Conducting a zoom job interview and saying "chat is this real" every time someone says something.
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Me to the Taco Bell cashier trying to explain that the Triple Double Crunchwrap has been discontinued: "But do you condemn Hamas?"
I think I need to quit my job. I started recently and just got tons of tasks assigned to me and I, familiar with hazing rituals, smiled and said more please. My boss definitely noticed i'm not keeping up and asked me to log my time and send out status updates which is just more things to do.
I don't spend much money and have savings so I can be ok probably. I don't know if my coworkers have that same priviledge and I feel like they are overworked too. I just met all these people recently and I can't help but feel like i'm abandoning them. I also wonder how friends and family will think about it. Everyone I talk to seems to feel the same way - each job having its own unique spin on its method of psychological torture. Deciding to take a break from the capitalist death cult gives me such a weird sense of guilt
There were so so so so many red flags that I just ignored because I wanted out of my last job so badly and what did I get out it? Just more burnt out. I don't really know what to do next. Probably write out a script, zoom call my boss, and say i'm leaving.
I burnt my tongue on tea
The day before he was arraigned on these charges, Koerber changed the heading on his website from “Capitalist. Mormon. Dad.” to simply “Capitalist."
new tagline just dropped
Outlook and teams need to push security critical updates in a seperate channel and only make those mandatory for access. "You can't check your work email because you didn't downoad the daily 300MB update" is so fucking annoying.
Liberals better be ready to have their bluffs called in November, im not fucking voting anymore
Scenario where the Federation from Starship Troopers discovers the 12 Colonies of Kobol from Battlestar Galactica. The shadowy fascist leadership is like, hell yeah an external enemy to use as a rallying point to paper over the internal contradictions of our shit ass society; then they start a war with them and just get their shit wrecked. Battlestars and Vipers tearing apart their fleet, mobile infantry getting decimated by the Colonial Marines who know how to use actual battlefield tactics. Scene where Bill Adama stares into the eyes of Johnny Rico, trying to find some semblance of their shared humanity before Tigh convinces him to just airlock his stupid ass.
Sweing a Fetterman tweet and calling the heart and stroke foundation to see whether they have any research projects in the other direction.
Watching Starship Trooper reactions on Youtube to see which of these reacTORS get it
spoiler
None of them lmao, none of them get it
Co-workwr suggested I should write down what I want to do for the next 4 years tomorrow cause I take Leap Day off and like...fuck off no. Bad suggestion and a very anti-leap day way of looking at things. That's just New Years without a party and more navel gazing homework, fuck all of that noise. Leap Day is a phantom day that comes up every 4 years cause we couldn't make a half decent calendar. It's a glitch, a nasty little mathematical outlier that shows we're dumb stupid assholes who think we can turn celestial events into Gary Larson calendars. Leap Day is about chaos.
I'm as pro-piracy as they come but anyone who watches CAMRips should go to jail immediately
can someone please turn on the lights?
I'm really frakking scared of the dark
just finished reading Maus last night
Jesus fucking Christ
Meeting some comrades next week for a candidacy interview for the WWP! I'm so excited-nervous, never been part of a proper communist party before.
My faith has been tested, I learned that China owns most of the cobalt mines in Congo. I know the worlds not perfect and everything is very messy but cmon that is some of the worst shit Ive ever seen. Free those people China wtf.
On the other hand, even if I'm on crazy pills and I believe in nonsense, talking to liberals about voting blue and palestine and just pure hypotheticals, there is no way I could ever go back to that. "Scratched liberal bleeds a fascist" is 100000% true.
"You used to be such a hard worker"
Yeah, but all that "actual work" was such a waste of my god damn time. Guys, work smarter, not harder, okay? Thats like the entire point of this fucking world, alright? I got OWNED in the past by thinking that I knew the best way to make things work and now I'm doing everything differently and my life is amazing, okay?
You're a fool is what I'm trying to say. I'm trying to make it very clear and I'll keep on saying it as long as I can. You are a FOOL
I'm proposing Star Trek day at work where when a customer comes in, front of house sends us a little alert noise, then one of the line cooks says 'incoming subspace message', the chef says 'onscreen' and then the customer appears on a hig TV screen we've installed and places their order. We then go into a different room and discuss step by step what each of us will do to make the order and then have a commercial break. After the chef recaps everything we've done that day we make the food.
Jesus, 2016 was 8 years ago.
Cashew nuts are insane. Eat a small bowl (100g), that's 600 kcal. That's really a lot. And looking at it it's roughly the same for peanuts, pistachios and the like (not chickpeas though); it suddenly makes sense most trail mixes and survival stuff use nuts - they manage both to be extremely calorie-dense and nice to eat.
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
Your boy had jury duty for the first time ever today and was about to be put on a fucking 2+ month murder trial until I basically begged the judge to excuse me because I just got a new job and it would look super bad for me to be gone 3 days per week for that long. I actually really wanted to do it but this is the first time in my life I've not hated my job so I didn't want to risk it.
For fucks sake, my job’s been having issues with the payroll company and once again has to mail checks and of course i have a 2-3 day wait to get my paycheck when I have to pay my first and deposit the same day.
I've been using a floor stand for my mic for a long time, but I finally invested in a boom stand (clamp mounted) today.
It is such a breath of fresh air... never in the way, never competes with my desk, chair, and keyboard stand for real estate, requires ZERO screwing and unscrewing adjustments, and swings away from my screen freely.
Why didn't I get one 10 years ago.......
The new show in the genre of a white guy in samurai times Japan seems pretty good despite its premise, it's well executed even if that particular style of TV show feels like it's in its twilight years. But there is an extremely goofy scene where our white guy protagonist sees a set of samurai armor, stares at it in awe for like five seconds, and then says "Shogun", the name of the show, for very little reason.
What's up with 4:3 aspect ratio in modern films? Snyder Cut, Saltburn. Everything looks tiny on my phone.