Yes. The smartest clients I ever worked for would A/B individual words. They matter, a lot.

Yes. All the major analytics packages have functions specifically for A/B. Not everyone knows how, even few bother.

I can’t tell if this is a shitpost or not. (Intentional or otherwise).

The Nature vs. Nurture is poorly phrased.

We have: (a small selection)

• genetics
• epigenetics
• physical environment
• emotional environment
• information environment
• social environment

All shaping us at the same time. So yes, if you would go back in time and be the same genetic you, but like adopted at birth somewhere else, you would still be you genetically, but everything else would be different.

Maybe better, maybe worse. Even if life brought you down some bad backroads, you never know. Maybe this is the multiverse that takes you to where you really want to be. Your best self. We’ll see.

:(

I saw this one coming before I clicked on the post.

A modern dad joke in the wild. Rare to see one that wasn’t around from before 1960s?

Just going to semi-counter argument so this doesn’t feel like a circle jerk.

Analytics are there to help you refine you user flow paths and even refine verbiage to make the whole experience frictionless. With a GDPR style consent banner and a limited and deliberate analytics package you can better fine tune things. Even changing a single word in A/B testing can show results for you and your users. The goal is to make the entire experience as frictionless as possible. Not evil. Just serving the win-win.

Now to step back for a little perspective to counter my counter. Web properties are very mature these days and we all follow the selected patterns. It’s not like the early days when we were trying this all out and “clunky” was the best description. Unless your site is doing something unconventional on purpose with fundamentals like navigation, its probably not a big deal.

Edit: most companies drop in extensive premium analytics. Then once they know the newly deployed site is good, everyone forgets except for make work reporting to execs.

Nsfw flag please

Good! Turns out that after much painstaking painful research, we discovered the blow in blowjob is a euphemism!

Fascists.

Edit: They are technically edible, just very hard to stomach.

That’s a heartbreaking title.

HOOOOOOOOONK! Lol.

It’s stupid enough to be on-brand for this administration, but dick-move’ish enough to also be on brand for this administration.

Was this embarrassment born of stupidity, or being a dick?

Malcolm Apollo Skywalker at your service.

Surely the leopards would never eat MY face.

I’ve never had such a toxic statement come from the person who is supposed to look out for their employees wellbeing. They at least act like they have your best interest at heart.

Sorry to hear about your rough time. If I can share an insight, in the hopes you find it helpful; you have an overly high view of what managers are and do. Good ones try to do this, but the default is not this at all.

Your managers are there to make sure you get the job done in a manner consistent with their operating policies and proceedures. This can vary a lot depending on the job and industry, but it usually means, fast and cheap and profitable.

At no point does your well being enter into the equation. The very rare exception is for highly skilled ultra-rare empoyees in critical roles. They are too valuable to lose and get some consideration. Everyone else is disposable.

It’s cheaper and easier to fire somone you lose confidence in, than it is to deal with someone with chronic issues who can’t seperate their personal and professional life. Your messaging would be interpreted by most managers in this context. You’re sowing the seeds of doubt and it can’t help and can only hurt your standing in a company.

My advice, seek comfort and support outside of work. Don’t let your boss know anything worse than cold&flu. Never share chronic conditions unless absolutely necessary. It almost never helps, but can and will be used against you in a secret court of employer opinion.

Source: Am manager, Have hired and fired many times, never because I wanted to. Always because the business demanded it.

I love a good news day.

It’s not me. The spiders make me issue corrections where warranted.

Not indian, nor cat, but married into indian family. I now have headbobbles. My family makes me do tricks at family gatherings for laughs.

Go into an indigenous community like a First Nations reserve, or rural Africa where the people still practice subsistance hunting and tell them this.

Let me know how it goes. They’ll see it as bigotry. Deservedly so.

The sustainable hunter gatherers left on earth look poorly upon your high-and mighty opinions perched on top of a fossil fuel powered agricultural-industrial complex that has eliminated most wilderness and biodiversity for monoculture farms. Humans are about 36% of earth mamalian biomass. Livestock is about 60%. Wild mammals are down to 4%.

It’s a similar case for vegans. Their moral superiority is founded on an agricultural-industrial reality that while one of the superior options, practices an unsustainable method.

Your righteous indignation is an error. Your perspective is flawed because it’s anchored in a tiny worldview’s normalcy bias.

Don’t be that person. Something something, stones and glass houses.