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  • XR is extinction rebellion?

    This from Wikipedia kind of gets at my point.

    Extinction Rebellion has been criticised as alienating potential supporters.[28][29] Extinction Rebellion’s 2019 protests cost the Metropolitan Police an extra £7.5 million. Activists identifying with the movement have also defended causing property damage, such as smashing windows.[30][31] Extinction Rebellion has said such tactics are sometimes necessary and that they are careful not to put anyone at risk.[32] In a YouGov poll of 3,482 British adults conducted on 15 October 2019, 54% “strongly opposed” or “somewhat opposed” Extinction Rebellion’s actions of disrupting roads and public transport to “shut down London” in order to bring attention to their cause, while 36% “strongly supported” or “somewhat supported” these actions.








  • My kid was very ashamed of making mistakes and was unreceptive to help. (Local culture where I am is fucked up). First I started to work on the “mistakes are okay if we safely experiment”.

    I play games where either I or a toy was a baby and my kid was a parent/teacher/sensei. Then I would make mistakes or not know how to do stuff, and then my kid teaches me how. Could be silly stuff like avatar airbending lessons or magic lessons.

    I also told stories about penicillin and how it was a mistake that was really good. I’d teach cool things like chopping wood with an axe, but safely (wide legs, hand near the axe head). Also I would tell stories about where I made mistakes and was dumb as a kid. Like cutting with a knife towards myself, breaking a window, etc.

    Now my kid is pretty okay with mistakes. Much less shame. Now I can just straight up say “can I show you a trick? It’s a big tricky to do, but I think it’s easier”.

    Working on fear of other kids next, but that’ll take some time





  • I had a co-worker who wrapped every function generated by AI with try/except (discarding the error).

    The unit tests passed flawlessly!!! They also didn’t test anything at all

    I was livid. My boss was an idiot and I tried to explain the issue, but I got in trouble because I took too long to fix it. 1000 of lines of mangled shit.

    I just found a new job (got more pay too)