Shit. I know what this is. Goddammit.
MystikIncarnate
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If I saw that as an option, I'd buy it. Just saying.
Oh. I heard this bluff from Pat Geisinger himself, in person.
I was employed by VMware many moons ago when Pat took the helm. He decided to start by cutting an entire department from my location, sight unseen.
We then changed all the furniture because they had two floors of the building and wanted to cut back since they just lost half a floor of people.
We go home, work from home for a while, then return. Then Pat comes by for a site visit.
He stood there with the gall to say that the team that was cut was a different business unit, and that was a business decision regarding that business unit (it was the front line team, which was then relocated to "low cost centers").... Blah blah blah.... This is a different department, a different business unit, blah blah, what happened to them is isolated, and doesn't mean anything regarding your employment.... Blah blah ....
I didn't buy it for a second. But I was too stressed out to do anything at the time.
The layoffs started less than six months later. I was part of the first round.
Fuck you Pat.
This is exactly what I'm thinking.
Thank you.
I don't really care if this is real or not, or if the song sucks, or if it's a banger, or if it never existed.
None of that is what's concerning.
The concerning thing for me is that, even if it's fake, everyone just kinda accepting that Tesla can, and would, remotely deactivate a vehicle, when it may be in motion, and may be in a dangerous or otherwise hazardous location where losing control could mean that people die...
And everyone is just like "that's totally something they would do! Lol".... What?
I could give a fuck less if they deactivate his... Idk, heated seat subscription, or autopilot, or (insert stupid feature here). But making it so the vehicle can't drive? For a car you paid money to "own"?
What the actual fuck everyone?
Boycott. That's all that I can say. ... Not that I wasn't already planning on doing that....
Holy shit. Torvalds is only 55 and that's what he looks like now?
Holy fuck.
That technology should run Linux. For stability.
I came up with an analogy for vaccines that I'm thinking might actually penetrate the think skulls of some of these motherfuckers. If you agree, please feel free to use it... It goes like this:
When soldiers are preparing for their life in the service, what do they do? Stand around with their thumbs in their asses waiting for an enemy to attack? No. They train. They train day and night. They train until they have all of the maneuvers and tactics burned into their brains.
They use guns and tanks to defend.
So for defense, most would agree that the soldiers doing the fighting need two main things: training and equipment.
This is the same for your immune system. The equipment that your body needs to mount a good defence comes in the form of vitamins, minerals, and most importantly, calories to keep everything operating as good as it can.
Vaccines are the other side of that equation. They're the training regimen for your immune system. It's the practice run before going into a live-fire situation.
Vaccines, in and of themselves, can't do shit to stop you from getting an infection, or a disease. That's not what vaccines do. They only train the soldiers of your immune system to recognize and effectively attack the enemy. Without them, your immune system soldiers will take longer to react to a threat because it will simply take longer to recognise it and attack/eliminate it.
That's it.
Tipping, specifically in the original context of restaurants, I will still do, simply because the government needs to change the minimum wage so that servers are included. They're currently a protected group that is allowed to be paid far less than minimum wage, and they are supposed to make up the difference in tips.
In every other context, wow me and I'll tip you, otherwise, don't expect shit.
If you did your job as you are expected to do, then I don't see why I need to tip.
The first handful of episodes, you could tell that spiner was trying to figure out how to play data. There's something just ... Off about his portrayal of the Android.... It's hard to describe.
But, to be blunt, there were a lot of things that were "off" about season 1.....
I used to do this unintentionally while working in a call center. We dealt with a lot of folks from the south who had similar accents. I'm Canadian, eh?
My coworkers used to say that when I'd show up to work, I was (my name), and by the time I be left, I was farmer (my name).
I honestly didn't intend to do it. I'm just so used to mirroring the people around me.
As a millennial, partly responsible for the big dip around the 2000s:
LOL. GFL.