Ahh this is awesome. Funny enough, before I was a web dev, I was a graphic artist. Showing my age as well, my first version of Photoshop was 5 and I learned how to edit on old PowerMacs in high school. In the early 2000s I was on a forum with a similar group of folks. I think I was the only one with formal training, so I’d design forum signatures for everyone, as well as show people how to do their own graphics (as well as where to ahem acquire the software to do so).

I got into IRC and all of those tools late in life, but forums were fun back in the day.

I always wanted to checkout Siggraph but never got the chance.

I used to have a small crew that I would play Left For Dead 1 and 2 on Xbox with. We would all get on mics and get drunk and/or high the whole time. When random people hopped in to play humans vs zombies matches, we would hype them and welcome them. Always tried to be the group that didn’t deter players or talk shit. Had a lot of fun sessions that would go to 3 or 4 AM. I haven’t seen them online in ages.

People openly bragging about being exploited has always been hilarious to me. I’ve been pushing back on bullshit employer things since my first job in my teens.

It’s going to be long and arduous. The US has such massive reach and influence that it’s going to take a long time before it topples. After that, we will probably be stuck in some Peter Thiel wet dream where he tells us Skynet was actually the protagonist and the Nazis had some good ideas.

Can’t wait to watch the “blue no matter who” and “I have a fixation on the genitals of trans folks” crowds duke it out again in a rigged election system.

It’s absolutely amazing to me the lengths this administration will go to lick the boots of Israel—a country that has been actively carrying out a goddamn genocide since the 1940s. Zionists are the scum of the earth. They rival the Nazis.

And to make it worse, this is happening again.

Hey, those buildings and apartments aren’t gonna rent themselves! /s

This is more accurate. China is fucking killing it. Far from perfect but somehow the US has turned into a third world shithole despite having the biggest budget in the world. China takes care of its people and actually sends help when natural disasters hit.

They aren’t proposing anything and there’s nothing to get. They never propose anything because their whole platform is built on bullshit. It’s their way or no way. Have you not seen these folks get off on watching the “out group” get arrested, beaten, etc? They use democrats as the punching bag like any of us give a shit about them. None of this stuff even matters in the end because it’s nothing more than punching horizontal vs punching up.

This is where they malfunction every time. The propaganda they’ve been fed tells them that all leftists are liberals and vice versa. As soon as you step outside of that structure, they become unmoored.

Had some libertarian try to discredit my views and claim they were all from the mainstream media I watch. Homie, I don’t watch, nor read any of that corporate media liberal horseshit. Try again.

Yes because I don’t want to end up like Calgary and Juneau and I’m not a lunatic.

The ad industry is an abusive ex that complains when you defend yourself.

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DeSantis just outlawed fluoride in water and my city just… went along with it. It’s the dumbest state and I can’t wait to leave.

Oh god, the amount of times I’ve had something right in front of me and can’t find it. It’s like a running joke in my house now. My only saving grace at work is having AI do the grunt coding work that bores me out of my goddamn mind and I can never focus on.

God that sucks. I was laid off for 3 months and hated it. I can’t even fathom 2 years. That is rough, friend.

I should clarify that my post is mostly about the tech industry because that’s all I really know. It’s a field where you can get some leeway and figure shit out. If you’re a doctor, they’re gonna check your background and credentials pretty thoroughly and I don’t recommend lying in a field like that.

Do whatever you need to do. Lie on your resume; use AI; automate job applications; rewrite your resume using any tool you can find. It’s a cutthroat environment and I don’t envy anyone trying to find a job right now. Someone I know has been trying for a year and a half and still nothing.

The tech capitalists have captured full control of the industry and they now hold all of the leverage. We don’t have the room we once did for bargaining.

Also, when you do a peer review, say nothing but positive things unless the person is vile. Support fellow working class folks. We can struggle together.

You asleep or something?