prole

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"Make your own games" | "This is discrimination!" in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds awesome to me. Wait am I gay?

Poll Shows 25-Point Mamdani Lead Over Cuomo as Frantic GOP Fearmongers Over ‘Socialist Uprising’ in c/electoralism@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I wish the leftists in the US were as left as they pretend they are

Poll Shows 25-Point Mamdani Lead Over Cuomo as Frantic GOP Fearmongers Over ‘Socialist Uprising’ in c/electoralism@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Same. Kept getting called a communist/socialist by everyone when I was suggesting very basic progressive things. Started researching what it actually meant and even did a school project to make a fake country modeled after Cuba. At first it was kind of a joke, but by the end it was like wtf am I a communist?

Recent layoffs in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hope you get it!

Recent layoffs in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I work for a huge international company no one has ever heard of and they laid off hundreds of people and outsourced 100+ more over the last two years. All in the US, teams in other countries don't seem to have any changes. I have no idea how I survived, they wiped out my whole team except for me and one other person.

I've been job hunting for years off and on, at least 100 applications and I have only gotten a couple interviews for equally shitty companies. I can't see things getting better any time soon, only worse. The companies know they have us locked in and I already feel the pressure to give more and more to avoid the next round of layoffs. I do 3-5x the work of any other person in measurable ways and who fucking knows how much shit I do behind the scenes.

Capitalism failing is the best example of why socialism doesn’t work. in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

The US gov has poisoned the meaning of so many things, but nothing more than socialism/communism. Fuckers are out here arguing that the US military is socialist because they get benefits like healthcare, school, etc. Even people who call themselves socialist make this absurd argument.

Trump tells the military he is deploying troops against Americans "whether people like it or not." And alludes to using missiles against Americans in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago (26 children)

If they start doing airstrikes will any country offer USAians refugee status?

Race communism in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 55 points 3 weeks ago

Communism is when the government does things and the Nazis did a lot of things

If your party needs a war criminal with a nazi tatoo to survive maybe it should die in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Alaska is massive, there are islands south of Russia that are in Alaska. Also yeah I didn't realize how close it was, but I always forget the earth isn't flat

Graham Platner had his totenkopf nazi tattoo replaced by a "some kind of Celtic knot with a dog on it" in c/gossip@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

Definitely not a super common one, but unless there's a really good explanation like it's a RIP Grandpa 1919-1990 tattoo or some shit it's probably a Nazi symbol

Graham Platner had his totenkopf nazi tattoo replaced by a "some kind of Celtic knot with a dog on it" in c/gossip@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

19th letter is S, so it's short for SS. I think it's also a significant year in Hitler's rise to power?

If your party needs a war criminal with a nazi tatoo to survive maybe it should die in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Got me wondering if one of those islands in Alaska is closer but I think it's still Maine

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Being a manager (hexbear.net)
 

Ok so, somehow I ended up being a manager at work. Mostly I just don't bother anyone and protect them from the bosses when I can. However, I'm a software dev and they had me make a bunch of scripts and such to measure productivity. I didn't really want to because fuck that, but as I was working on it I realized none of the bosses will ever look at this code or question the output.

I ended up padding the stats quite a bit in "honest" ways by doing things like excluding weekends and holidays. I also round everything up to the nearest whole number. But then I decided to just add extra values here and there as well. Instead of starting the count at 0, I start at 1.

The bosses asked for a monthly report, so I give them 28 days (and don't count the weekends). I drop the lowest count days if there are more than 28 days in the month and present all of the stats as monthly.

Anyway, just remember there are lots of ways to help your coworkers and you don't actually have to do any managing if everyone understands what's up. Just be really careful and try to always give yourself plausible deniability. LLMs are a great excuse to shift blame right now even if you aren't using one

Anyone else have ideas or things they've done?

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Do you even bother? (hexbear.net)
 

Recently I've had some frustrating conversations with people. Someone said Oregon is "deeply red", which sounds like an absolutely unhinged thing to say when you consider all branches of government in OR are controlled by Dems.

I'm sure I was rude to the person, but I tried to explain how ridiculous that is. If Oregon is deeply red then what is Alabama? Just because the rural areas are conservative? I spent way too long on this one.

Anyway how do you handle this kind of nonsense in the world? I usually just say what I'm thinking to people these days, but more and more it's feeling like I should just stfu and let people believe whatever

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Software development cooperatives? (hexbear.net)
 

I've looked at a few lists here and there, but it seems like there just aren't many co-ops that recruit strangers online. Anyone have any experience working for a co-op as a dev? It seems like it would be an awesome way to structure a small web/app dev team. Part of me wants to try to start one myself, but it's hard to imagine maintaining the motivation needed for a task like that when I can barely function as it is.

Anyway, what's up with the lack of cooperatives? Sorry if this is the wrong comm, seemed like the best place

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