jtrek

No. Don't think I was even invited to any.

I'm not close to anyone from high school. I haven't talked to anyone from that era in years. I wasn't my best self back then, and I don't really want to relive it.

Other answers are good.

I expect there's a lot of racism, too. A lot of people don't want those people to have nice things, even if it means personally suffering.

If you build a nice train system, you might have to see those people on your day to day. In a car, you're isolated and feel safe.

But mostly I expect it's because of the massive highway system that was built without corresponding passenger rail.

I was outside the city a couple weeks ago and saw a lot of maga stuff. Maybe I should get like stickers or business cards for this site to leave places like that.

I think sometimes about two of my old coworkers. Mid six figure salary, straight white guys. Didn't go to even the most basic protests. They'd say they cared, but when it came down to showing up they just made excuses, stayed home, and played dota. They just didn't care that much.

I don't speak to either of them anymore. If they think about me at all, they probably think I'm just annoying for making them feel bad.

This doesn't seem like something private organizations should be allowed to do.

Dude really was a moron, wasn’t he?

A leading hypothesis is management are fucking stupid. Throw them back into the trenches. Let them do some actual work for a few years

Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

This could be a fantastic idea, and maybe a hammer blow to the "return to office" bullshit.

Sure, I'll go into the office. Pay me 25% more to account for the travel time.

My leading hypothesis is "management is stupid". It explains a lot of this sort of thing.

Honestly forcing them to deal with people who are currently out-group on a personal level would probably help. It's easy to hate shifting, vague, ideas of Other. It's a lot harder to hate Raul, who cooks that amazing dish and tells the funniest jokes

I've been applying to jobs for like a year. Very few interviews. So much AI slop and froth.

The place I'm at is barely hiring, but it's like a rotting corpse of a megacorp. They take months to do anything.

I live in NY and I see a lot of pride flags all the time. It's nice. Earlier this summer I visited some folks in like South Jersey and it was striking, once I noticed, how few pride flags there were. I saw one. I saw a lot of trump stuff.

A woman friend of mine that's married to a woman said she's seriously discussed with her wife if they're going to stop visiting folks there, because it doesn't feel safe.