Clowns

Work Tel

Chill Annoying, Clowns

After the State Of Minnesota told State employees for years that Telework full time would remain permanent, Tim Walz has ordered all State workers within 75 miles of an office to return by June 1st for 50% of all work days. Why? To bring money to St Paul.

RTO of course has absolutely nothing to do with productivity. In fact, it almost certainly decreases it as who can get any work done with all the noise and clamor in an average office?

But it is being done to prop up other business interests, such as commerical real estate and downtown business owners who want to force people into an office so their businesses can make money peddling overpriced, shitty sandwiches and drinks.

I will never work in an office again. I will start my own business before that happens. I am, depending on the task, 2-100x more productive working from home.

Devit

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

Most of you won’t care about this, but Microsoft Graph is aimed at developers.

And that makes it nearly useless for sysadmin types like me. As are many other tech companies, Microsoft took away anything that made administration easy and is transitioning everything into a shitty development role. So now you have to write a thousand lines of code for what used to be a single-line command (not exaggerating; it really is that bad).

There’s no motherfucking way I’m going to start writing C# code just so I can add a few users to Active Directory. Fuck Microsoft and any clown who had anything to do with Graph.

It’s another example of making everything easy for developers but far more difficult for anyone who actually needs to be productive rather than sitting in front of the little code box and typing your little codes.

Aff

Chill Annoying, Clowns

2 In 5 Tech Workers Quit Over Inflexible Workspace Policies.

Anywhere that requires in-office work, I’ll quit right away. Attempting to work in an office reduces my productivity by 90% at least and it means I’d be sitting in a bullpen on Zoom calls with customers and vendors, rather than at home on Zoom calls with customers and vendors.

Nope, not gonna happen. I don’t care that extroverts “need” me there. Your social needs are not my responsibility nor my concern. Make some damn friends.

Groupings

Chill Annoying, Clowns

True. Nevertheless, there was (and still is) a de facto flirting prohibition enforced by threat of cancellation by the dominant liberal feminist cultural consensus. That might be diminishing now, but was real for well over a decade.

In the view of that brand of pseudo-feminism, any unauthorized contact with any woman outside of a dating app was evidence of abuse and harassment. There weren’t any exceptions. “Good” men picked up on this cultural shift and stopped talking to or engaging with women in any public place at all. That therefore led to a spate of posts on Reddit and other places from women like, “I’m fun, I’m flirty, I’m decently good-looking, but no man ever talks to me. Why?” I saw at least 3-4 of those a week for years.

Well, there’s your answer. Women asked for and got this world. Turns out it sucks. Funny that.

Clu

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Y’all need to read your McLuhan, damn. So uneducated as are most journalists. And, well, everyone. Almost.

The smartphone/social media debate is one destined to be lost by those of us who are correct about how very harmful that combination has proved to be. Of course they together are a huge cognitohazard that is most harmful to younger people. And of course we will do nearly nothing about it as all the phone addicts leap out of the woodwork with iffy studies and anecdotes because addicts always need another hit. Anything that threatens that and their “convenience” they will be sure to slap down with great vigor.

Combine that with the lack of education and comprehension of how media and messages actually work and you get clown-level crap like the Bluesky sophistry above.

Superior

Chill Clowns, Political Economy, Politics

That’s right. She doesn’t understand it because it makes no sense. But people always want to feel that they’re better than someone else, even if the average contractor or construction worker should have more solidarity with the waitress in the café than the billionaire being a clown on TV.

But everyone in America sees themselves as a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire so class solidarity isn’t much of a thing.

Interest

Chill Annoying, Clowns

It is fucking crazy.

But these days among a large cohort of Gen Z (probably the majority), any flirting is considered harassment. Again, that is ANY flirting. And people wonder why the birth rate is low. These are people who just have no idea what to do with life. They are sad and pitiful and seem content to stay that way.