Nope. About eight years ago, I became convinced that lying is almost never justified - not even white lies. Since then, I can remember only one lie I’ve told: I reflexively told a beggar I didn’t have any cash, even though I did.
Other than that, I can’t think of a single lie. That doesn’t mean I’m brutally honest - I still might choose to not tell something - but I haven’t said anything untrue. What’s interesting is that once I committed to living by this principle, lying stopped even being an option in my mind. In everyday interactions, my default is simply to say what I actually think, not what I think people want to hear.
Another interesting thing is that once you stop lying yourself, you start noticing just how much everyone else does it. And people seem totally oblivious to it. They’ll lie to a third party right in front of you, apparently unaware they’re revealing their own character - not to the person they’re lying to, but to everyone else around them. If I see you lying to someone else, it’s safe to assume you’d lie to me too.
What baffles me is how many lies are completely unnecessary. Like when people start making excuses to a telemarketer instead of just saying they’re not interested. You’re not even sparing the other person’s feelings - you’re protecting your own.
I’ve told countless people that I like IPAs when I’m actually impartial to them.
My relatives, parents and most of my friends still believe I’m straight…
Why do you keep the lie?
not everyone lives somewhere where it is socially acceptable to be LGBTQ.
“Why do you want your life unshattered”
I just can’t, not right now anyway
I hope you find a day to share yourself with your friends and family and that their response is better than you expect.
I work in IT. So the lie is I know what I am doing, when all I do is google the error code and hope for stack overflow has an answer.
Knowing to Google the error code then making the error code stop is knowing how to do your job. That’s my job as well so I wish you all the luck in the world.
30 years ago you would have checked the manual or read the documentation, not much different just a little faster these days
I was doing IT 30 years ago.
Back then you’d post a question on USENET and get an answer back from the guy who wrote the program you were asking about.
30 years ago, manuals were worth the read.
As someone who did IT 30 years ago, this isn’t really true. Manuals weren’t very good for direct troubleshooting except that they provided insight into how the device or software works. In my experience problems were mostly solved by people who knew what they were doing, with occasional reference to the old guy who had seen all the weird obscure shit no one else even knew was possible.
There was no manual for the windows registry for example, so when I needed it to not shit the bed on a new motherboard I had to dig into it myself and figure out that if I blew out the PCI bus enumeration windows would realize that it’s gone and rebuild it with the new IDs and such for the new hardware on boot instead of looking for old IDs and eating itself when it couldn’t find them.
Oh, man, finding registry info was like the Search for the Holy Grail (Monty Python style).
At one time I worked for MS, and was fortunate to stumble on some good tools for it (like an OLE browser, which is originally what the registry was designed for-it was actually called the OLE Registration Database on Win 3.1), and I acquired every resource kit I could find, and pored over them.
Yup, that shit was an arcane art known only to a few, and dared by even fewer. It was like writing modem initialization strings for US Robotics 9600 baud modems when they came out. The 9600DS/HST required an init string that, printed out on a standard dot matrix printer, was literally as long as my arm. Crazy.
Also I veeeery dimly remember something about OLE registration database… but just that I’ve heard the name, I never messed with it.
That’s not a lie, that’s standard operating procedure.
It’s hilarious that people think I’m some kind of problem solver for all of their random issues they send over. I’ve even told them when they send me their errors - I literally copy and paste it into google (and now bing b/c google is becoming cluttered with garbage). Some of them just can’t wrap their head around just googling the error code or error string.
Maybe the one thing we can do is filter out the irrelevant answers, and choose the correct/closest solution, that way they don’t have to wade into the mess
Knowing how to sift through the results, and read the good answers for key elements, is a skill. One that you improve with experience.
Yeah, it isn’t like any one person can really understand everything about everything. There is just too much for anyone to know.
This is a good job
My programs think they are running on windows. They are running in proton.
Am I tripping
There’s this lie I keep telling myself that everything will be okay.
Oof
only the ones i tell myself every day!
“you can do it!” “you’re an important part of your job!” “people like you!”
😂
Owie
My family still thinks they’re calling me by my name. I changed the fuck out of that tragedeigh years ago.
Please don’t work yourself into living a lie, the longer it lasts the harder it is both to maintain and unravel. My drinking buddies still think I’m the Vice President of Northern Macedonia’s body double. I mean, they’ve had three elections since then.
I’m defintely not 3 ducks in a trench coat
Trump: Deport him to Canada!
Ducks are migratory birds…
Can they fly
I love my job.
Well actually I don’t. As soon as I get a better opportunity I am out of here.
No.
Hmmmmm.
Is this a lie?
No, it’s a question.
I’m fine, everything’s fine…
Ow
My go to.
I dunno. I guess the question is if I would ever meet anyone I told a lie to ever again. That’s definitely not happening, so I guess I’m not maintaining them anymore.
I honestly forget who at this point, but I think a few people still believe that I met my wife during a brief educational stay in her home state, when in fact it was online and years later.
