Yeah...this is super illegal. Though, that describes nearly every aspect of the Trump regime and shows no signs of stopping. Still have rabid, bootlicking followers.

The divide absolutely exists. There is a lot of conditioning for following orders and working as a team. That doesn't erase conflicting ideologies, beliefs, or even personality conflict. At the extreme the military will remove outliers from the military, but at the individual level you learn who you trust and who you can rely on. Then you do what you can to mitigate those who you don't trust.

Militaries all over the world also have a long history of killing their own people for not fitting whatever the group around them wants. Sometimes for justifiable reasons, like incompetent leaders likely to get their subordinates killed. Other times for things like someone being uncomfortable with blatant war crimes.

There is nothing magical or special about the military. They just have more weapons. So the solutions are violent more often than the average office job.

Apple is also joining the 'AI' game. They have been bragging about all their 'AI' garbage in their new phones. That is specifically why I just got rid of my iPhone. I'm happy with GrapheneOS where they don't want my info, and have shown no signs of wanting to shove 'AI' into any of my things.

I didn't say both sides are the same. I made a stupid joke about a garbage operating system and the garbage company that runs it.

And your example of stopping people on the streets to inspect their phones doesn't really do a great job at making the argument you're trying to make. We have ICE running around and throwing people into contracted prisons even when they have proof of citizenship. We are trafficking people to foreign concentration camps. We are rocketing at light speed to a techno fascist authoritarian state and the level of surveillance we are under is increasing at a mind boggling pace.

So we aren't the same, and the people currently in charge are striving to make the differences smaller every day.

Sounds like windows recall...

So, if you get a trainer you get to enjoy the fidgeting without risks of cuts. And most butterfly knives are single edged so one of the handles is relatively safe. I have one largely for the fidgeting aspect.

So a lot of this is going to be difficult to answer as it depends on the work culture and individual personalities of coworkers.

• Fidgeting is generally fine as long as it’s not noisy fidgeting. If it’s something like pen clicking, that is more likely to bother someone. Passing depends on the layout. If there is decent space you should be fine, but if it pushes you really close to other people it may make people uncomfortable.
• People will almost certainly see your screen, whether they care what is on it is pretty dependent. If them seeing it makes you uncomfortable, some offices allow the addition of privacy screens which may help and is worth asking about if it will improve your quality of life.
• Some places make a big deal of always looking like you’re on task while others just care about output.
• Downtime is pretty much the same as the previous answer. Depends on your management and work culture. Might be an easier sell if your reading somehow relates to your work.
• People will be able to hear, but talking is generally acceptable at a reasonable volume. Just be considerate of those around you and don’t distract people if they are busy. Along this same lines, you’ll also hear other people’s conversations. That’s why I wear my loop earplugs age have headphones for music. Helps me focus when I need to.
• I did not disclose my ADHD, but also didn’t request any accommodations since I can have my earplugs and headphones which is really the only thing I needed. I’d love to have an office so I could close people out when I was especially busy, but that doesn’t really fall under reasonable accommodations.

Hey, I was slow actually implementing this. It works perfectly now though, and I really appreciate it!

That may have been the original definition, but words evolve. One of the definitions from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘to cause great destruction or harm to’. So it is used correctly by modern definitions.

If law enforcement can legally remove you from a public forum for confronting your elected officials, how free is your speech really?

There is almost no evidence to back up their claims. It is a whole lot of “might”, “suggests”, and “possible”. It’s great if it works for you, but for you to say it’s superior to prescribed medication is still more harmful than helpful. I support more research into medical use for cannabis, but people who try to claim it treats everything only hurt the movement for wider acceptance.

An actual systematic review showed a lack of research, and currently very little evidence of benefits.

There is no grow at home remedy that works the way my medication does. To make claims like that it’s ignorant and harmful to people who do actually need medication.

I’ve lived in both the south, and in CA. There are wonderful people both places, and a lot of fake people. The amount of casual racism, bigotry, and hate has been much higher in the south. And it’s made it really hard to stomach their ‘hospitality’.

Unfortunately, a lot of southern hospitality is just superficial. It’s frequently a veneer of hospitality over a lot of judgment and hate.

I’ll take cold honesty over fake friendliness.

All of the major media and communication platforms are owned by the oligarchs that have already kissed the ring. So you either target a much smaller number of people, or you use less than ideal means to communicate with the masses.

I do think that people in her position need to start advocating for a movement away from traditional social media, and towards things like the fediverse. Who even knows if she is aware of the alternatives. They aren’t well known.

Organization starts with getting a message out and gaining support. This is a start, and I’ll hope for the follow through since options are running short.

If they don’t comply, everyone involved gets purged from the DOJ. Then those most capable of supporting and providing information to their coworkers will no longer be there at all. If they comply, they can still support those around them. Though it is admittedly more difficult without the work sponsored organization.

There will probably be other efforts to purge LGBT people from government, but they don’t have to hand them a reason to fire them by refusing to comply with the EO.

You may be right that it is cowardice, but I think that is unlikely. Judging by what I’ve seen at other government organizations, the employee resource groups end, but those most involved have given contact information out to fellow employees to get support and assistance outside of work. And that isn’t regulated, so it’s not breaking any of the rules.

The one advantage to getting fired over something like that, is it would provide standing to challenge it in court. I’m sure that will happen somewhere though.

I am one of those people that would love a better battery, and also that is going to buy a pixel as my next phone instead of an iPhone. If they hadn’t forced AI garbage into the phone, I wouldn’t be planning the change. I know the new pixels also have AI garbage, but they have the advantage of allowing me to wipe the OS completely to install something less maliciously intrusive.

If Harris wins, expect Democrats to move right

I don’t know if all states have it, but Virginia does have vote history on their voter registration page. It doesn’t show what your vote was, but does show that it was received and counted.