That right there is a good boi, nay, a splendid, furry little wing-man.

Also, just adding this here, but if you work in a team and have the means you should always keep records of your own productivity and quality.

He’s wondering what you think you’re doing in his bed.

Less of a rage-quit and more of a rage-promotion. (it’ll make sense, just keep reading.)

I am someone who keeps track of what I do, my productivity, and how much output I’m generating in my work. A company I used to work for decided they wanted to do back-door layoffs by handing out phony write-ups and putting people on performance improvement plans, and they targeted me.

Essentially, I went into a meeting with my boss thinking I was going to get promoted or at least an attaboy, because I knew I was the highest performer on the team.

Nope. It was a writeup. I told them straight up that I was doing more work than anyone on the team, I could prove it, and I wasn’t signing. I fought the PIP with HR too, and the delicious thing was my bosses knew they fucked up, because I breezed right through it.

Ended up interviewing for an internal req that put me in a senior position on another team, and what galled me the most was the insistence of my boss on a going-away lunch, and I hated every second of it. I was gracious on my way out because I didn’t want to burn bridges, but I honestly hope that person is rotting in Hell now, and am very pleased that that company got bought out and sold for parts, so hopefully they all got fired too.

Meanwhile I vividly recall my 2nd grade teacher giving me a weird look for reading Stephen King in the classroom.

I’m so sick and tired of the self-evident stupidity of free speech absolutism.

It also expects that people are content to actually fix things, or sew tears in clothing, or whatever, and that often requires a little research and initiative in a world where it’s been made abundantly cheap and convenient to just replace almost everything.

I don’t think it’s necessarily ignorance so much as a combination of laziness and incredible convenience.

A few years ago I taught myself to fix my laptop screen via Youtube and saved myself a $400 repair, but most people would just chuck it and buy a new one.

Like how my boy dog refuses to eat out of a bowl, and he insists on pushing his food around, so we downgraded to a trough. (Pretty sure it’s because his whiskers are over-sensitive.)

Not that I’m aware of, but it’s only a matter of time with how wide this story is going.

I don’t have much in the way of hope, myself.

I hate to think it, but part of me was cynically glad, in the knowledge that they’d killed someone, that they targeted a pretty white woman.

If anything is going to sway more people to the correct side, it’s ICE gunning down a pretty white woman. Even the Nazis get upset when you gun down a pretty white woman.

What’s interesting for me is the last 20 or so years of hearing people talk about how Iran or NK or whoever should never have nuclear weapons because, you know, their leaders may just be crazy enough to use them. (When historically nukes have proven to be the best deterrent against the belligerent aggression of major world powers.)

And here in the US, we’re on our third admin in a row run by someone with evident, public mental illness and travels with an arsenal of nukes at his fingertips.

The world has a breaking point where they won’t put up with the US’ shit anymore, and we may find out what that is in 2026.

I would only add that OP should have O&O ShutUp on their PC and run it after the initial install, and then make it a habit to run it after system updates. It also helps you delete Copilot.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Every country pretty much needs to have a nuke now.

Really do hate that this ideology is so pervasive. Humans have held this view for, it seems, as long as we’ve existed and it’s evident across every recorded account of our history.

Native-born vs assimilated people… it shouldn’t fucking matter.

Or mine: Ron Jeremy.

If there is a god out there, they’re the kind that likes to burn ants with a magnifying glass.

Must be nice.

Okay… so?

He is magnificent.