I made cream cheese cupcakes for my team off this dudes site back in 2008 and they were the bomb.

Expensive to make but really good. I never baked again.

Oh my god thank you. Somehow despite being engulfed in this stuff being an I.T person while having affection toward Ed Zitran and full agreement on almost all arguments living this weird ying yang over the topic.

This is the succinct detail I hadn’t clued into until this moment of what the core motivation is for all of the crazy spending that makes zero sense. It’s literally this. There is no amount of money, lying, cheating or stealing that cannot be justified by the most cynical of capitalist if they believe this is the outcome.

It’s such an obvious thing when you put it like that and I’m even sure I’ve seen it said before but it really hit me for some reason from your comment. They would move mountains if they thought there was even the smallest chance and bet the entire farm over it.

First you have recognize there is no barriers to their cynicism I guess but this is the only root cause conclusion that could be rationalized. That or fomo and temporary wins but for those spending and not on any receiving end, I couldn’t make sense of the rational until you said it so plainly.

I mean buying from the EU to ship to themselves. It’s late here. I’m tired.

Thank you E.U. I hope you have a run of people buying and shipping products all over the world and it pressures everyone else to follow suit.

I think it used to be that even Europeans traveling in the u.s wouldn’t like tipping culture but recognized the plight of the worker and would tip something.

The Americans have been so offensive, weak, embarrassing and completely subjugated to their own corporations that people from abroad no longer empathize with the worker. They wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for their sports game. There’s no culture to experience or anything to see.

Americans have made it clear that they refuse to stand against their brand of capitalism and the rest of us want nothing to do with it as mini versions of their bullshit get attempted elsewhere.

There’s no reason to respect or empathize with the population further. I don’t go there for anything but I wouldn’t tip anyone either or spit on them if they were on fire. We’ve run out of empathy and there has been no benefit to being kind to Americans. It’s far better to just not have them in your orbit. They won’t help themselves so why should we open our wallets.

Too real but I spent the first 15 making low wages and the last 10 making about the same as you.

Got kicked out the door with others due to cost (first time in 25 years) and get interviews but it has been a difficult time finding another place.

I’m working on my own thing with a few people that also have some runway and I really hope it goes well because the job market sucks and I’m sick of being on this wheel. It won’t be because we aren’t trying. That’s for sure. We don’t even care about doing well. We just looked at, what can we get away with and cover expenses without pissing off our wives too much. That’s it. That’s the whole goal. Not a single turtleneck among us. I don’t even care if one of them goes crazy, screws me and takes the lion’s share so long as I don’t have to go back on the wheel.

Even if this half worked and I took a grocery store or security guard gig pt to make up the difference, that would still be preferable.

But I have big fear about finding myself in a call center again and that was a lifetime ago. I’d rather starve to death.

I’m in this statistic already and found your last bit comforting knowing that it at least will end.

For real though a lot of us are also fed up and starting our own boutique i.t things these days.

I read tech article the other day where the engineer had made several LLM calls and over engineered controlling a smart home light. Then wrote a massive corporate ridden psychoses article about it like he was delivering the word of God.

I can’t remember what company had posted it. One of the search vendors I think but it was not cool. It’s like everyone got laid off and the only people left is some execs nephew that’s “good at computers”.

• grabs side of glasses.

What in the Kevin rose and Alex Albrecht.

I’m waiting to see if a bill goes through in my country before pushing my friends into a self hosted messenger but it’ll probably be something xmpp based.

This was probably not great for morale when you compare how handlers are with working dogs today or how the Polish treated their ammo bear even then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

Moloch also keeps showing up again and again in the lore of these people as a way for them to personally atone for their egregious activities. They believe this entity requires constant and significant sacrifice for good fortune. George Bush Jr was in attendance at Bohemian grove many times where the powerful people go to rub elbows and relax in the summer on a lake. They run a mock ceremony there called the Comfort of Care as part of the festivities where they do a mock sacrifice of a young women (presumably a virgin) to Moloch as a symbol of the entire years worth of their immoral actions to atone to Moloch. The idea being that they can then leave the mini vacation with less weight of how they have used their power in the past.

I think coverage of the grove as dramatization throughout the years regarding occult activity actually did us all a big disservice toward what the real issue has always been. That is, leadership without personal responsibility, and should be a major red flag when thinking about leaders at any capacity.

I wish I was making this stuff up. So it’s not totally off the wall here that George Bush Jr would be looking for other spiritual entities and collect them so that he could also use for himself for justifications. This is how they sleep at night and we should never let them forget their harm no matter how many cute paintings they make.

Whether they really believe this stuff or not, there is always a theme of using spirituality to justify horrible actions among these people and I think that’s something important to keep in mind in regard to understanding the complete lack of mental health and critical thinking among the powerful despite their positions and willingness to say or do anything to justify their actions.

I wish we could do away with the idea of spirituality once and for all but I’d settle for the institutions of religion to at least call out these people more often along the way when powerful people are just as happy to use that religion as a means of justification for their actions. The whole thing is rotten to the core.

When a person with addiction murders someone and says “god made me do it.”. We treat them as crazy. When a politician does it, we are supposed to feel sorry for them?

Anyway, for anyone that believes they have to choose “something” focus on science. At least it has to prove itself rather than demand sacrifice to some vague mythical goat man. I believe the Pastafarions haven’t harmed anyone (yet) either.

haha, also gas pumps.