jjjalljs @ jjjalljs @ttrpg.network

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So many places seem to be run by idiots, if your metrics are other than "personal enrichment".

Like, one of my old jobs, the CEO laid off almost everyone and is now banging hard on the "return to office" drum. Like, my guy, how is making people do a 2 hour commute going to help? It's a small company, he knows most of the people live that far away. And then they go into the office, and they end up doing these like hour+ long lunches. Or they leave early for drinks.

It's fucking stupid. It's the CEO driving with his emotions. He wants to feel like a big business man with an office, and he wants to have fun socializing. Idiot. Fun guy to hang out with, but he's making pants on head stupid business decisions. And there's nothing any of us can do about it.

I said in another thread but I've been unemployed for a while now. Even jobs I'm referred to my old coworkers aren't giving me interviews. If capital wants me to spend money, they have to pay me money first. Until then, fuck them.

Yeah I don't know what the solution is. Just killing all your ideological opponents probably isn't it.

Preventing the concentration of wealth and power and investing heavily in education would probably help

Some of those people (or their children) are still having breakdowns because a black person is in the same store :(

I think a lot of us have picked up, been taught, this idea that like "the past had bad stuff but it's over now, and everyone's better, and everyone who was fighting for bad things realized the errors of their ways and repented".

You have to remember it's not about facts, it's about feelings. As I always say, we're all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.

Yeah I think a lot about the guy I knew that took a job at palantir. When asked about working on questionable stuff, he just shrugged. He was always nice to people he knew personally, so far as I can tell, but bigger picture stuff didn't seem to matter to him

The video games in my house were downstairs, and one time I did a "Can I go downstairs?" instead of "Can I play video games?" when I knew they didn't want me playing more games. Thought it was a clever loophole. Only worked the one time, but got jokingly referenced for the next ten years.

I do feel like protests need to transition from "We're here with signs" to "No more labor until these problems are addressed," but I don't know how to get from here to there.

Are there protests? Are people lining up in DC? I feel like the left is just broken and disorganized and losing on every front.

From what I read, at the time of the Kent State Massacre, something like 60% of americans blamed the students.

As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by "strict".

My parents were "strict" in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.

But I've also read about "strict" parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares

What we need is an actual movement united in a common goal and working in lock step

Well at least we agree on this.

I often feel like the protests are performative, and never move onto the next steps of "we're withholding our labor until things improve" or what have you.

There are too many headlines where the first half is exciting.

Trump hit by bombshell

Iranian leader slaps trump

"technically correct, the best kind of correct" is a joke and not an aspiration.

What do you suggest? Staying home and doing nothing?

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/126076-and-for-an-instant-she-stared-directly-into-those-soft

Like the torment Nexus tweet, I feel like some rich idiots read stuff like that and think it's a good idea.

The mods here are a disappointment

Well, yeah.

Maybe if you own the business and keep a big chunk of the profits. But for the standard "you get a salary" job? Yeah you're being robbed. That's capitalism.

"A worker pulls into the parking lot at work, and the boss pulls in right after in a new sports car. The worker says, 'wow what a car! How did you get it?'

The boss says, 'Tell you what. You work hard this quarter, hit all your numbers, put in some overtime, and I can buy a new one next quarter.'"

Talking about direct action or even a mildly disruptive protest will probably get you moderated here, and in trouble in real life. It feels like the only options "allowed" are stern words. At least a progressive like Zohran won the primary in NYC, but we'll need a lot more of that to make a difference.

On the other hand, Luigi is considered by many a hero.

You could admit you weren't entirely correct. It's okay.

And you're doing the work of billionaires here by discouraging people from protesting.

Is this an age thing? I'm about 40 and I never had instagram, barely used facebook, and didn't use any others really. I don't think I've ever had a problem where someone backed out because I didn't have instagram. But I also don't have a big group of casual friends, and maybe that would be harder.

Discord sucks, but I've noticed a lot of social groups use it. A couple meetups I go to all use it for communication. Maybe that's more bearable than instagram?