In addition to other suggestions, which are likely largely correct, I’ll pose another potential factor:
Smoking is self-harm, in addition to addiction. Some people are too fucked up on depression and self-loathing to see their impact on the world around them.
It’s a type of swedish smokeless tobacco that has seen popularity elsewhere. It is something like chewing tobacco in a miniature teabag. Health risks are likely lower than other forms of tobacco, based on current (limited) evidence, both due to the lack of combustion and manufacturing process (pasteurized rather than curing and fermentation) but it’s still addictive because of the nicotine and shows an increase in cancer incidence.
Apparently, Swedish snus also has higher bioavailability of nicotine than American due to pH and moisture content.
Apparently, disgusting fuckers in the previous comment were spitting the little “teabags” out on the shelf above the urinals or in the urinals (I’ve seen the later).
All eggs are ass cloaca eggs.
I can’t recall a time when I downloaded an album, took samples of the entire thing, pretended I made it without making any actual alterations, and tried to sell access to it.
Forgot that they are only able to do so because the Western capitalists have been trying to snuff out domestic organized labor and thus dumping huge sums of money into Chinese production for half a century.
Sad. I was rooting for their weird-looking trucks, though they looked more and more like vapor-ware.
Probably because accepting that one was wrong, taking responsibility, and trying to make amends to those that one harmed is really hard.
Add in that literally no historical evidence appears to exist to suggest that accelerationism has ever had efficacy.
Its adherents are just doing their best to make other people suffer with a pie-in-the-sky hope that being class-traitors and offering up vulnerable groups as blood sacrifice will result, not just in a workers’ revolution but one that achieves their personal utopia, instead of getting coopted by theocracy or totalitarian dictatorships, as has frequently happened in history.
A fair portion appear to be adherents to accelerationism, the homeopathy of political philosophy, so, yes.
Not to mention the “dealing drugs on Facebook” thing.
Because, statistically, they are a larger group that could have helped but selfishly decided not to and inaction is a choice that only serves to help the oppressors. Anti-electoralists and other accelerationists have been helping the oppressors win for over half a century, to intentionally cause human suffering to try to ignite a hot class war in the hope of achieving their utopia.
That there is not a shred of historical evidence of accelerationism successfully resulting in societal improvement or that said utopia it would be built upon the blood of the oppressed never seems to matter. That seems rather worse, to me, than those who simply want to oppress - using the suffering of others who did not volunteer as a means to an end.
Been there for most of my life. And I’ve watched anti-electoralists and non-voters help walk back nearly every bit of progress I’ve seen in my lifetime.
I’ve had trans reports in the past when I was a supervisor (TBF, the world was a lot different). Two things that I’d recommend:
Continue being a good lead and treating them with respect, using their preferred pronouns, etc. Intervene gently but firmly if there is inappropriate derogatory stuff going on in the workplace.
If possible, I’d get a 1:1 meeting with them and outright ask “Do you want to talk with me about how current events are impacting you and anything that I can do to ensure that you feel supported?”. If they say “no” or aren’t comfortable, ensure that they know that that’s ok and that the offer is there.
As a disclaimer, I am neurospicy so, there may be gentler ways to approach but I have found that clearly and directly communicating that genuine support is there, if they need it want it and giving them a way to ask is generally well-received.
…I don’t actually know what you mean, if you know what I mean.
Yes, my edit was a bit hyperbolic. The point being that current AI/LLM companies have been, at best, encoding data that they do not have permission to use into their models.
It’s more like baking a cake with flour, butter, and eggs that you snagged from other people’s grocery baskets after they paid for them. Then, started selling the cakes made from said ingredients.
Ideally, none of that would matter because knowledge and data want to be free and everyone would benefit. However, we don’t live in such a world. Instead, the technology is being used almost exclusively to extract wealth from people and make the average human being’s life worse, both in the short-term by reducing their ability to support themselves and in the long-term by drastically increasing consumption of fossil fuels and potable water, putting more pressure on the biosphere.