People like me? What exactly is that supposed to mean? My race? My occupation? My financial or marriage status?
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Clicking into this comment thread even though I know it's just feeding a troll.
People like who?
Like you.
You really don't understand the question?
people like me are guilty of stereotyping people like you
But seriously. I've seen a thousand conversations where everybody bitches about some person or people.
And the recipients of the bitching are always those other guys. People totally unlike you or me.
So I figured that was some gratuitous low-hanging-fruit-grabbing right there.
Which brings us to my question.
I work in software. If you go to college for a bachelors in Computer Science, (I hope) at some point you'll be taught the story of the Therac-25.
Beyond that, blockchain, LLMs, stable diffusion/DALLE/etc.
I actually know a guy who got his weener near-fatally microwaved by a buggy medical device.
Oh come on.... You can't leave us without spilling that juicy story!
Sorry, nothing to tell. Old family friend. Vietnam vet. Always going to the doc. So I ask what's up. Apparently when he went in for his dick treatment they accidentally turned the dial all the way to fishsticks. Internal burns. Ongoing treatment.
Why he was getting his dick nuked in the first place? He will not say.
Massive indifference.
I relate.
I think it's because so much of our work and play these days involves concentrating upon ideas and stories and abstractions and such. We're all focused in our head.
Which means that our attention is turned away from everything else. IE the whole world.
If I'm taking this seriously, OP seems to be getting at the idea that people always insinuate "the other" is responsible for horrors, but that people in the same group are innocent? I don't think everyone does that though
People like me either forgot about it, or put it off until the very last second.
Like, white people in general?
As an over thinker - I probably created too much of a soap box for my inner accuser.
As someone who's facetious, I've probably offended plenty of those around me.
As a cyclist, I am that kind from time to time.
As a chocolate eater, I absolutely support slavery and I'm not proud about it.
As a meat-eater and wanna be veggo - I'm ashamed of how we treat and farm animals.
But as a human, I'm fucking always confused, forgetful and utterly imperfect, not deserving of any redemption whatsoever. If I was more charismatic, I'd probably start a suicide cult
edit I like the question, but maybe if you framed it so it encouraged a little more curiosity, you'd probably get more traction?
Sorry you're getting so much hate over this.
Those people's answers must be "I get defensive when somebody insinuates that I have EVER made a mistake."
According to society, not having the motivation to focus because I am just simply lazy.
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