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I want this in literally every other emotion, except for anger, because there's already a site for that called reddit.com

by rc5150 1y ago

Gigachad 1y ago
Twitter and facebook are far more effective for that.
- 0xEF 1y ago
  I think we can just kinda blanket-statement this and say all social media induces anger, yeah?
  - Gigachad 1y ago
    All of them can but I don't think they are equal. Back before I deleted twitter about a year ago, no matter what I did, how many accounts I blocked, I'd get a feed of AI generated ragebait. Meanwhile TikTok and Youtube seem to respect my preferences more. There is ragebait on those platforms but it isn't shown to me. Facebook just seems to be entirely Boomers and Gen Xers angry at the news. Reddit has historically respected your subscriptions but it does look like they are drifting away and making the home page just whatever they want to show you.
Hobadee 1y ago
IT here. I don't need a website; I have users.
- SanjayMehta 1y ago
  I miss alt.sysadmin.recovery
  - teddyh 1y ago
    “scary devil monastery”.
- devjab 1y ago
  I've been in SWE in non-enterprise for decades and right now I'm seated with IT and operations because our two teams total less than 15. The amount of users who open tickets with "I have this issue" and then send a screenshot of some error in a browser with absolutely no context... Not even the full browser image, just a small snapshot of the completely meaningless error... As though they expect the IT support people to just know what they were doing? My twin todlers who haven't learned to speak yet are still somehow better at telling me what is wrong when something is wrong. I'm always amazed at how friendly the IT support people manage these things.
- knowitnone2 1y ago
  this is a you problem. Worked in IT over 20 years, never been angry. Perhaps you should change careers.
- teddyh 1y ago
  It is with the confidence of decades of experience that I can say that the problem is that you have a bad attitude about your job. (I have elaborated on this in the past: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086>)
  - throwanem 1y ago
    It is with the confidence of decades of experience I can say that to quote Alan Watts aloud is a sign of desperately needing to read another book.
    - teddyh 1y ago
      Is anything in that quote so wrong that it invalidates the larger point the quote is meant to illustrate?
      - throwanem 1y ago
        What am I meant to think the experience of providing IT support shares with that of the bodhisattva nature, such that quoting the ever tiresome Watts at paragraph length is meant to aid understanding of either? It's just a lot of self-aggrandizing humblebragging nonsense, "look whose name I drop and you don't." Good grief, in this millennium having had an encounter with Watts doesn't even really qualify anyone as being familiar with the literature. If one means to say it's not people's fault that computers suck to use and they shouldn't be blamed for exhibiting some emotional dismay when forced to do so anyway, then one may say so clearly and concisely, and without insisting on oneself even by implication.
        teddyh 1y ago
        Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. Maybe you should read more books? What I meant to convey, seven years ago, when writing that comment making the analogy to Zen Buddhism (as described by Alan Watts at least) was that there are those who come to understand technology and immediately go off and despise and belittle all the people who don’t understand it. There are also those who come to understand technology and can explain the relevant parts to those who don’t understand it, and help them handle technology to help them in their lives, without belittling them or even secretly/silently looking down on or feeling superior to them in any way. This dichotomy seemed to me to be very similar to what Alan Watts once described about Zen Buddhism. But sure, you keep berating people for daring to quote something by someone so plebeian as Alan Watts, in a seven year old comment. I’m sure it will help you get along with people.
muzani 1y ago
What's a good subreddit for crying? All I get is ragebait and recycled punchlines
johnnymaroney 1y ago
I'm actually making this: https://www.feelapp.io https://www.feelapp.io

I want this in literally every other emotion, except for anger, because there's already a site for that called reddit.com

by rc5150 1y ago

I want this in literally every other emotion, except for anger, because there's already a site for that called reddit.com

Gigachad 1y ago

Twitter and facebook are far more effective for that.

0xEF 1y ago
I think we can just kinda blanket-statement this and say all social media induces anger, yeah?
- Gigachad 1y ago
  All of them can but I don't think they are equal. Back before I deleted twitter about a year ago, no matter what I did, how many accounts I blocked, I'd get a feed of AI generated ragebait. Meanwhile TikTok and Youtube seem to respect my preferences more. There is ragebait on those platforms but it isn't shown to me. Facebook just seems to be entirely Boomers and Gen Xers angry at the news. Reddit has historically respected your subscriptions but it does look like they are drifting away and making the home page just whatever they want to show you.

Hobadee 1y ago

IT here. I don't need a website; I have users.

SanjayMehta 1y ago
I miss alt.sysadmin.recovery
- teddyh 1y ago
  “scary devil monastery”.
devjab 1y ago
I've been in SWE in non-enterprise for decades and right now I'm seated with IT and operations because our two teams total less than 15. The amount of users who open tickets with "I have this issue" and then send a screenshot of some error in a browser with absolutely no context... Not even the full browser image, just a small snapshot of the completely meaningless error... As though they expect the IT support people to just know what they were doing? My twin todlers who haven't learned to speak yet are still somehow better at telling me what is wrong when something is wrong. I'm always amazed at how friendly the IT support people manage these things.
knowitnone2 1y ago
this is a you problem. Worked in IT over 20 years, never been angry. Perhaps you should change careers.
teddyh 1y ago
It is with the confidence of decades of experience that I can say that the problem is that you have a bad attitude about your job. (I have elaborated on this in the past: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086>)
- throwanem 1y ago
  It is with the confidence of decades of experience I can say that to quote Alan Watts aloud is a sign of desperately needing to read another book.
  - teddyh 1y ago
    Is anything in that quote so wrong that it invalidates the larger point the quote is meant to illustrate?
    - throwanem 1y ago
      What am I meant to think the experience of providing IT support shares with that of the bodhisattva nature, such that quoting the ever tiresome Watts at paragraph length is meant to aid understanding of either? It's just a lot of self-aggrandizing humblebragging nonsense, "look whose name I drop and you don't." Good grief, in this millennium having had an encounter with Watts doesn't even really qualify anyone as being familiar with the literature. If one means to say it's not people's fault that computers suck to use and they shouldn't be blamed for exhibiting some emotional dismay when forced to do so anyway, then one may say so clearly and concisely, and without insisting on oneself even by implication.
      - teddyh 1y ago
        Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. Maybe you should read more books? What I meant to convey, seven years ago, when writing that comment making the analogy to Zen Buddhism (as described by Alan Watts at least) was that there are those who come to understand technology and immediately go off and despise and belittle all the people who don’t understand it. There are also those who come to understand technology and can explain the relevant parts to those who don’t understand it, and help them handle technology to help them in their lives, without belittling them or even secretly/silently looking down on or feeling superior to them in any way. This dichotomy seemed to me to be very similar to what Alan Watts once described about Zen Buddhism. But sure, you keep berating people for daring to quote something by someone so plebeian as Alan Watts, in a seven year old comment. I’m sure it will help you get along with people.

muzani 1y ago

What's a good subreddit for crying? All I get is ragebait and recycled punchlines

johnnymaroney 1y ago

I'm actually making this: https://www.feelapp.io https://www.feelapp.io