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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”

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)

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.

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.

Good, you can get the same exp the rest of us have to deal with from both coworkers and clients.

Nothing like getting a slopmail with some dumbass ai answer not even remotely related to the issue at hand.

Might just be pockets of queers having a good time. My friend group is made up of broken queers trying to stay sane in this hell hole

Reframing a topic in verbiage that’s amenable to your audience isn’t lying, it’s just not being a moron who knows how to talk to people.

but this is a rectangle/square conversation. Phrenology is a subsect of biological racism.

True, but the situation described was that PoCs have an internal defect making them “lesser”, not that the shape of a person’s head can determine their abilities or characteristics.

I have no issue with limping them together generally, but the specific situation is not phrenology.

Nah, this is just basic biological racism. It wouldn’t be phrenology until they were making arguments that the shape or the lumps on his head made him stupid/insane/an insatiable raping machine/some other dumb bullshit.

Somehow, biological racism isn’t nearly as stupid as phrenology.

I have zero clue where he came up with this but I suspect whatever braindead source for his anti gay rhetoric is also pushing the anti non white rhetoric

Almost certainly. I followed right wing media for quite a few years (a good amount of them were by proxy, thankfully) and the anti gay/PoC/women narratives were all mixed together more often than not.

Clearly, we should know that a post claiming we should know something won’t actually teach us about the thing we should know. How could we be so mistaken to think that something saying we should know something would tell us the thing we should know??1?

I see it on maps sometimes (fucking Google being Google), so it irritates me whenever I run across it

I’m pretty sure the United States can’t change the name of a body of water that’s shared between multiple countries.

Someone forgot about the GuLf Of AmErIcA already

Heck, no need to even risk collecting that many real ones. I hear there’s some fairly decent 3D printed fakes available.

And you know Cindy would claim it’s an Emotional Support Weapon, because we all know she didn’t properly train and license it to be a proper Service Weapon.

SMH my head

Don’t mistake “this is fucking stupid” for “I don’t get why this person is doing this”.

I completely understand there are men who are so weak willed or bound by Sky Daddy that they can’t handle interactions with women, but that’s not an excuse for the behavior. If I was part of a sect that didn’t allow alcohol, I wouldn’t work where I’d regularly come into contact with it.

If these chucklefucks can’t interact with half of their potential clients, they shouldn’t be doing the work.

Man, you just proved so many negative assumptions about the dumbass boomers in one go. Congrats, I’m honestly impressed how much of a stereotype you are.

Observing the stunted development of someone going through all that is leagues away from gramps calling kids a bunch of pussies for not working in a coal mine.

Classic ignorant boomer thinking they know anything and are super confident about it. The ‘no one wants to work’ meme isn’t just stunted growth, it’s literally the capital class whining about not being able to abuse people like they used to. Like, ironically the phrase started out as people bitching about a coal mine closing:

“No one wants to work anymore” is a result wage stagnation. Living at home into your late 20’s is also a result of wage stagnation.

Just absolutely wrong. This has been a cudgel of those in power to help keep the poors in line by turning the stupidest among them against the people who actually fight to improve things, and has been for over 130 years:

So fuck off with your stupid bullshit, you ignorant clown.