I’ve worked at big software companies long enough to know how this would play out as a bug. Users report the issue. Engineers think oh thats a simple fix. However this is Google so it’s likely these tickets are triaged in a way that someone like a project manager has visibility into it before deciding to dedicate time into it.
the project manager asks “is this a bug, though?” not because of homophobia but because they want to know how many users experience this as being an incorrect suggestion vs a valid suggestion. so they call the data scientists in and run some queries, and lo and behold because there’s more straight couples in the world of course the data shows this is only affecting a very small amount of users. this is working fine for most users.
but the engineers and other stakeholders point out why this isnt as simple as what the data days and it’s more of a UX thing. call the project managers in for whoever’s in charge of like, grammar analysis and not just the system that flags it. an epic is created in jira. meetings are scheduled. don’t forget experts in other languages
five weeks later you’re running an A/B test on not correcting users when they write “his husband” to see if DAUs drop when your grammar suggestion engine considers that gay people can be married
blood is basically the most normal thing for a sword to hunger for. if a sword gained sentience and started asking me for blood i’d be like yeah i thought you might say that
No fuck off. Dale gribble is a loving kind man who openly accepts his father for being gay. Dale gribble is a good man who has some crazy ideas but very few are actively harmful to others and he would never vote for trump ever. He would absolutely believe (and be correct) that trumps Fandom is a cult. Fuck this post.
It’s nice seeing the reddit users realize they can relax here. The danger on reddit is trying to guard against a broader community of annoying pedants. But understand that here, the danger is trying to guard against Wandering Savants.
If you fuck up on reddit, you get 1000 people correcting your grammar or w/e. If you fuck up here, you get one really smart weirdo writing a 10,000 word essay intricately disassembling your post with sources.
my most recent strategy for dealing with executive dysfunction is that when I catch myself lying in bed thinking “I want to be doing the productive thing, but for some reason I’m still just lying here, wtf is wrong with me” I start mentally screaming until I get up.
I don’t mean screaming AT myself, I just mean screaming. Like, a battle cry, or a tantruming baby. The goal is to fill up my brain with “AAAAAAAAAAA” until I am vertical. I can’t articulate WHY it works, but so far it’s working for me!
genuinely obsessed with the grimace milkshake meme I hope it’s got the McDonald’s marketing team locked in a board room biting their nails desperately trying to figure out if this is positive press or not
So Google failed me in providing a handcuffed sub, I could only find pictures of handcuffed burgers for some unknown reason. This was of course a travesty of missed pun-opportunity, so I had to rectify it.
Also this can be reposted to other sites, I don’t care, it’s just a joke, didn’t put a signature on it for a reason.
