Year: 2025

HR Lady

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

A large part of what CHH writes in the excerpt just isn’t true. Particularly in larger corporations, HR does indeed both create and substantially alter job descriptions for listing after the hiring manager provides some basic requirements. This is why these jobs often require 10 years of experience with a product or technology that has only existed for three years. The hiring manager would never make that mistake. HR, though? They have no idea.

It’s obvious CHH has never worked in a decently large corporation because it’s very common in those that HR is the primary part of the org handling all the job description creation, maintenance, approval and listing on job boards.

Chill Links

A 50-Year Mortgage Does Nothing for “Affordability,” Is a Terrible Deal for Homeowners and a Superb Deal for Banks & Investors.

Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn.

I find that all households dislike low-income peers, especially high-income households who are willing-to-pay €538 per month to avoid a 20 p.p. increase in the share of low-income residents.

In thirty years after 1950, the core European economies grew so fast that consumption per capita tripled while their citizens worked 400 fewer hours per year. But then the stagnation.

Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners. Won’t be shopping there ever again.

China’s Stealthy GJ-11 ‘Mysterious Dragon’ Soars Out Of The Shadows.

Corals survived past climate changes by retreating to the deeps.

The invention of the modern self.

It’s curtains for the penny after more than two centuries in circulation. There should be no real penny-alty for doing this.

You Mean the Trash Gets Trashed?

Chill Annoying, Tech

Why!?

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

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

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.

  1. Yes, even including nuclear waste storage and maintenance.

Verity

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.

Chill Links

How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2.

Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes.

Make Medical School Three Years.

One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement. Heh.

Aristotle on Immigration, Diversity, and Democracy.

The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net.

Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study.

The Monks in the Casino.

70% of ammunition used by Russia made in N. Korea: Ukraine analysis.

Got blamed for an AI tool’s mistake that ended up costing me my job.

‘Ghost job’ postings are adding another layer of uncertainty to the stalling jobs picture.

Fresh signs emerge that the U.S. labor market is weakening as the government shutdown draws to an end.

Lawless

Chill Annoying, Clowns

As much as she is a huge dumbass, she also does not deserve Iryna’s fate. We must also protect the weak and the clueless; I do think it’s noblesse oblige to do so. The truth of the world is just too much for some people.

She’s a good example of someone with “suicidal empathy.”