Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

So… eating meat set homo sapiens apart? Lol

I don’t think there’s any filtering going on at this stage.

I imagine it’s still in the training phase. It’ll look at who gets selected vs. who gets left, and learns about what kind of resumes the hiring team tends to prefer.

It’ll also probably be comparing the success of who opts into tracking vs. who declines.

I could also see it following along later – did this employee meet expectations? Did they quit early? Did they get fired? Etc.

It’s likely not going to impact OP, but it will likely mean that AI will be able to be as bad at making decisions as whomever sorts through them! Lol

(Not a dig at any position or role…resumes and interviews are generally not a good assessment of competency for most jobs)

In Korean (and I think some Chinese/Japanese keyboards) you can “build” the character, from building blocks like this

I’d say you’re not building the character, but typing in the characters one by one.

집, as you know from typing it, is three characters in one. All three components are distinct. They can’t stand alone, but that’s not much different than “c” not really being able to stand alone in English. (If we refer to the letter C, we often capitalize it)

In Japanese, people can easily type in Hiragana (their “alphabet”), and the Kanji can be suggested like with autocorrect. The sound is the same, but the visual is different.

Chinese is a different beast because they don’t have an “alphabet” of “letters” the ways that Korean and Japanese do.

(They’re not “alphabets”, but they do have elements that are much closer to letters than Chinese does)

I think Alabama is one where the feeling is mutual.

I wonder what Hawaii and Alaska would think.

Which state is the Weakest Link?

The party at the frat house is Lemmy. You’re the cop, haha

I get where you’re coming from. Saying it as an admin will draw more attention to your comment, as you know, but I think it’ll backfire more often than not by bringing more negative attention.

You’ll also be more likely to bring out reactance in people, I imagine.

Spicy wasn’t the right word, but you commented because you felt your opinion needed to be heard, which suggests it might be unpopular with some audiences.

Saying it because you’re an admin is one thing. Saying it as a admin will draw attention that’ll probably be more negative than not, unfortunately.

I agree with the other commenter. Make an alt account or five, at least for some of the more “spicy” comments.

I don’t write here like I would on Instagram where my friends would see it, or like I would on Facebook where my family would see it, or like I would on LinkedIn where my professional network would see it.

I have different accounts where I can post different crap because different people can see it and I’d have to be accountable to them for what aspects of me they’re seeing.

Unfortunately, being an admin means people hold you to a different standard. Like a cop walking around with a uniform and badge on while trying to party in a frat house.

All of your comments show up to me as having a red username, where everyone else is blue. I’m in Voyager. Either your role is permanently showing in my app, or you’ve got something messed up with the settings. Maybe the shield means “Hide your mod status” and you’ve got it backwards?

As for the benevolent trust fund kid…you’re only focusing on the good. Others are only focusing on the bad. Both are wrong. And I don’t think getting into the exact ratio would be productive, lol

I do empathize with the challenges of trying to feel like part of a community while being “othered” like that. I think the best thing you could do is to not have your username be glowing red for everyone.

Whenever a mod comes in commenting with their mod colour turned on, it makes it look like the mod is implying “Whatever I’m saying here is more important than anyone else’s comment because I’m a mod”. Whether you intend it or not, that’s how it can come across. And to anyone who has issues with authority (which will be a LOT of people here, lol), that’s just putting a target on your back.

You can’t change the comments that people post, but you can influence the kinds of replies you get.

I think this comment you replied to summarizes things well.

I’ll reiterate here that pot shots towards Americans would generally be “punching up” in some contexts, which usually isn’t as frowned upon as punching down.

Also consider that it could be, uh…self-punching? It could be Americans poking fun at themselves, being unhappy with the current state of the country (and who is set to become president – Elon Musk as vizier, with Trump returning for the pictures).

I don’t really care about this kind of drama here. I think people are allowed to have opinions. Attacks on people based on -isms are not cool, but let’s be real… aren’t jokes that target Americans punching up in some of the contexts you’re referring to? And that’s usually fair game.

As for jealousy towards Americans, I truly don’t believe that’s the case.

If there were underlying jealousy, it’d be more towards the country being relatively safe during WW2, having not been bombed or invaded the way Europe was, and having that massive advantage as it grew as a nation.

The success of the USA is generally because of its geographical location and the unfortunate economic conditions that hit Europe due to WW2. I don’t think it’s really because of anything special about American people or American culture.

I think people can be upset with Americans the way that people can be upset with trust fund kids who tell less fortunate people to pick themselves up by the bootstraps.

With that said… can’t you make comments without revealing yourself as an admin? I feel like that’s just going to trigger some people, lol

My brother tried before, but Mouse Trap seems to kind of suck as a game.

I didn’t know Operation has cards…

My first meeting working in a fully-remote job, I joined a Teams meeting with the whole team (~8 people) 5 minutes early. I wasn’t the host, of course.

People were (invisibly) giving me the side eye.

I soon learned that starting the meeting makes a popup appear on everyone’s screen saying that the meeting started…and also that a lot of people regularly have back-to-back meetings and can’t leave early. (This was mid-pandemic, shortly before it became the norm to end meetings before the hour)

After that, I started joining all virtual meetings either second (by clicking the pop-up that someone else started it), or before XX:01 (or before 1 minute after the meeting time).

In-person, I’ll still show up to the meeting room 5 minutes early, or 15 if it’s a slow day. But do that too often and people think you’re useless, lol

I like arriving early for small talk, instead of having the rushed small talk when the meeting is “supposed” to begin.

Why would I want to subject my pet companion to being forced to pose for pictures with ghosts? That just sounds cruel!

It’s the worst when they do that and have difficult restrictions on passwords.

One place I worked at had limits like “no more than two letters back-to-back”, “no more than two numbers back-to-back and no sequential numbers”.

The rules were available on the password reset screen.

The minimum was only something like 8 characters, so I have to wonder how many people had a1b2c3d? for a password.

Feed those rules to a password cracker and it’d be able to get in easily.

To their credit, I think they did support passwords that were maybe 64 characters long. But after they introduced those weird requirements (probably because some VIPs had stupid passwords like their names + birth year?), I just started hitting the character minimum because I’d have to manually type it in at least once.

Well, the game looked close, but not like that

Anything that requires regular password resets. It’s fine if it’s changed on the site and in the user’s vault automatically, but if a user has to type in their password with any sort of regularity, it’s a recipe for disaster to require regular changes.

People write predictable or formulaic passwords, or just end up resetting their password more often than necessary because they forgot it (making them more susceptible to phishing).

How’d you do that? I’m on Voyager, but it doesn’t seem to be in my list of markup shortcuts

I’m guessing this is satire, but it’s also just not funny.

If this were a serious question, I’d answer it with “/s”. That’s the way to do it on the internet

He knows his job is toast by the next election, so he’s just quitting to have a couple fewer months working with Trump, haha

The rumours did seem to be getting “stronger” around the time of the election, lol