Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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News should absolutely be free, and freely available.

It being on Facebook is not either of those things, though.

"I don't know what a dog whistle is" -- Person actively using a dog whistle while they sealion.

Yes, but it's not documented, so it's not actionable, and the people not in management who end up getting the bonuses or raises in any given year often actively work to undermine any efforts to speak out or organize against these practices.

They pick enough people to actually get the pat on the head to keep the workers collectively destabilized and worried about what each other are saying.

I once had a manager -- who was new to being in charge of reports -- just outright admit in my annual review that he had to find negatives to ding me with when I asked him why no one had ever mentioned any of the issues he was bringing up to me at any time before the review. But when my closest co-workers (who were in other departments) were the ones who got the 5-star ratings and the raises, it would have just come across as sour grapes if I had said something.

It's not that hard to socially engineer an environment where it looks like individual efforts are encouraged and rewarded while simultaneously discouraging those efforts and refusing to reward them when they pay dividends.

mostly just a history of bad choices

What a weird way to spell "chronically overstressed".

Ah, just casually projecting a 10 foot emanation of romantic tension everywhere they go.

No. No, no, no, no, no.
No no no no no no no no
Noooooooooooooooo no no

... ... ... ...

Yes.

Ooo, I haven't had Velveeta in like 20 years. Now I'm going to go and eat a whole block of it, and I refuse to shoulder any of the blame or responsibility for that!

I know that for a fact.

Cool, then you should be able to prove that fact, beyond a reasonable doubt, yeah?

WhY wOulD aNyOnE bUy A sTeAm DeCk WhEn LaPtOpS eXiSt.

Not explicitly, maybe, but implicitly, absolutely, and in multiple ways:

• Supporting the system that creates one over the other
• Having 'bootstrap' attitudes about the poor
• Worrying about property value over utilization
• Complaining about the homeless rather than the lack of action on housing
• Voting against people who run on public housing

In so, so many ways, people say they prefer the latter over the former. Usually just with the caveat that the homeless people also be invisible.

Was your GM paying attention to the events shown in the previous few strips in this series? Like, I know the people around you can sometimes know before you do, but Razira sure was flirting heavy for someone who didn't know she was doing it.

Yeah, it wasn't politics that had the cops hugging the Border Blockaders, or carrying food and water for the Ottawa Occupiers.

Politics kept Trudeau from calling a state of emergency earlier. It was soemthing else entirely that had cops singing kumbaya with people calling for the Prime Minister's death.

I hate to break it to you, but experiencing less privilege because people want to make the sample better match the population is not "racism", any more than correcting typos or poorly constructed sentences is "censorship".

Or just be less paranoid. You have to register to vote in Canada, but you can do it automatically when filing your taxes, or at the polls with your government ID, OR at the polls with a piece of mail and an already registered voter to vouch for you. They just write your name and address down to forward to the federal or provincial elections agency, nave your voucher sign a form, and then give you a ballot.

Not just that CRPGs can sell, but "Man, look at how much success they're having with our CRPG franchise!"

Hey now, it's not the planet's fault. It's not the one refusing to invest in safety testing.

croaks Bud...

That certainly would be springtime for them.

Look, if Elon was trying to ruin Twitter, it would be flourishing right now.

His backers maybe wanted to destroy the brand and the service, and they chose the right guy for the job if so, but the only thing Elon does is seek praise and attention.

They're referring to "Let me stop talking about the topic of this video to tell you about Shadow Shark, thr VPN Game" type sponsorships. Is YouTube planning on disabling the scrub bar now or what?