Looking at some posts over on Linkedin, I came across a post by an. older Information Technology person (I guess)complaining the way he was interviewed by someone in HR at a prospective company. This had me angry one second and laughing the next because, well, as someone that has a long career in IT, I’ve been through the same situation multiple times. I’ve come to call it, The Runaround.
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With the Internet becoming the main source of information for most people today, a little reminder to always be skeptical of what you read and see on te net. Why? There is so much misinformation out there and sometimes it’s difficult to discern between what is true or not. In fact, it’s easy to be fooled by what we see because it’s so well presented. The information may also play into our confirmation bias. A recent example is something I noticed on X the other day about that woman on trial for allegedly killing her 3 children. Supposedly the jury came back with a verdict of not guilty by reason of instanity. That post went viral for a little while until someone came on and said, “Wait, the trial isn’t even over yet”, and suddenly, the comments on that post went to zero. But for a little while, people actually thought the verdict was in and the post was true. When I saw that post, I was home so I just turned on the TV, to a news channel, to discover there were people, right then, talking about the upcoming closing arguments. TV off and I went back to doing other things. Note all the information out there about the Iran conflict, the Russia/Ukraine war, not to mention what’s going on where you live with the finally soon to be over midterm elections. In all of these, stay skeptical, remembering the rule of 3: Three independent sources. If 3 sources agree, you can be fairly confident the information is true (I say “fairly confident” because the media in general has been fooled before.) . Always remain skeptical because you’re the only one looking out for you.
UPDATE: Watching YouTube recently.I came across this video which, I think, proves my point. You can’t always believe something posted on the Internet.
Anyone peruse YouTubewith any regularity? I know a lot of people that do and it’s not just because they have a lot of How to and DIY videos there for almost any task you can think of. but a lot of videos of people posting their lives, some of it interesting, some not. I just started watching regularly a few months ago and I instantly found a couple of shows that I do watch every Sunday: Each show is a young woman renovating a house, mostly by themselves. But that’s just 2 of, I don’t know how many. I watched an entire series of a guy building a small cabin on some property up north. From nothing, to a livable, off grid, cabin.
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Anyone find it interesting that now, just now, there’s a government investigation into the COVID pandemic and it turns outs out that as we all knew, the government lied and lied to us. Millions around the world died, millions in our own country lost their jobs because thousands of businesses closed, forever. Our kids lost, in some cases, 2 years of school that they will never be able to recover from (and current testing proves this to be true).
A lot of people need to go to prison. As soon as possible, please. And there should be life sentences for all of them in maximum security where they see no one, and have 23 hours a day to themselves.Of course, as we worry about the stupid midterm elections (which, no matter what, won’t change anything), these criminals will be walking away from the most devastating event in U.S. history – that they were completely responsible for causing.
We shouldn’t allow this to happen.
I don’t know what to think after the “Great Debate” between Candace Owens and Andrew Wilson last week, but I know people are still talking about it and depending on how much you dislike one or the other, are taking sides thusly. Personally, I don’t know either of these people and have only followed Candace for a few months and Andrew, maybe a month. I found him interesting whn I first watched him online but after a short time, I saw that he was nothing more than a boorish lout, all bluster and no substance and his real claim to fame was debating Only Fans girls. No really. Look him up on the Internet and see how muchh time he’s spent doing just that. Yes, he’s had a couple of Joe rogan appearances as well, but it doesn’t appear to have done anything for his reputation.
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