AlecSadler @ AlecSadler @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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This was in the US, west coast, about 7 years ago.

I'm not entirely sure the company did it purely for ADHD, I think possibly because they knew 8hr meetings 5 days a week were a boring, slog for anyone and they at least acknowledged that one could fidget and still pay attention.

edit: Sadly as with most things in the US, they got acquired by some megacorp and went to crap. Bunch of people I knew laid off. I don't even think the office exists anymore.

I don't disagree with the necessity of a class war.

But when people like this inhibit progress towards a class war, they will be removed as a hurdle and I will absolutely be happy about it. There is nothing wrong with that.

It isn't about disagreeing politically, I disagree with friends of mine politically. It's about the fact that they go out of their way to hurt others and cause suffering, and they think it's fine.

I'm not OK with that because I'm a human being that cares - sorry you don't understand that.

I grew up with people saying, "happy as a frog on a log" or something.

No, it isn't.

Dang, that timeline sounds great

Afraid of quitting not so much, but they are underpaid for their skills. At least for what they need the person was more skilled than me, but being paid ~$40k less. So...yeah...

Yeah, but just think, the wife's various MLMs she keeps trying really help the community...

And the husband's BBQ skills really help the neighborhood...

Improved efficiencies should mean we all benefit across all sectors and ways of life.

But improved efficiencies actually mean none of us benefit except those at the top. We should all of us be paid more, have more time off, and have more excess - but at a high level we are all paid no extra, we get no extra time off, we get no excess - that all gets enjoyed by those at the top.

This is one of many reasons this should be a class war, not a culture war.

A recent job I had, Product kept saying this over 2ish years...

...at the end of the stint and with ~2 weeks until launch, they laid off all but one person on the team (some 12 engineers or so, myself included).

I often wonder how much shit that person is wading through leading up to launch and post-launch fighting fires.

From another article...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7%, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8%, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9%, the documents show.

So, yeah, this will not end well for anyone except billionaires who we, the people, should be at war with.

I really hope these people I knew of who purposely moved to Texas to support Texas politics lost their home. 🤞

Is that mean of me? No, these people constantly voted for things that hurt or even killed people around me. They pushed beliefs that actively harm other people. I would have zero remorse if my wishful thinking came true.

As for what we do next, I wish my state would stop paying federal taxes.

The problem is LLM use will become de facto standard to get by, and then the corporations that own them will cater output to drive sociopolitical change (for the worse).

I 100% expected this movie to suck and was even saying up to its release that it would flop.

I've seen all the Superman movies since the 80s. And all the TV shows.

This is my favorite movie.

Feel free to message me, maybe I can help. I create web apps and other tools for companies as a career, so the only caveat is that I'm pretty booked right now so my ability to take it on would really depend on the complexity.

I worked for a company that had Play-Doh, pipe cleaners, scratch pads, and colored pencils for meetings like this. Could you bring things like that?

I fidgeted and made all sorts of stupid things with it, but it worked.

I know this is the case in Oregon (where I live), but is it true in every state?

Can I create a non-profit that continues this but allows contributors tax deductions?

Frankly, if the government isn't going to do something they can and should, and I am, then I feel everyone should get a charitable deduction for it because fuck paying taxes to this current admin.

let it rip

I frequent dive bars. I have met plenty of people who believe in kindness, and love, and Jesus and shit - but not for immigrants, not for non-white people, not for criminals of any level. I straight up have had these people say this to my non-white face and then say, "oh but you don't count because you have a job" or "you don't count because you aren't a drug addict". Etc. etc.

These people suck fucking dick and I want them all to die.

It's fucking ironic too when these same people talk about smoking weed, or stealing from big box stores self-checkouts, or vandalizing some dude's car.

"Rules for thee, not for me."

I read local obituaries solely to celebrate when I see some of these people die.