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Re: Nobody cares

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Post by hypeatei »

podgorniy wrote: post #517
arretevad wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon only cares about enriching himself.

If that's true what would be explanation of his gaming/streaming? I believe his motivations are beyond getting rich. At some point in life money become means to goals, and goals are driven by real motivation.

> If that's true what would be explanation of his gaming/streaming?

It's a PR stunt. He pays someone to play for him and level up his account. Then, he plays for a bit and it's painfully obvious that he's inexperienced.

He doesn't take criticism very well either. He recently removed a live streamers Twitter verification for pointing out his lack of skill. How's that for a "free speech" platform?

Elon is extremely partisan, insecure, and rich. That's it.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by hermannj314 »

The world is what it is today because 1% of people do care. Or more probably, 5% of people care for about 20% of their life.

Whatever you do today, through action or inaction, it will ripple through eternity with both intended and unintended consequence.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by ixtli »

this is such a US coded essay and to anyone else i think it would be like "you really need to get outa there"

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by navane »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #535
DharmaPolice wrote: post #77

As someone who works for a local government bureaucracy - not caring is a coping mechanism because if you let every sub-optimal thing bother you then you'd just burn out. Very few jobs are structured in a way that those directly involved can determine how things are done so there is no real value in caring about how long a process takes. Where people have some agency you might be surprised how much people do care eve…

This is the answer. It's not just government bureaucracy, large corporations are intentionally built to diffuse responsibility in order to allow the corporation to do things any single person would find abhorrent. This means that if you see something you want to fix, you most likely can't, because nobody is really fully responsible for that thing or can directly do anything about it. So you just hit your head against…

An organisation arizes around people. The organisation that arises with the traits you describe, one that allows organizational behavior that non of the members would individually allow, but also behavior that has a competitive advantage towards other organizations that lack this behavior, will thrive. They are a cancer that grow around us instead of within is.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by bjornsing »

Sloowms wrote: post #750
bjornsing wrote: post #683

> The doctor misdiagnoses your illness whose symptoms are in the first paragraph of the trivially googleable wikipedia article. He does not care. This one is the hardest for me to digest. But I’ve seen it first hand a couple of times (here in Sweden), so impossible for me to dismiss. Personally I think it’s an incentives problem, but one consisting of a lack of negative consequences. Once incompetence (and sometimes…

This is a great way to get all doctors who care out of the profession. Healthcare is always going to have the most severe consequences when mistakes are made. Diagnosis are also hard and there are many risks with treatments. If you are going to demand punishment for mistakes consider punishing yourself next time you make a normal mistake at your job.

The thing is, I care a lot when I make a mistake. To me some kind of “punishment” wouldn’t make a dent. I already imagine I do get “punished” for my mistakes, in the form of reputation and missed opportunities down the line (even if that may not be strictly true).

But if you don’t care and you expect zero consequences, then yes: “punishment” would make a dent.

And to be clear, the kind of “punishment” I think is needed is e.g. that a regulatory authority keeps a score of severe misdiagnosis that is publicly accessible. Every doctor would probably have a few in their career, nothing to worry about. But if you routinely misdiagnose patients then it’s going to add up over the years.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by kelseydh »

pdimitar wrote: post #745
magicalhippo wrote: post #676

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is almost never the LEDs themselves, but the power supply. Sure, the actual LEDs might have a 50000 hour lifetime, but the crappy power supply they got from the lowest bidder and packaged with woefully inadequate thermal dissipation dies after a tiny fraction of that.

So... somebody responsible for the power supplies does not care? ;)

They care about being the cheapest option on Amazon, so that you will care about buying it. :)

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by mrbonner »

What make OP think they do not care? They apparently care about themselves more than anybody else to not care about anyone else. What is it called: selfishness!

I ran out of (good) things to watch on Netflix so I watched a couple of Japanese drama shows (TBS product I think). At first it seems boring as heck: no sex, no violence. But after a while, I think I got hooked. The usual theme is always something around respect, self-sacrifice, leaving a place better than when you found it kind of feeling. It is just a departure from the usual US based drama.

Is it just the general direction we in the US live everyday for the last decade?

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by dustypotato »

bibelo wrote: post #537

I totally agree with the article and the examples. Problem here in France is the same: many people do not care. I would not say it's a majority, but a minority is enough to ruin other people's lives. I'm really annoyed by the noise. From the deafening motorbike engine in the street, to the idiot with his speaker vomitting rap music, to the neighbor having a party until 3AM, they do not care. Why is that? Mostly becau…

It's not just the West. I'm Indian and it's 2x worse there.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by hshshshshsh »

nozzlegear wrote: post #398
hshshshshsh wrote: post #383

You should not care. The universe does not need your help. Universe instantiated you in this reality in a random body in a random timeline with zero input from your side. It's just your ego that think your care actually makes any difference in this reality. The universe will continue to run creating bodies, life forms and so on. It keeps destroying and recycling stuff. Nothing is permanent. The more you care about im…

I do care. In fact, I bring a sort of "fuck it, we ball" vibe to the existentialism that nihilists don't really like.

Nice. The ying and the yang.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by [deleted] »

deeg wrote: post #375
Tiktaalik wrote: post #369

> Why does this ramp suck so much? For literally the exact same effort it took to build, it could have been built 10x better. Make the angle 20 degrees instead of 70. Put the ramp just after the sign instead of just before it. Make the far curb face sloped instead of vertical. Put some visual indication the lane ends 50 feet uphill. Why wasn't this done? > Because the engineer who designed it and the managers at the…

I have a friend who sees what he thinks is a problem and starts off with "I don't know why they just didn't...", as if he could come up with a better solution in 2 minutes of thinking than experts in the field. The reality is that he just doesn't know all the competing interests and problems. The article feels the same way.

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