surph_ninja
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- Comment on Read AT&T CEO's frank response to employee feedback about a 5-day RTO mandate — and much more 3 days ago:
Some AT&T employees previously told BI that it became difficult to obtain office desks and parking spaces amid the RTO push…
There’s the giveaway that they don’t actually want people in the office. They want people to quit.
- Comment on Read AT&T CEO's frank response to employee feedback about a 5-day RTO mandate — and much more 3 days ago:
He said it in context of them moving away from a culture of “loyalty” and “tenure.” Basically telling everyone that no one’s job is safe, and everyone is potentially on the chopping block.
It’s an intimidation tactic.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 4 days ago:
Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network.
As Valve correctly points out, this is a blatant & outright lie. They have cut off any number of legal entities over pressure from politicians or groups. Now they have to own it.
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 5 days ago:
Is that legal? Seems ripe for a class action lawsuit.
- Comment on Great Advertise 5 days ago:
Unless you’re indigenous to Canada. Then you’ll be killed or forcefully sterilized.
- Comment on Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans 1 week ago:
Not inflation. Price-gouging. Big difference.
If it were inflation increasing prices, profit percentages would remain relatively stable. That’s not what we’re seeing. Profit margins are through the roof across the board.
- Comment on Makes sense to me 1 week ago:
I really didn’t appreciate how bad it was, until I witnessed my wife being subjected to this shit.
One time I was playing Star Trek: Bridge Crew with a couple randos. We’d been playing for at least half an hour, and they seemed like nice guys. My wife had just finished watching all of TNG, and she excitedly asked if she could try playing for a round.
The moment my wife’s voice hit the mic, these two neckbeards turned into complete pieces of shit, and started right in on harassing her and talking down. I watched her face sink. She took off the vr headset, and hasn’t touched it since. I don’t think she’s even watched Star Trek since, it was such a sour experience.
And these were the stereotypical ‘I struggle with women’ type of neckbeards. No shit. Maybe if you didn’t treat them as subhuman, one of them might speak to you.
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 weeks ago:
Let him know what you think about it: jbberk@stanford.edu
- Comment on The long hard road 2 weeks ago:
There’s a reason the US builds their biolabs abroad. Supposedly, Obama established some in Ukraine, and that’s one of the main points that fueled initial escalations.
- Comment on The long hard road 2 weeks ago:
It’s concerning for so many people in a science community to be acting like bioweapon labs are a conspiracy theory. They are, in fact, very real and spread across the globe.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a link in the post. Can this bot not follow links?
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone calls the guardian propaganda, outside of those advocating for very narrow pro-imperialist neoliberalism. So yeah, those opposing neoliberalism from both the left and right will obviously point out their agenda and inaccurate reporting.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 weeks ago:
You say without a speck of irony, as you post a well-known propaganda rag.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 weeks ago:
No one does anything, because it’s not actually that bad. Most of the quality of life issues are due to western imposed sanctions, and not the authoritarian leadership.
You’re sensing the cognitive dissonance between western propaganda vs western actions. Keep going in that direction. You’re close to getting it. Most of what you’ve been told about North Korea is made up bullshit.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 3 weeks ago:
Only problem is the residue buildup. I think the smoke is a type of glycerine. It builds up on surfaces.
- Comment on If You Want Me To Support You, Form A Union 3 weeks ago:
Absolute victim blaming, capitalist bullshit. Go fuck yourself.
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 3 weeks ago:
Those are our tools. The master does not labor.
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 3 weeks ago:
Either way, it’s incrementalism. And as we’ve seen, any rights won will be clawed back.
The only good fix is revolution. The master’s tools will not destroy the master’s house.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 4 weeks ago:
Oh well. Shouldn’t have made home ownership impossible for the next generation.
- Comment on VC behind ‘996’ work culture debate says 5-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups 4 weeks ago:
Well not everything needs to be worth a billion. Certainly no person should ever be that rich.
People with insatiable greed have a mental disorder. They cannot even conceptualize the idea of working a reasonable amount, and being happy with a modest profit.
Maybe we should stop letting the most sociopathic & insatiable people set standards that can never be satisfied.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 5 weeks ago:
The end goal of all of that is to sell software. If they can do that without supporting a massive pipeline for selling custom hardware, that makes sense.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 5 weeks ago:
Why should they be focused on it? Xbox is now just a slimmed down Windows pc. You can play the exact same games on a pc, with access to the same storefront.
What’s the problem exactly?
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 month ago:
Human productivity alone warranted a 4-day workweek. With AI benefits added in, we should be going down to 3.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 1 month ago:
‘Disobedience is what they want! We must obey, or they win!!’
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 1 month ago:
This many people could easily just physically remove the criminals from office. Why gather this many people to just stand around for complaining? You’re already there. Just fix the problem.
- Comment on Make it stop 1 month ago:
So you’re a technocrat fascist who opposes democracy.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 months ago:
Sure, I’m making some assumptions based on patterns I’ve seen.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 months ago:
Well when these things get posted, you’ll see an unnatural flood of downvotes & angry comments come in. Definitely seems like some kind of coordinated brigading. Or could just be one asshole with a bot farm.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 months ago:
I really don’t get it. There’s definitely a group of ideologues that are pushing anti-meat on here, and flood any post on the topic. Something like that either needs funding or volunteers coordinating. I’m guessing either extremist anti-meat groups, or big ag astroturfers trying to make them look bad.