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Cake day: June 17th, 2024

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  • I used to have a boss who like to joke about firing people on his team. He was a nice guy and there was no ill intention behind the jokes, but we eventually had to sit him down and tell him that he couldn’t joke about that stuff because it causes a great deal of stress to people given his position.

    Another example is bomb jokes in airports. Aside from just being in poor taste, that’s something that will get you arrested and probably put on a no-fly list for life because it’s an extremely serious matter with no exceptions.

    So, even if Trump and his people are just joking about these horrible things, it’s completely unacceptable when it’s entirely believable they would do this stuff and would be in a position to make it happen.

    TLDR: There are just some things you don’t fucking joke about.





  • As a Harris-voter myself, I have spent the last two days digesting and spiraling. The world is about to the thrown into all out chaos and if I manage to survive long enough, I’ll have to suffer through seeing it all unfold. All of human civilization will feel the effects of what’s about to happen for many generations. I picked a hell of a time to quit THC.


  • I get the feeling of disillusionment. I’ve been feeling that with the democrats for the last decade. But, to your point that most Trump voters are not nazis, they could have simply stayed home and not voted. Plenty of democrat voters did that, so no reason they couldn’t have as well. Anyone with two functional brain cells could see that Trump is not going to make a positive impact on much of anything, especially when his message was almost entirely driven by hate for marginalized groups. His first term was proof enough. You don’t get to vote for a nazi and not call yourself one. These people are complicit in the hell they’ve now helped create.








  • Alongside the assault on jobs there is a shift in workplace practices to attack the conditions of tech workers. In a comment in the New York Times on Sunday “titled “The Era of Happy Tech Workers is Over,” Nadia Rawlinson, former “chief people officer” at Slack, wrote, “The layoffs are part of new age of bossism, the notion that management has given up too much control and must wrest it back.”

    As Rawlinson writes, “After two decades of fighting for talent, chief executives are using this period to adjust for years of management indulgence that left them with a generation of entitled workers.” The days of remote work, WiFi compensation, meal stipends and other incentives are over, she insists, and “tech chief executives are now optimizing more for profitability than for growth, sometimes at the expense of long-held organizational beliefs.”

    Yet another entitled executive who can, respectfully, fuck right off.