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  • Around 2010, I worked for a company where one project was to increase the social profile of our company. We hired a marketing company to help us improve how our CTO, CEO, CFO, all the C-level folks looked to the public. Pretty much, throwing money to make these people get famous, so the company to could make money from all the news.

    A year later, CFO was on talk shows discussing his new book, which was a NYT best seller. The book was garbage and full of content scraped from a dozen other “thought leaders”.

    The thought leader circlejerk where hundreds of them have ghost writers write their shit, all of them tell the same 10 stories, all of them quote each other, all of them buy their way onto NYT best sellers list because some thought leader friend wanted to do the same so they inflate the sales. Then the Ted talks, the podcast tours, the constant INNOVATORS bs. Yuck.





  • Some people need to be separated. This isn’t about censorship, it’s about group dynamics.

    Let’s take it from both angles - just to avoid politics. A disruptive kid in a classroom affects every other kid. Get rid of that kid, and suddenly the whole classroom improves. Everyone can agree to that.

    The other side - a company has a pro-union worker. Shitty company doesn’t like not controlling their workers, so they find a way to fire them.

    Back to the Nazi, separate them from the rest of society. We don’t need them.




  • Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 3223 Staff 23 hours ago

    I have lost my job to wider cuts a few times myself and on reflection, I think I prefer being “aligned” or “realigned” inasmuch as it makes me feel like a cool laser satellite. But I am not immune to the frictive charms of being “restructured”, which makes me feel like a Transformer

    I absolutely love the comments on RPS. It’s hits like these which makes me keep coming back.






  • Maybe not that early, and also not everything.

    When we met, I was obsessed with collecting dead bugs and in retrospect, I kinda sucked at it and it was gross. I didn’t tell her about it until a few years later and she laughed at it. But had I told her about it at the start, I dunno.

    My wife also hid her Tarot cards collection. For good reason too… At the time, I was extremely bitter at the state of Collectable card games and was trashing everything. But a few years later when I wasn’t such an asshole about it, I accepted her hobby.




  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIt really is like this
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    Me, as a American: Huh, we just set up camps in Guantanamo Bay to pick up immigrants? That’s fucked up.

    Also Me, as a American: China does some shit with the uyghu? That’s fucked up.

    Society: (ignoring Guantanamo bay) Yeah fuck China!


    Also me, as a American: openAI stole art. Wow.

    Also me, as a American: Deepsink stole from OpenAI? Hilarious.

    Society: Hey fuck you for supporting China! You can’t even write Tiananmen square on there! Winnie the Pooh! Winnie the Poooooooh!