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    I always put a shirt when on company calls — I wouldn’t trust the camera not suddenly turning on (or myself — not turning the camera on by accident).

    Not pants tho — they are staying in the closet.

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    Ohh I remember being the only one with their camera off while people spoke this kinda crap too!

    Now in a new job that doesn’t have meetings. At all. I think our manager protects us from them. Or perhaps he protects the rest of the company from us?

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    Leaning into the old because I refuse to use “reclaimed” incel 4chan speak

    I witnessed the cesspits from whence that shit fomented, back in the days of gamergate, and will not touch it with a 100 foot pole.

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      With what was posted there, it’s enough for me that it originated on 4chan at all. Part of me wants to tell people what kind of place the rickroll came from, but then I’d be hard pressed to explain why on Earth I ever went there. You can’t separate all evolved cultural trends from that place, but there is just no way it’s ever going to sit right with me.

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        I’m fully aware, this comic is the demonstration of why I do it. I try to get all the white women in my life to also because that inflicts extra psychic damage to a certain kind of person

        The writers of Superman comics did something similar to the KKK back in the day

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      Ooh interesting, what do you mean by the 4chan speak? Is it the maxxing thing?

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        These terms were originally heavily used as heavy right wing 4chan terms, largely circulating in hate circle jerks (which is like 50% of 4chan anyways). Largely associated with millenial incel culture.

        Gen Z proceeded to take these terms and parody the fuck out if them, effectively mocking incel culture and turning it into a huge joke. Thus then became mainstream and its largely acted as a very successful humiliation tactic towards the hateful groups.

        Think stuff like all the “chad” memes but applying it to silly stuff, like intense cuts of a random chair or a porta-potty, x-pilled terms, etc.

        All their terms have been mocked into oblivion, you cant really use the terms without just sounding like a gen z meme now.

        An example of when millennials did a similiar thing was mocking the shit out of gen x biker/trucker hyper masculine culture and turning it into an ironic joke. IE the skeleton “my body is a machine that turns x into y” jokes, or ironic memes of edgy skeletons/wolves/etc. Three moons shirt, those things.

        10/10, I fucking love how culture can do stuff like this over time lol

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          Think stuff like all the “chad” memes

          To think, those memes probably originated from 4-chan trolls using them unironically

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          I turned my bathroom into a spare bedroom that I now rent out to VRBOmaxxing my life. It more than covers the porta-potty rent since I because porta-potty pilled.

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        “Maxxing,” “mogging,” “-pilled.” Amongst many others. I’ve even seen this language on billboards and the seepage of sewage into the mainstream is mind-boggling.

        Then again those stupid psyop fucks infiltrated Xitter, tumblr, etc. over a decade ago.

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        Is that where spelling goes to die? People were ‘maxing’ their caffeine decades before whatever vapid influencerati re-coined the badly-written version. I still am not sure it was spelled wrong knowingly.

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    I am glad that when I did a team shuffile I was left out of team meetings so now I have no meeting at all.

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    Zoom meetings feel like a farce created by a demon to slowly extract our souls from our bodies over the span of years. That would explain why I’m so tired after “meeting-heavy” days.

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      Windows isn’t really fit for development (outside of windows-specific targets), so. And it kind of sucks for just day to day usage. And most IT departments aren’t great, so linux is out.

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          I’m not that kind of computer person so I can’t speak confidently on the specifics. I imagine it might be a factor that windows is just more familiar to many people, lots of enterprise software was already written for this task, and common problems were solved.

          A user in linux without admin rights is pretty limited in what they can do.

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      Many employers don’t give you a choice. Mine did when I started but took it away a few years later.