I had a friend who was married to a veteranarian who worked with exotic animals. They were constantly fostering bird rescues. He told me once he fell asleep on the couch and woke up as a parrot was reaching for his glasses. He said he knew this bird wouldn’t intentionally hurt him but seeing a 4-year-old child with a can opener on its face reaching for him was pretty scary.

I had a coworker who would frequently say “Not to be pendantic…” and I honestly could not tell if he was just fucking with me.

This is a memo, not a law. It will never make it before a judge. Targeted groups won’t be charged, they will instead be detained, possibly indefinitely, but certainly long enough to fuck them up. They will also use this memo to monitor communications, pull financial records and otherwise harass people. They will use the label to force financial institutions to freeze assets.

But they won’t charge you.

And somehow their implementation of e911 will still not work.

I dunno, if he’s a secret fascist he’s been playing the really long game.

I use Garuda for gaming, but most would likely recommend Bazzite.

This works better when spoken with the appropriate inflections.

It would be like the one upside of a TBI.

But really, due where I was in life when I played it and how much it helped me process things, I’m not sure I would give up the experience I already had.

He just wants people to talk about this instead of how 7 million Americans spent one of their days off to tell this guy to go fuck himself.

We were led in a rousing song of “If you’re not in the Epstein files clap your hands!”

Exactly. I think what I see on lemmy is a great deal of misunderstanding regarding where the American population is at right now. Lemmy has, on average, a far higher level of political engagement than the average American and there is a greater representation of activists on this platform. The American public is simply not at the ‘let’s improvise a mass work-stoppage’ stage. We just aren’t where we need to be to topple a fascist regime.

A primary benefit to these large protests is to drive political engagement and remove perceived barriers to activism. That is how we move things from ‘useless protests’ to ‘impactful resistance’. You have to get more of the public to where we are already at, even if it is frustrating to wait for all these people to catch up.

For something so pointless Mike Johnson and the usual stooges seem to be spending a lot of time talking about the upcoming protests using inflammatory rhetoric. One would think they might not bother if what you say were true.

Quite a lot for online friends and gaming. For irl friends, it’s more sporadic.

Abolitionists were definitely woke in that they recognized and fought against a systemic injustice. Not everyone in the North was an abolitionist, but the political struggle naturally defined the war.

These charges will go nowhere. This is just so Trump can characterize his enemies as criminals.

They did lose the Civil War due to woke.

Trump does love stiffing people who work for him.

We had a fundamental disagreement regarding the role of technology in business operations. In my view, technological change in an enterprise exists in tension between the business desiring a solution that perfectly fits their process and the flexibility of a technology package to approximate the business requirements in a cost-effective way. Ideally, technology should fade into the background so that you don’t even notice or think about it as it facilitates your work.

Microsoft seemingly disagrees.

My specialty is telephony, a space that Microsoft has only recently ventured into with a competitive and cost-effective, if feature-poor, offering in Teams. Telephony is a complex topic and the way telephones are used in business today is varied from people who barely use their phone (but want it when they need it), to people who depend on specific telephony functionality to do their work.

The meeting I had was in a beta-user group for new tech in that space, it was me and about 40 other admins from a variety of large businesses and a team-lead in Microsoft product house. Basically, it was a group of customers becoming increasingly exasperated at the arrogant ignorance of someone in charge of developing telephone technology at Microsoft who didn’t only have limited experience with enterprise-level telephony, but insisted that business units conform their processes to fit what Microsoft was willing to develop, and I want to emphasize here, that the audience was more than willing to meet the vendor halfway here, it was Microsoft insisting that people didn’t really need basic things like busy-indicators.

I spent about an hour getting more and more angry to the point where I just wanted to get rid of everything Microsoft, but I couldn’t torpedo Teams at work, so I went home and installed Mint on all my PCs (and later switched to Garuda).

Ah yes, extortion. I hear that works well.

I had a meeting at work with a product team lead at Microsoft. Went home and installed Linux that evening.