w3dd1e @ w3dd1e @lemm.ee

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I think about this quote daily as I read the news.

Ah bummer. It’s from an audiobook narrator. He’s doing a cat who thinks she’s royal. She doesn’t know what a gillie suit is

Relevant.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjr34DBW/

Veep stopped making episodes because he’ll headlines in the 1st Trump administration were crazier than what they could write.

I just check email all day. Like that’s 80% of my job. My entire job could be done from anywhere. I don’t do as single thing that isn’t in my laptop. But I still sit at a stupid cubicle.

Damn you’re right. We have been outsourcing more work to Accenture.

My office transition from WFH to Hybrid. A lot of people quit over the last year. We’re severely understaffed and we have had trouble hiring.

We had our worst internal survey results for the entire 10 years of my employment.

Management doesn’t seem to correlate the RTO rules as the problem though. 🙃

I’ve been trying to quit too, but I haven’t be able yo find a job yet (i was trying to change careers)

And yet the stock is up in after hours trading. So fucking dumb

Yup. Duh. Studies show that when tariffs cause foreign product prices to rise, rather than leaving their prices the same, US brands raise theirs to match because they don’t want their product to seem cheaply made. (But also price gouging)

I tried to find the video I watched about it, but I watched it pre-US Election. The internet is flooded with more recent tariff videos.

I think it was by Vox Media and it was specifically about tariffs or inflation, more generally.

No. Stop treating people like livestock.

I suspect if they did, they’d be in trouble for defrauding investors.

But do laws even apply anymore?

Agreed! But for me it’s not all that often, luckily.

I don’t recall where it came from. I definitely read it somewhere and didn’t come up with it on my own. Probably here on Lemmy or on Reddit before that! It was the first example I saw that was able to articulate why it doesn’t feel right to say “female” as a noun when referring to a person.

Funny you say that! He doesn’t do it anymore but I just sent him this meme from !tenforward@lemmy.world!

I laughed at this and now I’m going to do that in my head whenever I see that word

I appreciate that he is willing to learn and grow. We all make mistakes. If you understand why it’s offensive and keep doing it, yeah red flag.

I think the ability to change with new information is admirable.

It is if you say “man” and “female” instead of “male” and “female”. While it can be a noun, it’s mainly used as an adjective to describe sex.

It’s like saying “A black owns the shop.” Instead of “A black man owns the shop.”

Notice how calling someone “a black” is kinda icky?

I work in KS and live in MO. Love paying income tax in two states! /s

It has also seeped into every aspect of male culture. You want to watch a YouTube show about cars? Sure. The first couple episodes are normal and then they start sliding in dumb shit.

You listen to a podcast about working out? Same thing goes. It’s little stuff here and there. Sometimes it starts as a reoccurring joke, but it keeps happening until they actually believe.

I also find there are a lot of young people who aren’t comfortable on computers and basically believe whatever they see on the internet, much like an older generation.

Occasionally my partner does or says some things that remind me of the “manosphere” aka 4chan neckbeards.

And when it happens, we talk about it. I don’t pretend or let it go as “he doesn’t mean it” or “he doesn’t know what he’s saying”. I don’t get mad and he doesn’t get mad. We have an adult discussion and I’m careful not to talk down to him.

A perfect example was that he sometimes says “females” when he means “women”. I explain that it’s not a swear word but it’s still derogatory. I explain why. Once I did, he understood and stopped doing it.

It doesn’t have to be a big deal! Communication is key!