“Covid 19 is back, the Zeta variant is highly transmissible, but without any real side effects. the only way to ensure humanity’s survival is to destroy it by assimilating it”

“Assimilate today, we will all be the same. No more worry about being different. Being a different race, a different gender or a different sexual preference. We will be simply Borg instead. United and as one. Resistance is futile”

“If we all assimilate, we can cut CO2 emissions by 70%! Assimilate today, save the earth”

Turn off the news, and stay away from anything online that lets you or other people comment.

Lose Twitter, Facebook, reddit (or reddit alternatives) and the world will look like a much different place.

Well that’s the difference, most people will pirate when it’s more convenient to do so. And as long as prices are so exorbitant.

I pirate hockey games, because watching hockey is ridiculously inconvenient and/or expensive.

I do not pirate music anymore, or video games because Apple Music is more convenient and not very expensive and steam has all the games I’d ever want to play, and has enough sales that it’s not that expensive either.

I don’t pirate movies and tv shows because Netflix and Disney really cover anything I want to watch and anything else I share a crave subscription, like for Game of Thrones

But I do pirate hockey games.

Table dancing joke is not appropriate, at all

I got up at 3:30am for work today. Ugh

Or I’m responsible for the women on my team and don’t tolerate a culture of anything less than professional

Joke marketing/publicity thing

Sounds kinda racist, bro

Just say what it actually is. There are an inordinate amount of creeps in tech

This was really weird to read. Self harm like this is normally associated with pretty severe mental illness.

Like what did she think they were going to do if she called in sick? Beat her up? Definitely a strange part of the story.

She probably should have kept that part to herself

I’ve been in the workforce for 30 years. I’ve never seen anything even close to this happen anywhere I have worked, I haven’t heard stories about it from my friends either.

But we aren’t tech bros.

The circumstantial evidence seems to suggest that the tech industry has a big problem with this kind of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Why? I have no idea.

But that industry needs to take account of this and hold themselves to a higher standard. Getting support for this is probably hard for lemmy users because many of them are probably tech bros themselves and possibly blind to this sort of thing happening in their workplaces too.

Def seems like the rumblings around tech culture and sexism has some teeth though

Tech bros being sexist, gropey scumbags

I’m shocked

In my memory, the first time I heard this idea was back in 1995 with the book “Angels Don’t Play This HAARP”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/636826.Angels_Don_t_Play_This_HAARP

Get a pair of momentum true wireless 3’s

And then, yes you can

You’re right, but these kids will never admit it.

They don’t know that words have actual meanings, they just use them incorrectly often enough that they forget

As a new user, I kind of can’t get over the idea that bots just seem to scrape links and repost them here.

That seems to be most of the contributions to communities to me.

I have no idea what a sploof is

We used to shove laundry bounce sheets into a toilet paper tube, take a small hit off a pipe and blow the smoke through the bounce sheets

I dunno, I’m just used to seeing upvotes when I’m supporting the thread I’m commenting in and downvotes when I am not.

The upvote system is stupid

“Social media users complain about video game”

Is just such a meme at this point

It was a rage baiting blog post. The writer cited datmodz and asmongold as his sources and another Forbes article.