I had one of these colleagues. He insisted that he respects force, but whenever I pushed back, homie would run crying to our mutual boss.
One time, I snapped and yelled at him that I am a 15 year veteran, I know how to do my job. I ended up being forced to apologize to him for not respecting his ‘many years of experience.’
Our Island of Perpetual Pre-Statehood
I feel ya, I’m in the same place. Weed helps the rumination a lot but then I’m just high all the time and not really present. I decided to take a big step back from online messaging. Now I try to either text directly or do FaceTime. I dunno why, but, after basically needing Internet to live for 25 years, I just feel so ready to put it down now.
It was Jack Welch, and it was during the 1980s ‘Yuppie’, ‘Greed is Good’ era.
Fiduciary duty is cancerous in a way that has really accelerated Capitalism. It encourages businesses that would otherwise be entirely sustainable at a small size attempt to grow until they are incompetent, which causes a consistent breakdown/selloff cycle.
Imo this is a function of pensions being purposefully replaced with 401ks. It pinned more and more retirement funds to the performance of a stock market, ostensibly to encourage employees to feel staked in the company stock performance. But it was just a clever way to get away from direct-deposit pension funds.
I dunno. I have been seeing a lot of conservative influencers all turning heel. I think this one might be done for now.
I am so sad that people I know (not you, OP) are using the phrase ‘vibe coding’ seriously now, like it’s some new discipline of coding. It’s a facetious term! The joke is that it’s not real coding! Stop!!!
Woah. I hadn’t looked at this project in a year or so. It has made huge strides.
Ah, I appreciate the correction. I’m not an engineer but the youngest cousin of a clan of them, so I just got the highlights of the true evil genius shit. :p
This is basically how a rail cannon coil gun works, just with electromagnets that can reverse their polarity.
It’s a powerful way to accelerate anything — I think it’s most famously used in those types of metal roller coasters that start you at a flat-with-the-ground angle, and then just fuckin launch you up a ramp to 45° with electromagnets. The issue is that you need a fuckton of energy to do that.
What we need for true perpetual energy is to just capture that guy Blanka from Street Fighter.
Young lady, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
I respect that, but at the same time, if you don’t make time for leisure, 30 years will disappear down the drain in a blink of an eye. Nobody is going to make that space for you; you have to advocate for yourself.
You are honestly overcomplicating it. It’s not a psyop, it’s marketing and PR. Evil is terribly banal; it doesn’t take mustache-twirling villains, only average people who are willing to do whatever they need to do to avoid being in trouble themselves.
They need “Alligator Alcatraz” because Republicans figured out 25 years ago that a catchy name goes farther than anything more serious. It is why “Obamacare” is still reviled to this day, despite near unanimous support for the ACA. Nancy Pelosi shutting down Walz for his “weird” label was perhaps the biggest unforced error in political history.
Israel: puts food out for the Palestinians to eat
Palestinians: goes and gets the food
Israel: “what the fuck?”
That is an interesting point, but they’ll just leave prisoners in the cells to die like they did in Katrina.
God. The wet-bulb temperatures in August alone are going to murder everyone they send to that concentration camp.
I think about this comic probably once a week at this point. I don’t know if anyone will ever be able to boil the problem down any further than what’s here — “but what if we make a better world for nothing?”
Unfortunately I have tried to show this to people, or use the line that illustrates it, and the gist of the general response is “my comfort comes before our safety.”
That second one is brilliant.
“No, today I will NOT spend three hours spamming my friends about The Simpsons,” he said, finishing up a three hour rant about The Simpsons.
God. That woman is so brave that I can’t even imagine what it’s like. Kanye, crazy as he is by himself, also has a league of devoted fans who will make this woman’s life a living hell.
Why the fuck do we make it so hard for women to just be alive? We carve a special space out for them, then just crowd the walls to make it impossible to breathe there.