I save my profanity for times and things that are truly worth getting upset about. If you use it all the time, then it becomes meaningless. It just becomes background noise and you sound like a 10 year old all the time.
NutWrench
joined 1 year ago
Company-wide email: "We had our best year EVER and it's all thanks to YOU!"
Me: "Great. Can I have a raise?"
"Oh, we can't afford THAT."
I'd love it if VirtualBox emulated some really basic 3D cards (Voodoo 3, Radeon 9800) so I could do some old school gaming. I have a few old Windows games that won't run under Wine.
This. It's the creativity, inspiration, imagination and hard work of the employees that give the company its value, NOT the owners. Proof: all the franchises that have failed spectacularly once all the smart, creative people have left the company and the only ones left are untalented hacks.
Also, it is LONG past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?
Ask yourself if it was ever a real job offer to begin with. Did you have the required skills? Were your pay requirements reasonable? (For YOU not them). Then you did fine.
Usenet was awesome. A distributed, decentralized network, with thousands of forums. Until it got taken over by spam and porn and a lack of moderation.
Now we have Lemmy. Let's not mess it up.
Imagine if Wine became the new Windows. (Or became all that was left of Windows).
Henry Kissinger. Whenever you needed the most depraved, amoral, anti-democratic take on anything, whether it was the Vietnam war or the Khmer Rouge or the civil rights movement, you could always count on Henry farking Kissinger.
Words mean things. Stop simping for millionaires. It's embarrassing to watch.
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"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."
Damn right, I'm not helping.