A couple months ago I ran into a guy collecting signatures for Cuomo by Atlantic center (a major transit hub in Brooklyn). I was just like “why?? Why are you doing this??” But sadly I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to engage with him very long

If you haven’t read “the ones who walk away from omelas” from LeGuin, I recommend doing so.

If we have history, hannity should go down next to Goebbels. I hope I live long enough to spit on his grave.

I had a job that paid stupid well. I’d give some money to almost anyone who asked on the street. They need it. I have plenty. I’m not going to notice the $1 or $5 or even $20 that I gave away. I make more than that in interest every day.

Rarely, I’ll talk with them a little. Ask their name or their story. There’s a regular around me that seems delighted that I remember his name.

Sometimes someone will seem unsafe, but most people are alright. It helps that I’m a bearded man, so certain classes of danger and harassment are rarely pointed at me.

I got laid off in February. I still give to people who ask, but I carry less cash so sometimes I don’t have anything to give.

When I’d be out with coworkers, before we all got laid off, none of them would give anything to people asking. I know they made as much or more than I did. I don’t judge people for not giving cash out when they’re in debt or struggling to pay rent, but I do judge my coworker for like wearing a high five figure watch and never helping the poor.

I see how people might think that.

Personally I think power is… Let me quote from classic web comic the order of the stick:

Power, it isn’t something that you put on or take off like a jacket. It’s something you just ARE.

If you can lose it by blowing two Will saves, you never really had any power in the first place, see what I’m saying?

Thinking you’re powerful because you have a big car is foolish

That management and leadership are smart, visionary, people without whom everything would fall apart.

It doesn’t matter what my line of work is. Management is mostly out of touch idiots everywhere.

“We need to redesign the web page to be more modern! Get me a big hero image and an image carousel!”

“Customers are complaining about how they can’t save their search settings. Maybe we should do something about that?”

“No that’s not a priority”

bike lanes are often viewed by these folks as “liberal bullshit”, and blame them for displacing car lanes and parking.

I don’t understand how “traveling using your muscles” became less “manly” than “sitting on your ass”.

Someone who rides up a big hill on a bike? Fit. Impressive. Admirable.

Someone who drives a car? Boring. Passé. Dull.

This should be obvious to anyone paying any attention, but a lot of maga hats live in a world of lies, and a lot of people live in a world of shallow media. All those “did biden drop out?” searches right before the last election are haunting.

Cuomo is not a good candidate.

My parents, who thankfully can’t vote in the NYC election, don’t really like Zohran. One because she’s terrified of “communism” (whatever that means to her). The other is skeptical, but I feel like could be convinced. I think that’s a lot of older people.

Conservatives typically don’t want to talk about blame because it is their fault.

I eat lunch mostly alone. Dinners maybe about half or 2/3rds with someone. But I’m well older than 18-24 :(

At my local bars, I tell them I’m (still) unemployed and then ask for the saddest, cheapest, beer. Usually it’s High Life or a sad little green can I can’t remember the name of. $4 or $5. One of them’s a local enough bar that I know most of the bartenders now, at least.

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?

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?