quetzaldilla

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I have zero fucking empathy for Trump or Elon because they are fucking nazis and there needs to be extremely severe punitive measures taken against them because that is the only consequence wealthy narcissists understand.

  I understand why they are that way, it does not mean they just get a pass for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Call me crazy, but I think some of the biggest fucking bastards in human history simply needed someone to listen to them and help them learn how to self-regulate their emotions as children.

  They’re all so consistently bitter and unhappy narcissists, and they drive away their loved ones because they have no idea how to listen and introspect. They also always try to lure others in with money because that’s what the only things they personally care about.

  When someone criticizes my behavior, I legitimate think about it and I ask them what I could do differently that would make them happier to be around me, and I take that shit seriously even if it hurts to hear.

  Sometimes it’s completely bogus, but if it matters to them, it matters to me, and that’s all that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had a time machine, I would try to find a way to stop Reagan rather than Hitler.

  I think other time travelers will cover Hitler, so I think we should diversify our efforts in stopping other evil bastards around the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked as an associate for a public accounting firm that does not ever advertise itself, because we specialized serving ultra wealthy individuals and you could only engage us if you knew of us through such circles.

  One day, our office got a call from the personal assistant to someone very wealthy who is known for abusing ketamine, asking for an engagement on a very unusual and complex tax situation. A call was set up to discuss the scope of the engagement, because the partners have always been very particular about what clients they will take on, because really wealthy individuals are often very unpleasant, stressful, & frustrating to work with.

  Apparently during the call the assistant was patronizing, like we should feel flattered that we were chosen by m’lord, and demanded non-negotiable terms that we would conduct our work exactly as told with no questions asked. They had even sent their own engagement letter for us to sign with them ahead of the call, and it was completely absurd.

  The partners patiently explained that is not possible, as that is not how this type of professional relationship works, and declined the engagement.

  The assistant was losing their mind, shocked we would turn such an opportunity down. They offered even more money and even some compromise, but the way they initiated the interaction set the tone to expect throughout the professional relationship.

  I was very impressed by the partners in the sense that I knew they were incredibly greedy people, but they are so fucking intelligent and had such a great instinct to avoid clients that were going to end up costing way more money than they brought in, because us associates would absolutely refuse to deal with bullshit because it was already a super stressful job, and we were way too talented and incredibly expensive to replace if we walked off.

  The self restraint must have been legendary, and exactly the right call, because all the professionals that do end up accepting end up getting embroiled in costly lawsuits and getting thrown under the bus.

  Anyway, I hated that job and I wish I that quit sooner than I did. I got such bad burnout, I developed PTSD and now I prefer just living like a hobo rather than go back out there.

  PS: Fuck capitalism and fuck Amazon. I refuse to buy anything from them ever again. Cancelled my credit card and told them to go fuck themselves. Fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen and⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not should anyone, honestly. They are a travesty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen and⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To clarify, my comment specifically is about superficial movie reviews, critiques, & recommendations.

  Criticism within the context of a movie discussion, presuming everyone involved actually engaged with the movie, is part of healthy dialogue & idea exchange.

  I’ve had my point of view changed plenty within such discussions, and brain dead people do not usually bother to participate in such forums so it’s a win-win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen and⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think blatant cash grabs are fair game for harsh criticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen and⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Movies are made to tell stories that the directors and the producers feel inspired to tell. And unless they are a Marvel or DC movie, they aren’t always meant to appeal to every audience member, and it’s childish to think that movies should always cater to your every whim-- especially when people are so goddamn quick to judge things others worked really hard on so goddamn harshly.

  And before the “but mah money, tho!” shit-- that’s fucking capitalism, and not unique to movies.

  Not every movie is going to be to your taste, and that’s cool. What’s not cool is shitting on a movie just because you didn’t like it or it didn’t make sense to you.

  Reviews are meant to help you choose which movies you want to bother watching. Using the terms in the green column is helpful in giving the reader a sense of what to expect from a movie while avoiding a negative personal impression.

  The red column is very reflective of modern online critiques:

  Harsh. Impulsive. Thoughtless. Black & white.

  Often made without fully engaging with whatever is being critiqued:

  “I haven’t watched the movie, but based on the trailer I bet it’s trash.”

  “I hate Darren Aronofsky movies because they don’t explain what is happening and they’re stupid.”

  “I heard this movie was great, but I watched it and it sucked. Therefore, everyone else is wrong.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nuanced due to the nature of the work, so the gravity of the situation would only really stand out to those in the public accounting industry.

  For example, we provided payroll services for dozens of construction companies in the area receiving federal grant money, and that payroll could not be completed in time without me.

  Before I created the database, client contacts, client billing, project status, and client login credentials to reporting portals & financial institutions were being tracked in an unsecured Excel spreadsheet (as is tradition). I built a database in MS Access and it was pretty straightforward. The owner ended up hiring his nephew who was studying CS, but since he didn’t have much experience or an accounting background, so he was of little help.

  There were other things, but my colleagues started leaving for other opportunities, whom he replaced with questionable people until the firm was sold about a year or two later.

