Clowns

Attent

Chill Annoying, Clowns

The primary unfairness in dating — and one thing incels are completely right about — is that mediocre women get 100x as much attention and interest as even above average men. To receive the attention that a totally average woman gets, you need to be a top 0.1% man.

And that’s actually a pretty huge and psychologically-damaging inequity. It doesn’t make how incels deal with it likely to work or morally correct, but they are not wrong at all with their diagnosis.

RTO Joke

Chill Clowns, Evil

Corporate said anyone within 50 miles of an office needs to return to office by May.

I told you all years ago WFH would not last. That’s because MBAs love control more than productivity or anything else; it is why they became MBAs in the first place. They’d demand RTO if it tanked productivity and profits by 90% (which in some companies it probably will, as you lose your best people immediately).

Without butts in seats and a kingdom of visible and compliant slaves to lord over, why even have a company?

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.