It took me a long time to realize slack responses don’t need to be immediate. I usually have a slightly emotional reaction, but given 5 minutes I can gather my thoughts and give a much better response

glad to have you!

Anyone who wants to join, we have a small community over at !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech - we’ll be posting more about it as we learn more!

And their 10,000 lawyers were already expecting it and ready to go fight it

I just said what happened, didn’t say anything else.

Cool, so basically repeating what happened in November. No nuance, single issue voter.

Seriously what are they thinking for that? It’s going to bridge the gap? What you mean of students who don’t have Internet? So what is the honest thought, they’re going to do homework on the bus? Best case they’re the poor kids who have to do homework on the bus. That’s the best case. Then what busses do these people remember where it was conducive to doing schoolwork on the bus?

It’s 1000% asinine and a huge waste of money.

What I really think is that it’s a few helicopter parents who saw their kids go offline for 5 minutes on the ride and panicked.

Yeah if there was anything that I thought kids needed it is more access to internet.

we had a way of life they couldn’t stand. Average people doing normal work were able to afford normal lives while their company suffered under such heavy salaries. Anyone in tech should be planning now on their exit. I’m not afraid of AI, I’m afraid of executives pushing our salaries down to nothing.

I’m personally saving and investing everything I can with my tech salary now to plan for when I’m inevitably kicked to the curb, or they want to pay me minimum wage.

and don’t forget the huge amount of legal fees to fight it

Exactly right. Most of us older coders have been warning of this for years. It was not benevolence that Microsoft, Google, Amazon so gleefully pushed for more coders and coding boot camps. They wanted a flood of labor to bring down salaries. They knew this was going to happen, and I’ve been calling it out for years. This is exactly what they wanted.

Same here but reversed. I hate cooking, they love it. So I’m on dishes, it evens out.

This is what happens when you buy a car from a tech company. There is no reason that a Ts&Cs should ever come with a car - but here we are. For now, avoid any company that does things like this. Top of mind are Tesla and BMW

Yes, but they can retaliate with petty shit in this way. All freedom of speech means is that there are no criminal charges against him for doing this - the government isn’t coming after him.

Yeah something is … I believe the technical term is fucky. Something is fucky there.

My family did that stuff too! Not for every trip, but I remember us driving to South Dakota and saying “Look there are the badlands” and such and such, but never getting out. There’s Devil’s Tower! Then we drove on. We’d get out occasionally, but not regularly.

Now that the gorn were swept away I think this is going to be our next big baddie. Also this was the mid season episode, I have a feeling it’ll be the focus for the season ender

My number one issue with all sights is that there is not enough parking. Big Ben? Where do I park? Pyramids? Parking. Statue of liberty? Come in parking! The first and usually only thing I think about is parking. If I can’t park my car and walk less than 100m to the thing I want to see, what’s the point?

/s because some people still won’t see the sarcasm of this or the post. A lot of people do think that way

I mean, where is the profit in moderating it? They’re not here to be q fairy godmother or anything

My argument is that something that only depreciates shouldn’t be considered an asset