Because then the manager might directly order you to wait. So then if you leave you’re directly disobeying an order.

But if you just sign off and they call you on it, you can say you were SO ENERGIZED to meet this quarter’s deadlines that you just couldn’t stop yourself from getting back to work on the project! Then you can say “yeah, it’s my biggest flaw, I’m so excited about my work that sometimes I don’t spend enough time in meetings.” Bonus: that way you never get promoted to management.

Solution is simple:

• Meeting Lead: “If there are no questions we can end the meeting early.”
• Sergio: “Ok, bye!” (signs off)
• Moot McDetail: “Ackshully, I just was wondering…”

lel reminds me of a superhero I once played who was basically a “tank” whose only power was a mind-control ability to convince others to attack him instead of someone else. It was a one-dimensional kinda character so it got old fast, but it was the kind of campaign where I could roll up another character.

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Enshittification refers not just to making things crappier, but to a process in which different people benefit. iirc:

1. first the customer gets a lot of value and the platform loses money (bc the service is building a customer base)
2. then the vendors get a lot of value bc the platform privileges them (this is most obvious with amazon - maybe less on social media platforms but maybe that’d be third parties that work on that plaform?)
3. then the shareholders get a lot of value bc the platform squeezes every single possible penny out of the customer and the vendors.

Most major social media platforms are very far into the enshittification process, so yes they do not provide a very “social” environment to the customer. They control the feed so you can’t just follow your friends, they force you to watch ads, they have ever-strict requirements to participate (one or more of: you can’t just observe you have to create an account, you can’t use VPNs, you must enter an email address, you must enter a phone number, you must enter a credit card, …) etc.

The solution is either:

• look for a platform that is early in the enshittification cycle (like those who went from Twitter to Bluesky) or
• find a platform whose goal is to resist enshittification (like those who went from Twitter to Mastodon.)

Chappell Roan - My Kink is Karma

Enshittification refers not just to making things crappier, but to a process in which different people benefit. iirc:

• first the customer gets a lot of value and the platform loses money (bc the service is building a customer base)
• then the vendors get a lot of value bc the platform privileges them (this is most obvious with amazon - not sure if there’s a direct parallel with netflix, maybe the rights holders?)
• then the shareholders get a lot of value bc the platform squeezes every single possible penny out of the customer and the vendors.

Netflix is very far into the enshittification process. Many years ago it was a pretty good platform. But now if you are a paying customer, you can expect the service to get continually worse.

Wai? Dude looks like he plays drums in a Spinal Tap tribute band. What could be better than that?

That was the point of the satiric novella Candide.

I realize he’s talking about “history is written by the victors” but I thought of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds

Try this:

• get a different computer
• get a different email address
• use a different type of browser
• find a different place to log in (cafe, library, etc.)
• every time before you sign in, say to yourself: “I will not say anything that could possibly offend any company that might advertise there.” (you should say this aloud, but it’s OK to whisper, like a prayer)
• as you through your day, make sure you never say, do, or think anything that any advertiser would dislike.

The last two are especially important, or else you’ll just get banned again.

Frisbee

Narrator: “Christ did not forgive them.”

I’da told him: “I walked into here and couldn’t see a thing so I opened this one.”

With no discovery algorithm though, I may be missing some stuff that I would otherwise be interested in

Check out these feeds of non-political non-technical stuff:

• low-meme: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
• high-meme: https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent

I don’t see the problem. Let there be a new Age of the Witticism.

But in the spirit of your post, here’s a reaction meme I made with no text:

I can’t think of a single time that not knowing Spanish prevented me from accomplishing something useful, either.

Then you’ve never experienced the secret menu at your local taco stand.

I was afraid you were going to end by offering to give them a cookie recipe.

“First, do harm.”
-the hypocritical oath

the goth movement of today is an aesthetic

A purist would say that it’s focused on a specific set of post-punk music acts and the people inspired by them.

Nowadays, yeah, it just means anyone who dresses “dark” regardless of what kind of music they like or scene they hang out in. Which I think is cool, wtf, the music is still there if people want to listen to it: [email protected]

the Goths that challenged Rome

I think the joke relies on “goth” as in “gothic fiction”

The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance-era use of the word “gothic”, as a pejorative term meaning medieval and barbaric, which itself originated from Gothic architecture and in turn the Goths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction

So there’s only really a tenuous link to medieval history, let alone goth in the musical or aesthetic sense. The joke would make a lot more sense if the kid was into the Society of Creative Anachronism and Historical European Martial Arts, but I suspect not enough people know about those.

Don’t worry, kid’s gonna get an A in Renaissance History.