Corporate media will be ever more obsequious to get access. Military presence for “safety” in certain cities labeled “dangerous” which all happen to be progressive. Then the self-censorship starts. Then people stop being able speak freely, let alone thinking a rule of law exists. Then it’s “underground” to have an honest conversation about politics. We’ll be in Putin’s Russia level of legal system and political speech within a few years.

Making friends mostly at work anywhere causes issues of selection bias, but it doesn’t matter if it’s work, school, church, your local pub, whatever. Balance in most things, as usual.

The 🧅 will be the torch of liberty and sanity in the dark days ahead, even more than it already has been.

The only consolation is that he probably can’t get the (mostly lovely) sounds out of his head either.

“Two small pair…8s and 8s” is still a staple at family card games.

😂 that’s great

I’m in HR and think about this a lot; it’s (mostly) a marker of poorly run companies when they say experience in software X is required. Mostly these orgs are using one of several software solutions and by saying a candidate must have experience in a specific software means the company is brittle; can’t train, wants to hire non-thinkers and learners, and also likely isn’t looking ahead at what will change in the future.

Software change will only accelerate likely, so hire learners.

Haven’t heard “gay” as a pejorative in real life since high school in the late 90s.

At this point it’s like the Onion article that they release after every school shooting about how nothing can be done to prevent it in the only country where it occurs regularly; the data raping and pillaging that goes on in the US despite other countries having passed basic common sense privacy and control laws…well too bad you can’t afford the lobbyists to pass it, Poor.

Lol legally mandated vacation? Try living in America

Yes, and when all the other car manufacturers add it, then it’s all on the consumer too, right?

Enshittification is a problem, because in our “this quarter’s profits trump all” world, sales leaders would be fired if they don’t join the race to the bottom on whatever their product. This then takes away the power of the consumer marketplace to push back by not buying shit products and ideas. Remember airline bag fees? Know anyone who doesn’t think they’re a bullshit cash grab? Yet do 100% of consumers thinking it’s shit have any power to change it in an industry with ~4 choices who all implemented similar policies within months of each other? There are countless other examples.

The mindset you argue pretends there isn’t collusion, and that there IS a competitive marketplace.

Rest easy, the non-funny article about Mazda product enshittification by subacription is here https://www.motor1.com/news/729233/mazda-connected-services-remote-start-subscription/

Ah, my bad, that would have been a better community. TBF I was pondering this in the shower.

Oh look, all the stupid Africans. Jesus, how could anyone not question this?

I mashed the down arrow because it’s probably more strongly correlated with GDPPPP or access to free, high quality education than an inherent measure of intelligence. Crappy correlations to pseudomeasurements and concepts with racist results? What is this, the SATs?

You’re saying he’s a synthetic fiber and not the traditional cotton plain weave? The textile industry will be shocked!

Tim walz–level confession

I would hope aliens, being intelligent, would communicate with other humans before they get to government representatives. We’d probably never hear from them again.

“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”

There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.

They misunderestimated me.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Rarely is the question asked, “is our children learning?”

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe—I believe what I believe is right.

Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.

Envious!

Does it have a “day off” feature? Nothing speaks to how horrific US culture is fed by these giant companies that neither apple nor Google has the common sense “I’m off tomorrow, don’t do my regular schedule alarm”. Instead you have to disable and then set a reminder to turn your alarms back on, which stresses me out about forgetting.