I also sort of blame it on the social media culture of being “constantly connected.” In some workplace cultures, (especially outside the dev space), not being constantly visible and grinning is the same as not consistently posting happy updates on your feed and consuming them.

I remember in my last job we had an “open office” plan after buying and renovating a huge space, and I found a niche little area to set up my desk without people staring at me and when people came to ask me questions they would say shit like “oh so this is where you’re hiding!”

Yes, on company property in the main workroom seated at my company desk using my company computer.

Thankfully my new job is fully remote, so fuck all that weird social noise when at the end of the day I’m just whoring my brain and fingers out so I can pay my rent and buy groceries

Also now your boss can stare at you from his glass office door and see if you’re laughing too much and then Lumbergh you

All the UX people are tasked with cramming garbage AI and data collection into everything while everything else is “designed” by a bunch of overpaid engineers checking off boxes on “features” it should have regardless of where they end up or how usable they are

Probably US border patrol since the other one says BORTAC

Bet you they all have amazing parents too

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-violates-ceasefire-terms-shelling-several-areas-gaza

What a difference he made

Though the vehicle is either an original or cloned MAZ missile vehicle from the 60s, so not really impressive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAZ-7310

Crazy that any brain you look at is a sink

Well at least now we know the price of opening an airbase in the US for non-NATO countries

Yeah my old apartment had one shared old ass boiler in the basement for the whole building, like 35 units.

I would have to wake up super early for my job, and in the spring/summer when the boiler wasn’t on to heat the radiators, I would often be the one to kick start it by turning my hot water on.

It would take like 10 minutes to heat up so I’d just run the shower on low pressure and get a few more minutes of sleep

Can’t wait for it to be a totally neutral and moral company not named after Lord of the Rings Lore like Palantir or Anduril

This doesn’t really have to do with the number of fees at all. It’s “corrupt government that accepts corporate handouts further removes regulation on ISPs so they can implement shadier pricing strategies to further ill-gotten profits.”

There’s like two or three fees that are legitimate. Others are just a way to get people to pay more without realizing and have more trouble recouping their losses

Or if you threaten to cancel and get redirected to “customer retention.” Amazing how “sorry there’s nothing we can do” becomes “looks like we can make a few changes to your plan since you are a valued customer.” But that’s why they lobby so hard to be a monopoly. Can’t cancel their service if they’re the only service provider in hundreds of miles.

The biggest issue to me with snap (unless something has changed since the last time I looked it up) is that it’s all a walled garden by canonical and it’s not open source (in the sense of package submission, review, rating, source availability, etc).

With flatpak/flathub you can see the source and discussion behind each package

https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories

But that transparency doesn’t exist on snap so you are just hoping canonical did their homework on vetting apps

Once there’s 47 Re:’s in the subject of the final email a call comes in

“Contract complete. Well done 47.”

Another classic Hitman assassination of getting someone to kill themselves due to never ending meaningless emails

Ye olde small government

And whether you buy Oakleys or Ray-Bans, they’re owned by the same company. Hurray capitalism!