Rojo27 [he/him]

This is the type of PR you want if you are trying to convince people you are not a genocidal entity.

Haven’t even gotten started? I don’t want to imagine how much worse the tech industry can make people’s lives all in the drive to hyperinflate the value of their shitty AI models.

Hopefully a one off. We’ve had them before as well as a couple of close calls and it sucks for sure. There lots of good info on how to deal with them out there, so I’m sure you’ve got a good idea what to do. One of the biggest things that we did when we had them was cut down on clutter as much as possible and put all of our clothes in plastic bags. If you’ve got coverings on your furniture it might also be a good idea to take anything off that is excessive if possible. And if you don’t already get a bed bug mattress cover, it helps a ton and makes them easier to spot if you don’t mind going without regular covers for a few days while you make sure there aren’t more.

I can tell because as of last night I was still seeing flags at half staff around where I work

Kinda highlights the fact that the capitalist solution isn’t wrest control of manufacturing and supplying its own armed forces, its just simply to pretend that “shopping around” is going to drive down prices.

We got Rockstar union busting before we got GTA 6.

No offline mode for your bed

A decision.

You’d think they’d feel confident/comfortable enough to play clips of him among his own fans, but I guess grifters gotta grift.

Been playing less, but still playing Expedition 33. Was thinking of picking up Red Faction, but not quite yet. Same with Legend of Dragoon, which I’ve set up an emulator for.

Makes you wonder

You just got fired so that Microsoft could invest more in AI. So go and use our AI tools to deal with it

Considering how badly the US airdrops went because, you know, its not a great idea to airdrop shit into one of the most densely populated areas in the world, I would hope they would think this “propaganda” through.

I’m often in the mega venting about work. I get where you’re coming from. My situation in similar. Most everyone I work with likes working with me because I do my best to solve problems (and there’s a lot thanks to the way things are structured) and I do what I can to help people. Maybe its the people-pleaser in me, but I also go out of my way to accomodate for my co-workers scheduling needs, whether or not it’d be for things the company would deem “worthy” of giving time off or switching shift and what not.

The biggest problem we have is lack of staffing. Aside the fact that for the 5 years that we’ve been at this we’ve had work volume that should warranty at least one extra employee, the margin between being “sufficiently” staffed and severely understaffed is razor thin. Turn over is high because pay is shit (more on that later) and any time someone leaves I end up working 6 days for 50+ hours. And its tiring. At one point we did have that extra employee, but when they left they were never replaced. When there was a discussion about adding an extra employee about 6 months after, and yet more turnover, I made my case for adding another one, not just to handle the volume of work we had, but also so that we’d have sufficient staff if turnover remained high and so that we could comfortably take time off without having to have everyone else work 6 days. It fell on deaf ears. For a couple months my manager, who works from home btw, kept saying that it was being discussed internally between our company and the client company we were working with and nothing ever came out of that. We’re currently in a bit of a crisis because another location lost most of its staff (turnover or on leave) and we still haven’t heard anything about adding more staff, even though it was discussed once again due to a huge spike in work volume earlier in the year.

Speaking of my manager, they have a propensity to try and wave off my employees needs. One of my best employees had been with the company previously before transferring to work with me and his pay was reduced to match the starting pay for my location. When he sent an email to my manager asking for his pay to be raised to was it was in his previous location so that he can keep up with the increase in the cost of living my manager says “that’s the case for everyone”. It wasn’t until I went and got his pay history that he changed his tune and even then it took way too much convincing to get it done.

Also recently I had one of my employees go take some time off to travel. When they got back they contacted me (with sufficient time) to ask if they could take an extra day off to recover from their travels. When it came up in a conversation with my manager they said “oh, I’ve traveled and gone back to work the next day.” I didn’t fucking ask and I’m that person’s direct manager. If I was ok with it I don’t need to fucking know that you would have just come back to work.

And its this flippant attitude towards others’ needs that really has me thinking if I should stay. The job itself isn’t too bad. Admittedly my current staff isn’t great at the job and I’ve been patiently coaching them, hoping for an improvement in their work with little results to show for it. Having to make up for their short comings and the increased demand from the company is wearing me out. I really don’t think my manager cares enough to rectify the situation. I’m starting to look for a new job and I know its going to suck for all of my coworkers because if I do leave whoever comes in probably isn’t going to be as patient and flexible as I am. And I legit care about a lot of the people that I work with and it hurts just thinking about moving on, but I have to.

Thank you, same to you comrade

Ended up getting the full game of First Beserker: Khazan after enjoying the demo.

I had really been wanting to play Clair Obscur: Expidition 33 after seeing all trailers, but haven’t started yet and not sure if I will if I stick with FSB in the mean time.

First Berserker: Khazan. Trying the demo and enjoying it for the most part. Weighing whether or not to get the full game still. Played mostly on the Steam Deck, but I’ve noticed that its harder to parry faster enemies. Not sure if its just the bumper buttons possibly wearing out a bit since I’ve played other games that use it for parrying also.

Also trying out the Unbeatable demo. As much as I want to love it though (really nice art style, and you get to beat up cops) I suck at rhythm based games. Might come back to it at a later point though.

Still making my way through Ace Attorney Investigations.

And his is the most public case. How do we know there aren’t several more Kilmars in El Slavador now?

Seeing how this is all being covered is driving me insane. Just today I overheard a report that ICE arrest x amount of “very dangerous” illegal immigrants uncritically. How do I know they aren’t just making all this shit up? How do I know that they aren’t just a small percentage of the possibly thousands more innocent people that are being deported not just to El Salvador’s mega prison, but to countries that they’ve never been to?

And what enrages me even more are the people that I know that could just as easily be swept away in this xenophobic campaign just because they look like the “illegals” that they say they are glad are being taken away. Like what the fuck is it going to take for people to wake up?