouse•Anyone else take a manager/team lead job and instantly regret it?
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    16 days ago

    Seems like you're making the right decision for you.

    I tried a few times, many years ago, to get into a supervisor/manager job at a place where I'd been a worker bee for years. Always was told no, somebody outside the department was hired, then they'd quit after a few years.

    A part of me was curious what it would have been like. A part of me also thinks that it probably wouldn't have gone well for me, I'm not the type of person who will challenge things in person, but if I'm told to do something very silly by people who aren't there to enforce that directive I'll just not do it.