Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Honestly, many conservatives have such bad empathy this might move the needle. If it’s not happening to them, they don’t understand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity

Weak shitty men know on some level they’re weak shitty men. They lash out and desperately cling to toys to prop up their failing ego.

I’m mostly the same.

I often think about one time a friend invited me to play “DND”. I get there and it’s revealed it’s not DND, but a different RPG. I was like “ok hold on…” and spent like 20 minutes skimming the book while we all ate pizza and settled down.

By the time we started I knew the rules as well as everyone else, which was admittedly a low bar.

The authors are (typically) trying to write the rules in a way for you to understand. It’s not a puzzle.

Of course, being familiar with the genre helps immensely.

One friend sort of explained it to me. It’s anxiety. They were afraid they weren’t learning fast enough, or were playing badly, or other people were judging them. Fear shuts down the brain. You’re explaining to them, “You can take three actions on your turn” but they’re not hearing you - they only hear anxiety-fear-screams

Every time this happens, it’s worse the next time. It’s one more example of “humiliation” on the stack. Even if no one else thought there was anything amiss.

Anyone who seriously advocates for abstinence only education is not qualified to speak on policy. That’s it.

We really need to do something so we have fewer scumbags and fools running our government.

These ice goons are lucky all they’re getting is mild push back.

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Buying drm free music is a good long term plan. You build a library you can share with friends and family.

Right. Conservatism is about hierarchy. Hierarchy is good and natural. You get shit on by your betters, and you get to shit on your lessers. Trying to change that is horrifying. It’s going to mess up the world! And if hierarchy isn’t good and natural, then all the suffering I experienced was unjust, and all the cruelty I inflicted was mere cruelty. Can’t have that. I’m a good person who deserves my lot in life. Even if it’s not royalty. There have to be royals.

It’s a shit world view built on cruelty and cowardice.

Conservatives just say things to try to justify their emotions, or to seek power. They don’t really care about truth or consistency.

I’m pretty sure fraud is already illegal and most people don’t consider those laws a dangerous stifling of free speech.

Well, yeah. Conservatives will say anything to advance their goals. Doesn’t need to be true or consistent with previous statements. They’re bad people.

We should shut down those data centers and make their operators do climate remediation work.

I read a blog post once about that. If I recall, it made the argument that conservatism is fundamentally about hierarchy and abuse. Child abuse is about hierarchy and abuse. It’s thus not surprising they go together.

The blog was more sophisticated than my memory of it, of course.

Rich people are stupid.

You know how someone who plays a shooter using an aim-bot and god-mode is going to be bad at the game? Same principle. They have money, they don’t have to really struggle or practice, they never get good.

I remember as a kid I was so excited when I got a blue chocobo in FF7 (I’m old) I ran upstairs to tell my mother. She did not care, nor pretend to care. Made me a little sad, and what could have been a nice moment did not materialize.

I try to listen to the children in my life. If little nephew wants to tell me about his robots and pokemon, I’ll be there and try to engage

A rare example of when I think talking to the computer is a good interface.

Also fuck cars, and distracted drivers need to go right to the pits.