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I said in a meeting "that's a really bad idea"

They still did it.

During years, we had trouble with it. I kept saying "I told you it was a bad idea".

After 6 years, they finally removed it. I said "well, I said it was a bad idea".

They tried to argue that all math was useless bullshit because it couldn't deal with infinity.

I tried to show different ways math has been useful for me personally, and for humanity generally. None of that mattered to them. I tried to explain how math can actually work with infinity. They insisted I was lying.

A part of me thought they were just trying to troll me, but after seeing and interacting with them multiple times afterwards, I'm pretty sure those were their genuine beliefs. They were also a moon landing denier, but after the whole math discussion I didn't touch that topic with a ten foot pole.

At work, I had to design something for a new software product and realized that if we applied the same approach as our old product we were going to run into major scalability issues. The problem is the whole organization was basically used to the product working this old way. For months, people tried to ignore the scalability issues and push forward with the old approach in the new product. I kept being a pest though and pointing it out. Eventually, I wrote a several page document with data and graphs explaining exactly what the problem was and presented it to other teams. I also did research and found that our competitors were doing it my way, which I attributed to the scalability issues inherent to the problem. This forced everyone to accept the problem and eventually my solution. It was really hard to basically be fighting against a mob mentality and feel like the only sane one. It was also hard because even after the solution was accepted people were still upset about the change. In my view, this was like being angry at the laws of gravity. You can feel that way, but it doesn’t change that they exist and you have to accept them.

I believe that GenAI is a scam that should've been treated and criminalized/prosecuted like one long before it got to the point of destructiveness that it's currently at and I'll die on that hill.

I was once a consultant for wine companies. I was working on helping establish a new wine brand. The client was really clear that they did not want to rely on the idea of terroir, nor their vineyards closeness to the ocean as selling points.

My boss thought the brand should use a bunch sails and anchor imagery to sell the terroir and the vineyard's closeness to the ocean.

I told him the client wouldn't like it as they'd been clear that's not what they wanted. He said I was wrong. If he'd told me the client was wrong that would have been fine but he insisted that I had heard it wrong and started gas lighting me.

Turns out the client felt they'd been really clear that they didn't want a brand that focused on the terroir and closeness to the ocean and refused to pay for that round of work.

I have to be "that guy" sometimes when it comes to fire performance safety. There's huge risks involved so there really isn't a lot of wiggle room. Every fuck up is a learning opportunity though.

Friends is not a good show and of course I'm right.

Yes, we had a tooling design and it was going to fail because the angles and mechanisms were not right. My boss overruled me, under protest, and we built it how the customer wanted it with no changes.

It failed in production.

There was a big meeting with everyone upset. I said I told you! And tried to reexplain why it doesnt work. They denied knowing about the issues previously.

Thankfully the president stepped in and said, I was in the initial meeting and remember you warning of the potential failure. Then everyone shut up.

We redid everything my way.

yeah I'm autistic this happens very often

Playing noise on your phone in a public place is wrong. Violators should be put in one those midevil contraptions that lock your head and wrists in a plank of wood so that we may all pelt you with rotten fruit and vegetables.

No one wants to hear that shit. You're an asshole and should feel bad.

If you're walking down stairs or an escalator you stand/walk on the right. always. If you live in a country that drives on the left side then you apply the same to stairs.

When walking on the sidewalk you pass on the right.

People who walk down the opposite side are a cancer to society.

I think having pets is fundamentally unethical. Your dog lives in a tiny fraction of the world with absolutely no agency and only “loves” you because it is literally programmed to after centuries of breeding for traits that promote that. Your pet did not choose you and if it “loves” you at all, it’s only because they are utterly dependent on you because they have been taken far from where their species can survive or that place has been ruined by humanity. Animals cannot consent period and by extension cannot and never do consent to being property.

I’m not a PETA freak. I don’t shame people for having pets, but I’m unable to think of pets without considering these facts and it makes the entire thing seem gross and wrong to me. I rarely bring it up because it never leads to an engaging or productive conversation. No one ever really has an argument against it besides something along the lines of “Humans have had pets for millennia” or “It’s too late to put them back” which don’t actually prove me wrong in any way.

That smart phones are surveillance/psyop devices, and that they own you, not them. I've been 100% phone free for 5 years now. I'm a 30+ Year IT expert. Also, fuck A.I.

I'm a structural engineer. It is part of the job.

I've been mostly right.

Nobody likes candy corn and anyone who does is trying to gaslight me personally

Climate change is real and damaging to everyone and we need to take action to mitigate its progression. People who deny it are just insane. Not sure why some folks think losing freshwater and having more extreme weather events isn't a problem but it will end human civilization as we know it and eventually our species as a whole. We need to get with the program and stop politicizing a global issue.

Pizza that traditionally comes with sauce on top would be better if you dipped the pizza in sauce as you ate. I like my crunchy.

From watching the commercial, I had an immediate revulsion to the Lunesta sleep aid because of the green moths that would fly in through your window and land on you and you would fall into a beautiful peaceful sleep.

I had friends and family that took it and they said it was the only sleep aid that worked for them and that I was being irrational.

And then it came out that people would take the shit and then sleepwalk and go for drives and wake up in their underwear out in the middle of the fucking woods because the Lunesta sleep moth had taken over them and made them do all kinds of crazy shit.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-adds-boxed-warning-risk-serious-injuries-caused-sleepwalking-certain-prescription-insomnia

Religion. I'm amazed not a single response here starts with that one word. Infallible opinions are bullshit. Smart people change their stance when presented with facts that contradict their world view.

It's cheese curds and gravy that make it a poutine, not cheese. You can put cheese AND cheese curds on a poutine along with other stuff, but without cheese curds, all you have is fries and gravy with assorted hangers on.

Oh my ex wanted me to cut his hair, but just pulled it over one shoulder and said cut it off. He wanted to see it cut, understand? No, neither did i. I said "no, it will be slanty because it's all pulled to one side, let me cut it into a haircut." He said no, it will be fine, just cut it. "It will be slanty!" He was getting mad, JUST CUT IT! Finally he just took scissors and cut it how he wanted. "Oh no, it's all slanty!"