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.
Phones destroyed our civilization https://t.co/pwZwJ8oAuh
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 24, 2025
And just think: These people are about average. Many people are way dumber than anything you see there (I grew up with doofs like this, so they existed pre-smartphone. But I do think it has gotten a lot worse.)
It is worth remembering that "women" or "whites" are not one in-consensus population of five people. https://t.co/rWnPzibFRT
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) March 23, 2025
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.
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.
Worse than that — the degrowthers are making every effort to resurrect the Malthusian trap. It’s one of the many reasons I hate them so very much.
The progressives care more about process and procedure than outcomes, and the conservatives are more concerned with destruction and revenge than outcomes.
So either way, we’re fucked. We need different minds, different parties, fewer clowns all around.
One of AOC’s major blind spots is she doesn’t understand how many blue collar workers look down on workers like waitresses. They don’t see them as brothers and sisters to stand with, but as servants who exist to get them coffee and afford them to experience being superior to… https://t.co/aDLcSps0xF
— Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30) March 20, 2025
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.
It’s completely mental. I need these people to put their phones down and go tf outside. https://t.co/rWtHcmmSRo
— Natalia Antonova
(@NataliaAntonova) March 19, 2025
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.
As stupid as the right is, in many areas the left manages to be even worse. My friends, that is a special kind of dumb.
the real horseshoe theory is that both right and left converge on this sort of rvturn to the mud larp. "degrowth" and "rural tradlife" are the same. slightly different aesthetic foci.
ultimately, the core is the death of ambition. "lay down, for the past is as good as it gets" pic.twitter.com/NRXDKHZgws
— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) March 16, 2025
Pretty insightful into the affliction shared across worldviews notionally in conflict. In reality, it is a dearth of will, an absence of the human spirit that took us from scrabbling in the mud to jetting through the sky.
I want nothing to do with any of that.
The answer is yes. pic.twitter.com/S29RRl6KL1
— Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) March 17, 2025
Of course they did. No one wanted to look unfriendly to China. It’s still happening, too.
The world is so ridiculous now, it almost makes me long for George W. Bush.
Almost.
It is true. We are in the dumbest timeline.
Covidians: THERE WAS NO LOCKDOWN! IT’S A MYTH! A LIE!
Anyone sane: Looks like a fuckin’ lockdown to me.
Of course the clown-ass crazy-fuck Covidians mean that no one came around welding your door shut as occurred in China. Which was their greatest wish, their fondest desire. They only care about taking things away and harming people so of course that’s what they wanted.
Let’s be glad we didn’t cede that much ground to those barking-mad bullshit artists.
What is that a test of? Most humans would not detect that if they did not already know it was there. By the way, it’d be invisible to radar as well in almost all freqs.
This is a stupid test that only proves something to doofuses. Of which there are too many. Hell, humans hit flipped over tractor-trailers on the road all the time because they are not looking for them. It’s called “inattentional blindness.”
The perception problems are the same, whether it’s a machine or human. Why do people have such trouble understanding that?
