Ugh. Best of luck to your youngest.

Much like the advice ‘don’t eat the yellow snow’ requires you to not be colour blind, the advice ‘only listen to those worthy of your respect’ requires you to be capable of telling the difference between compassion and obsequiousness. Both are good advice, but there are prerequisites which may preclude the handicapped.

I saw something maybe a year ago that was about how Florida has some of the best education stats in the USA.

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Yeah…

If you are rude, there’s harassment. Anything that makes your coworkers feel uncomfortable qualifies. You are riding on their desire to avoid conflict. If anyone who has half your willingness to engage in conflict arrives in your office, you will be gone the moment HR hears the word attorney because they don’t have your boss to answer to, they work on behalf of the company as a whole to prevent lawsuits. The company may reward you for being callous, but they’ll do the same to those above you, who will drop you like a sack of dog droppings the moment you become inconvenient for the company, hire someone cheaper, and pocket a bonus for shrinking the budget.

I’m guessing you are enough of an asshole you won’t change your behaviour, even after they fire you. You’ll just be that guy, neck deep in his cups, complaining about these snowflakes who ‘can’t stand not being coddled,’ (read, aren’t willing to put up with your BS) and ‘got you fired.’ You’re a loser. It just hasn’t hit you yet.

And if everyone’s distaste for being around you leads to bad quarterlies from your manager, bad peer reviews from your colleagues, your IT tickets being mysteriously deleted so they don’t have to deal with you, your team filing reports with HR for harassment, and no one liking you enough to give you the benefit of the doubt, you can take that rudeness into the interview process at a new company and see how far it gets you with their HR.

Seems cheaper.

Ignorant voting is the most common kind of voting.

I hadn’t listened to anything from Maher for something like a decade by the time I heard the podcast. He wasn’t really all that funny then, and really seems to have slid into the blue conservative space since. He has to be running on momentum or blackmail at this point. I don’t think he could get a laugh at a comedy club if no one knew his name.

Also, went and checked out If Books Could Kill. It was so painful to listen to I stopped after 45 minutes and gave up. Listening to two supposed professionals saying ‘then he said 1+1=3, which is just such horseshit, because everyone knows it’s 11,’ over and over again was depressing and annoying.

I swear I saw a little documentary piece back in early 2025 about members of the DNC essentially hiring consultants who then came in and told them, more or less, they were listening too much to consultants and not enough to the electorate and it had cost them the election.

Just found out about the ‘I Hate Bill Maher’ Podcast, where some comedian hate-watches Maher’s show and then mocks him on a podcast. The roasting was so much funnier than Maher’s attempts at jokes, though I slightly worry that it’s a bit like The Necessary Conversation in that it might just be mocking a senile old person for being senile.

‘Class,’ as a word, has been used for longer, more commonly, and more recently, to mean a group with a shared quality. Class is like energy; both words are rather meaningless alone and need a specifier to make them useful. Just as energy can be thermal, electrical, or various other kinds of energy, but referring to energy in general is usually not sensible, one can be of a socioeconomic class, a protected class, a school class, the managerial class, a or various other kinds of class. Only the very narrow class of people who have taken a class on a bit of Marx but not a class on the classes of words used by classmates in classes on English or Programming think ‘class’ can only refer to ‘class’ delineated by socioeconomic relation to the mode of production. Ol’ Karl didn’t invent the word. He used one that already had broad use.

Bombing various middle eastern countries into powder? Pretty sure that’s still an ongoing project.

8601 4 LYF

Do not share advertisements. They are toxic to society, always based in a lie, and never of benefit. Making fun of them is not better than genuinely shilling for the company. Block ads. Destroy them where possible. Seek to have them banned wherever possible. They are not welcome on Lemmy, and if you are going to share them, neither are you.

Almost like the ‘generations’ are clusters as imaginary as races and we should all stop pretending they’re real.

Who knew Trump was part of the ‘shout “YOLO!” and do it,’ crowd?

Die cumming or die in the water/oil/climate/some-other-bullshit wars later…

Youtubes content creators are also its victims, just as much as the viewers.

Newbies often need guidance on the norms of the space they have come into. Hopefully, they will learn.

Trump said something hateful? That’s news?