It seems to me that you missed my point.

Unfortunately they won’t give you any sources to back up their claims, because they are projecting hard.

I just prefer that people actually are precise in their language to make things as clear as possible. Saying “FAANG-like companies” is precise and correct, saying “FAANGs” is nonsensical. I would always use FAANG as that acronym, if you just want to mean “Big Tech companies” then just say that instead. It’s a lot more clear to a lot more people who don’t share your tribal-speak of your workplace. People federated here are from a lot more places and making it easier for everyone to know what you’re actually meaning should be a good thing.

The term “late-stage capitalism” doesn’t make it sound like it’s not intrinsic to capitalism to me, it sounds like that’s the inevitable result of capitalism. Thus it means it is intrinsic to capitalism.

You do know that FAANG is an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, not a type of company. Saying “…like most FANGs [sic] where themselves only decades ago” makes no sense as far as I can read it.

Sounds like you absolutely should run a lot of redundant cables and making sure your house is a micro-internet.

Why would I bother with calling you lazy or irresponsible or inconsiderate? If you were someone I knew I just wouldn’t invite you to stuff after the first few times you don’t show up on time. Whether people don’t mean to be inconsiderate when showing up late doesn’t matter to me, it’s still not respecting my time and I simply don’t want to deal with that after a few times. But you are just a random person on the internet whose being on time or not does not affect me at all. But I don’t actually believe that you cannot help it at all. Doesn’t mean I’m going to argue about it, that’s your cross to bear and has no effect on me.

The solution for you might be to have all/most social stuff at your place so you don’t have to deal with getting somewhere at a specific time.

Would aggressive alarms be of any help to make sure you can get unfocused from the thing you’re focused on and moving to the “getting to the right place” part? I’ve “forgotten the time” when it’s just me setting a time for me to do something, but when I need to be somewhere for/with others I make sure to set my alarms earlier and more of them to keep myself from having “just enough time”. And I have to make sure I actually respect the alarms, I’ve made the error of thinking “I have 5 more minutes before I need to leave” so I just start leaving when the alarm goes off now.

I don’t know your exact situation, so this may not be of any help, but it may help someone, somewhere.

If you’re not being eloquent in your interlocution, then what are you even doing?

I usually find the best argument against “is the moon landing fake” or equivalent stuff to be the fact that the Soviet Union stated it was real, when they would have benefited a lot more from denying it and/or proving it to be fake. When your enemy supports your argument then it’s more probable that it’s true.

In general if you’re parking across 2+ parking spots you’re an asshole, no matter if the parking spots are disabled or not. There are exceptions, but one would have to be considerate in how one parks for those to be legitimate (IMHO).

I think you should pay it backwards instead ;P

I don’t know. It’s a right removed.

But more seriously it might just be that they found that instance first and haven’t seen that problem that much yet (or figured out it’s their instance that does it) or that they haven’t figured out how to switch instances yet (or haven’t taken the time). Or some people actually like it. It’s just weird to me, but I’m in the penultimate category I mentioned.

That’s obviously part of the NDA

I find that struggling to be on time is fine, actually not being on time is disrespectful of my time. In modern society we have so many options available to make sure we can keep on time. Set up alarms, time how long it takes you to get dressed and out the door, time how long it takes you to get somewhere, set alarms to keep you on time based on what you’ve actually measured, not what one “feels” is enough time.

Personally I’m more often than not 5+ minutes early; I can always wait a little more before I go in or something, it’s often harder to “just get there faster”.

BTW; if someone is late because of something outside their control that’s fine; just make sure to inform me ASAP.

You say uTorrent, I say µTorrent. We are not the same ;P

EDIT: I get µ from [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [m] (or [Alt Gr] + [m]), in case someone wants to be able to do it easily themselves. It might be different on your keyboard…

Of course, Slack is part of the workflow ;P

You’re someone ;P

I always find it funny how aliens only go to USA…

Wasn’t there extensions to do this to reddit and other sites? If so then you can just make your own extension to do that. Problem solved.