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more "inclusive" roads = idiotic 'woke' culture gone batshit crazy

refulgentis 2y ago
They are making it up There was a viral thread a month or two ago from an ex-Google Maps employee talking about how that'd never be considered, because tl;dr, doing that would be a great example of steering at scale leading to unintended consequences. Not sure if they misunderstood that thread, or they're just wholesale riffing.
- dotcoma 2y ago
  I have no idea if it’s happening but, sadly, I would not be surprised if it were.
  - refulgentis 2y ago
    > I have no idea if it’s happening, I do! > but, buckles up > sadly, I would not be surprised if it were. On my end, I'm sad people make up silly things that'd never happen, to claim that it could happen, so they can express their sadness. There's better options! ex. here: I'm sad because it's near 4 PM [EDIT: f***, after 4 PM!], and I got a bunch of failing integration tests to fix after rushing a feature, over a long holiday weekend, for an investor who has been AWOL for a week. When I take a step back, my harsh review of myself is I'm unconsciously getting my mind off it, because it makes me feel better because it's easy to be correct when people aren't trying to be. But really, I'm just burning time I could be using to wrap up work.
  - ryandrake 2y ago
    > I have no idea if it’s happening but, sadly, I would not be surprised if it were. So, in other words, it's totally made up. It's got the vibes of: "Now, we can't verify that that's true, but it certainly sounds right." - Tucker Carlson[1] 1: https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-massive-conflict-with-france-occurring https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-massive-conflict-w...
  - happytoexplain 2y ago
    The cycle of reading rage-bait, discovering it was misleading, and saying "well I wouldn't be surprised if it had been true", is essentially the poison killing us.
- Nicksil 2y ago
  >They are making it up You work for Google, though. Why should your word be trusted over the others'?
  - gruez 2y ago
    A sibling comment linked to a source where a Google spokesperson denied it. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-112436221.html https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-1124362...
  - refulgentis 2y ago
    I don't Why would we limit ourselves to the set of not-Googlers? That is prima facie irrational and incorrect. Best case is there's a googler out here saying it, all you'd have to do is check in a week if they still had a job. Self-peasantization isn't a virtue

They are making it up There was a viral thread a month or two ago from an ex-Google Maps employee talking about how that'd never be considered, because tl;dr, doing that would be a great example of steering at scale leading to unintended consequences. Not sure if they misunderstood that thread, or they're just wholesale riffing.

dotcoma 2y ago
I have no idea if it’s happening but, sadly, I would not be surprised if it were.
- refulgentis 2y ago
  > I have no idea if it’s happening, I do! > but, buckles up > sadly, I would not be surprised if it were. On my end, I'm sad people make up silly things that'd never happen, to claim that it could happen, so they can express their sadness. There's better options! ex. here: I'm sad because it's near 4 PM [EDIT: f***, after 4 PM!], and I got a bunch of failing integration tests to fix after rushing a feature, over a long holiday weekend, for an investor who has been AWOL for a week. When I take a step back, my harsh review of myself is I'm unconsciously getting my mind off it, because it makes me feel better because it's easy to be correct when people aren't trying to be. But really, I'm just burning time I could be using to wrap up work.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  > I have no idea if it’s happening but, sadly, I would not be surprised if it were. So, in other words, it's totally made up. It's got the vibes of: "Now, we can't verify that that's true, but it certainly sounds right." - Tucker Carlson[1] 1: https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-massive-conflict-with-france-occurring https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-massive-conflict-w...
- happytoexplain 2y ago
  The cycle of reading rage-bait, discovering it was misleading, and saying "well I wouldn't be surprised if it had been true", is essentially the poison killing us.
Nicksil 2y ago
>They are making it up You work for Google, though. Why should your word be trusted over the others'?
- gruez 2y ago
  A sibling comment linked to a source where a Google spokesperson denied it. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-112436221.html https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-1124362...
- refulgentis 2y ago
  I don't Why would we limit ourselves to the set of not-Googlers? That is prima facie irrational and incorrect. Best case is there's a googler out here saying it, all you'd have to do is check in a week if they still had a job. Self-peasantization isn't a virtue