You Mean the Trash Gets Trashed?

November 12, 2025, 11:15 PM Chill Annoying, Tech

This seems extremely common for users to do and I’ve wondered about it also over the years. People will store important emails in the “Deleted Items” in Outlook and files in the “Recycle Bin” on Windows and the “Trash” when it used to be called that.

I think because it’s easy to do? Even though it’s dangerous. I assume they are attempting to use these places like an archive. Stupidly, poorly, and with no thought behind it at all, but I guess that’s what is going on. At previous roles I’ve had to make announcements via email and Slack that, “We do not back up the Windows Recycle Bin or Deleted Items in Outlook. Do not store needed or important items in those locations. They will be deleted and will not be available for any recovery or restore.”

It worked better than nothing, but people still did it anyway.

Use AI

November 12, 2025, 5:35 PMNovember 12, 2025, 11:19 PM Chill Annoying, Clowns

To those (idiots) claiming no recruiters and no ATSes use AI, the company I work for absolutely does use AI for filtering submitted applications. Extensively. We do not use any AI interviewers or other horrible abominations like that, but the first and second pass of all resumes and job apps 100% use AI all the way through.

This is the common case now, no matter what anyone on Reddit says.

As Reasonable

November 12, 2025, 11:09 AM Chill Evil

Nuclear power haters are so weird and detestable. Like, we find free magic rocks that spew power with 1/1000 the impact¹ of fossil fuels and we…just don’t use them.

Because people are a little scared. And we treat this as normal and these people as reasonable.

Yes, even including nuclear waste storage and maintenance.

Verity

November 12, 2025, 1:18 AM Chill Regular-ass Post

It seems like in a lot of life, people want to be conned. They have no interest in the true nor the actual. That’s the case on both the right and the left; this affliction is by no means restricted to one leaning or political party.

The comforting or belief-affirming lie is nearly always preferred to the verifiable and the real.