Let them think he’s a communist.

The term clearly has lost all meaning to this person, might as well let them be haunted by it everywhere they look

Lmao isn’t that allegedly his soc account?

Is he just manufacturing political commentary about himself?

My SIL just left a job like that. It was a wife and husband, and the wife would routinely stiff the warehouse workers and then ghost them, and my sister in law would answer the angry calls from the warehouse and have to pretend like the owners weren’t there.

Fucking awful. Small business owners have this tendency to behave like entitled children.

I’m very lucky that my boss is as respectable/considerate a person as I could hope for, but he’s incapable of telling clients ‘no’ so we’re completely drowning in the shit.

I’m very lucky in that my boss is nearly as broke as I am. He didn’t pay himself a salary when I first started, which is fucking admirable, but it also means that I’m not really in a position to ask for my value.

If the guy was a prick I would feel less inclined to work my ass off lol

I’m definitely missing my last job at a big firm.

Granted, a job is still a job, and the threat of being fired is always there, but there was a certain ambivalence that came with it when things went to shit that I could cope with.

With this small company I am emotionally invested and it’s hard to detach from it at the end of the day. Shit sucks.

Aside from basically all the details except for people being murdered with the involvement of a weapon that originated in a country, it’s a perfect comparison!

It’s easy to radicalize them, the tricky part is radicalizing them in the right direction

Yup, it was in the ‘progressive politics’ comm, which is moderated by TokenBoomer who seems to have similar politics to Linkerbann. I’ve actually never been around so many libs just barely hanging on to the edge like this, I’m more familiar with reddit where there isn’t even the pretext of being progressive.

These people are so desperate to hold onto their benevolent self-identity that they will literally say anything to affirm their status in both camps. I have to imagine they are having a quiet crisis of identity behind their phone screen, otherwise I simply cannot fathom how they can be so politically incoherent

I saw an exchange yesterday where a lib was insisting the US is responsible for Israel’s genocide in the same way that Sweden is responsible for the Columbine shooting because the gun used was manufactured there.

That exchange actually broke me

FYI this conflict was precipitated by a discussion on the vegan comm about feeding cats a vegan diet

We’re at a sports bar. All sports lead to gambling, and Wall Street has always been about gambling, too. So I thought, why not combine the two? If you’re watching football or baseball and you’ve got money riding on it, it’s the same thing with stocks. People get attached to these things for better or worse. It’s the way our times work.

Gamba and finance bros, name a more iconic duo.

Imo it’s not as unpleasant as tree jizz in the spring

I highly recommend his concerts, you leave feeling very uplifted

All my hobbies only last a couple months before I lose interest. That’s why gaming is good, though; I can usually satisfy my need for change by picking a different game

I do think the meds would help, but I’m often taking a med vacation when I’m thinking of playing games

FNV is the other one in my library I bought thinking I’d like it because it’s so fondly talked about.

I keep thinking about trying BG3 but I have a feeling it’ll end the same way

Why the fuck did they think rolling him put was a good idea??

Hes not even popular in his home state

it’s just a gully, that’s all. Just nerves

I’m not sure i’ve gotten far enough to appreciate the octopi just yet.

My fear of the slime mold reminds me a lot of my revulsion for the Alien movies with the Xenomorphs and face huggers. Which makes sense, because the intent of those aliens was to horrify via a kind of sexual violation. It forces a spawn into an unwilling host and compels them to carry something not-of-them. But the slime mold is scarier to me, because it isn’t just a physical violation but a cognitive/psychological one. It brings self-determination into question (at least more than human nature already does). How much of your thoughts are yours? How much of your subjective experience is yours? Do you have any choice in resisting the alien, or could you even decide to resist at all?

That’s why I think Kern and Meshner’s storyline strikes me as very similar, but it’s still absent that slight physical component of the slime mold physically living in the host brain. That, to me, is just beyond-the-pail terrifying.

I’ve just gotten to the part where the portiads are about to meet the slime molds and I’m just as anxious as I was the first time lol. It definitely reminds me of Alien, now that the setting is an actual derelict space station. Wish me luck

I’m really enjoying the thematic symmetry with her and the parasitic alien species

The last book touched a bit on continuity of self and consciousness, but I’m really intrigued with how this one is exploring those boundaries more. I like the parallels between space colonization and terraforming and the parasitic species colonizing hosts and Kern doing the same through neural implants…

It’s horrific and great