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I have so much more faith in East LA to fight back than anyone in a position of power.

East LA isn’t gonna listen to the California National Guard either. Police is police. They should have started almost anywhere else in America.

I wish someone actually paid troublemakers. I’d be in a Scrooge McDuck tower just swimming in money.

My apologies. I wasn’t following their career closely when I was 7.

https://youtu.be/SiFGr51ubV4

This has been going on so long that there’s an 80’s Cheech and Chong parody song about it.

The 1992 riots started in South Central, which is historically African American. East L.A. is sort of the hub of Hispanic “immigrants.” (immigrants in quotes there because America swiped that land after the Mexican-American war; lots of Hispanic Americans didn’t cross the border but had the border cross them).

I don’t live there. I’m just an enthusiastic idiot. I love Los Angeles. So, I can’t do its history justice. Hopefully, someone else can. I have friends there and I go there a fair bit but it’s not my hometown so I don’t want to misrepresent L.A. (I live in New Orleans so L.A. and LA—the postal code for Louisiana—get mixed up a lot. So, I use L.A. for the city. No one else does.)

Whatever side of this issue you fall on, you should at least know that, tactics-wise, joining with the LAPD to do raids in Eastside LA is not going to work how you think it will. There’s movies, albums, books, historic moments in living memory, etc. that warn about that. Start in Sacramento or wherever. Don’t expect East LA to care about your “authority.”

I mean, let’s be real. The Pilgrims caught a ride. This country was basically founded by tobacco companies. The Virginia and Plymouth companies weren’t charities.

TikTok shows me BBQ techniques, random models, and teenagers trying to be professional stuntmen and almost dying. And that one time sea shanties. You have to train the algorithm.

When did consequences become a part of Trump’s agenda?

If I get deleted from government databases, that’s fine. I grew up in the swamp and have camped in probably 90% of the national parks. I have different tackle boxes for different types of fishing. I’ll be alright. (I do still suck a fly fishing but it’s fun so I’ll figure it out.)

They got the ring leader. Now we just have to catch her chief advisors “Mr. Frog” and someone known only as “The Bear One.” They’re known to have tea parties outside her playhouse.

Fuck yeah. Google is finally getting some hair on its peaches.

reads article*

Oh, they meant the other direction. Well, that’s no fun.

Thank you for the clarification. None of us know their cap table, obviously, but that’s more plausible than me just guessing based on Tesla.

Take it! I mean, people act like he “owns” his companies but he owns like 8% of Tesla and SpaceX is probably similar. No one gives a shit about his monkey torture project and X+xAI is worthless. Boring Company isn’t doing anything. And if you’re the “CEO” of more than one company, you’re actually running zero. He’s a mascot. We could probably be rid of him for less than the price of widening an interstate for ignorant reasons.

When I worked in IT, we only let people install every other version of Windows. Our Linux user policy was always “mainstream distro and the LTS version.” Mac users were strongly advised to wait 3 months to upgrade. One guy used FreeBSD and I just never questioned him because he was older and never filed one help desk request. He probably thought I was an idiot. (And I was.)

Anyway, I say all that to say don’t use Windows 11 on anything important. It’s the equivalent of a beta. Windows 12 (or however they brand it) will probably be stable. I don’t use Windows much anymore and maybe things have changed but the concepts in the previous paragraph could be outdated. But it’s a good rule of thumb.

It’s amazing that the billionaires in the new robber baron age who just buy a sports team and ask for subsidies for a new stadium are in the top 10th percentile of billionaire human decency. (There’s a handful of philanthropic ones, obviously, but they seem vanishingly small compared to the ones who just use their money to corrupt everything.)

Like, the last gilded age blew but at least Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc. felt enough guilt and shame that their old man pissing match was to see who could build the most arts venues, esteemed universities, and other similar institutions. Today’s billionaires are just insane and are like, “Let’s wreck all human progress.”

And before you blame drugs, remember that in 1900, there was cocaine or morphine in everything. (7up had lithium in it so maybe that balanced things out.)

Dockworkers are now officially “the elite” according to the media. Congrats! Welcome!

I guess the joke didn’t land if it needs an explanation. I just meant if my dad was a sex pervert and demanded we share cum reports, I’d have pretended to cum on everything to be obnoxious. I don’t actually want to nut on a carousel; it was more of a malicious compliance joke.

I don’t even know if they’re called carousels. Whatever those spinning things are at playgrounds? They probably got rid of them because they were legitimately unsafe or some bullshit.

Yeah, of course. We did team building. Some were absolutely harmless. Field trips can be educational and fun for all. Like, once we all got a special tour of our city’s infrastructure system that wouldn’t have been possible without a team. That was cool for everyone.

Another (which came up from one of the teams) was that someone would pick a theme and each Friday, someone brought in a dish from their hometown. I offered to reimburse for ingredients and they were usually like, “I don’t know how my grandma makes these.” and never filled out an expense report.

And like a Christmas Party (or equivalent where you live) happens, the company pays. That’s once a year. Part of the job.

All I’m saying is that when you are at work, you should get paid. If you get paid in shares, you’re grown and can decide. But going to an escape room on a Sunday is not OK.

I’m not a video game executive but I’ve been an executive and every single second you make a person do something is on the clock. If you pay people for their time, sure. Go for it. If it’s on your employees’ time, no pay, then absolutely not.

Work is not family or friends. They will cut you like a bad branch and forget you existed. Work your ass off when you’re getting paid to do so. But don’t work for free.