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Yes. I expect privacy like I have a right to it.

Ope. It’s more generous at 4 weeks, not 2 and doing anything to find work, not just submitting applications.

But - yeah.

The same thing that always happens –

Many workers are underemployed in roles that don’t have them working enough hours, don’t pay enough, or aren’t in their chosen field. They may still be seeking employment, but are not counted because they are employed in some fashion.

Many people have simply given up and have not looked for a job in the last two weeks because it’s impossible to penetrate the market, so they aren’t considered unemployed.

There are many other reasons, but essentially, the counting method and methodology are skewed to create the impression of a better economy than the one that actually exists for economic, political, social, and geopolitical purposes.
They do the same for inflation, too - looking at subsets of goods and periodically revising how CPI is calculated. It’s a lie.

How is this not unlawful search?

I understand that because the use of and purchase/sharing of this kind of data (which for the purposes of my arguments includes any data broker data, including the data from Flock license plate readers) is not considered illegal due to a lack of consumer protection laws. But how is the government acquiring and using this data not considered a subversion of due process?

Big Bill Clinton?

I… guess I never thought of that.

I use MacOS (I know, I know), but I didn’t realize I could use WINE on Mac. I haven’t had a chance to investigate yet if I can make this work for me, but this was a good suggestion. I have this on my short list of stuff to figure out. Thank you!

There is one single app I need for freelance work that I cannot replace with a non-windows app.

It lives in a virtual machine and is shut down for 99% of its existence.

The machine that runs the VM is the one I use for local LLM and fucking around with docker containers. It’s an insanely powerful machine that’s slightly RAM constrained. I can run what feels like an unlimited amount of containers on it, or that fucking Windows VM. I have to kill every running container on the machine just to run one single Windows app for 10 minutes once or twice a week.

If my freelance work paid more, I’d buy a dedicated windows machine just to do this one fucking task. (And then I’d have to air-gap it, and figure out how to remotely start it somehow, because I don’t trust Windows at all, and don’t want it running all the time.)
Or, I guess… buy access to a windows VM online? Hm. The convenience/time/effort trade off could be worth it at certain price points.

Neat. I looked it up.

Less than a mile from a wildlife refuge.

The manager they brought in to bring him in line has been one of the best, kindest, and most human managers I’ve ever met. (But she doesn’t fuck around.)

She’s also an absolute shark at knowing the system, and without going into specifics, has done very well for everyone on my team that has been even modestly competent.

I honestly feel bad for the guy. He was too far in the hole of anger and resentment to realize that he’d been handed a whole new opportunity before he squandered it.
Shortly after I was hired, several other people were hired in to help with the flow of work, and my team went from being sort of an embarrassment to one that, quite frankly, is awesome. (And we still have a good work-life balance.)

You’re both speaking to the same point.

In the process of enforcing good boundaries at work, you shouldn’t be a jerk. Firm, no-nonsense, but polite. And the flip side is to use your capacity wisely.

That’s weirdly sort of how I got my job.

Apparently my predecessor was a nice guy with low boundaries that (at the time) lacked managerial support. When he painted himself into a corner on his commitments, didn’t get the accolades or raises he thought he should get, he got bitter, started to act out, stopped doing work he should have done, and finally, when management started pressing him to clean up some messes he had created over a year+ of neglecting his responsibilities, he left an unsigned resignation letter on his desk and didn’t come to work for a few days.
He called to discuss the terms of his return, expecting a raise, and they just told him they accepted his resignation.

I wish (sometimes). That thing is like a dowsing rod for trouble.

Oh, yeah. Loads of evidence.

My LiveJournal account is 25 years old as of last week. I’m just going to go back to that for social media.

What are they gonna do, accuse me of being too old for social media?

Studies have not ruled out the possibility that my penis cures depression.

And with them putting old Reddit behind a login, they’re just losing traffic.
They’re going to start getting really desperate to mine data and drive advertising dollars soon.

Also, is he continuing to glue *more* gold crap to the wall behind him?

Tinpot dorktator.
The fact that he’s an evil POS that’s materially harming billions of people notwithstanding, he’s a fucking dweeb. An absolute goon. A caricature of a villain that’s obsessed with cartoonish trappings of wealth and power.

I do. Spill the tea. Tell me all the drama. All the trauma. I wanna know!
Expect same in return, though, and boy am I a talker.

Me, someday soon:
Spending an afternoon with a hardened punch and several rolls of these. Or my desktop CNC.

Modify to “In Pedo we rust” or just grind the same area flat and engrave “Trump rapes kids” into each one?

As a not-old guy with low testosterone, I just have an intractable depression.

It sorta responds to antidepressants. It sorta responds to sunlight therapy. It sorta responds to keeping a handle on my diet and exercise.

Sometimes it’s worse, sometimes it’s better. But I’m almost always struggling with not having energy, being irritable, and feeling overwhelmed.

Going on testosterone was like “ooooh, that’s what that’s supposed to be like.”