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[–] 63 points 2 months ago

A long time ago, my then-scrum master pitched an idea to us: ID badges with little microphones. The microphones wouldn't record anything, but they'd constantly monitor the ambient noise to see if we were having the kind of excited, buzzy conversations that signaled innovation. Once we had them, we could tune our days to maximize innovation.

I was brand new at the company but I told him that everyone was trying to catch lightning in a bottle, but nobody was willing to build a fucking battery. Then I told him the day we adopted that policy, I'd hand in my resignation. It never came up again.

Motherfuckers will try anything and they always have.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no! Someone forgot all the fancy dances we do today is so the common populace doesn't eat the ruling classes! Looks like we should remind him.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Thats called a colonoscopy

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sometimes I feel like a simple....70% power jab to the head when billionaires say stupid shit would stop them saying a lot of dumb shit.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Here's an idea, and I'm just spitballing here... What if for every 1 Million dollars of net worth you have, you have to rub down your genitals with fresh stinging nettles for 1 minute?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Elon would have to do it for about 2 years

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    This highlights a major flaw with the idea, because that's not nearly long enough

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's not a really practical idea anyway. There are diminishing returns, after the 20th minute it wouldn't be any worse and your body might actually start to get accustomed to the sensation.

    I would suggest they have to do it once a day for five minutes contact per million dollars and they have to cycle between stinging nettles, poison ivy and wild parsnip.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago*

    Billionaire lawyer of Morgan and Morgan sponsor of tampa bay buccaneers 🤮 https://share.google/tZyx9RlE84v6nd2as what an ad🤮

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (1 child)
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    Apparently we live in an age of business owners who want to drive people away from their businesses.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yes ok, if you really want to see it, but I gotta know: how many raccoons is one camera?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Genuinely how hard is it to at least pretend you're not a nazi pedophile while being a nazi pedophile?

    Not that I'm complaining necessarily. At least they're making it easy to know which companies to avoid.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    If it's up my ass, is it facing inward looking at my colon or facing outward looking at my underwear?

    In the 90s, there was a funny website that had an article on the "world's first rectal camera." It was an article so I think it covered the "why" and "who" and "how" and everything. When they got to the photos, they were just normal photos with a round black border around them.

    It was funny. I wish I could find it again.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I didn't know there was a fetish of learning what Taylor Farms really provides.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    This dude spending too much time on Youporn....or something like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Just that part is all you take issue with? It's a (probably AI generated) cartoon character, not a real tool of revolution.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    No but i honestly don't feel like to become the AI gen police and go under every post and comment to mention every detail that give away that's AI gen, so i just scrolled past this slop after i wrote my comment

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Jokes on you I do every 5 years.

    (Schedule your colonoscopy folks)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    And we’ll put a falling blade in your neck.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Where's the link?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    More specifically, he's threatening colonoscopy. Endless surveillance of your intestines.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Last time someone threatened to put a camera up my ass, it was a doctor

    EDIT: We're married now

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    but will it feature a flashlight? or night vision? or heat vision? or infrared? so many questions...

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    So, he wants to give a free medical checkup to every worker, or is he going to make them pay for the cameras?

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  • [+] -18 points 2 months ago (31 children)

    The answer is to simply not work for them. The problem is that there is always someone willing to put up with poor working conditions and poor pay. Don't be that someone.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It isn't enough to not work for them. You must stop buying from them but no one wants the inconvenience of going without and so they keep sending trillions of dollars to the very despots that are ruining their lives.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    nah... that was 20 years ago mentality... these people need to suffer and feel real pain and loss.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There is no peace without consequences. People like him, Elon, Errol, Trump fucking up the world will continue indefinitely unless they are punished harshly for everything they do/suggest that violates basic human rights on a mass scale.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Right, folks, just put on your job hats and go get a job working for a nice company!

    Thats not reality. Most americans are already suffering, by design, and finding a job is hard. Your options are limited and even the better employers are shit. There is no good option. I agree that theres a difference between working as like a chief engineer for raytheon vs a stocker at aldis, but just saying "dont work for them" is meaningless and doesnt help. Literally execute them until they stop causing mass harm and THEN work on correcting the mass harm and stoppibg it in the future.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (21 children)

    I don't get your downvotes...if you know something is bad and you participate in it, you're part of the problem

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    It's because it's braindead "free market" cargo-cultism.

    Merely not participating isn't good enough. There are way too many shortsighted people in the world, making that sort of strategy a perpetual loser. This sort of shit can only be stopped by government regulation.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago

    Gov regulations? You mean the gov (whichever country) that works for the capital and not the worker-ants? You mean this one? While you're not technically wrong, the shortsightedness is also on your side my friend.

    So, in the meantime, it's up to everyone. Working there and waiting for the gov to same me....not happening.

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  • [+] 1 point 2 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    In what third-world do you reside in that quitting an evil job will get you hungry and homeless? And even if you'd be living like a slave there, there would still be another job that is NOT evil or less.

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    Why? You don't have a job, you get social security. Search for a new job all in peace and quiet. If not this month, then next. Or next year. It's most likely not awesome nor drowning you in great riches, but you won't starve and have a home. That's what a society is, or at least should aspire to be. Help others.

    Unless, as said, some third-world without any social net, then I'm sorry man, it probably sucks and your hate is maybe best directed at those who put you in such a miserable position.

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    As said, exclude third-world, they have it all bad, not just the social net.

    Every so called first-world has at least some kind of social net. Unless you count the USA in, that's a country of slaves and billionaires.

    I find it a bit weird that you find it detestable if I had moral reservations about working at e.g. google or some other devil. That's what morals are, you usually don't sell them out for 1000 moneyz a month. Or else they were just nice-to-have-if-everything-else-is-sated. So basically a luxury and ultimately useless.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    If Spain shits on the jobless, then it seems like a "yes"?

    And dude, you shouldn't have to struggle... That's the whole point. If one has to struggle existing without a job then the system's broken and morality probably comes second. Sad world.

    And if I had struggled in life, my expertise suddenly would count?

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    For us here, no. It's just a social welfare-state.

    But still, even if I would have to struggle, I wouldn't sell my soul for some bucks to an evil company. Probably prefer stealing or whatever over that. And if the state pisses on me and also all companies I could work at were evil, I'd emigrate. There's a reason we drown in migrants...

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    They like working for shit companies and will make any excuse not to leave. Money comes first, long live capitalism!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Not everyone has the luxury to be choosy about their employer. Did you forget we are living in late stage capitalism with an ever growing impoverishment rate?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    But where do you draw the line? If it's a literal orphan-crushing-company? It's in your power to not procreate and not to work at evil companies. The consequences are sadly also yours alone, that's right.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Most companies don't make their harms so obvious.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    No? Microsoft, x, meta, apple, every "ai"-company, every "modern" car-company, big oil, Samsung and the others, ....

    Wouldn't work there, even if I had to.

    Anectodally, once, when I still worked sometimes, I had the main-admin job at a very major nonprofit that aims to cure (some disease). Quit after a month of seeing how this monster worked. It was made to amass billions, the cellar was full of old people's precious inheritance that was talked outta them by a whole floor of lawyers. And 0.2% actually went into curing the thing. While the ceos went home with 6figures starting with a 3, Audi r8s and unlimited budget for "business meetings".

    Noone cared. Noone. I was shocked by the ignorance.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago

    The company doesn't pull you off the street and enslave you. You chose them. You fill out the application, you take the interview, you accept the offer. You're not stuck, you can do it again. I've done it several times. I recognize it's not easy but it is doable.

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