I read a fictional book recently that was about some cartoonishly evil white people were doing murder and kidnapping to buy up property and stuff. To my surprise and delight the protagonists solution was to shoot all of them fucking dead. Like walk into their board meeting and shoot them with guns until they were dead.
Need to read more of that, I think.
Are there vaccines or they illegal now?
If you haven't read "the ones who walk away from omelas" from LeGuin, I recommend doing so.
If we have history, hannity should go down next to Goebbels. I hope I live long enough to spit on his grave.
I had a job that paid stupid well. I'd give some money to almost anyone who asked on the street. They need it. I have plenty. I'm not going to notice the $1 or $5 or even $20 that I gave away. I make more than that in interest every day.
Rarely, I'll talk with them a little. Ask their name or their story. There's a regular around me that seems delighted that I remember his name.
Sometimes someone will seem unsafe, but most people are alright. It helps that I'm a bearded man, so certain classes of danger and harassment are rarely pointed at me.
I got laid off in February. I still give to people who ask, but I carry less cash so sometimes I don't have anything to give.
When I'd be out with coworkers, before we all got laid off, none of them would give anything to people asking. I know they made as much or more than I did. I don't judge people for not giving cash out when they're in debt or struggling to pay rent, but I do judge my coworker for like wearing a high five figure watch and never helping the poor.
I see how people might think that.
Personally I think power is... Let me quote from classic web comic the order of the stick:
Power, it isn't something that you put on or take off like a jacket. It's something you just ARE.
If you can lose it by blowing two Will saves, you never really had any power in the first place, see what I'm saying?
Thinking you're powerful because you have a big car is foolish
That management and leadership are smart, visionary, people without whom everything would fall apart.
It doesn't matter what my line of work is. Management is mostly out of touch idiots everywhere.
"We need to redesign the web page to be more modern! Get me a big hero image and an image carousel!"
"Customers are complaining about how they can't save their search settings. Maybe we should do something about that?"
"No that's not a priority"
bike lanes are often viewed by these folks as “liberal bullshit”, and blame them for displacing car lanes and parking.
I don't understand how "traveling using your muscles" became less "manly" than "sitting on your ass".
Someone who rides up a big hill on a bike? Fit. Impressive. Admirable.
Someone who drives a car? Boring. Passé. Dull.
This should be obvious to anyone paying any attention, but a lot of maga hats live in a world of lies, and a lot of people live in a world of shallow media. All those "did biden drop out?" searches right before the last election are haunting.
Cuomo is not a good candidate.
My parents, who thankfully can't vote in the NYC election, don't really like Zohran. One because she's terrified of "communism" (whatever that means to her). The other is skeptical, but I feel like could be convinced. I think that's a lot of older people.
Can we just put the CEOs in wood chippers already? I'm so tired of these confidently incorrect idiots ruining the world.
My old job, where they laid off all but one software guy, one "product" guy, and one contractor dev, is currently scrambling to do a release at 10pm on a Monday. Why? No one knows, except the CEO wants it done. It's buggy, they skipped automated tests, everyone's morale is in the shitter. The customers don't care. Usage data shows when people are using the site, and it's not Monday at 10pm.
He also wants everyone to use AI for everything. And for everyone to go into the office as much as possible, too.
A couple months ago I ran into a guy collecting signatures for Cuomo by Atlantic center (a major transit hub in Brooklyn). I was just like "why?? Why are you doing this??" But sadly I was in a hurry and didn't have time to engage with him very long