How much better so many things would be if that were true.

Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.

Is that what happened in 2024 as well?

If you buy it legit on Steam it will force you to install the Rockstar launcher in order to actually play it. It is not known to me if there is a workaround, because of reasons completely unrelated to Captain Jack Sparrow.

Probably pivot my time and effort into general promotion of the Lemmy-verse. Kinda hard these days when, inevitably, someone is going to come in and ask “Isn’t that the place that’s full of tankies?”

An anecdote I’ve shared before a time or two on my lemm.ee account was that I almost quit Lemmy specifically because of how insufferable the Hexbears were.

I can’t speak to whether keeping me around was good, but I genuinely only remained because I learned how to block the instance.

The cynic in me thinks they are just trying to steer attention away from the protests. People weren’t taking to the streets to protest shit wages. Would have been reasonable if they did, but attention there is attention somewhere protests weren’t occurring.

I don’t know what most of the instances are about, but this one had a clever name and I don’t believe is federated with Hexbear. So here I am.

Oh fuck all the way outta here with that weak ass bullshit.

Got the tankie triad in there. I switched from lemm.ee too and forgot to reblock those, mentioned that term in a comment thread on .ml and the content got removed for “bigotry”. Reassures having them in there is a good idea.

I realize how it could land the wrong way, especially in such a serious context. I wasn’t trying to mock or minimize what happened. I was trying to highlight how eerily Orwellian this actually is. The bureaucratic cruelty, and the erasure line up damn near one for one. It’s already shockingly dystopian. I went for satire to underscore that, precisely because gestapo are disappearing people in broad daylight. I could have hit that goal better though, clearly.

You programming guys are way smarter than me. Tech writing wouldn’t be a bad pivot, but I’m a little worried companies will think genAI will do that work just as well as a writer. I’m actually looking at a pivot to HR, since I like the kind of people focused work and market research stuff they do.

I appreciate your thoughtfulness though. It’s very kind of you to take time out and try to assist a stranger. 🙂

I’m looking for a job in a different industry entirely!

1984ifying it. Seemed like appropriate satire to me at the time. Little sad it didn’t land. Wasn’t easy to make that bullshit be MORE bullshit.

Ministry of Homeland Stability Intercepts Subject During Routine Judicial Adjustment

In a decisive action reinforcing national unity, Stability Enforcers from the Department of Migration Oversight (formerly known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement) executed a scheduled detainment of an individual identified as O.J.M., a foreign national of nonconforming gender designation, during a recalibration hearing at the Judicial Processing Annex in Portland Sector.

Despite external interference from legal auxiliaries affiliated with Innovation Law Lab — a known cluster of counterproductive elements — the Department acted swiftly to reassign the individual to the Northwest Detention Harmony Center in Tacoma Sector. The transfer, standard under Cross-Sector Relocation Directive 14-B, was executed without disruption to public order.

Man never give that up. I left a WFH job in IT that I wasn’t really happy with, but it was fine. Left to a company where everything was better on paper. Now I work 50 hour weeks on average as salary, and don’t have time to even use my benefits that actively are better.

Never give it up. Neverrrrrrrr.

I am reborn!