My impression isn't that it's age discrimination per se, it's the culture of twentysomethings. The way they were raised, they are simply uncomfortable with anyone but their own kind. It's not that they hate old people or anything, it's just that they feel weirded out and feel they couldn't possibly work every day with such a person. It's lack of empathy with "the other". It's also a form of oikophobia, in which they welcome people from other cultures but fear and loathe people from their own.
You can trot out the tired cliches about GET OFF MY LAWN LOLZ but at a certain point, there is truth there. I never felt weirded out by working with age 50+ people, even when I was a new recruit. It was just something everyone did. But now, unless you're one of their own kind, they just get freaked out and think they can't deal with having you around day in and day out. When it comes to making a decision, they drop the black ball in the fishbowl and that's it. No regrets, they just prefer the company of their own generation.
And I can sort of see where they're coming from. What happens when they share the latest meme from Tumblr around the office? You're going to show a blank look and keep on working. You're not on Tumblr, nor Twitter, nor Facebook, and this not only weirds them out, but makes you automatically suspicious. What are you trying to hide by not making your life public? You're probably a child molester of the kind that their parents constantly warned them about. "Stranger danger!"
You know, I was ready to read your comment until the bigoted attack against lower-class, powerless people. That sort of shit makes me hate you. Get back to your luxury apartment and plastic surgery, you classist right-wing fuckbag, and never post on Slashdot again.
Because there's a wide, yawning gulf between breaking into an occupied home at night and breaking the fish & game laws? Seriously, people aren't aware of this? There are hundreds of years of precedent. You gotta crack open a book one of these days and learn about your own culture. "Reason is the life of the law," and all that. Here's a good place to start. Remember, education is always a good thing. Then, you can learn the answer to your question. You're welcome in advance.
Gosh, better not break into people's houses and rob them, then. There's a thought! Or at least do it somewhere else. My, this whole "people voting for the laws they want" thing is hard to understand, isn't it? We would all be much better off if the Council of Alphas made decisions for us, since they're more intelligent and therefore much less likely to make bad choices. (chuckle)
In Japan? Seriously? You really think the cops do that? There aren't any black people, the ones they do have are concentrated in Tokyo, and the majority of them are from Africa, not America. The violent culture just isn't there. The Africans are just happy to be out of Africa and the African-Americans are playing up the hip-hop bit to screw lots of Japanese girls.
I'm curious if you can point out a time in human history when everything made logical sense. Much like your post above, it doesn't make any sense and never did.
Where did anyone get the idea that military contractors are patriotic? Did we just assume that? They care nothing for the American people. They have a lot in common with the progressive liberals who would like to gut them. Their common foe is US.
...and your last paragraph is a logical fallacy as well. See if you can guess which one it is!
That's the problem with you SJWs. As long as you yourselves use logical fallacies, all is well and good. The minute someone else uses one, bam invalid argument. I have to hand it to you SJWs, you've got it wrapped up nice and tight. When anyone else does it, it's not OK, and when you do it yourselves, it's OK. That's a pretty sweet position to be in.
I can smell this one a mile off. The MBAs aren't interested in making a profit. They learned at school that the only goal is to maximize profits. So, they had the brilliant (yeah right) idea to start putting ads in their service. They then consulted the attorneys, who as always take the attorney's view that "if it doesn't specifically say we can't do that, then we can do it, and even if it does specifically say we can't do that, a good attorney can always find a way." The MBAs loved that one, so they said, "sure we might get sued, but screw it! Let 'em sue us! Our attorneys can win, and even if we lose, it's still a net win because our advertising fees will outweigh the legal penalties."
I miss the old days when profitable companies simply stuck around year after year making a quality product, and you knew what you were getting before you bought.
The people who read this site aren't the aggressive men who are TEH CEOZ!@#! They're the shy men who don't typically like conflict and the other stereotypical male characteristics. And the PC Police, of which you are a card-carrying member, seem bent on not relieving oppression on everyone, but rather increasing it and changing its target. The War on Boys is real.
The entire SJW narrative is based on a fallacy: that men and women are exactly the same. They aren't, and this is deeply rooted in our biology. A problem with SJWs is that they assume that their opinions are facts.
I usually describe this as: "Do as I say, not as I do." It invariably creates a blind spot for the "invisible" activity, but also undermines the ability of the mind to see the truth in general because the mind has become used to lying to itself so it won't see the things it is not supposed to see. Obviously, at this point, the mind itself cannot detect truth and falsity, because the mind would have to see itself lying. That's almost as much fun as the Who's: "Pinball Wizard" who became deaf, dumb, and blind to hide a family secret.
So, in other words, it's aiming for the exact same market as Apple. I foresee tons of money raining down from the heavens into Marshall's bank accounts.
