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That management and leadership are smart, visionary, people without whom everything would fall apart.

It doesn't matter what my line of work is. Management is mostly out of touch idiots everywhere.

"We need to redesign the web page to be more modern! Get me a big hero image and an image carousel!"

"Customers are complaining about how they can't save their search settings. Maybe we should do something about that?"

"No that's not a priority"

This should be obvious to anyone paying any attention, but a lot of maga hats live in a world of lies, and a lot of people live in a world of shallow media. All those "did biden drop out?" searches right before the last election are haunting.

Cuomo is not a good candidate.

My parents, who thankfully can't vote in the NYC election, don't really like Zohran. One because she's terrified of "communism" (whatever that means to her). The other is skeptical, but I feel like could be convinced. I think that's a lot of older people.

Conservatives typically don't want to talk about blame because it is their fault.

I eat lunch mostly alone. Dinners maybe about half or 2/3rds with someone. But I'm well older than 18-24 :(

At my local bars, I tell them I'm (still) unemployed and then ask for the saddest, cheapest, beer. Usually it's High Life or a sad little green can I can't remember the name of. $4 or $5. One of them's a local enough bar that I know most of the bartenders now, at least.

The whole "return to office" thing is a cocktail of like.. "Feelings Driven Leadership" and "The Cruelty is the Point". Oh, and "I'm incompetent so everyone else must be incompetent in the same way, too."

Many managers make decisions based purely on feelings. You can show them data but they don't care. They feel like being in-office is better. And maybe, maybe, it is, on some metrics. Are those metrics better for workers? Probably not.

And the cruelty? Well, as others have said, some people get off on having power over others.

The last point, there are some people who just can't manage themselves so they seem to think no one else can, either. Like someone the other day was saying he can't work from home because he'll just play xbox. To which I respond, from the depths of my soul, fuck off. Grow up and stop making everyone else around you suffer because you're an incompetent, unmedicated, shit. You can go into the office if you have to. Don't make everyone else suffer a pay cut too because you're trash tier at self control.

Online meetings are largely useless

Oh! Oh! This is where people say "skill issue", isn't it?

If you can't run a productive meeting over zoom you probably can't do one in person, either.

This kind of false equivalence is kind of annoying.

Doctors and serial killers both cut people, but they're clearly not the same, are they?

Funny how folks are different. I always enjoyed reading stuff and making up the ways it can mean stuff. Like, it's easy to read Dracula and think about feminism and women's place in the world. (a foreign entity shows up and now women are abandoning their motherly duties, wandering the streets at night? That won't do. Get some men to hold her down and penetrate her with this big wood. Hmm.)

I often find the opposite mode, the absolute refusal to think about the story beyond "some things that happened", tiresome. Like, "Ok I get that the story is about how they have to remove, possibly with violence, the competent women ruler and put the child boy on the throne because the rules say that only a man can rule, but why do you have to make this political? it's just a fun story."

I don't know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on "Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you" chum all the time.

Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It's a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn't care

Is the lesson that conservatives are idiots and scum, and under no circumstances should they be allowed to make decisions of import?

People aren't paid enough. The rich have too large a portion of the resources.

Eat the rich. Bury their collaborators.

Most people can't or won't do that

They're stupid and corrupt.

Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they've never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they've had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

One of the things I bring up if someone says "we should run the government like a business"

Running games has definitely helped me run meetings.

• Establish turn order.
• let people finish their thought instead of immediately following some dumbass tangent
• take notes

I mean, that's kind of been the case for like all of recorded history

Many people don't want to date someone destitute or with poor financial prospects. That's just going to be hardship, and there are many other people that are probably just as good a fit without that problem.

Similarly, someone who makes way more money than you can add tension. They might be like "oh let's go out for dinner!" to someplace expensive, and you don't have the budget for it. Are they going to pay for it? Are they going to resent that? Are they going to pressure you into paying? Their expectations and standards may not align.

Also, if the relationship is going to be long term most people assume there will be some merging of finances.

Some jobs are also just gross. I wouldn't date someone who worked at Facebook. I wouldn't date someone who worked for Fox News. Your job 100% can reflect your values and personality.