‘Hold me close, young Tony Danza’ - me at 9.

Maybe they won’t do that but will certainly restrict access by any means necessary for everyone except the rich.

I get where you’re coming from, however this is too fine a hair to split and does not detract from their original and well written statement.

I’ve heard this excuse before and countered effectively with drive-through weddings and the national divorce rate.

100%. Being poor can be (& typically is) traumatic. People under that much stress and trauma are more susceptible to abuse and manipulation.

HR protects and represents the company, not you as an employee.

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Same. Tried to go back late last year and it was a sloppy disappointment. Partner kept talking about Lemmy and after checking it out I joined. It sorta reminds me of old Reddit (joined in 2013) yet very different.

Oh wow, I didn’t know that and totally believe it. Esp since it’s pretty much dying.

Exactly this! I worked for a plumbing company years ago and my old boss told us that businesses pay for their high ratings. Like your company can have a decent rating but if you pay $10k, BBB will list it as a much higher or perfect rating.

Like you said, it’s Yelp for old farts - except those farts pay for high ratings. It’s also pretend power for the consumer, I’ve been threatened with a BBB report at nearly every customer service job I’ve had. It’s just something old people yell about when they don’t get their way, and since learning about how it really works those threats were met with a ‘go on then’ smile.

Maybe, many STDs are asymptomatic.

Ugh I’m sorry to hear that, it can be incredibly frustrating and discouraging to seek a professional just to have them dismiss and misdiagnose you.

I wish you the best in your journey to get the answers and help you need and deserve. Please keep looking, the right fit has to be out there.

All of this applies to Autism, as well.

Same here. And it used to cripple me during meetings, and basic conversations with coworkers. I’ve worked in sales, construction, and inventory management and the sports convos were inescapable and apparently a huge key to relating to customers and colleagues.

Just could never get into it, and not the type to fake it either. Unless I’m playing the sport, I could give a fuck less about others who I do not and will not ever know playing a sport.

I still talk about the facts and sites I stumbled upon using it. For a very, very, short time old Reddit felt a bit like it.

Their only interest is profit, it was only a matter of time for that interest to consolidate into corruption and greed. In a world where making choices that benefit all do not generate as much short term gains as making choices that benefit a select few, it is easy to see exactly why these companies operate the way they do. Their interests are not ours.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We should have regulated tech (and hard) decades ago. Were Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg not example enough for tech enthusiasts, or now that it’s too late is it the right time to shed our naive fairy tales about the Billionaire Supermen who want nothing more than to save us all?

The more time goes on, the more I feel this.