NutWrench

Company-wide email: "We had our best year EVER and it's all thanks to YOU!"

Me: "Great. Can I have a raise?"

"Oh, we can't afford THAT."

I'd love it if VirtualBox emulated some really basic 3D cards (Voodoo 3, Radeon 9800) so I could do some old school gaming. I have a few old Windows games that won't run under Wine.

This. It's the creativity, inspiration, imagination and hard work of the employees that give the company its value, NOT the owners. Proof: all the franchises that have failed spectacularly once all the smart, creative people have left the company and the only ones left are untalented hacks.

Also, it is LONG past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.

how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?

Ask yourself if it was ever a real job offer to begin with. Did you have the required skills? Were your pay requirements reasonable? (For YOU not them). Then you did fine.

Usenet was awesome. A distributed, decentralized network, with thousands of forums. Until it got taken over by spam and porn and a lack of moderation.

Now we have Lemmy. Let's not mess it up.

If your elected leaders are using your tax dollars to send guns and tanks and bombs to Israel then THEY are responsible for the resulting carnage, not YOU. And your time would be better spent electing better leaders instead of setting yourself on fire.

This is the classic Trump response to an awkward, uncomfortable question. 1) Don't answer the question and then 2) Answer another question that nobody asked.

For example, when Trump was asked about paying for hookers, instead of simply saying, "I don't patronize prostitutes" he said, "I'm a germophobe" instead.

Imagine if Wine became the new Windows. (Or became all that was left of Windows).

Walk into any old graveyard and notice all the tiny little tombstones of children who died before the age of two. Before vaccines were in use.

Now notice how almost NONE of those tombstones are recent.

This. There are employers out there who want you at their beck and call at ALL hours. Not because it "improves efficiency / productivity" but because they just want to fark with your personal life to the point where you don't have one anymore. To make you miserable. Being able to control you all the time is what gets them off.

Shock The Monkey In My Ass.