I have to giggle a bit. Isn’t CF7 the plugin that was notorious for enqueuing its scripts on every page, even the pages w/out a CF7 form? A known non-best practice that many would call a bug, yet was never fixed? In how many years??
So I guess this means that’s never going to be fix? Good to know.
What proof do you have that there is a difference between the Team Red and Team Blue, other than your not on the team you’re railing against.
For example, given Nancy Pelosi’s effectiveness as an investor, she was effectively a highly successful day trader with a side hustle as a representative of her constituents.
Framing this as a Left v Right, is at best, naive.
Trump's second-term clemencies so far have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion. That's over 2,000x the amount amount eliminated by Biden's pardons ($680,000).
These pardons go to convicted criminals who have ties to Trump and his administration, or who have donated significant sums to Trump.
It is very obvious the current administrating is the most corrupt administration in modern history by several orders of magnitude.
And what of Pelosi and the like? The problem is, you’re not able to measure what you cannot see.
For example, the obvious… Epstein Files. That went on for how long? Involved hundreds if not thousands of (mostly) men of power. Bill Clinton comes to mind.
Just because you couldn’t see the corruption doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.
Your bias is blinding you. The System is corrupted. Full stop.
How do we know? Look who is in the WH. How can a fair and just system lead to that? You’re failing for the “OMG! Look at him!!” narrative. A narrative brought to you by the people whose incompetence and negligence led to Trump. A narrative that distracts from their failures. You should be asking: How did we get here? Who is accountable? But you’re not.
I'd guess... 6% for non-AI written? I'm thinking "debugging" in production means there's already a bug in production, so a very gentle term for a SEV/incident.
I’d be curious to know how many people suffering from depression have been diagnosed with NPD. Focusing too much on oneself - like the writer of this substack- is unhealthy. If it doesn’t drive you mad, at the very least you’ll end up depressed.
A normal standard level of happiness comes from thinking about other things and other people.
Obviously the brain is a physical organ, like the heart, lungs or eyes, brains can be “defective.” You can’t think your way out of schizophrenia. That said, the power of thought and meta cognition (and neuroplasticity) is underestimated far more than it’s overestimated.
I’m the author. I think the typical knee-jerk reaction would be to debate whether or not I have NPD (and I actually have thought about it) but I do agree that essentially too much introspection can be bad and that it’s critical to get out of your head and focus on the world around you. As much as I had a visceral reaction to the Marc Andreessen video that was going around, I have to admit I understood too well what he was talking about.
In my case, I believe it’s something a bit more than that — for instance, I feel DRASTICALLY different under, say, certain kinds of drugs, indicating that this might be a chemical thing, and I also have not felt this way until somewhat recently going off prescription medication.
This isn’t to say that I wouldn’t also benefit from essentially being forced to stop looking inward (i.e. have a job, get married, have kids, devote life to charity, etc.). But one of the issues I try to write about is that feeling the way I do makes even leaving the house a chore. It’s like having some kind of infection where the only antidote comes in the form of a 16 inch needle you have to plunge directly into your heart.
To clarify, I wasn’t trying to belittle you. While the internet is fond of spreading myths about narcissism, few actual realize NPD is a proper disorder in the DSM-5.
Btw, there are two types of NPD. The typical over the top bravado version, and the less recognizable “passive aggression “ version. Same core inner issues, just two different defense mechanisms.
Things I’ve read that you might find fascinating a/o helpful:
- The Courage to be Disliked. This book change my lens on human behavior - my own, as well as that of others.
- Just about anything by Ellen Langer. She’s exceptional at challenging the status quo, and making “Gee, I never thought of that in that way” observations.
- 50 Psychology Classics by Tom Butler Bowden. Even the brief summaries have helpful ideas.
Again, I apologize if I stepped on your toes. That was not my intention. TBH I recently left a relationship where my exGF sounded a lot like you in many ways. In addition, Tho she said she was a recovering alcoholic, I’m convinced she suffered from NPD and recovery and AA simple fit that profile (I.e., lack of accountability, made playing the victim card easy, using it as a tool for manipulation, etc.)(1) I don’t beliefe it was intentional per se, as much as over a lifetime she had crafted a lifestyle for so long that it was perfectly natural for her. It wasn’t a defense mechanism. It was as natural as breathing. This will all make more sense once you read The Courage to Be Disliked
No worries, I didn’t get that sense. I just think most people would probably felt the need to defend themselves (and I did, albeit briefly, before reconsidering what you were saying, which, like I mentioned, I agree with). Thanks for the references, I wasn’t aware of the other version of NPD. I haven’t read the Courage to be Disliked but I’ll check it out.
Just because you start this lean doesn’t mean you should stay that way. Perhaps he’s now spending too much time managing his stack and not enough time on product development, customer service, a/o growth.
In other words, what gets you to $10k MRR isn’t the same thing(s) for 2x, 5x, or 10x that.
- AND having two or more editing a page/post at the same time
—- How many sites can this be? Why are so many forced to take on code (read: sec and bugs) that they’ll never ever need?
> having shared credential management is better than every plugin rolling its own. No argument there.
- Is this ideal? Certainly it’s convenient. Can’t WP offer an API so plugins and themes can roll what they need without centralizing cred mgmt?
> and the genuine ownership of content and infrastructure
- In theory this is great. The reality is, with the Block editor you own your content tightly coupled to WP’s presentation tags (for blocks).
Sidebar: With LLMs, it seems that Blocks solves a problem that no longer exists. A plugin that integrates an AI editor into ClassicPress would be interesting.
If only human behavior was that simple. The DSM-5 is filled with diseases of the mind. Choice often isn’t as cut and dry as we would like to believe.
No one wakes up and thinks “I want to suffer today of _____.” [1] AndI want others to suffer along with me.
That said, perhaps the universe is binary? Perhaps evil, pure evil does exist? Perhaps there’s no to stopping evil than “just say no”? It’s hard to say.
By definition, if they’re not concerned about the ethics, they are not journalists and their occupation is not journalism. Nor does your employer’s reputation[1] allow them to claim such titles simple because they sign your pay cheque. You can’t inherit the title like that.
Journalist/journalism is like leader/leadership… too often used inappropriately, too often used to mislead, too often used inappropriately. Words such as reporter, hack, or NYT agent are more appropriate and more accurate.
Put another way, if your pet barks, would you still call it a cat? Of course not! If these people and entities aren’t fulfilling the baseline of the definition why do we continue to call them something they are not?
Journalist is a verb. It’s the decisions made and the actions taken. We’d be doing the collective a favor if we stopped giving credit where credit is NOT due.
[1] editorial: Most of us would agree that the NYT has lost its way. That it’s getting by on the fumes of integrity long gone.
No. But people without ethics, transparency, etc can not be. Again, for all intents and purposes it’s a verb. It’s the actions you take. This thread is filled with references to actions that DQ the person from being a journalist. Continuing to get them the title / reward only encourages bad behavior.
Morally, that's a valid position to take. Pragmatically, I'd call every human who writes for a newspaper like the NYT a 'journalist'.
(Of course, we could extend the same game and deny the moniker of 'newspaper' for a rag like that. But at some point, we are drifting too far from the mainstream accepted definition of words.)
You say mainstream. I say Orwellian. We can’t lower the bar and expect standards to be maintained. It doesn’t work that way. If most them are reporters then call them that. FFS even influencers is more accurate. But journalists? They. Are. Not.
So I guess this means that’s never going to be fix? Good to know.
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