• NABDad@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I took Tuesday and Wednesday off.

    Aside from voting, I have some other things to do on Tuesday.

    Wednesday is reserved for just sitting and staring. Perhaps some rocking back and forth and curling up in the fetal position. I’ll see how it goes.

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      2 months ago

      I plan to catch up on a grindy game!

      Whatever America is up to can wait because I gotta get my hero to max level and get all the achievements.

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        2 months ago

        I plan to spend most of Tuesday stabbing myself in the eyes with red-hot knitting needles because it sounds like a better alternative to watching the polls come in.

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    2 months ago

    Thank you, that’s basically how I feel.

    Also, the startup I’m at just had 2 co-founders leave, so yeah, this is a real vibe.

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      2 months ago

      Also, the startup I’m at just had 2 co-founders leave

      That’s a resume generating event

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        2 months ago

        Hah, no, but I’m good otherwise.

        Talking to friends about starting one of my own ideas, reached an age where digging through the dirt is still fun, but I think I should be doing more.

        Thanks for the concern :) , I rarely join startups because I think they have a chance to succeed, it’s just the only place you can get stuff done and have a good time, big companies are… Horrifying :( Google might have been the worst.

        I need to get off my ass really.

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            2 months ago

            Haha, those co-founders got fairly well screwed, but startups are a bit like a lottery ticket to me: huge risk, pretty decent potential reward.

            The only difference is if you’re careful, you come out having learned things.

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          2 months ago

          I just started a business after getting laid off from Deere, 10/10 can recommend.

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            2 months ago

            Thanks, I am just so… silicon valley has a lot of used-car salesmen around, and I’m nervous about getting screwed over by a co-founder. Not good at the whole “don’t fuck with me” thing, either come off as a pushover or a psycho, never worked out the subtlety of a middle ground :(

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          2 months ago

          Absolutely on the whole not being able to get stuff done front. The main reason I’m quitting where I currently work is because it’s impossible to do the most basic of tasks without having 40 meetings about it and it being delayed by 6 months for no apparent reason.

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            The main reason I’m quitting where I currently work is because it’s impossible to do the most basic of tasks without having 40 meetings about it and it being delayed by 6 months for no apparent reason.

            Similar, one issue for me is that I am not great at all the modern task-tracking systems, I can do them, but they take far more energy for me than the actual work itself.

            And the more people I have to work with, the slower I work, I can just go by myself, but when I have to keep coordinating I just bog down and get discouraged.

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            2 months ago

            Thanks a lot for the support! I really need to get off my lazy ass.

            Social… Anything is not my strong suit, but if I can find some guys who do that good, I should be set.

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              2 months ago

              social media? like marketing/awareness? or are you talking about professional networking to find talent?

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          2 months ago

          Damn your right, I never mentioned which direction.

          But let’s be honest, republicans don’t have the numbers for a landslide.

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            2 months ago

            A couple of salient portions from the 538 article I linked:

            In 2020, polls overestimated Biden’s margin over Trump by about 4 percentage points in competitive states. As of Oct. 30 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, the margin between Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump in 538’s polling averages is smaller than 4 points in seven states: the familiar septet of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That means that, if the polling error from 2020 repeats itself, Trump would win all seven swing states and 312 Electoral College votes.

            As of Oct. 30 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, our forecast gives Trump a 52-in-100 chance to win the White House and Harris a near-identical 48-in-100 chance. The model arrives at that probability by calculating how many Electoral College votes each candidate would win given certain amounts of polling error in their favor, and then counting up how many times each candidate wins among these simulations. (More about that in our methodology.)

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              I’ve heard a lot of that, I’ve also heard that pollsters have overcorrected because of those misses and are now overstating Trump’s numbers.

              I have no idea which is right. And I wouldn’t know where to start. How do you separate reasoned analysis from people saying smart sounding things with lots of numbers because they’re either scared what they’re proposing is true, or because they hope it is?

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    Back in 2016 I worked at a place that had beer in the fridge for after work shindigs. The day after Trump was elected we were all in the kitchen drinking beer at 10AM instead of coffee. No one questioned it.

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    I woke up today and at the team meeting, my company literally asked about roadmaps and to start planning for them.

    Bro, I’m panic snacking right now you want me to what?

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    I’m getting mega stoned the second I get home from work tomorrow and possibly calling in sick the day after because fucking hell