We all knew it was going to be. Nothing was going to stop management from doing it anyways.

To quote Survivor.

Outlive. Outlast. Outplay.

I love getting older. With each day my purpose grows.

Pay off my car or put it into my mortgage and live like I didn’t get 40k. The remaining 10k I would split among my 3 kids. They deserve something nice.

Both ways I might add. I know I’m better off lol

Fundamentally I disagree with blocking outside of things like threatening life, CSAM or other extreme things. Doing it for different opinions? That’s a bitch move and sign of a weak person or persons.

You or anyone else can go through my comment history at no point have I said anything destructive to anyone. Regardless it’s neither here nor there. The mods/admins of that instance have shown they are not interested in divergent or challenging opinions. Let them live in their walled garden. For anyone on their instance I would seriously take a second look at their bullshit policies and/or questionable moderation.

My 2 cents.

Edit and on your point of we live in a racist/transfobic society I agree 100%. Maybe it’s an opportunity for the people doing the banning to reflect maybe they need to pull their heads out their asses and realize intentionally removing voices from a room does not make the voices go away. And adult would have asked/talked it out. Dialogue. Nope. Bitch behaviour and block lol

A few things.

1. The parallel is stupid.
2. If you legit have a black friend you probably have more than one.
3. I also have LGBT friends, have walked the pride parade, fought for them, etc.
4. Opinions are like aasholes
5. Arguing on The Internet proves both parties are removed

I stand by what I say. The mods on 196/balajahaja or whatever the fuck it is are snowflake babies and nothing of value for me was lost but I’m more that happy to express they are snowflake babies whenever given the opportunity.

Which is hilarious because I have a trans son whom I love to the ends of the earth. Almost like you can’t judge people from comments online. So yeah, fuck them.

Got blocked from 196 for having an opinion that, although popular, did not align with the mods there so you know what? Fuck 196 and their baby mods. They’ve shown themselves to be little bitch snowflakes so let them be?

It never is. Proud of you for recognizing that.

Talking with my psychologist about this and admittedly it’s not easy because finding a tool that works for you individually is the hard part.

For me running does it but if I can’t run what do I do? We are working on body scanning which helps a bit. Slow down and distract your mind. I’m going to start reading again for example.

What you need to work in understanding is as I put it theres two competing voices in my head and the self sabotage is there because, and it’s fucked up, it’s a way of protecting yourself. You need to acknowledge it but also tell it when it’s not the time or place

No cap. I remember after seeing it going off for about 30 minutes to my dad about it being perfect television. To this day I don’t think it’s been surpassed but Midnight Mass is damn close.

The fake money for criminals is the best because there’s a lot of people that aren’t criminals that have bought in on it and among those the concensus is “I think a bunch of IT neck beards can build a better financial system better than the one that evolved over centuries”.

The delusion is laughable.

Amen. I told a coworker this in a meeting recently that I felt like the dumbest person on the call and I loved it. They’re doing development stuff I never would have thought in my dreams I could do and yet here I am lol

If you haven’t met a dumb person, you are the dumb person.

I mean, it works for me!

I use the old fashioned radio to find podcasts. I listen to CBC Radio 1 here in Canada which has programs they highlight random podcasts.

I listen to “The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge” daily because I’m a politics nerd. Highly recommend if you want insight on how Canada operates and how the world works.

I personally think it is that western culture is a disease. We have lost our connection to nature. We don’t have a community. We don’t have a family. We are exceedingly living in Ayn Rands dystopian individualist bullshit and it is corrupting on the soul.

Big ups my GenX peeps. Last generation to know how to do things offline 🤣🤣🤣

Do you work with a team/department? Just say let’s go out for dinner/drinks after work. Just like outside work expect maybe 50% to commit.

Same as any relationship you just ask. Make it easy and do a group drinks after work first then if you hit it off plan something.

I swear as someone who overthinks everything it amazes me I don’t with this and other people do lol