I don’t think dressing nicely correlates to being considerate, even though both fall into the broad category of “caring what other people think”. In fact, I think the opposite argument can be made. Caring a lot about superficial appearance for it’s own sake primes a mindset where you feel comfortable making all kinds…

The line nowadays for looking nice is PRETTY low. I think “suit” is at the top of the chain, and unless you have a specific reason for wearing one you’d be silly to do so. Even a decent polo shirt (which is just a T-Shirt with a collar, let’s be honest) and jeans or khakis (I find khakis far more comfortable than…

You say that as though wearing comfortable clothes isn’t itself an upgrade.

Jeans and at shirt is the maximum I’ll give to anyone who isn’t getting married, on a date with me, or paying my salary. I honestly don’t see any difference in someone in a suit vs another guy in sandals, shorts, and a loose fitting shirt at work. Provided both of them are clean and don’t smell bad. And cologne counts…

I agree with the sandals part.. and there is a difference between your cheeto stained stained sweats and shirt that is 2 weeks past laundry date.. and comfortable lounge pants and polo shirt that is comfortable for flying.

Or just stop caring what random people think of you, especially since you likely won’t ever talk to/see them again.

There’s a crossover where nice and comfortable meet, I aim for that. Then again, I’d rather be naked than seen in public wearing sweatpants.

Counterpoint: Dressing nicely might score you a free upgrade (but very likely won’t), while dressing comfortably is a sure bet.

Food pushers. I hate food pushers.

Why not both: take down these propaganda statues AND push back on alt-right and institutional raccism?

We’ve been having this discussion for 60+ years. It’s easier to tackle (or take down) the obviously racist stuff- confederate statues, equivocating statements, someone spraying n*gger (work network) on a van, BC attacks on Obama, etc.

Lasting progress is incremental, which utterly sucks for folks on the business end of the system, who are the most needing/deserving of change. And while this is not the conversation we need to have, it’s something.

I hate people who keep selling past the sale.

I learned in my grad courses that you don’t get through. You enact policies that balance the scales and rectify injustices, not just legally, but in arts, sciences, humanities, business, agriculture, everything. If you can’t do that, you vote for those who will. That’s how we got to where we are today. No one…

The most important time to stop arguing is when you’ve won the argument. I drove through a security gate, thinking the guard had waived me through when he thought he waved me to stop. I apologized said it wouldn’t happen again and he kept berating me.

So here we are in America, where people are trapped in logical roundabouts and “that’s your opinion” as if we were talking about ice cream and not racial injustice. We’re up against people who are brainwashed. How DO you get through? It’ll probably be a long process, but what does that process look like?

If you are in an argument in an attempt to “win”, haven’t you already lost?

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I can relate, being from the same time period. Lugging CRT’s is something I don’t miss from back then but making the networking gear work was definitely way up there in terms of how annoying it was to have everything well configured and tested individually only for it to refuse to work anyway. (And all the head…

Ours were mostly after-school hangouts at a designated friends’ house, usually whoever had the biggest tv for split screen multiplayer Halo. We had a decent-sized second tv for the other team but it still sucked to play on. You actually wanted to host because that meant you were always playing on the larger screen.