At this point, we need to stop asking and start taking. Fuck all of this “by the books” stuff.

That’s my motto as well. Life is too short to live in constant fear, and we can control so little of it. Take as many PTO days as you can.

It’s probably the standard stuff all governments carry out and this admin is now going to weaponize it in their own stupid way. Like when they say information was “stolen” and then you learn it was simply public information that a foreign government pulled. I can’t take any of these articles seriously now.

Offline hobbies are getting more love again. Carpentry, sewing and knitting, bird watching. Modding old consoles is one of my all-time faves.

I call bullshit across the board. Just like their claim that Iran hacked water systems is bullshit too. They’re just trying to manufacture consent to support their constant lies. Next they’re gonna tell us how Canada hacked all of our phones.

I’m sure there are gaps in it, but the chat itself is encrypted. It’s still in flux before I try to get folks active in it, so I’m trialing a bunch of Maubot tools. It has URL previews, gifs—basic stuff.

I have a Matrix server hosted with tons of cool plugins, bots, and settings to get it as close to Discord as possible. Can’t get anyone to use it lol. Don’t care. I’ll continue to pay for it for when we truly need it.

Lmao this is great.

I put like 10x this on some graham crackers last night 😬

Lol I came into the thread about to write “you live there now” but then saw your comment.

The real Infinity gems.

There’s a USB stick in there with pirated movies on it.

If you want revolutionary action:

• Start or contribute to a community garden
• Help round up unused meds to distribute to people in need
• Help with Food Not Bombs
• Donate clothing and other goods
• Stop buying needless shit
• Pirate everything; subscribe to nothing
• Donate school supplies
• Tear down and disable Flock cameras
• Attend public forums and speak up to your local officials

Revolution is never going to be one big action or event that kicks off. Not like the movies try to convey it. It’s a collective rejection of things we have control over—most of which involve our wallets.

You wanna vote? Vote. Don’t want to? Don’t. The reality and the thing that folks need to grasp is that the ruling class will never let you vote away their power. Argue all day long; it doesn’t matter. It’s a fact. You can either sit around wishing you had the power to flip a switch, or you can do things on a local level to help those in need.

His views are white nationalist dog shit. He’s an idiot that is scared of immigrants and doesn’t have a single original thought.

DHH alone is enough for me to never touch this project. That dude is a white nationalist POS.

No one is demanding anything. I know people in comfy jobs will continue to make excuses to stay, even at companies that have been morally bankrupt well before now, like EA.

Even the lowest salaries in tech are often still higher than the average salaries in other fields. The bargaining power is rubbish now because tech was too comfortable to unionize, but the salaries are still higher than most blue collar roles. I’ve taken lower salaries in the past myself just to avoid terrible industries—in some cases well under $100k—and they were still higher than other fields.

Exactly this. EA has been garbage for ages. This isn’t a scenario where a company was going about its business and then suddenly got bought by a military contractor. It’s harder to account for when you’re one day working on software for the airline industry, and then suddenly software for threat targeting. Instead, this is a scenario where EA told everyone exactly how terrible they are, and then doubled down by selling to oppressors (that have also openly displayed how terrible they are for years).

I’ve worked in tech for nearly 2 decades and even the lower end salaries are better than most fields (aside from the obvious ones like medical, law, etc).

They should be doing that right now. The tech industry fucking sucks across the board, but tons of folks in the field make excuses because the pay is too good. Regardless of where you work, leave your job board accounts active. I still get tech job listings daily. Even at a pay cut, you’re still above a lot of the struggling working class in terms of income. It’s not like EA being terrible is a new discovery.

It’s tech. They’re not starving. There’s no excuse.