yeah, the size of the chasm will continue to grow exponentially too, as they have more and more power and weight to throw around. It will accelerate until things become untenable, and that won't be fun for anyone involved, be it the 99% or the rich, just for different reasons

To your last point, The distance from Paris to Moscow is 1500 miles, while the distance from los angeles to NYC is over 2500 miles.

For the rest, yeah it's ridiculous, our turnout is not even a 10th of what it should be considering the insanity

This world is ripe for an uprising against the ruling class and their bootlickers. The problem is getting everyone to agree on what they want.

I just have a constant pit in my stomach, knowing every day the constant thoughts in my mind egging me into impulsive action may one day lead me to do something that in the end will just be used as "moral" fodder against neighbors and people I care about.

But truly, when is enough, enough?

eventual? it's here dude. Roving ICE (SS) patrols, people snatched up and thrown into god knows where, human rights abuses, ignoring our literal constitution and bill of rights. Soon enough they'll start emptying our accounts of money if we speak out against them

really oughta stop calling them settlers, they're terrorists, razing palestinian land and livelihoods, totally complicit in a genocide

there are so many more of us than them. If this is the path they truly want to go down, they won't like how it ends

even better is the open weight, free models you can tailor to specific needs, which directly undercuts these massive "ai" companies.

So if/when those hikes happen, those self hosted models are going to look a lot more appetizing too

I really want to do the same after years of working in the field and watching it become more and more miserable, but financially I can't really make the leap to starting my own business yet.

As the years go by I keep learning more and more from organizational practices:

• What raises morale and promotes healthy workflows
• What pisses people off and makes good people leave, and the circumstances that lead to the poor decisions made, since sometimes it's a cascading effect that's hard to trace back.
• What people who play games respond most positively to ( typically a mix of real authenticity in a core game design vision rather than pandering + good communication)

trying to keep track of the lessons learned, hoping one day I can make the jump, or at least jump on board with a like minded team

^ Racists actively doing backflips to avoid using their brains for a moment and considering thinking critically on the fact that the owning class possesses over 50% of all money and resources despite being less than 1% of the general population

I'm sorry for your situation. Other comments have pointed out that legally you don't have to comply with the "no side job" bs, so i agree to keep proceeding with it, and if they try to fire you, bring in the lawyers.

On another note, stories like yours are why I want to watch the entire system burn, using executives as fuel for the fire.

Better to resist and flip the bird to these asshats rather than comply in advance.

Good luck to you, keep fighting, and never give up, if only to spite the bastards

let it fall, and let something else be built in its place. was rotten from the start

they should have their heads "off" too