Read the Jesus parts again. Would Jesus like that?

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  • The problem with “supporting sex workers” are the number of people that first feel the need to first disclaim that they do not partake. Consider the sentence “I support gardeners, but myself would never use their services.” Like of course, you don’t need a gardener in order to think they should have the same protection from random and systemic abuse from the general public and the legal system.


  • There are more options than the two you mentioned. Listing a few as more people should remember them. I did get a bit off topic…

    1. Use huge company to provide service.
    2. Provide service oneself (, likely with Open Source. )
    3. Use small or medium company to provide service (, likely with Open Source. )
    4. Use huge company for things huge company is great with, but keep “crown jewels” of company on internal self provided systems.
    5. Use a small or medium company to provide a service, and another series of small or medium companies to check on the first company.
    6. Use a huge company based in a country that is very serious about laws and putting CEOs in prison for wrongful acts.
    7. Do not do the thing. (Included for completeness.)
    8. Do the thing not on a computer. (Violation of privacy could result in violation of more serious laws.)
    9. Use an older technology on a computer.
    10. Use the huge company to provide service, but ensure the data includes insane things.

  • business with a contract

    I always wonder at this and have cautioned my managers repeatedly. Yes, we have a contract, but they have a literal army of lawyers and we have less (one lawyer one retainer for hourly work or a small grouping focused on taxes and employment law). As if our ownership won’t bend over backwards to avoid suing a large company like Google, AWS, Microsoft, or Oracle. (Maybe OpenAI and Anthropic are sue-able by a $100 million corp?)

    As proof I offer the lawsuits between businesses that have proceeded far enough the general public has heard about them. Not a specific one, just all of them.


  • There is a need for more retirement plan administration companies.

    (I presume that assets owned by Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard are actually owned by the account holders. These companies exert a lot of control through their board memberships and “little decisions the account holders are not asked about”.)








  • Edit: I should explain first that I do not think you can change your employees or manager. A technical solution will never fix a management problem. Perhaps your manager is getting enough heat to be open to better management controls. You should be in “sanity protecting” mode.

    Original: While the posts include a lot of fiction, but “overemployed” crowd have some good advice. Start applying elsewhere, downshift your effort at $job_one, and move to collecting a check.

    Or ramp up and take your manager’s job or get fired trying. Gather data and allies in the C-suit, and stage a coup. Or unionize (or post pro-union flies in the bathroom).