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Those three go against our capitalist owners best interest and will never be done. Conspiracy baiting with aliens is easy, costs our owners nothing, and placates the masses.

I'll take a 60 hour work week and mandatory 12 hour weekend shifts for a total of 84 hours a week right now. I'll take minimum wage. How on earth are y'all getting and keeping jobs such that you can whine about not having enough time to spend your fortunes?

We say shopping at Whole Foods, Walmart, and Kroger.

To be fair, DoorDash is bad news for DoorDash because a $8 meal costs $30.

Where it always goes, to the top.

With all due respect, we really ought to wait on things like this until at least February. While nuclear is likely to continue we must be aware that it's not fossil fuel and not guaranteed.

It's quite simply grift. They are privatizing everything and we'll love it.

Have you considered that the US has giant vehicles and a critical lack of sidewalks and other pedestrian coded cat infrastructure?

Butts in seats is a very poor way to get productivity. It is, however, management enforced. Management only pretends to care about productivity. Until managerial ideology shifts we'll never bother.

I think countries beyond the US have a much better prospect of doing this.

You've got it reversed. AI PCs are just SPAs. You offload the workload to the client then send the resulting payload back.

It's capitalism. This is not complicated. This is a direct result of starve the beast ideology depriving agencies of funding.

Every single place that I've worked at that's introduced any sort of goal based metrics has immediately become, in real terms, unproductive and unsatisfying organizations. As soon as you have a metric, even self-defined, that you will be graded on you optimize for it as the ol' Law dictates.

As soon as that happened support of existing services crumbles. Innovation tanks because risk means you might miss the target. It means the best engineers no longer mentor or build team based expertise. It means everyone becomes solos to hit their number or target and everything else falls away.

I'm sympathetic toward the want to measure employee quality but by doing that you tend to only punish the underperforming engineers, regardless of reasons, rather than rewarding the best engineers or an increase in quality of engineering. It creates hostility when one person's metric may be impacted by another person or org within the company. It sabotages everything the powers that be claim to care about.

Noncompetes are capitalistic. Property use restrictions aren't inherently capitalist but how they're used in most cases, particularly within the US, they almost always are.

Single family home zoning is the factor in bloated infrastructure and housing prices going up. This protects capital investment of a necessity which ensures exploitation of the working class.

Capitalism is intrinsically evil. I'll never defend a socioeconomic system of oppression.

It's literally just capitalism. This is the point of the economic system. Why are people surprised? Is the propaganda just that good?

I do appreciate the information. I cannot afford the doctor's visit much less prescription even with a discount. This is what my country wants for me so I'll just deal until I am productive enough to deserve healthcare again.

Oh, I'm definitely less sharp than I was ten years ago. I struggle with learning new info now. Unfortunately, $10 a month to sleep is affordable. I will look at CBN but CBD doesn't really move the needle much for other issues. I'll check it out all the same. Anything I can do to be rid of them would be great. I've got a prescription for sleep aids but without a job I don't have health insurance and thus cannot afford it. I don't qualify for low income programs, either, so I'm just screwed. Mess with my brain so I can function or be a zombie over half of my waking period.

I absolutely hate YT shorts. Unfortunately all of my social circle are unmedicated ADHDers who live on hyper short form content. If a YT video is less than 15 minutes I just won't watch it.

I lived in an apartment and with my grandparents as an early adult. I do my best to keep all my noises down to a minimum and I live in my own home. When I get new speakers I walk the perimeter to see the levels I can set it to without it being heard. I've got good hearing, though, as a result. My televisions and computers are constantly at single digit volume levels.

I can't imagine subjecting anyone to disturbances while sleeping.

Unfortunately, while I'm medicated I can't help sleeping through alarms so my last partner refused to cohabitate at night. I understood but it didn't help things.

I take 1mg melatonin and at no less than 50mg doxy succinate a night to try to sleep. Maybe a few days every few weeks it just won't work so I'm stuck being awake for hours while feeling super tired and groggy and then I'll be awake again the next night like I got a full night's sleep.

I have no idea what CBN is. Not intentionally tried the magnesium but I can keep an eye out. I'm between jobs so I can't really afford to get up and buy things too often but I'll add it to my list to look for.

I appreciate it. The issue I have is that while clients love being able to get a hold of me out at all hours my employer fires me for being five minutes late.

I use the term inverted to describe my circadian rhythm but people who don't see me physically suffer from being awake for days don't get it. My folks think I'm making it up and my friends get it but also don't.

Prescribed or OTC?

YouTube is flooded with AI narrated shorts content. Are you experiencing a different reality? It seems like when I try to venture out of my bubble I'm getting AI videos (not about the topic but zero effort prompt daisy chaining) now even outside of shorts (that I wish I could disable completely, I never mean to hit the button).

I'm in the Midwest. If I could get FAANG salary for two years I would be about 60% to retirement. I'd work on Cobol# .Net if it that's what they wanted.

Sometimes you gotta throw out the effing "fuck" word.

Just as a secondary data point. Without medication I have about a 32:12 hour cycle. Up for at least 30 hours and sleeping for about 12. I can function on 5 but I'm grumpy about it for a while. Always been that way. Completely inverted as well. Up all night and my body tries to convince me to sleep during the day but I'm just not able to for another twelve hours.

I got fired from several jobs because of it. My folks weren't understanding so I genuinely believed that I was willingly staying up and well... Needless to say I have no professional network and most of my friends thought I was a massive flake and those connections fell apart, too. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. Even diagnosed with insomnia I still feel massive guilt about not being able to sleep like a normal person. I just ruin everyone's plans around me. If I need to be up I have to hope my medication works (when employed) and if it does I need an hour to wake up enough to feel safe doing anything major like cooking or driving.

Sorry for the ramble. Appropriately I've been up for like 34 hours and am hoping these OTC meds kick in.

Hope y'all have a great weekend.

For me? Gaming and lack of alternatives. I hate MacOS' hostility toward anything not Jobsian, and Linux doesn't have parity with Windows particularly around gaming.

Personally, I find needing to provide references at all to be akin to me needing to get my parents permission. It makes my skin crawl and I will actively screen jobs that require them. The process feels demeaning and dehumanizing. Then you have to bother people who don't really know you anymore and beg them to waste their time on someone else's BS.

Funny, for a lot of the functionality you get with Windows you have to pay some random dev for with MacOS. Window management alone feels like it's baby's first computer.

Difference is that you only have to take your lunch break for it to happen in web dev. By the time you get back to work the following day the framework you're using is deprecated. At least with other platforms there tends to be a bit more stability.