Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman

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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Hear, hear. That’s some bullshit.

    We’re about to enter an era where literally the only kind of thing that might work is a General Strike which is gonna mean people literally having to plan a month of eating very little because they won’t have income to buy fresh food. Packing stores of water in case your water gets shut off.

    It’s gonna suck real bad, but all these people are like “I want to get involved, but I’ve gotta go to work.” Motherfucker unless your job is literally saving the lives of people, your job can do without you. You can find another job. McDonald’s and Home Depot aren’t making the world a better place.

    Further, maybe we should all be bailing on these worthless jobs that aren’t contributing to society and instead give our skills to Mutual Aid Groups. Maybe our labor would be better spent on our communities rather than selling worthless plastic shit and unhealthy food back and forth to each other?

    You know how Amish communities get together to raise a barn for a neighbor? Yeah, that’s what we need to be fucking doing. The Amish suck in a lot of ways, but they understand that they have to pool their labor together to meaningfully take care of their community. We need community-driven Habitat For Humanity on fucking steroids.

    “We’ll still be expected to go to work during the apocalypse.” Yeah, only if you choose to bend over and fucking take it. You could also walk out of the fucking job because it’s the fucking apocalypse.


  • The fact that through all this gaslighting and society falling apart the best therapists can do for me is to give me techniques to ignore it all.

    Like at what point do we stop making it the job of people who have been broken by this society to fix them fucking selves and control their emotions while all the assholes who keep making it worse are never expected to fix shit about themselves?

    The worst literally just shrug it all off and keep being assholes. When the fuck are mental health professionals gonna acknowledge maybe its not up to us to fix ourselves when society itself is breaking our minds?

    The gaslighters, abusers, and selfish all just get to keep doing what they’re doing and all of us halfway decent people have to do “better” because of them. It’s literally the same stupid attitude that allowed our country to be dragged into fascism.

    Stop making the fucking victims of it all be the ones who have to put in the work to fix anything!




  • I had even forgotten that.

    I can’t fucking stand that piece of shit Eric Migicovsky. He fucked a bunch of the workers at Pebble on his way out, selling it to Fitbit, and then leaving them hanging when they were promised their jobs were part of the sale.

    His whole Beeper breaking into iMessage and then trying to make it work for three days and then just giving up after it became clear Apple was going to fight it. It reeked of complete lack of planning or consideration of the ramifications.

    Finally, they never took privacy seriously, and I learned that the hard way during my onboarding in the first year they released. Suffice to say, I bowed out of the onboarding because of their lack of communication and lack of respect for user privacy.

    Now he wants back in on Pebble since it got open sourced. He’s building another new company and telling people to join.

    I’m sick of this asshole fucking failing upward and fucking everyone each time he does.

    But yes, Mullenweg super sucks, too. So it was created by an asshat, ran by an asshat, and then sold to another asshat.









  • The worst problem in this world is that we will all be endlessly told to just work on ourselves and make ourselves better every time we have to deal with cretinous motherfuckers who will never spend a single moment of their life working on self-improvement or being a better person.

    Some days I really wish that China’s social credit score thing was real, but actually effectively applied at real anti-social people. Like right-wing fucking thugs who chose to cough all over people during COVID because they decided they were smarter than scientists and doctors and it “must be a hoax!”

    I wish there was a system to force these people into doing some basic fucking self reflection and choosing to be better.

    Genuinely, my entire life has been spent being prosocial and trying very hard to be a good person, and every time I fall apart because I’m surrounded by selfish fucking asshole idiots, it’s my job to get the fuck over it, never their job to become better people.

    As for you, specifically, a healthy workplace is one that doesn’t judge people for being different but instead sees the hard work they do and accepts that every individual has their own needs and can be healthy and productive in the workplace without being just like everybody else. I am so sorry you’re experiencing this, because you don’t deserve to. Your accomplishments at work should be the measure of whether you matter, not whether you are sociable enough that’s just silly.