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The whole "return to office" thing is a cocktail of like.. "Feelings Driven Leadership" and "The Cruelty is the Point". Oh, and "I'm incompetent so everyone else must be incompetent in the same way, too."

Many managers make decisions based purely on feelings. You can show them data but they don't care. They feel like being in-office is better. And maybe, maybe, it is, on some metrics. Are those metrics better for workers? Probably not.

And the cruelty? Well, as others have said, some people get off on having power over others.

The last point, there are some people who just can't manage themselves so they seem to think no one else can, either. Like someone the other day was saying he can't work from home because he'll just play xbox. To which I respond, from the depths of my soul, fuck off. Grow up and stop making everyone else around you suffer because you're an incompetent, unmedicated, shit. You can go into the office if you have to. Don't make everyone else suffer a pay cut too because you're trash tier at self control.

Online meetings are largely useless

Oh! Oh! This is where people say "skill issue", isn't it?

If you can't run a productive meeting over zoom you probably can't do one in person, either.

Conservatives famously have poor critical analysis skills. If they were able to understand words, nuance, and meaning, they wouldn't be conservatives.

This kind of false equivalence is kind of annoying.

Doctors and serial killers both cut people, but they're clearly not the same, are they?

Funny how folks are different. I always enjoyed reading stuff and making up the ways it can mean stuff. Like, it's easy to read Dracula and think about feminism and women's place in the world. (a foreign entity shows up and now women are abandoning their motherly duties, wandering the streets at night? That won't do. Get some men to hold her down and penetrate her with this big wood. Hmm.)

I often find the opposite mode, the absolute refusal to think about the story beyond "some things that happened", tiresome. Like, "Ok I get that the story is about how they have to remove, possibly with violence, the competent women ruler and put the child boy on the throne because the rules say that only a man can rule, but why do you have to make this political? it's just a fun story."

I don't know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on "Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you" chum all the time.

Because people keep asking like LLMs are a magical solution to every problem. This is an effective way to show that that's false

Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It's a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn't care

Is the lesson that conservatives are idiots and scum, and under no circumstances should they be allowed to make decisions of import?

So go take your congregation and liberate the people trapped there.

People aren't paid enough. The rich have too large a portion of the resources.

Eat the rich. Bury their collaborators.

Don't want "ai" here.

I also wouldn't really want fake shirts made with Photoshop by hand. AI is worse though.

Most people can't or won't do that

Feeling like that Star wars "you were the chosen one!!" meme

They're stupid and corrupt.

Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they've never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they've had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

One of the things I bring up if someone says "we should run the government like a business"

Running games has definitely helped me run meetings.

• Establish turn order.
• let people finish their thought instead of immediately following some dumbass tangent
• take notes

I mean, that's kind of been the case for like all of recorded history

Many people don't want to date someone destitute or with poor financial prospects. That's just going to be hardship, and there are many other people that are probably just as good a fit without that problem.

Similarly, someone who makes way more money than you can add tension. They might be like "oh let's go out for dinner!" to someplace expensive, and you don't have the budget for it. Are they going to pay for it? Are they going to resent that? Are they going to pressure you into paying? Their expectations and standards may not align.

Also, if the relationship is going to be long term most people assume there will be some merging of finances.

Some jobs are also just gross. I wouldn't date someone who worked at Facebook. I wouldn't date someone who worked for Fox News. Your job 100% can reflect your values and personality.

Americans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.

I'm having a thought. It's easy to write them off as stupid, and they may be, but there's also like... If they have really bad information, the decisions they make given that info as true make more sense. If you really believed that Harris was eating babies, or "she's a communist that's going to put the christians in a labor camp", it would make sense to vote for the "lesser" evil.

Just need to figure out why they believe such falsehoods. it's probably fox news et al.