• lugal@sopuli.xyz
    243·
    6 months ago

    But 1+1 is 5. I’m sick and tried of people pretending 1+1=1. The sum is always bigger than each of their addends. How do people not get that

      • mrgreyeyes@feddit.nl
        15·
        6 months ago

        Engineer: “If speed == slow, do nose down”

        QA engineer: “But what if the not redundant sensor if faulty?”

        Engineer: “Good is good enough, I have more to do and deadlines to catch”

        QA engineer: “You’re absolutely correct, ENJOY!”

        • Senal@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          Your missing the part in the middle where you spend 6 months telling them in no uncertain terms that the thing they are asking is stupid and will not work properly/safely.

          Various back and forth emails, a completely “justified” performance review program because of your “falling standards” and several meetings with various managers at different levels of “importance”.

          Also the “You’re absolutely correct, ENJOY” is written at the bottom of your resignation letter or told to them directly in your “redundancy” exit interview.

  • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    I’ve always been like this. Sadly my wife finds controversy at every turn and I get dragged in.

  • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nl
    161·
    6 months ago

    Are arguments really that bad? I think this is a rather cynical point of view. I don’t want to reach this stage.

    • Soulcreator@lemmy.world
      17·
      6 months ago

      Friendly debates can be a healthy thing. Angry, heated, bitter arguments? Yeah, I’d argue they aren’t too great for your mental health.

      • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nl
        1·
        6 months ago

        That’s true, but if you’re letting it get to angry heated bitter arguments, that’s at least partly your fault. With an open mind and a friendly attitude you can mostly avoid those.

    • SinJab0n@mujico.org
      7·
      6 months ago

      When the usual response to lets say… climate change, is nothing more than shouting how u r a commie (which yes, i am one), spreading goverment lies, and how the vaccines r gonna give their child autism…

      I just don’t waste my energy in something so futile, its their religion. And a confrontation about BELIEFS (at least for them) is gonna end up no where.

      So yeah, its just understanding how sometimes its better to only see them with disgust and walk away.

      • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nl
        3·
        6 months ago

        wow that’s bleak. Very few people around me share my political beliefs, but they certainly don’t disgust me. One of my colleagues beliefs every conspiracy in the book, she’s at the total other end of the spectrum when it comes to most arguments, but I’ve also noticed that she is the sweetest nurse I know, treating patients with empathy and compassion. Rather than coming to the point where you avoid arguments, I think people should develop the ability to have differences of opinion without being revolted by the other. An opinion doesn’t define who or what someone is in the slightest.

        • SinJab0n@mujico.org
          3·
          6 months ago

          Maybe u r right, im gonna try to be friends next time i see a white supremacist, its not like that kind of ideologies can and already have taken lives.

          Edit to add pizzagate since theres dead pleople thx to that stupidity, and antivaxxers in general since not only they kill themselfs, but also anyone around them, especially their kids, etc, etc, etc. Even those Th3 EaRtH 1S fiAt DuD3 have been killing themselfs.

  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
    41·
    6 months ago

    I really like this and will embrace it going forward. I have nothing to gain by engaging with nonsense.