Stop putting words in my mouth. I didn't say that and you know it. It IS women who are changing, and the average Joe in America simply doesn't have a chance any more. Stop arguing for people who don't need your help, and in fact despise you.
Slashdot has always been an American site. Funny how people who complain never seem to start their own sites. It just happens again and again.
Try living in America and not being in the Eastern time zone. They will happily schedule events at 8am when it is far too early in the rest of the country to even be awake. Mountain time zone? The red-headed stepchild of them all.
That may have been true decades ago, but today's woman is different from her aunts and mothers. Simply being a normal man is not enough. Even overweight, unattractive women think that they are attractive, and they have the dismissive attitudes of their much more beautiful sisters. They've received so much positive reinforcement from the media, both mainstream and social, that they do not appreciate attention from men whom they consider lesser than themselves. In fact, the man who treats women poorly does better than ever before, while the average men are left in the dust. It's a sad situation, but that's where we are today.
Donald Rumsfeld gave this speech about "unknown unknowns." It goes something like this: "There are things we know we know about terrorism. There are things we know we don't know. And there are things that are unknown unknowns. We don't know that we don't know." He got a lot of grief for that. And I thought, "That's the smartest and most modest thing I've heard in a year."
-- David Dunning, author of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
They do that all the time. It just doesn't make the news because it's about as newsworthy as "dog bites man". Are you here to tell me you've really never heard of selection bias, nor were unable to think critically before posting?
They don't. Foreign countries ask the FBI for help all the time, because they have huge resources and the foreign countries don't. But don't let me interrupt the Two Minutes' Hate you've got going on...
Actually: there was. And just like the Confederacy, it was crushed by the power of the US federal government. You never heard of it? Where do you think the DoJ lawyers who invaded Ferguson got their training? They defended these violent separatists in court. I wonder why this has been supressed. Try to guess why. Use critical thinking!:D
Things are going to be like this from now on. Software bugs in your car's software are going to a part of life. Does car software auto-update yet? If not, that's another brilliant "solution" that someone is going to come up with to "fix" the problem. It won't fix it at all, of course, the problem is that car software is rushed out without testing to meet unreasonable deadlines set by marketing. Since features sell cars, the problem will never go away.
Call us crazy, but we Americans like ourselves. You don't like it, don't watch. Send your own probes to Pluto.
See, whenever it's positive, it's "human ingenuity and curiosity". Whenever it's negative, it's uniquely American and nobody else on the planet could possibly be so creative as to invent tortures like that.
That's so ignorant it hurts. Workers work at Foxconn because it's a good job and they make more money there than at some crappy family-owned factory. Let me guess, you were influenced by Mike Daisey's story on "This American Life" about horrid conditions at Foxconn? Turns out that was a total lie. Evidently he had the story written before he ever visited, and simply wrote what he wished was true. For example, he said armed guards patrolled the Foxconn perimeter looking for escaping workers, while in China only police and military can have firearms. His fraud dissolved easily with a simple Google search.
Let me guess: 1) you never heard about this, or 2) you considered it fake but accurate. The narrative was right but the facts were wrong. Those pesky facts, always getting in the way of a good story that agrees with our pre-existing political biases.
Seriously? You don't know? An educated person, totally ignorant about any other measuring system other than the one he's accustomed to using? One of the traits of intelligent people is
a willingness to accept and consider other peoples' views with value and broadminded-ness and open to alternative solutions. Suddenly this doesn't apply? I think someone is not as smart as he thinks he is.
Nah. Doctors don't care. They don't care any more than auto mechanics care that your car gets fixed. If it's fixed, great. If not, they did their damn job and get off their fucking backs. Source: doctors (sorry, physicians).
Did you know doctors don't do diagnosis any more? Remember the TV shows about doctors when they would try to figure out what kind of disease you had, possibly opening up one of those medical books on the shelf behind their desk? Yeah, they don't do that any more. They ask YOU what tests you want done. Like I fucking know? What, ask Google? Then the physician makes a derogatory comment about patients consulting Dr. Google. They're not shy at all about telling you to fuck off (sorry, referral to another doctor) or giving you the middle finger (sorry, I meant a suggestion to try "alternative medicine"). Source: my own experience at the hands of physicians. Sad but true. It does, in fact, mean they just don't care.
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
-- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Seriously, people, don't borrow money from scary international lenders who are just waiting for you to default so they can take control of your country. Don't borrow money from them! And if you do: pay it back! I can't stress that last point enough. It's really the key to the whole Greece problem.
