LillyPip @ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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I’m sure your message was just as good; we each have our own voice. Thanks for sending one. We all need to do everything we can. Sometimes that’s protesting, sometimes that’s sending letters. Every action matters.

Same. Here’s what I wrote in case it helps anyone:

I’d like to express my deep disappointment regarding your firing of Sam Kuffel for posting on social media to call out Elon Musk’s egregious display during the presidential inauguration.  

There was zero ambiguity about what Musk did – so little ambiguity, in fact, that media in Germany cannot show images or videos of the moment because his gesture is illegal there.  

Your willingness to bow to this appalling display of hate is contemptible and, though I no longer visit Milwaukee regularly, when I do, I will be avoiding your programming. I will also tell my friends and relatives who still live there.  

This is also a stain on CBS as a whole, and I will be avoiding all CBS programming in future.  

Please consider how bad this makes you and your parent company look. It’s despicable for a media company to hold such little regard for free speech.

Not all of them. Some are still here, and still spouting the same nonsense. Go into most of the trump and Musk posts over the last couple of days and look at the downvoted comments. I’ve been getting lots of use out of Voyager’s tagging feature lately.

e: my latest hot tags include ‘redcap’, ‘christian nationalist’, and ‘nazi apologist’. They’ve been scurrying out of the dark places like mice, and I at least want to see them before they eat our cheese.

Only about a third of the Gulf of Mexico is US territory, so how can the US president unilaterally rename it? Seems Mexico has the larger claim to naming rights.

I appreciate what you’re saying, and did not downvote you. I think you may be underestimating how many phobias exist in the world, though. It may benefit you to have an app that filters images on your device. I’m pretty sure that exists. Everyone trying to add spoiler tags or whatever to every image that might trigger a common phobia would hide more images than you might think.

And the lesson the rank-and-file never seem to learn is once the other is eliminated, the fascists always turn inward, and begin eliminating each other. Unfortunately, their death toll is always quite high once they implode – sometimes in the millions.

It’s a death cult, though, and no matter how white or pious or privileged you think you are, they will come for you once they run out of ‘proper’ enemies, because without an enemy, fascism is nothing.

Elefunt.

Harse.

Dawg? Kat? Not sure…

It's not like it takes a very high IQ to have seen this coming for months years.

Years. This has been infuriating, being called hyperbolic when it’s been like watching a train wreck coming in extreme slow motion, with everyone constantly saying it’s not happening.

Holocaust survivors put out an open letter back in 2016 (I can’t find it now because it’s been drowned out by many more open letters since Gaza exploded) in which they warned what they were seeing with trump’s rise was exactly what they saw with Hitler, and people called that hyperbolic. That was 10 years ago.

We’ve had a decade at least to stop this and did nothing.

Once they start openly heiling, yeah, that’s allowed.

Bold of him to make that move without a toddler protecting his head from gunfire.

The mask has been slowly coming off for at least 15 years. If you haven’t noticed and this seems like a surprise, I honestly don’t know what to say.

Thanks! It took me a minute to figure out how to crosspost on Lemmy, but I just did it.
Thanks for the suggestion!

I’m crossing my fingers for you!

Nice! Glad it was helpful.

I’ve heard ISP stories several times. That’s really interesting.

Bullets. We’re talking about bullets.

I don’t think it’s the isolation, but the endless beige monotony.

I didn’t mind my cubefarm when I was immersed in the cube, but it was hella depressing in the morning coming into that environment. Made me feel like a worn cog in the machine. Lunch, standing up to a beige hellscape, sucked all my creativity (which wasn’t great, as a designer).

Open floor plan, when that became the alternative, was worse, though.

Working from home is ideal. I haven’t been able to work for a few years, so maybe I’m out of touch, but I can’t fathom why anyone is against working from home, especially in software dev. It’s the best of all worlds – no office space fees, and most of us will work extra hours in our cosy environment.

e: I was more productive working from home than ever, and would even work outside hours without reporting it because I was just happy to be creating things. I dreamt about my project – in a good way – and implemented ideas like that. Why would a CEO who claims to have the slightest idea about things not want that, unless they’re an idiot?

e2: That’s not to devalue our worth – rereading this, I can see how it could read that way. What I’m saying is when your skills align well with what you like to do and you make a career in that, it’s a profitable combination; unfortunately, our whole economy is set up to select against that, which is a shame for all of us. Doubly so for the morons in charge.

I’m glad you finally got it sorted. That’s a hellish process, and I hope you can at least relax now.

I found out about this because of this letter from Amazon – it was the first letter I saw from them, and will apparently be the last. No idea why this amount is different than any other amount that just goes into my account, but whatever.

They obviously know exactly who I am and where I live. I’ve had this account (and this house*) for like 25 years, and they’ve never had an issue charging me monthly fees.

If you find unclaimed funds, please comment! I’m fascinated to know, no matter how large or small.