in all seriousness we aren’t fedded with pornlemmy, the ones we actually interact with are listed under “allowed” not “linked” (which might just be any instance we’ve ever gotten activity pub requests from?)

do they condemn commend hamas though?

At my work I’ve repeatedly been getting chatgpt stuff from people when I didn’t even ask a question

Someone will come to me with an issue, I’ll work on solving it, and then in the middle of it they’ll self-satisfiedly post an obviously-copy-pasted-from-chatgpt paragraph proposing we do it completely differently, usually betraying some fundamental misunderstanding of the parameters of the task at hand. I think just reading over ChatGPT output and going “yeah that makes sense to me let’s do that” gives them a dopamine hit or something and they want me to acknowledge it. I try not to be a dick about it but it upsets me, and is genuinely just sad.

Cleaning up ChatGPT’s mess when someone learned-helplessnesses their way into a problem they can’t solve by blindly following directions from chatgpt is another fun one. It’s annoying but at least then they’ve already come to the conclusion they need human help and I can get to work seeing if what ChatGPT came up with even makes sense, and confirming it didn’t hallucinate any magic “do what I want” buttons that don’t exist. Or starting from scratch

Because it’s a way of controlling others.

boooo no more carssss

you know what, I agree Greg

I’m so glad apps added tagline support thanks devs

https://streamable.com/hn1f1g

“powerpoint nights” seem to be taking off (both in friend groups and public ones) and they might fill a similar niche

also a classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVUTVfHcc7c&list=PLD_l6XgBmhZiogzaE4DyN_1nbP9sjVJBS

maybe, just maybe, we don’t need to engineer harmful situations to artificially “enhance” the bonding between groups of people? Maybe that’s cult shit. Maybe the groups where it “went too far” are just natural steps up from the cool, normal, good experience you describe

I don’t feel that strongly about the above, but saying you have to subject people to “unpleasant” stuff and haze them for group bonding to occur is a bridge too far. Just because you liked it doesn’t mean thats the only way people bond. And to be clear, the bowling I was referring to would be more analogous to the bbq after in your example. Something fun and off topic to do together, with a little spice and competition to keep things moving, but enough social time to bond. Participating in a race or whatever feels a bit different than a hazing run designed to be unpleasant and used to gatekeep.

having one example of it being subjectively positive doesn’t mean hazing is good or necessary in general

I gotta assume dead drops and stuff like that. geocaches are literally stash spots designed to hide in plain sight in public places, plus just navigation is a survival skill

honestly just like organizational and social skills like keeping meeting minutes/notes, keeping meetings on track/on topic, building agendas, setting up documented internal practices, can be very useful to an org

I’m kinda drawing a blank on other stuff. knowing how to physically build stuff is useful IMO, like basic woodworking (not cabinet building and fancy stuff), welding, etc.

there’s probably more but I’m drawing a blank. Computer stuff is good if you have the desire/aptitude but its a deep rabbithole

okay no worries! honestly I’m sure they work I was just reminded of them by a conversation I was having. Thank youuuuu

right? fucking going bowling is a bonding experience, not non consensual sadist ritual bullshit

I mean the classic is learn to quadcopter

lockpicking semi useful, especially techniques like raking and stuff I suppose, but not as useful as being able to cut or drill locks I’d think. bolt cutters and angle grinders can get you far. Though those don’t exactly require much skill

hey did you ever find out from your levels if these work well?

shin is not vegan but it is pretty good, I think shin black is the best

I’m so tired of this corpo trash where the only unsaid growth strategy is throwing “bodies at it” in a completely wasteful con-artist way.

currently happening at my work. trying to push out the team thats been building their shit for 10 years and got it to the successful place that it is, in favor of interns and new hires who have no clue whats going on but want to use every new shiny object technology whether it accomplishes anything or not. So many people come to me with plans directly copy pasted from chatgpt for how to accomplish whatever task. No real coherent architecture being designed

yeah… I was going to say, the “I touched some fentanyl and almost OD’d” shit is fake, so this explanation rings pretty hollow. It’d be hard to accidentally take a pill, snort a line, or shoot up or whatever else. But getting free narcan from the feds is still useful to them if they’re using seized or their own trafficked drugs themselves, or the other brutality-based explanations others offered