prole

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[–] prole@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why am I even reading this shit? It's really does feel like reddit tho..

[–] prole@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is just...more sectarianism?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

If we gotta have libs at least let them be cool like Omar. She bowed up on that dude almost immediately. I wish she could've hit him, shit woulda been so funny.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Intelligent design?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is what I wanted the Terminator game for SNES to be when I was a kid. The case was really cool, but I remember hating the game.

Edit: and my memory fails again, it was actually RoboCop versus Terminator

Robocop v terminator SNES case

[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds awesome to me. Wait am I gay?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] prole@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months 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?

[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Hope you get it!

[–] prole@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months 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.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months 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.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 54 points 3 months ago (26 children)

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

 

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?

 

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

 

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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