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But you need to understand, they feel the same way about you.
When you ignore them and never engage on every topic (Edited for clarity), they think you are giving them the silent treatment, which is also associated with children
Give you the mature ones you can learn from, you say. Have you engaged those people? People will be more likely to teach you if they like you, and they’ll be more likely to like you if you talk to them.
I’m not saying you’re wrong that it shouldn’t be this way, and I am agreeing with you that a position of like lab/rad tech with less colleagues might be more fitting to your personality.
But I am saying expecting people to care about you, understand you and treat you well, while you make no effort to do the same, is completely naive and hypocritical.
You say small talk is “irrelevant” to your job, but since you lost that job for not doing it, and it sounds like not for the first time, it is, by definition, extremely relevant.
“I felt they weren’t listening to me.” That is how, by your own admission, you made them feel for 8 weeks. To turn your question around, why should they listen to you?
I understand how you feel. I never understood natural small talk in school, and like you I was ostracized for it.
But the difference is I recognized how important it was to have allies in any environment, and the only way you get them is via socializing.
So I tried, I suffered, I learned and I got better. And that I did that again, and again, and again.
Have you made that effort? You already said you haven’t.
But this episode clearly hurt you, and it’s happened in the past, so don’t you think it’s time to learn?
Einstein once said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
Have you accepted that if you don’t change, these things will happen, again and again, for the rest of your life? If not, you are insane.
You say they are thin skinned, but to a few external observers, this long post also feels that way. Either don’t change and accept the known consequences of your actions without complaint, or adapt.
Of course it’s difficult. But people do difficult things every day. Think of it as a challenge. In addition to asking “do we give sodium bicarbonate by metabolic acidosis or alkalosis?”, also ask “so, have any plans for the weekend?”. And remember both answers, and ask them how whatever they talked about on Monday.
These conversations don’t have to take long, but just engaging for a minute or two will drastically change people’s perceptions of you. Which, considering those people can fire you, is extremely relevant.
Ultimately, your complaint is they don’t care about you. But you admit to not caring about them or their problems either, so I don’t understand why you’d expect a different outcome.
In referring to my above comments, you’ll note I never said they did do something, only that IF they did do it, they had the capabilities in place to do so without leaving a trace.
My issue is only with the top commenters phrase “bring receipts”.
The article author address this pretty thoroughly in why that’s not possible, referencing publicly available information.
The top commenter seemed to deliberately disregard that point
Condensed quote below.
“ According to Eaton’s own release, Palantir’s role would include… most critically—“secure erasure of digital footprints””
Again, and I cannot stress this enough, that is from their own press release.
So you say “where are the receipts?”. And their press release explicitly says “we are bringing in this company to erase receipts”. To which you respond “where are the receipts”.
To echo your statement, do you see how this might appear as willful misunderstanding to an outside observer?
Did you read the article? Relevant section below:
“Let’s be clear, Palantir wasn’t brought in for customer service. It was brought in to do what it does best: manage, shape, and secure vast streams of data—quietly. According to Eaton’s own release, Palantir’s role would include: AI-driven oversight of connected infrastructures Automated analysis of large datasets And—most critically—“secure erasure of digital footprints”
The Digital Janitor:also known as forensic sanitization, it was now being embedded into Eaton-managed hardware connected directly to voting systems. Palantir didn’t change the votes. It helped ensure you’d never prove it if someone else did.”
Nothing by itself. But if it can encourage other senators to filibuster, and more importantly, to organize to filibuster together , the impact could be paralyzing.
To take an obvious example, for half a century, from say 1910 to 1964-5, there were more than enough votes in the US senate to enact civil rights legislation, as southerners only made up 22 or so of the 96-100 senators then (no Hawaii or Alaska for part of that).
But that legislation never happened. And the reason why it didn’t was that southern senators were able to filibuster so effectively that the legislation could never be brought to the floor, or to force its withdrawal if it got there.
It’s not that the votes on that specific bill weren’t there. It’s just that under the leadership of Sen Richard Russel of Georgia (who the “Russel Senate Office Building” is named after), the southern senators understood the way to block legislation was to filibuster not just the bill in question, but any law that was about to lapse that was so important economically that senators couldn’t afford to let that happen.
So they organized, filibustered key bills, set up “watches” where at least one senator had to be on the floor to defeat any quorum calls (which ends a filibuster, as you do not actually have to be talking to filibuster a bill), and filibustered not just votes on key bills, but even votes on motions to bring those bills out of committee to the floor.
Moreover, since these filibusters weren’t on the bill itself, it was easy for an individual senator to say they were against another bill, or another motion, and make it seem like an unrelated objection, when it was really all part of a comprehensive strategy.
Eventually, the impending economic doom created enough pressure to get any civil rights bill withdrawn in order to let those other bills pass, which was the southerners asking price.
Obviously, the democrats now aren’t doing that. But they could. And by generating headlines by filibustering, he encourages other senators to do so, if only for popularity.
They did write this manual on how to resist facism, which went viral recently, so I guess there’s that?
https://www.404media.co/content/files/2025/02/simplesabotage.pdf
Also operation Argo to rescue 6 trapped US diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Depending on your perspective, operation paperclip, which brought 1,600 German scientists to the US after WW2, might also qualify, though that will depend on:
A. How “forced” you think their Nazi party affiliations were, and how culpable you believe they were for the Nazi’s crimes in general
B. What you think their lives would have been like had they stayed in Germany or, more likely, been “recruited” by Russia in their own competing operation, as indeed many were.
Are you a good swimmer? If so, lifeguard certification only takes a few hours for training, and if you do it at a pool, no chance of you missing a drowning person/dealing with a strong current.
Did it in HS and college, great summer job, also can flirt with girls. Highly recommend
So I have a similar routine (push, pull, leg/ab), but different workouts and set/rep combination
One of the cool things about the present is we no longer have to guess which exercises are most effective at stimulating muscle development.
By using a technique called Electromyography (EMG), which measures the electrical activity of muscles during exercise, we have a good proxy for how much of the muscle is being used.
Edit: so originally I had some data here that I had from I saved in my notes from years ago to refer back to, back when EMG analysis was new and articles about it not common.
Now that’s not the case, and I can’t find that specific source, so deleting that, but ultimately I think my point of using EMG analysis of best exercises to target your muscle groups as opposed to just guessing still stands, and you can review the many articles online to determine which are best for yourself.
Pretty common, they’ll say it was because Fox created an “unsafe/unsupervised work environment that allowed the attack to occur, therefore they have partial liability”
And not knowing the details of the attack, that might be true. But another, perhaps more important reason is that Fox has more money than Mark Sanchez, and naming Fox in the suit allows them to get some of it