A group of islands, occupied only by penguins and seals, has been swept up in Trump's trade war.
  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    119·
    3 months ago

    The worst type of person is the person who is so allergic to being “wrong” that they’ll constantly double down with new bullshit to try to convince people why it wasn’t a mistake in the first place. It’s fucking exhausting.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        It’s not society, it’s a human thing because we evolved that way. Plenty of discussion on exactly this all over the internet. Too tired to think it out and write a bunch, but I’m a firm believer. Also, note this trait is splattered all over the planet, not just a country or two.

        Life experience has born this out. Admitting fault is seen as a weakness. Even though people don’t consciously think it, you still get a ding on your “social score”. Here’s the one exception in my life that proves the rule:

        Worked at a place where admitting fault was an highly esteemed action. No one so much as tried to blunt the blame with clever words. Afterwards, no fingers were pointed and we worked together to figure out how to fix the problem and then how to stop it from ever happening again.

        Here’s the crazy bit, and no one is going to believe it; The was a very small company owned by a staunch conservative, Southern Baptist family. 1 of 4-5 employees were related, but you would never know because they didn’t address one another by family connection, only by first name. Best job I ever had, grew my IT knowledge more in 5-years than in the other 20-years put together. And not a soul asked me to go to church or if I even believed. Don’t even know where they went.

      • Seleni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        58·
        3 months ago

        This is the same generation that gave us ‘participation trophies’ so their feelings and their kids’ feelings didn’t ‘get hurt’.

        I’m not quite sure where this plague of ‘treat my feelings with kid gloves, otherwise I might die’ got started, but we really need to do something about it.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Just commented on a company I worked at like that!

        https://old.lemmy.world/comment/16298141

        President stopped by my office when I was the new (only) IT guy:

        “You might make mistakes… OK, you’re going to make mistakes. Don’t try to lie, prevaricate, dodge blame or pass it onto someone else. That’s about the only way to get fired around here. Come to me, tell me exactly what happened and we’ll fix it and find a way to never let it happen again.”

        And that’s how it really was. Came up with some slick IT solutions to block people from making mistakes, all while not doing the heavy-handed, restrictive IT bullshit.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    46·
    3 months ago

    Up next: what do you mean I can’t fire the BBC?

    As an aside, I’ve been told directly to my face in meat space that the BBC isn’t trustworthy and I should stick to our news sources.

    • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      That is almost what they are doing… The US embassy have been sending out letters asking all kinds of places in like Europe and Austrailia that they should follow Trumps executive orders. So I mean… Yeah. Maybe BBC also have gotten some letters.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Look, obviously Trump’s a moron. But don’t go pretending that corporate leeches wouldn’t route their funds through some penguins for tax avoidance. They would totally do that.

    Do you believe all of those tech giants were actually based in Ireland?

    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, but it would probably make more sense to just have like a universal 10 percent default rate for “other” as a category.

  • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    I feel like this is really just a distraction. When you have a base of 10%, then it gets applied to dumb stuff like this. That should be a given. Let’s focus on the other wild shit that is happening.