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My impression isn't that it's age discrimination per se, it's the culture of twentysomethings. The way they were raised, they are simply uncomfortable with anyone but their own kind. It's not that they hate old people or anything, it's just that they feel weirded out and feel they couldn't possibly work every day with such a person. It's lack of empathy with "the other". It's also a form of oikophobia, in which they welcome people from other cultures but fear and loathe people from their own.
You can trot out the tired cliches about GET OFF MY LAWN LOLZ but at a certain point, there is truth there. I never felt weirded out by working with age 50+ people, even when I was a new recruit. It was just something everyone did. But now, unless you're one of their own kind, they just get freaked out and think they can't deal with having you around day in and day out. When it comes to making a decision, they drop the black ball in the fishbowl and that's it. No regrets, they just prefer the company of their own generation.
And I can sort of see where they're coming from. What happens when they share the latest meme from Tumblr around the office? You're going to show a blank look and keep on working. You're not on Tumblr, nor Twitter, nor Facebook, and this not only weirds them out, but makes you automatically suspicious. What are you trying to hide by not making your life public? You're probably a child molester of the kind that their parents constantly warned them about. "Stranger danger!"
It's a good thing that Linus didn't think that way. Otherwise we'd never have Linux.
You know, I was ready to read your comment until the bigoted attack against lower-class, powerless people. That sort of shit makes me hate you. Get back to your luxury apartment and plastic surgery, you classist right-wing fuckbag, and never post on Slashdot again.
Because there's a wide, yawning gulf between breaking into an occupied home at night and breaking the fish & game laws? Seriously, people aren't aware of this? There are hundreds of years of precedent. You gotta crack open a book one of these days and learn about your own culture. "Reason is the life of the law," and all that. Here's a good place to start. Remember, education is always a good thing. Then, you can learn the answer to your question. You're welcome in advance.
Gosh, better not break into people's houses and rob them, then. There's a thought! Or at least do it somewhere else. My, this whole "people voting for the laws they want" thing is hard to understand, isn't it? We would all be much better off if the Council of Alphas made decisions for us, since they're more intelligent and therefore much less likely to make bad choices. (chuckle)
In Japan? Seriously? You really think the cops do that? There aren't any black people, the ones they do have are concentrated in Tokyo, and the majority of them are from Africa, not America. The violent culture just isn't there. The Africans are just happy to be out of Africa and the African-Americans are playing up the hip-hop bit to screw lots of Japanese girls.
I'm curious if you can point out a time in human history when everything made logical sense. Much like your post above, it doesn't make any sense and never did.
Where did anyone get the idea that military contractors are patriotic? Did we just assume that? They care nothing for the American people. They have a lot in common with the progressive liberals who would like to gut them. Their common foe is US.
...and your last paragraph is a logical fallacy as well. See if you can guess which one it is!
That's the problem with you SJWs. As long as you yourselves use logical fallacies, all is well and good. The minute someone else uses one, bam invalid argument. I have to hand it to you SJWs, you've got it wrapped up nice and tight. When anyone else does it, it's not OK, and when you do it yourselves, it's OK. That's a pretty sweet position to be in.
I can smell this one a mile off. The MBAs aren't interested in making a profit. They learned at school that the only goal is to maximize profits. So, they had the brilliant (yeah right) idea to start putting ads in their service. They then consulted the attorneys, who as always take the attorney's view that "if it doesn't specifically say we can't do that, then we can do it, and even if it does specifically say we can't do that, a good attorney can always find a way." The MBAs loved that one, so they said, "sure we might get sued, but screw it! Let 'em sue us! Our attorneys can win, and even if we lose, it's still a net win because our advertising fees will outweigh the legal penalties."
I miss the old days when profitable companies simply stuck around year after year making a quality product, and you knew what you were getting before you bought.
The people who read this site aren't the aggressive men who are TEH CEOZ!@#! They're the shy men who don't typically like conflict and the other stereotypical male characteristics. And the PC Police, of which you are a card-carrying member, seem bent on not relieving oppression on everyone, but rather increasing it and changing its target. The War on Boys is real.
The entire SJW narrative is based on a fallacy: that men and women are exactly the same. They aren't, and this is deeply rooted in our biology. A problem with SJWs is that they assume that their opinions are facts.
I usually describe this as: "Do as I say, not as I do." It invariably creates a blind spot for the "invisible" activity, but also undermines the ability of the mind to see the truth in general because the mind has become used to lying to itself so it won't see the things it is not supposed to see. Obviously, at this point, the mind itself cannot detect truth and falsity, because the mind would have to see itself lying. That's almost as much fun as the Who's: "Pinball Wizard" who became deaf, dumb, and blind to hide a family secret.
So, in other words, it's aiming for the exact same market as Apple. I foresee tons of money raining down from the heavens into Marshall's bank accounts.
