V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked at MSFT between 2021 and 2023.

The Growth Mindset is very much just a gaslighting tool. To be honest I didn't get the culty vibe from it while being on the inside, on the other hand no one ever tried to make me to read Satya's stupid book (thankfully).

One important thing I just have to talk about is The Layoffs. If you ask me about "Growth Mindset", or indeed if I ask around my former MSFT colleagues about the first thing that comes to their mind when they hear it, it will be that time when, not even a month after the massive 2023 layoffs where MSFT fired 11,000 people, we were told by management at a Townhall that it is time for us to "apply Growth Mindset and move forward". I remember very clearly that they tried to spin it as if the layoffs were something that just "happened to us" and we had to move on, as if it was a hurricane that hit the office and not a deliberate act of management to cut costs. It was fucking amazing to hear that from them after I had a literal panic attack due to the uncertainty after the first wave of firings.

I made the decision to quit not long after. When I was leaving the genAI brain rot was already in full swing. The stuff about autoplaging Connects is just a great affirmation of my decision, that company is fucked.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is twenty percent logic, ten percent myope

Fifteen percent concentrated power of cope

Five percent incel, fifty percent lame

And a hundred percent reason to forget his name

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it was lo🅱️sters

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

hits blunt [under breath] so much higherrr

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

You could've given me a million guesses on what weird thing people would be defending in the comments to "MtG sucks now" and I wouldn't have guessed "the homophobic fast food chain is my only possible choice for fried chicken"

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

If Elon had any self-awareness he wouldn't be Elon

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I still cannot believe that they couldn't special-case count 'R' in "strawberry" for their Strawberry model like what the fuck

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad someone mentioned Poland and India. Millions killed by USA joining every war to just sell weapons to both sides of conflict

Wait, is a Russian troll trying to paint USA in a bad light by mentioning... Poland? Famously a nation that suffered immensely from the USA and only benefited from its eastern Russian Friends and Liberators.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"So you're, eh, saying I can, emmm, emmm, become god, right, emmm, ehh, if I snort the, ummm, correct drugs?"

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It’s kind of weird anyway to have a child with someone random, isn’t it?

In my mind "being inseminated by" is like 1% of "having a child with", if that. It's probably the least consequential thing your father may do in your overall upbringing.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

The thing with IVF is that it's already incredibly weirdly eugenicist.

Like, read some of the parameters they'd screen you for if you wanted to donate sperm. You get bonus points for having a PhD? I'm sorry? You're looking for a better-educated sperm?

And when you apply for IVF and choose a donor you get their education and job. "I want my cum to be a pilot!" The fuck.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

“President and CEO of the World” who wants your eyeballs for his menacing orbs.

Unsatirisable, supervillain shit. Mr. Incredible should kick his ass.

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