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I unfortunately have a mortgage and can't live with the stress of the fear of being fired for some esoteric internet community I've joined. I've heard through the grapevines of people starting slack mob witch hunts over people who've used terms like "Fren" because of its very slight relationship with 4chan.

I like the security of not working with unchecked witch hunts . I don't want to be Damore'd because of words I use outside of work.

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I've been publishing writing far outside consensus progressive attitudes since the pandemic began with zero issue so far. Don't make your workplace your audience or invite controversy around your workplace and you're very unlikely to have a problem.

"I owe money and need to make money to pay it off, so I'm too afraid to say even reasonable things in public". Sounds like you have 3 problems.

Hahaha yeah, sometimes I wonder how quickly I'd get fired if I didn't have mouths to feed. I'd probably be somewhere in Miami living in a hacker warehouse working on my 5th failed crypto project, consuming an assortment of drugs.

Instead, it's the white picket fence, steady income and BBQs for me

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