I feel like this is just illegal in states that require two party consent for recording, but I’m not a lawyer.

It’s also just generally a bad idea and everyone involved in making it should be barred from working in technology.

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

Eco 's essay on Ur-Fascism is worth reading

It does depend on the size of the company. If it’s a small business, it may have no leeway occasionally, and you may need to time your PTO.

Really? Really though? Because unless I’m a part owner with a substantial stake, fuck all the way off with that boot licking nonsense. Capital is not your friend. They are not your family. A small business is at best like a cute little bear cub, that will maul you to death without a moment’s remorse when it is bigger.

It’s upsetting that people can be colossally stupid and factually incorrect and face no meaningful consequences. Like, who is the OP? Why are they just walking around without a warning sign that says like “This person is stupid”?

You don’t get to be CEO without weapons grade hubris, I guess.

That sounds terrible and I absolutely do not want that.

I don’t think “mental healthcare” is a silver bullet (pun intended) to fix the problems. That’s not going to fix the consolidation of power and wealth. That’s not going to get people shorter work weeks, and more quality time with friends and family. That’s not going to break up the media megaliths that profit from anger inducing feeds.

Health care will help, but the problem is conservatism and it’s shitty brother capitalism.

On the one hand, fuck adams. On the other, I appreciated him splitting the idiot and asshole votes between him and cuomo.

Do you actually do work or are you one of those middle-men that add dubious value?

And, like, do you think I can read my coworker’s screen from across the room and be like “Ah yes, that is TransferProjectView.py. I should tell him that I am also planning on touching that file”?

And adults can learn to explicitly communicate. It’s not impossible. You just type into the box.

I don’t think microsoft understands shit. I think their leaders are out of touch, lying, idiots. They continue to exist based on inertia and past success.

It’s frustrating because management are so colossally, transparently, stupid but they get the big paychecks and the workers get fucked. And then like half the workers sit there going “Well this is just and fair. this is a good world. If the people actually doing the work had more of a say, that’s communism and thus axiomatically bad”

Watters is a piece of shit and he doesn’t deserve his wealth and peace.

“divisive” is such a weird complaint. It ignores the value of whatever people disagree on. As if being divided on “pizza or burritos” is just as bad as “should women be allowed outside”.

Conservatives say stuff for effect, not because they believe in truth or consistency. They are dishonest, broken, people. They should not be trusted.

We should condemn ICE. Is Maga on board with that? I don’t think so.

No shit! All these CEOs that bent the knee to trump should suffer some actual consequences.

I’m so tired of idiot CEOs being glamorized. They are not smart. They’re wealthy. Tremendous wealth makes you stupid.

In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind. Many people consider themselves part of the in-group that the GOP represents. They get like a chemical high when their group wins, and a existential pain when they’re not winning. They even feel bad if someone else is winning in a way that doesn’t affect them, because they think in zero-sum terms.

They’re bad people. Ideals we hold up like fairness and justice don’t matter to them. All they care about is their tribe winning.

Conservatives often say things not because they believe them to be true, but because of what they believe the effect will be. They seek power for themselves, and to subjugate others.

They might say “Free speech is paramount” today, but that’s only because they want to say stuff without consequences. When you want to say something, they’ll say it’s dangerous and unpatriotic. The consistent theme is “I can do what I want. You do what I tell you”. In-groups to protect, and out-groups to bind.

They are horrible people in some fundamental way.

Some of them might not even realize they’re doing it. They’re just riding the waves of their emotions.

Well, it doesn’t help that a big faction of one of the two major parties, the republicans, fundamentally doesn’t believe in government or democracy. They do not want a government that provides services to the public.

I typically avoid videos because I vastly prefer reading, but I make an exception for those. I just watch them at double speed.