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My employer told us all the rumours were true. Layoffs were happening. They called it “difficult conversations” instead of firings.

About 1/5th of a team of 1000 people.

Apparently they hadn’t decided who yet.

Meanwhile we just received the biggest bonus in the companies history due to historic profits.

Then the CEO told investors that they expect a big pickup early next year and will need to hire a bunch of people to handle the demand.

So they are firing a bunch of people for 6 months to hit financial targets in the back half of the year before hiring people again.

Everyone that is to be fired is still waiting to find out who will be axed.

I don’t know how to do the cool quote thing you did but I’ll answer in order.

1. I don’t care if you want to edit my race out of your game. It has zero effect on me. It’s your private game. Why would I care? If I don’t like the mod it I just won’t install it. I’m never going to intervene to stop you from enjoying your game the way you want just because I don’t agree or like it.

This argument is just trying to find reasons to be offended.

I’ll give you an example that will definitely trigger you. I play HOI4. That game is a historical WW2 game. The game does not have an accurate flag for Germany because it’s symbol is not allowed to be shown in Germany. I always use a mod to put the proper Nazi flag in the game because I want my historical game to be representitive of the period. Denying me the ability to use it doesn’t make the historical event suddenly not happen. It happened. Am I suddenly a Nazi supporter because I want my war game to reflect reality?

Im not out Heil Hitlering, or calling for the deaths of millions of Jews. I’m just playing was war game in the privacy of my own home.

2. I’m not American so the N word has very little meaning to me. I think it’s stupid that people can’t even write the word without being banned. How are you supposed to talk about it. It’s rediculous. If your skin colour is the right shade then you can go around saying the forbidden word at will?? Honestly I’m never going to say it because it’s not part of my cultural norm anyway.

In Australia the racist word people used for indigenous was ‘coon’. I’ve never used it and I never will. Ive not even heard anyone use it since maybe the 80s when a kid was trying to be an edgelord. Do I think the word should be banned internationally just because some wankers used it 30+ years ago? No. If you’re using it in a hateful way against someone or a people, then sure, that bastard should face some consequences.

I’m just never going to support blanket banning activities or words for everyone because of a few bad actors.

I think that’s a terrible idea.

Now we are onto the apparently oppressed rich western people that want to be called some idiotic pronouns like xi, or horse person or some other BS. I’m not doing it. It’s too stupid.

If someone wants to be called she instead of he, then whatever, I’ll call them it. It causes me no harm and I really don’t care. Live your best life.

Blocking a person from modifying their game because you don’t like the idea? That’s Nazi book burning philosophy right there. If you can’t see it irony then I don’t know what to say to you. You think your in the right, but your actually to oppressor, even if you think it’s with good intentions.

If you don’t want to feel excluded then don’t install the mod.

I don’t understand why people argue for less options that don’t affect them.

No one is forcing the mod on you. Is it really that harmful that it exists?

I don’t give 2 shits if a mod exists that makes everyone in the game trans or gay or anything else. I’m just not going to install the mod unless it improves the game in some way or it sounds like it would make the game more interesting with alternative play styles or something.

I’m never going to argue that the mod I’m not interested in should be removed because it’s not reinforcing my beliefs.

Tolerance goes both ways. I tolerate your beliefs and you tolerate mine.

That tolerance doesn’t exist in this woke reality we are enduring at the moment. Anything that doesn’t repeat the correct narrative is subjected to cancel culture. It’s always my way or the highway.

I have a fucked knee but it has nothing to do with my personality.

I just can’t run.

I still try when I play with the kids and end up limping around for a few days.

I don’t really understand what this image is implying.

It definitely flew under the radar. I would say most people have never seen it.

If I lived in a country where this was something to worry about, if worry about it.

It’s not something I’ve ever thought about or considered in Australia.

Sure break-ins happen but violent crimes during break-ins… it’s so rare I’ve never heard of or met anyone that knows of it happening.

100% a scam.

No one is ever getting a product from this.

This is not a place of acceptance. This is a left wing echo chamber. You either tow the narrative or GTFO.

I think of myself as very moderate. I’m neither supportive of right wing horse shit or the lefts batshit insanity. I’ll get downvoted into oblivion every time for pointing out this place being extreme left, or for making any comment that doesn’t align strictly with the narrative taking points.

The argument really isn’t against pronouns.

It’s against censorship. Why shouldn’t I be able to remove that feature from my game if I want to?

Is it really hurting anyone if I don’t want stupid pronouns in my game?

I’ll note that I don’t own the game and have never played it. Just an outside observer watching the stupidity.

It’s still a long way off being a millionaire or billionaire.

It’s pretty impressive someone can make that much money in a lifetime.

Yeah, the issue is, the laptop is full of photos. She took it to Apple after I failed to figure it out. They said they can wipe it but not recover the photos.

It’s just a crap system.

I don’t agree with the Mac one.

The Mac UI is basically windows 3.1.

It’s absolutely awful.

Also, windows will never brick your machine because of a full hard drive. My wife has a shitty MacBook air. She filled the drive completely. The OS can no longer function. It boots and that’s it. You can’t open anything, you can’t delete anything. Every single click says free up HDD space, even deleting files.

It’s so fucking bad.

Don’t forget the hardcore left wing echo chamber… Oh wait that was Reddit as well.

I flipped around a few different distros to try them out.

As it currently stands IMO Linux won’t be taking market share from Windows.

I actually think the best use case for Linux is for the very old. People that want their computer to work and never change. They only need a browser and a word processor and email. I considered setting up Mint for my mum’s PC just so its a consistent and solid experience forever.

She likes playing the Windows card games though with the score board so it ruled it out.

I’ve tried several times. I’m pretty test savvy. Last time I tried I said I’m sticking with it for 3 months minimum to get a grip on it.

I lasted about 4 months before I went back to windows.

It just makes life hard. Windows might be tracking every moment of my usage but it just works as Jensen would say.

The amount of hours I spent reading posts and forums trying to figure out how to get things working the way I wanted.

Linux really needs to unify a bit. Stop being so fragmented. It’s so stupid having different versions of Linux that require different versions of software to work.

Until a single common standard is adopted it will never gain traction.

Plus they need to get away from the terminal. It’s not the 80s anymore.

It’s gone now but for a long time we had a 24hr fruit shop.