Yeah I’m not one to jump go getting child services involved, but they need to know what’s going on. These children are in danger

It isn’t. I just don’t feel like swapping

Yeah I just wanted off mr corporation’s wild ride

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Yeah I’m increasingly unwilling to put up with subscriptions that arent reasonable. If you’re selling a piece of software, I’ll consider paying for it. I love foundry for that, its a vtt that I bought and it just works. They update it, but I don’t expect or demand updates beyond keeping it working. And if they were to offer more features in the future with a new model I’d consider paying for the new model.

Exactly. He’s stoned off the scent of his own flatulence

Bill Maher is the smug “liberal” elite that I think conservatives think all educated democrats are. He thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, has consistently bad takes and just generally sucks. He is all but the definition of smug. He thinks he’s George Carlin but is not

Arresting politicians who commit crimes. What a concept

And part of the problem is that congress won’t govern. Everything has to be someone highly politics hot button issue with then and when it isn’t they’ll throw it in there anyways. And at this point when I hear bipartisan I ask myself who the democrats are letting get hurt in exchange for permission to operate the government.

Like, can you imagine a constitutional amendment passing today? Or something less difficult like a budget passing without any spite. The infrastructure act shouldn’t have been controversial. Following through on the agreements we made in exchange for Ukraine denuclearizing shouldn’t have been controversial. So now because everything is controversial the executive has to either expand their powers or do nothing, and by doing nothing they don’t get reelected and they don’t get what they want.

Ultimately this is a byproduct of decades of gerrymandering and obstructionism. But yeah it’s resulted in the most competitive position expanding its powers as well as the judiciary doing the same as they’ve realized they can say anything and do anything

It’s common for conservatives in majority groups to have the sort of experience that could imbue empathy for minorities and instead use it to argue for cracking down against them

I assume you mean DEI and not the drug enforcement agency, which is infamously bad. And the FCC has broad powers over broadcasters. That said this definitely feels like a reach of power. Like, this feels like the sort of thing I wouldn’t think they have the internal skill base to do.

Oh jeez I wonder if those two possibilities interact with each other. Fortunately universities in my state aren’t allowed to research such things anymore

I can’t wait for my employer to get in trouble for me being an engineer instead of some cishet white guy who can’t do algebra.

The problem is the billionaires are self radicalizing. They’re believing the lies they tell the poor, and that’s a dangerous feedback loop. Barry Goldwater was what they would’ve wanted had they been rational actors promoting fascism for their class interests. Even the “smart” ones like thiel are clearly losing it. They too were not immune to propaganda.

What crimes? Criminal conrains everyone from movie pirates to ocean pirates.

I’ve had to have those seminars reframed to understand them. They aren’t meant to actually increase diversity, equity, or inclusion. There are policies meant to be read and understood, and there are policies meant to be pointed at. Those seminars are like the sexual harassment seminars. They aren’t thinking “now that we’ve informed you of how to not act like a sexual predator in the workplace you’ll be more prepared to behave yourself.” They’re making you take that seminar so that way when someone tries to claim that they didn’t know they couldn’t tell their coworkers about their genitals at work you can point to the sexual harassment training you gave them. These dei lectures are about liability.

Carrying your slack with enough room for people to slip up is the virtue. If everyone is always working really hard, management failed, if you do as little as you can possibly get away with leaving your coworkers to have to do your job, you’re lazy.

As I like to tell my coworkers, I work exactly hard enough to feel proud of my work. That should mean I’m fucking around a while on a Friday afternoon

Sometimes I’m struck by the way that framing impacts a situation. To many people feeling that a minority group is hateful is a legitimate reason for them to oppose our rights, and the response so often is (rightfully and accurately) that that group isn’t or that it’s ridiculous to imply that they’re hateful. It was even my gut response to say that as a white person who’s protested with black lives matter I was treated as one of them.

But the framing is wrong. Even if every blm protestor is a belligerent asshole, does that mean that the facts of american policing aren’t still horrifying? If every gay person was an annoying jerk why would that have any away in whether you should be allowed to discriminate against us for being gay? If trans people were all unpleasant, why would that matter for our right to live as we please and to be seen and recognized as the genders we live as?

Because while you can probably find people in each group who argues the majority should have less rights or should suffer as we have, they’re a small and powerless contingent. Majority rights have never been on the table, except when necessary to further oppress the minority (such as the right of cisgender girls to compete in athletics without genital examinations).

Yall are in the best position to deradicalize them. And while it wasn’t good you got sulked in, they were actively targeting people like you to suck you in