  We used to refer to him as detestable Michael Scott, as he was always blundering and blaming others for problems he caused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, I worked for one these assholes once. He bought the small public accounting firm I started my career at.

  He loved to go on and on about “business is a warzone, you must be ruthless” bullshit, liked to make it really hard to get any PTO approved or obtain new hires.

  Before he came along, I had built an entire database for that business even though my job role did not require it, simply because I got tired of doing things the stupid way and the previous owner made it worth my while.

  One day, the asshole new owner pissed me off when I asked for time off to go camping and denied it citing business first, so I simply resigned on the spot and took off to the mountains. He was like “you can’t fault me for putting the business first” and I was like “whatevs, I’m putting myself first”.

  Stupid motherfucker called me all week, dozens of times each day, because nobody but me knew how the fuck you build and maintain a database.

  My coworkers, who are still my friends to this very day ten years later because they are awesome, regaled me with tales of the clusterfuck that ensued after my departure. Turns out, it’s really hard to find someone with an accounting and a computer science degree.

  I still cackle to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddamned bastard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The mystery of $MELANIA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the reason why Luigi is considered a saint is because he took one for the team, sparing the masses from police violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Convenience is not worth all the spyware and disrespect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys still use Windows and Macs, lol?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang ol’ Wallace over here. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The wording you chose did not adequately reflect that you were referring to the CEO.

  Rather, it sounds like you are criticizing the OP for sharing an article you do not understand or agree with, as it invited no discourse and only served to criticize, similar to the comments regularly posted below news articles.

  I do agree fully with you that CEOs rarely do work of any value, and their role is basically to siphon money from an organization like the parasites they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Go back to watching Fox News, boomer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Following Unfair Presidential Election, Ecuador Faces a Grim Future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree.

  This is the billionaires trying to maintain the status quo while the entire world turns against them.

  There’s nowhere safe for them to be, and all it takes is the right person getting close to them to end their reign. That’s why they are paranoid drug addicts building doomsday shelters instead of making the world better for everyone.

  It’s also the last of the boomers trying to hang on to a world order that made sense to them.

  We cannot afford to live the same lifestyle that middle-class boomers lived because they literally destroyed the planet in order to do so.

  Plus, I think we’re all fucking tired of being exploited and being advertised at. We just wanna make art and be at peace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft president urges fast 'resolution' of transatlantic trade tensions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft will go back on any promises it makes at the slightest pressure, and anyone who believes its promises are fools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Facts:

  DXC fired ALL of their IT technicians servicing the Redmond Microsoft campus and replaced them with “Phoenix”, an AI chatbot that would guide users into troubleshooting their own IT problems.

  The Phoenix chatbot was immediately rejected by users and completely useless at executing its intended purpose.

  DXC then scrambled to rehire the technicians they fired with no success, as they quickly moved on to new jobs. New hires struggled to understand the building layouts and room devices because there was no one to pass on that knowledge.

  Soon thereafter, DXC lost their multi-million dollar contract and all the new hires who worked really hard to try to were summarily dismissed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always torn when I see comments like this because I agree our country needs all the shaming and rejection in order to drive the average American to act. The shaming DOES help-- it cannot be denied.

  But at the same time, being working class American is so fucking brutal, and it’s FAR worse when you are part of a marginalized group.

  I am American but I did not grow up in the US, and it’s so obvious they all have been robbed of their sense of community because we are all being constantly bombarded by fear mongering narratives meant to drive up profits.

  For example, kids are expected to move out at 18 because parents are weirdly concerned that their children wil turn into lazy and unproductive members of society. In reality, life is much easier when multiple generations live in the same home because even if you get on each other’s nerves, they are all at least in the same team like helping raise the children together.

  Instead, they want everyone to be independent from their families because that’s more people paying rent, buying cars, products and services-- same reason why Netflix doesn’t want you sharing your account: so they can sell your friends and family their own to drive those profits up.

  What is happening to America is happening to other countries as well. It’s not a moral failing unique to Americans.

  It’s just that Americans already had weak public institutions as a younger nation and a very painful history full of racism, genocide, and exploitation that already was causing us great difficulty coming together to make the country a better place for everyone, and billionaires saw that as an opportunity to turn us against each other and profit from our fears.

  If you don’t help the good parts of America in our battle against the bad parts of America, we will lose and you will have yet another Russia making the problems in your own country worse and worse until find yourself in the exact same position as we are.

  Get involved in local politics in your country now. Don’t wait.

  We all need to unite and fight against the worse parts of humanity. We’re all so tired of capitalism and exploitation. We want better. Please help us put an end to it wherever you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is related to the increased calls to encourage the adoption of free and open source software. 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux is finally becoming mainstream. I love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not conflate the people with the corporations.

  And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They took our coffee maker away and put one of those Keurig and everyone in my team complained and got real snarky with leadership until we got our old coffee maker back.

  So wasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going on Reddit today be like...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have long speculated it’s a way to keep copyright control of IP that may be entering the public domain, and people who enjoyed the original are more likely to watch the remake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Shouldn’t Have to Work This Hard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so infuriating.

  The reward for doing your job efficiently is more more fucking work.

  Learned that the hard way.