All cops are bastards.
another exec shared his whole laptop screen and he had brietbart up in a tab + part of a bank statement I screenshot.
Dunno which is worse, this or some middle manager dude I saw accidentally alt tabbing to 9gag that had the hentai page favourited, with a Putin video playing. On their work laptop and email. I feel for the IT department sometimes.
It was a pre Corona in person presentation, most boomers didn't know wtf it was, but I took a picture quickly with my phone. Not uploading because I'm not going to doxx myself, but he definitely deserved whatever punishment he got for being an asshole techbro. (And before anyone asks, no I didn't snitch for the presentation)
Good lord, how clueless are these people? Any time I know I'm going to be screen sharing something, I close all tabs not work-related before I even think about hitting that button.
Also, much like the number one rule of gun safety is that every gun is loaded, every conference call is unmuted.
It was a pre coronavirus in person presentation, so even worse lmao.
Pretty much. Though you want believe the stuff some people do. I know people that use their work email for everything, and pirate shit on their work machines.
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years back, I spent a few months on the healthcare.gov project, after Accenture took it over, while they were "fixing" the site. in order to show their new user responsive development process, they made us all sit through a four hour presentation about the project, including user personas -- and I'm not sure a single one mapped to a human being that actually existed in the real world. it was dozens and dozens of profiles of hypothetical people for a website that barely anyone could actually use. it was incredible.
that would have at least been entertaining... they should have just done that...
I've made hundreds of useless persona reports, and they've always been vague composites of data used to make people think we are doing a)more than we really are b)something that maps on to a boomer's idea of a marketing company.
user experience is theoretically a great discipline and should be used to help make technology more accesible in its affordances to people but as far as i can tell it's just turned into another subset of marketing/ad research for companies to eke out as much money from as many different people as possible. every user persona i ever created in my ux course was just me making shit up as i went along
One time when I was 15 this guy took advantage of a weird situation to touch my boobs and it made me feel really gross and confused because I thought it was my fault.
Anyway guess who ran republican for representative of my district this year
My brother made out with his girlfriend, who tested positive for COVID-19 a few days ago.
I fucking hate my family. Nice knowing you chapos.
Have to have some extreme Horny brain when you willingly catch a disease with a not-insignificant mortality rate just to do some heavy petting.
Looking out of the window at the street getting progressively angrier at each car that passes. :angery:
Where can I find the dingus who thought it was a good idea to strap cacophonous combustion engines onto metal frames with wheels. I want to file a complaint with the CEO of automobilism :gui-better:
excuse me, some car aficionados are very fine people, how dare you take such a narrow-minded view of my incredibly loud and aggressive hobby
At least stop putting old dead plant matter in your engines, put that carbonous goop back in the ground and, I dunno, use wood-fired engines as one did in 1941.
Yeah, search up wood gas generators, they were used a lot in Norway during ww2 cause the Germans hogged all the petrol. Basically, big stoves attached to a car with pipes leading into the engine.
Empty tank for car. Plants invasive Sitka pines. Gets ecological devastation.
My job has a stupid HR review process if you request 5 or more consecutive days off, I spent my year putting in requests for single days and now have the last 2.5 weeks in December off. My boss finally caught on and he's so mad about me 'exploiting' the company but fuck them, this is my first year I'll actually use all my vacation days
I think it's already here. my space heater magically decided to turn on and I can now post.
It was 40 degrees Celsius where I am over the weekend :agony-turbo:
oh god dammit, I didn't even brave the cold for a good reason. my appointment is tomorrow. I could have slept for another 2-3 hours, or at least stayed warm deep under my covers...
I’m replaying New Vegas, which is solidifying my belief that AAA games have not improved in the past 10 years and in some ways have actually regressed.
New Vegas is still my favorite video game and I think I have stockholm syndrome because I lowkey actually like the combat
I am very hyped for the day where F4NV comes out and we can finally have New Vegas with modernized combat.
High budget games backed by large publishers. Some examples would be Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, and the Fallout games under Bethesda.
All my cats do is find warm places to sleep, cozy up to people, and play
I've never been so jelous
Had such a weird fucking dream, I was in some sort of modern or futuristic hospital but there were also Victorian ladies and gentlemen having a party there and I was terrified of them, had to sneak around, but there was gas in the air that made me fall asleep.
I woke up a few times in the night but ended up back there each time. Which is weird, usually dreams don't do that.
Edit: Fuck and there was a gigantic boil on the side of my face just under my ear, I was not looking cute, It was full of blood and exploded when I touched it, like something out of that Peter Jackson zombie movie god I'm gonna puke.
That’s basically how Victorians saw the future. Advanced tech but the same social hierarchy and culture
You say that as if all modern sci-fi isn't just "what if capitalism in space"
I can't believe they libbed out Star Trek. At least we still have The Culture and Ken MacLeod.
Unsure tbh. It's one of those things in a dream where you know something but don't know why you know, if that makes sense.
I love how many other people also use the megathread as a dream journal, it's really fun
Remember how a high school newspaper broke the story about Kentucky State Police quoting Hitler multiple times and advocated for "ruthless" violence during a training presentation?
That same paper just broke a story how the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training used a clip from an antisemetic conspiracy video about the opioid epidemic from a Nazi video production company who's logo is a Black Sun FFS.
At least it's better than getting ICU flashbacks. Your dream sounds cool
Anyone else putting in all their hope that China actually follows through with their plan? Like what else do we got.
Why can't they nationalize the fuck out of everything already? They won Trump's little "trade war" or whatever that was
They don't want to end up like the Soviet Union, better to play it safe
They have to win dominant share of the global markets, not Trump's trade war. Once enough of the world's nations decides the U.S. is too much of a pain in the ass and deal with China's trade bloc instead cool stuff can happen. Until then they still have to play the game by the GM's (United States') rules.
He has a doctorate in Marxism. Kinda a big investment for a grift if thats the case.
Very understandable. Not like we can do much besides sit and watch anyways :0
I think it's perfectly fine to not hold faith in china as long as you ain't actively engaging in agitprop against them like vaushites or libs (what's the difference)
I'm falling in love and it's genuinely scary. this society is so violent and the risks to my body and life as we organize and fight back are something I've learned to accept. but the idea that my partner will be right there with me through the worst of it - the years that come - is terrifying. sure, we might break up but that neither means I'll love them any less nor stop fearing the awful things that may befall them as we both persist in our opposition to an incomprehensibly powerful world order.
on an lighter note, I should probably wait to tell them I love them for a bit, huh? well, I technically did while drunk on the first night we hooked up but we're both pretending that didn't happen. but we've only been together for two weeks and it's way too soon. we've been friends and comrades for about two years so the feelings are genuine, rooted in a real bond that formed slowly and organically, but we're still unsure of our footing, it feels like. idk, I definitely won't wait past another two weeks because of the course of events and the fears I mentioned in the first paragraph, nor do I think they'll react badly... I think I'm just afraid of being vulnerable.
