https://www.teamblind.com/post/ByteDance-employees-Would-you-work-for-Hitler-FRSxfW1c

I don't even want y'all to dunk on this, I just want to share this because it's so funny. no dunking if you can resist took-restraint

If you don't know what this website is btw, if HackerNews is Reddit for tech bros, then TeamBlind is 4chan for tech bros. Unfortunately very useful for career related information and specific company/tech industry information since everybody there is obsessed with climbing the job ladder

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    nerd immediately btfo by top reply:

    The British Prime Minister Churchill killed at least 3x more people than Hitler, the British government killed more than 150 million people in India.

    They're objectively worse, and yet you name your Halls, libraries, and children after him. 🧐

    Hitler was rather inefficient, he routed people to the camps. The British were so efficient, they turned entire Indian states into their camp.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      China also restricted Han births while leaving Uyghur births alone. What kind of genocide is this?

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  • AernaLingus [any]
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    1 year ago

    I'm guessing the atrocities of the CCP haven't been as well covered in media so many people are unaware.

    My dude, have you seen media?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      We were so busy watching the Chinese Balloon, we didn't even notice that everyone in Xinjiang was executed, resurrected, and then executed a second time.

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    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Don’t you know CNN stands for China National News, MSNBC standards for Marxist Stalinist News for Business Communists, and WSJ standards for Warriors of Social Justice? The west’s media is owned by the CCP. You can’t trust them.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Please point me to an 80M people genocide performed by the American government, I'll wait.

    Never thought I'd see the day people thought The Black Book was lowballing its numbers.

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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      1 year ago

      USians need a law against denial of indigenous genocide. Every death since Europeans colonised native land has been part of it. It continues to this day. Or against trans people. Or immigrants at the southern border locked up in cages, separated from family, being forcibly sterilized. This smug asshole doesn’t care about people dying other than to drum up reason to enrich the military-industrial complex by going to war with sovereign nations they don’t like.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Would you work for Hitler?

    We do this experiment every day and the answer is overwhelmingly "Yes, as long as the pay is competitive and the benefits are decent".

    there is no such thing as a private Chinese company

    Make up your fucking minds, would you? Has Communism Ever Been Tried or hasn't it?

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      1 year ago

      We do this experiment every day and the answer is overwhelmingly "Yes, as long as the pay is competitive and the benefits are decent".

      That's a weirdly high bar. I usually see it as "is he hiring?"

  • daisy
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    1 year ago

    I'm torn between uninstalling Tiktok for being a standard attention-span-killing novelty app, and keeping it installed because the app's existence pisses off the western techbro crowd.

    • GreatWhiteNope [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I’m actually not allowed to have it installed on my phone if I’m staffed on a public sector project 🙄

      • daisy
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        1 year ago

        Not even a personal phone not used for work?

        • GreatWhiteNope [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          You can have it installed on your personal phone if you don’t access any work stuff on your phone.

          I really need to have teams and email on my phone so I can chill in bed when I have nothing to do though.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      My biggest problem with TikTok is that the channels I actually like don't produce a ton of content while the annoying cheapo content mill shit is an endless deluge I have to wade through in order to get what I'm here for.

      Like all social media, over a long enough timeline its just "Oops! All ads!"

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      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        1 year ago

        It is because you have access to tiktok and similar things it's so hard to get into books. I'm no better, but the instant and certain fun of a short video just beats out the long, potentially low fun you get from a book.

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          • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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            1 year ago

            this might not work for you, but i've made myself read by turning my phone off and sitting with the book for 15 minutes or half an hour. Even if I get distracted, I'll have to get into it at some point, and then hopefully it keeps me engaged for a while. after the initial barrier is down, it's usually not hard to keep reading.

        • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Yeah this reasoning is bad. I find books to be as or more addictive than phones if I find the right book. Like it's actually unhealthy. At least on TikTok I have learned a surprisingly large amount. If I get stuck reading a good book it's normally some kind of fiction. I swear I've read whole books in under 48 hours before.

          • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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            1 year ago

            if I find the right book

            The fact you needed to specify means just books in general won't cut it.

            At least on TikTok I have learned a surprisingly large amount

            get out of the misinformation vortex

            If I get stuck reading a good book it's normally some kind of fiction

            not a problem, they said they wanted to read more, not read more non-fiction. You also can learn new ideas, ways of looking at the world, or even actual facts from works of fiction. Just make sure to double check them at some point.

            I swear I've read whole books in under 48 hours before.

            good for you I guess. like, you personally don't have the problem, but ask most people that want to read more and have the time and they're being distracted by theri phoen or something like that. If we're just flexing, I read a book in six hours once.

            • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              I wasn't flexing at all. I was merely trying to point out that books can also be addictive. There is this weird idea that social media is somehow more addictive than other activities people do. I am trying to highlight that this is not always the case.

              get out of the misinformation vortex

              There is loads of misinformation in books too. There are also tiktoks made by actual scientists and experts just like there are books made by them. There is some serious bias here.

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                1 year ago

                The way information is presented is more important than the information itself. When you read a book, you can slowly consider the idea, you are actively and consciously taking it in. Tik Toks are the most passive form of consumption, with what you will see predominantly controlled by an algorithm you don't get to see. Things are suddenly and often bombastically thrust into your face, and explanations are condensed into mere seconds. People don't often question tik toks information as they should.

                Anyway, your experience is not relevant to people that have a hard time reading, I don[t see why you piped up. Social media is definitely more addictive because people interact with it in the way of gamblers and alcoholics on a massive scale.

                • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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                  1 year ago

                  People tend to treat books as an authoritative source. Few people would treat TikTok as an authoritative source. In this way books can be more manipulative a form of misinformation.

                  I would argue it could be a means of democratizing information for people who don't have strong reading ability or don't have a long enough attention span.

                  I have seen people become obsessed with researching things much like people becoming obsessed with social media. I have even had this happen to me. Any novel source of information or stimuli can become addictive. To compare this to something physically addictive like alcohol is ludicrous though. You can't get withdrawal symptoms like seizures from not watching TikTok.

    • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I’ve decided not to uninstall it cause I worry getting it again will be made difficult by my government overlords. I just don’t use it most days.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4chan for techbros

    would you work for hitler???

    Obviously, they already work for Raytheon ffs

    • duderium [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure most if not all the guys in my high school class who took the hard math/science classes with easy English/social studies classes are now making six-figure salaries building bombs for weapons’ manufacturers.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        Hey now, a bunch of us are doing accounting software for earth-immolating energy companies.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    always interesting that they always minimize what nazi germany did thinkin-lenin

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    My mom used to have a boss whose last name was Hittler (two "t"s). Got a lot of joke mileage out of it when I was a kid.

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        downbear

        Spoken like a gringo who lives in a country that actually hosted former nazis and put them in positions of power.

        • Mindfury [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          yeah, probably. I dunno how many were shipped to australia to be absorbed into our government, but yes i am a kkkracker from a genocidal anglo state.

          apologies for finding the name "Hittler" amusing

          • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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            I thought you were referring to the kooky conspiracy theories that hitler faked his death and fled to argentina anyways tbh

            • Mindfury [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              yeah look, I was - but I have that one solidly in joke territory because I don't think anyone unironically believes Hitler escaped to Argentina other than the maybe the biggest-coping fash of all time

              referencing it seems like a joke every time because it makes fun of the absurd possibility that some chinless fash nerd has to invent headcannon to pretend their idol didn't get BTFO by the USSR and literally heem himself in complete despair lmao

                • Mindfury [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I've seen people before fire up about 'nazis escaped to Argentina' conspiracy theory/joke because they think yankoids use it to absolve themselves of literally absorbing top nazis into their government, but idk.

                  • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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                    1 year ago

                    idk I guess because I assume good faith when I see comments from HB or LG accounts that never would have crossed my mind reading your comment haha

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    If you work for meta you’re supporting a genocide regime (unironically)