Stop putting words in my mouth. I didn't say that and you know it. It IS women who are changing, and the average Joe in America simply doesn't have a chance any more. Stop arguing for people who don't need your help, and in fact despise you.
Slashdot has always been an American site. Funny how people who complain never seem to start their own sites. It just happens again and again.
Try living in America and not being in the Eastern time zone. They will happily schedule events at 8am when it is far too early in the rest of the country to even be awake. Mountain time zone? The red-headed stepchild of them all.
That may have been true decades ago, but today's woman is different from her aunts and mothers. Simply being a normal man is not enough. Even overweight, unattractive women think that they are attractive, and they have the dismissive attitudes of their much more beautiful sisters. They've received so much positive reinforcement from the media, both mainstream and social, that they do not appreciate attention from men whom they consider lesser than themselves. In fact, the man who treats women poorly does better than ever before, while the average men are left in the dust. It's a sad situation, but that's where we are today.
a radical SJW
You used a redundant word there. You can drop the word radical as it does not contribute or add any meaning to the word it follows.
Donald Rumsfeld gave this speech about "unknown unknowns." It goes something like this: "There are things we know we know about terrorism. There are things we know we don't know. And there are things that are unknown unknowns. We don't know that we don't know." He got a lot of grief for that. And I thought, "That's the smartest and most modest thing I've heard in a year."
-- David Dunning, author of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
They do that all the time. It just doesn't make the news because it's about as newsworthy as "dog bites man". Are you here to tell me you've really never heard of selection bias, nor were unable to think critically before posting?
They don't. Foreign countries ask the FBI for help all the time, because they have huge resources and the foreign countries don't. But don't let me interrupt the Two Minutes' Hate you've got going on...
Actually: there was. And just like the Confederacy, it was crushed by the power of the US federal government. You never heard of it? Where do you think the DoJ lawyers who invaded Ferguson got their training? They defended these violent separatists in court. I wonder why this has been supressed. Try to guess why. Use critical thinking! :D
Things are going to be like this from now on. Software bugs in your car's software are going to a part of life. Does car software auto-update yet? If not, that's another brilliant "solution" that someone is going to come up with to "fix" the problem. It won't fix it at all, of course, the problem is that car software is rushed out without testing to meet unreasonable deadlines set by marketing. Since features sell cars, the problem will never go away.
Call us crazy, but we Americans like ourselves. You don't like it, don't watch. Send your own probes to Pluto.
See, whenever it's positive, it's "human ingenuity and curiosity". Whenever it's negative, it's uniquely American and nobody else on the planet could possibly be so creative as to invent tortures like that.
PS criticizing Obama...are you a racist?
That's so ignorant it hurts. Workers work at Foxconn because it's a good job and they make more money there than at some crappy family-owned factory. Let me guess, you were influenced by Mike Daisey's story on "This American Life" about horrid conditions at Foxconn? Turns out that was a total lie. Evidently he had the story written before he ever visited, and simply wrote what he wished was true. For example, he said armed guards patrolled the Foxconn perimeter looking for escaping workers, while in China only police and military can have firearms. His fraud dissolved easily with a simple Google search.
Let me guess: 1) you never heard about this, or 2) you considered it fake but accurate. The narrative was right but the facts were wrong. Those pesky facts, always getting in the way of a good story that agrees with our pre-existing political biases.
Seriously? You don't know? An educated person, totally ignorant about any other measuring system other than the one he's accustomed to using? One of the traits of intelligent people is a willingness to accept and consider other peoples' views with value and broadminded-ness and open to alternative solutions. Suddenly this doesn't apply? I think someone is not as smart as he thinks he is.
Nah. Doctors don't care. They don't care any more than auto mechanics care that your car gets fixed. If it's fixed, great. If not, they did their damn job and get off their fucking backs. Source: doctors (sorry, physicians).
Did you know doctors don't do diagnosis any more? Remember the TV shows about doctors when they would try to figure out what kind of disease you had, possibly opening up one of those medical books on the shelf behind their desk? Yeah, they don't do that any more. They ask YOU what tests you want done. Like I fucking know? What, ask Google? Then the physician makes a derogatory comment about patients consulting Dr. Google. They're not shy at all about telling you to fuck off (sorry, referral to another doctor) or giving you the middle finger (sorry, I meant a suggestion to try "alternative medicine"). Source: my own experience at the hands of physicians. Sad but true. It does, in fact, mean they just don't care.
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
-- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Seriously, people, don't borrow money from scary international lenders who are just waiting for you to default so they can take control of your country. Don't borrow money from them! And if you do: pay it back! I can't stress that last point enough. It's really the key to the whole Greece problem.