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I just do all that after I do the grown up stuff I have to do

Yeah, and companies aren’t notorious for burying heinous shit like this in their TOS so that when they get caught doing it, some idiot will jump up to say “ItS iN tHeIr ToS”

Doesn’t say anything about bots, so I’d bet that’s a good part of it.

They were running bots in all sorts of places when I left like 3-4 years ago, and it’s only gotten worse. Plus, what easier way to drive up EnGaGeMenT with all of your UsErS than to constantly add more and more fake users to keep the handful of morons who stay around entertained.

Not really, he’s still the second dumbest president of this century

Ah, middle manglement problems, gotta love tolerate that shit…

The only jobs I didn’t get a piss test were all retail/food service. Every professional job I’ve had (tech) has made me drop a UA. I may have had to study to pass the pre-employment test, but thankfully no place I’ve been does randoms.

As my former manager put it, boss man isn’t going to make us drop a UA cuz he knows he’s lose his whole IT department.

If you’ve got a gaming GPU, bazzite is built on kde fedora and takes away 99% of the problems I had with the old school distro. It’s an atomic distro so you can’t fuck up the base is nearly as easily.

Bazzite is atomic KDE fedora aimed at gaming PCs, and it’s been rock solid for me for like 2 years at this point!

This is the first time I’ve had a Linux install survive this long. Normally fedora/Ubuntu/whatever would have shit the bed by now on either a an os or GPU driver update. I think I’ve had one moderate issue that took a bit to sort out (but the system was actually usable), but nothing breaking like before.

Finally glad to be free from windows (outside of work anyway)

It’s ok for people to not like your joke, but crying about it just makes you look like a child.

Feel free to complain about this downvote too.

I’m gonna put that trophy right next to Limbaugh’s drug free award on the mantle

His neck was quite marginalized from what I recall.

What makes you think us salary slaves aren’t working class? I still have to punch a clock every day to get my salary…

No war but the class war, fuck off with this division

That god is a basic bitch. I been doing it for years and the little fuck ain’t said shit.

“perfection”

“British food”

Pick one

Honestly, the idea of applying for a job going in cold over the Internet sounds like a horrible experience.

It does sound that way, but in my very limited experience it worked out rather well.

Current gig is the only one in my professional career where I didn’t get a foot in the door by word of mouth, and aside from it being scary, it wasn’t really that different. Got me a low 6 figure 100% remote work gig a few years back and I love it. But again, this is a sample size of 1.

Ah, you’re a marketing drone, that explains a lot.

I use AI often enough and it’s just a shiny turd for anything complex. Good thing it’s good at stealing art, so that’s a big boon for marketing people.

I don’t disagree with a lot of what you wrote, other than the end:

All this means I really only feel like it’s valid to judge JK as if she were the somewhat bigoted person she originally was, rather than today’s turbo-Nazi version of her.

I disagree, we can judge her on the choices she made that brought her to this point. She chose to engage with negative criticism with hostility and surrounded herself with people who validated the beliefs and behaviors that culminated in where we are today.

She could have chosen to remove herself from those situations instead of jumping in with both feet, but there would have been a social/ego cost to it, so she continued letting herself be radicalized into the hateful thing she has become.

And I judge her as someone having almost walked a similar path. I was on the alt-right pipeline over a decade ago when they were getting their feet underneath themselves, and I had a combination of self-awareness/shame that helped me come to my senses.

I disagree with the idea that she needed to be on Twitter and engage in twitter arguments. There was moderate criticisms of her across the net, the fact she WILLINGLY chose to engage in an opinion cesspool that let her drown in shit is her own goddamned fault.

Plenty of other people hired someone to deal with their social media accounts because they didn’t want to subject themselves to socially-acceptable-4chan, she chose to chug sewage straight from the pipe despite having plenty of money and the connections to have it. Honestly, her not engaging with criticism with hostility would have done wonders for the whole situation.

If all it took to turn a terf into a bigot was to give the author some moderate criticisms about the systemic failings of their world building to turn them into a Nazi, I think the only solution is to prevent terfs from becoming authors.

Either that or we need to accept that this was always going to be the outcome of some privileged rich white idiot who can’t handle the slightest bit of pushback who’d rather cozy up to Nazis than admit that maybe her writing isn’t perfect.