@astrid

"reach" without consent means you're gonna get blocked or muted;

telling people what they're in for makes for engaged, consensual contact that leads to stronger social links.

any fool can see that.

lol, at least that thing where they "they" people instead of acknowledging actual pronouns has a nice snappy "that's not a federally recognized pronoun, try again" response now.

"You're just misinterpreting; they didn't mean it" was a key component of how I was abused as a kid.

I wasn't misinterpreting. They did mean it. As they do now.

Conservatives lie about basic facts of reality.

Trust yourself.

'Tolerance' is not a moral position. It's a practical application of specific rules.

Therefore, someone who refuses to be tolerant does not expose hypocrisy when they are removed from a situation that espouses tolerance,

but instead is being removed due to transgressing the rules of that situation.

There's no paradox here. There are those who choose to abide by the rules, and those who refuse to do so.

Statements of support without action behind them are meaningless.

Do something and -then- talk about what you actually did.

I'm not terribly interested in people paying lip service to the idea that trans people, like me, deserve equal rights.

I'm interested in what actions you take to enforce my rights in your spaces.

@jenniferplusplus @recursive

Stock market performance has nothing to do with company stability, and indicates solely the "investor class" -

so, that group of worthless dipshits who perform no work and create nothing of value, leeching onto companies to extract value from them and exploit their workers in turn -

has irrational "feelings" about a business.

Not to mention that this innovation of stock performance being the sole measure of a company's worth is a Reagan-era idea, and within living memory we have had alternative, far more successful models.

Excusing these paint-eating bastards is not anything I find of interest, frankly.

@recursive

Contrast Costco's business model that everyone's always so fucking amazed about vs. the "conventional wisdom" rationalizations for a race to the bottom.

@recursive

But they don't.

That's the thing.

Those 'incentives' only exist if your management team has their heads stuffed completely up their asses and are incapable of making their own decisions, and instead are competing with other businesses on those other business' terms.

What kind of dipshit is fool enough to play into a losing game like that?

This 'incentives' shit is rationalization of "these managers are too incompetent to understand how to run their own business and are asking others how to make themselves easier prey."

@recursive

So, incompetence.

@recursive

I'm not using a moral argument, and the exploit you're referring to is being used -by- the hypothetical poaching company -

Meaning that, by paying workers enough and demonstrating the ability to Get More Money instead of keeping them static, that dynamic works in your favor to -retain- employees.

Thus, the company retains profitability -and- retains expertise that makes them a more adapted for the marketplace, as well as fucking over the other companies that are now struggling to attract talent, or who must make offers ludicrously above market value to acquire yours; this paradigm screws their paradigm over.

Very basic systems thinking.

The whole "if we train our employees they'll get poached by another company offering more" attitude is regrettably common and also shows that your management team is incompetent.

If trained employees are -more valuable- that someone else is going to -pay more for them- then...

....why the fuck aren't you paying them what they're worth in the first place, dipshit?

Not to mention the -screamingly- obvious implication that if you treated your employees with respect, funded their training, and when they had more skill, gave them a raise -for- having that skill,

they would obviously have a reason to want to stick around instead of taking a marginally higher salary elsewhere.

I'm not sure what business school the present paradigm came out of, but I have a feeling the founders ate a whole shitload of wall candy.

@amy @HerGayRoommate

Nope.

"Folder" was a skeumorphic affordance to metaphorically make the concept of a directory understood to GUI users.

There is the old windows .cab archive format - as in, file cabinet - but that's as close as you'll find iirc.

@petrillic

Fun fact, trans women on adequate hrt regimens get periods same as cis women, including the extremely specific lower abdominal cramping.

Only thing different is the lack of endometrial shedding ("bleeding") on account of the lack of a uterus - so, effectively, we're in the same boat as cis women with a hysterectomy.

Chocolate also ends up being oddly useful for managing that.

The emotional expansion is also a hell of a trip.

If Zuck's all worried about being feminized, then perhaps he should try it out.

Nothing like confronting a fear head-on to understand it fully.

Running from your fears lets them control you, after all.

@JessTheUnstill

I'm fucking sick of having to come up with unique one-off fixes to accommodate others' failures and inconsistencies, and I'm completely out of spoons to suppress my bitchiness.

@JessTheUnstill

I know workarounds exist. I want the tool that those fucking assholes coopted out of the public commons to work so I don't have to come up with workarounds.

https://infosec.exchange/@munin/113828537477522219

Whichever festering dipshit FODed the firefighting plane needs to own the fuck up immediately and very fucking publicly fucking take the fucking consequences for their actions.

https://journa.host/@w7voa/113823746526021052

@foone

aw, hell. so no fun "figure out the resonant frequency of the keyboard" then.

@foone does it listen on loopback because I have a funny idea