Damn he has aged horribly, like one of those “not even once” ads.

Oddly, although I can use chopsticks to eat, I can not visualize what my grip is from these pictures. It’s delegated entirely to my hand at this point and I don’t think about it any more.

All these fuckers are our neighbors and for many of us former employers.

We know exactly how they think, and what they think of us.

Andreesen is the tip of the iceberg.

I found that keeping up with people over video works better when you’re in the same time zone. When I was managing teams at +8 hours and -12.5 relative hours, communication and trust just weakened steadily over time and creative collaboration stalled. Spending a week there in person usually got things unstuck.

I know people on split engineering teams between LA and Seattle who prefer all virtual and it’s worked long term. LA to NY I think would be a heavier lift.

And, of course, this whole discussion is always dominated by software engineers; there are lots of jobs that involve actual manipulation of matter where in person collaboration is essential to communicate skills.

the executives locked themselves into expensive long term leases for their offices and don’t want to feel embarrassed that it’s a wasted cost.

This is exactly what happened at Alphabet.

Mosh pits are fun. So are hugs.

Sometimes I want/need to go hang out in a hug box/safe space/echo chamber. If that means there’s less content there, that’s a tradeoff I’m fine with.

Hell how many Americans even remember what happened at Abu Ghraib? That got memory holed awfully quickly after pinning it all on one PFC.

I believe the term in question is a truncation of the word “retardation”, and the usage of said truncation as a suffix to “lib-”.

I am completely cool with the owner of an instance seeing something that concerned her both morally and legally, and cutting it the fuck off.

In general defed doesn’t bother me that much, I can always make an account on lemmynsfw; if you’re using a decent client it’s easy to manage.

Hexbear is a bare-knuckle community that encourages group think and hair trigger mockery (“LIB!” and variations). In general, they bring that mentality wherever they go. It reminds me of the Goons from SomethingAwful in that way: you could spot a group of Goons regardless of the game, site, whatever.

Those communities can be fun (a supporters section at a football match, for example), but you have to go in ready to take a stray punch or two.

I have an account on another instance for when I want to be out in the world and suffer the slings and arrows and look at shitposts on !chapotraphouse. Sometimes I’m in the mood.

But I think part of the intended vibe of blahaj.zone is that it’s somewhere that as highly marginalized people we can come and not expect to have slurs thrown around, 0-100 name calling criticism, etc.

The culture of hexbear is the opposite of that; it’s not about not subscribing to !chapotraphouse, it’s about how the instance approaches the whole idea of online interaction.

SHOCKED

She ain’t doing shit.

Trump is going to make death threats against her and she’ll furrow her brow and go tut-tut.

Probably No Child Left Behind which was a disaster.

Classics has been a bastion of white conservatism my entire life. I think the number of people in that field who disagree with DeSantis on much of anything is quite small.

Zuck could hospitalize Musk in seconds.

BJJ is no joke.

A lot of them (Alphabet in particular) overinvested in commercial real estate and are now sitting on a huge sunk cost.

Oh I went to a Christian school, read it all, did the textual analysis of the different pentateuch authors, that stuff.

And what do Christians actually quote from all that? Shit from leviticus and romans about hating gay people. That’s what matters.

And at weddings people read “love is kind…” before that Khalil Gibran poem about the temple columns.

Truly, contemporary Christians are receiving their reward.

Thinly veiled racism.

Jesus is irrelevant to ------ianity.

Leviticus & Romans, that’s all you need.

Well, I installed Firefox on all of my devices after finding out about the DRM plans, mostly through lemmy.

So you got one person.