When is the last time you witnessed a real life situation where you were like "Wait, what? No."

Overhearing onboarding managers explain how IT watches everything staff do.

No we don't randomly remote into your system to see what your screen you are on.
No we dont actively look at your web history.
No we don't actively read other staffs outgoing emails for data loss.

We have automated systems for 2 and 3. Even then we only do something if requested by HR or Legal.

That's exactly what an IT person would say to hide the fact they watch what I do on my computer!
Highly illegal in the EU. Also highly stupid everywhere else. The big question is "How secure is your user espionage system and can an outsider get acces?". The data from something like this is a social engineering goldmine.
- I mean, a lot of the places people say stuff like that our government-related jobs, where the emails and internal DMs are recorded as public record. This isn't as much of an issue in that case.
- Highly illegal in the EU.
  
  Source? I've signed contracts before that includes clauses saying they can basically read my work email whenever they want.
  
  Screen and web history sounds pretty illegal though, but would love to hear what law that is.
Is it really unreasonable to explain that nothing you do on a work computer is private, though?

Obviously you don't want to do any of that. But if you have a reasonable set up, you can when you need to, and telling people not to do shit they shouldn't on company hardware is a good thing.
- I can explain it a thousand times and people will still treat company equipment during company time as private.
  
  I am more annoyed about managers giving the impression that we actively watch things. We don't. We have more important stuff to do because we are chronically underfunded

This goes back over 30 years. Was at a bar with friends after our volleyball league. The bar had two levels, with the second basically a large balcony that over looked the lower floor. We were on the upper level and arranged where I could easily see the tables on the first floor.

A couple caught my attention, as I was people watching and it looked like there was some tension between the two. The woman got up to go the restroom, just as their drinks were being delivered. As soon as she was out of sight the guy put something in her drink. I immediately got up and headed for the restrooms and waited for her to come out. Fortunately, the restrooms were out of direct site of their table.

When she came out I approached her and of course I received the standard; "I have a boyfriend." I told her I didn't care about that, but that I witnessed her "boyfriend" putting something in her drink. Then handed her $10 to buy a replacement on me and told her she needed to buy a new drink and not let it out of her sight and that I would not approach her again. I went back to my table.

About 10 minutes later she showed up at my table, handed me my $10 back and told me I probably saved her life. The guy she was with was a new boyfriend and she had been getting bad vibes about him. She pretended to take a sip of her drink, then handed it to her "boyfriend" for him to try it as it was "sooo goood." He flew into a rage, the got into an argument and he left her at the bar. He was driving. I offered her a ride home. No, I didn't stay with her, two other people were riding with me that I also had to take home.

She and I did become good friends. She asked me out and we dated a few times, but it was pretty obvious to both of us that it would never work. We stayed friends though and she did meet her husband in my friend group. They got married had a couple of kids, whom I was an official Uncle to. Both their kids are now married and have their own kids (yes, I'm old).

The old "boyfriend" never showed his face again. So I have no idea what happened to him, if anything.

Ohh wow. What a way to make a lifelong friend!
This was worth the read.
Holy shit! You did a really good thing.

And now I have another reason to be terrified of dating if I were to ever become single again.

Last night, when I was waiting in the car for my wife and we realized after she got in that her bag, where the house keys were, was still inside. She thought I had the bag with me in the car. Had to call a 24/7 locksmith because it was late in the evening.

This is why my spouse and I both always take our keys when we leave the apartment.
- Wait, you don't know how to easily break into your own house. But it is your own house!
This is why we got keypads. Never getting locked out because of the I-thought-you-had-them or any other reason.
- I was thinking of getting a keypad, but I’ll definitely have a manual deadbolt along with it because I’m paranoid of it failing, so I’ll likely still be locked out either way.
  
  Edit: I realized a deadbolt has to be locked from the outside, so maybe I won’t be locked out in that case.
Was she driving?

Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

Also Jan 6 2021
- TBH, I wasn't that surprised by the result of the election, but this one completely shocked me.
I still remember where I was when I saw that things had mathematically tipped past the point of no return for Hillary. It wasn’t a huge shock to me, but that’s mostly cuz I saw the writing on the wall when Hillary’s entire schtick for a while had been “no worries, we’ve got this, it’s not even a problem.” Democrat victories have historically hinged on whether or not they can motivate people to vote, and Hillary’s entire strategy did the exact opposite of that. Every single person independently went “she’s been saying for months that she already has it in the bag, so why bother voting?” And that led to her losing a lot of votes.

The aftermath of someone being decimated by a truck. That sight belonged in an abbatoir, not on the road.

At a federal building and the supervisor was up front chatting with a customer. The waiting room is small so I could hear everything they said. She started by talking about how Biden was a pedo then how all the vaccines have some chemical in it like bleach I can't remember. She went on with a dozen conspiracy theories, speaking as if they were the truth and haven't been debunked a million times already.

how all the vaccines have some chemical in it like bleach

Ohh, been there! But in my case, the kicker was that she then went off on a tangent on how her daughter was a medical doctor who "believes in all this science stuff" and how "the younger generations are more brainwashed". Bruh.

This past Saturday I drove 9 hours (one way) to confront and yell at the family rapist.

Had him and the rest of my family texting and calling frantically, telling me not to. That I was destroying the family, that I'd never see my cousins again, that I'd be arrested, that there would be a sheriffs deputy waiting to take me to jail if I showed up at the pedophiles house.

But on the way up I just happened to listen to an NPR story about the murders in Castle Rock Colorado and how police refused to enforce a restraining order that resulted in the murder of three children, and then the subsequent trial that ended up with the supreme court saying that "cops have no duty to enforce a restraining order." and then the story of Joe Lozito, the subway hero who sued the police dept. for failing to protect him and his fellow passengers from a knife-wielding spree killer they were on that train, specifically to look for. That case resulted in the supreme court saying that "the police have no duty to protect you."

So with that information, I decided that it was unlikely that 1. a pedophile rapist would call the police for help because his victim was coming to yell at him, and 2. that a cop, even if called, would show up at all.

I yelled at that bitch while he sat in his mansion for 20 minutes at the top of my lungs. His new neighbors must have some thoughts 😊

Honestly, I think it's good that you told them what you think of them.
- Yeah, it was very cathartic. I was scared driving up, but driving away felt amazing
“the police have no duty to protect you.”

I think it may be time to re-think how you do your nation-state-ing.

Sideshow. Tonight I watched someone do aerial while hanging from their hair and then their teeth. And that wasn't even the craziest shit I've seen.

I ~~misplaced a dragon ball~~ got another side gig recently and underestimated how good I was at the creative aspect of it.

Anytime I have to tell/explain to someone that I'm asexual/Sex repulsed.

"Oh damn, thats sad, were you raped or something?" is the typical response I fucking get.

As a fellow ace, I get your frustrations, I'm sorry you have to deal with this.
- S'all good at this point I mostly expect people to ask/say such things

This was a while back, so not the last time but probably one of my biggest wtfs.

Anyway, In Iraq, in a tower surrounded by sandbag and hesco walls. The night guard shifts kept pissing in bottles and tossing it over the walls instead of just pissing anywhere else or just throwing the piss bottles in the trash so at the change over the Sergeant of the Guard said that we had to make the guys getting relieved stand by because they're gonna have to go clean all that up. Mind you this is outside of the wire in Iraq - not that it's particularly dangerous but we were still getting bombed nightly. Anyway, I rock up to the tower and let them know to standby and the SOG rolls up behind me and tells them what's up.

I kid you not, this dude looks at him and says "Can we at least downgrade our gear?" You could probably hear my laughter across the whole FOB. He just said "Can I take off my vest and helmet before I head out of the wire?"

I shouted down "I can cover you but that won't stop any rounds that come your way," and the SOG just said "What? No, fuck, are you kidding?"

Then I baked in the 100+°F sun while I watched adults pick up piss bottles in the desert.