This place actually kinda kicks ass if you’re there. It’s a strange project to have taken on, but it seems to have been done sincerely.

The botanical gardens nearby are also nice.

Well those sound like people who aren’t good to open up to.

I do sympathize though, I pretended to be a guy for several decades, and my wife put exactly the same kind of duality on me that men put on women.

I was expected to be sympathetic and nurturing in some contexts and aggressive, jealous, and demanding in others, and I was just supposed to know when to switch.

And there was an amount of vulnerability I was able to display, but beyond that I’d get told to suck it up.

I think somebody needs to come up with an ad campaign that’s Therapy For Men. Big sweaty hairy guys with thick beards looking after each other’s mental health like BROs. It worked to get men to use soap.

(Seriously, I think counseling is too female-coded for a lot of men to be comfortable with it unless they’re fucking the person, or they start to want to fuck the person because they’re unused to talking about things).

That’s kind of how I read it too.

But as a side effect it means you’re still allowed to photograph your own books at home as a private citizen if you own them.

Prepare to never legally own another piece of media in your life. 😄

The article says that they are changing their policy so that even if you turn it off it will still be feeding your actions to AI.

Read the article yo.

Try lineage or graphene before jumping into the money pit maybe?

Or a sister, or any woman who has the standing to tell you “your teeth are blotchy and your breath is bad, that’s why people won’t kiss you, go to the dentist”

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Blue Jeans and Gray Hoodie at least have seen the bottom side of a barbell…

Cowards. Fucking cowardly bullies with their truncheons.

And if the dude on the right wouldn’t go down and stay down with one shove to the chest, I’ll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

“Elon” “Musk” “Trump” “Donald”

For me it depended entirely on how happy I was in the rest of my job.

If I’m, say, being death-marched, or requirements are written in sand, or senior management refuses to ever make a decision in writing, or my manager looks over my shoulder when I’m typing, or you just told me we’re going 100% AI for QA, I don’t want your fucking playdate.

If the team is happy, offsites can be a fun way to get some bonding in.

If the team is unhappy, they are there for their check and that is it, they are not paid to pretend to like you at an off-site. Take the money you would use for the party and hand it out as cash in an envelope to everybody individually.

I imagine this is like a dozen people, but good for them for having the guts to go against the rest of the country.

Maaaaaaybe the USSR isn’t the best example of a better society we want to be building.

I’m watching the whole ideological-purge thing happen in the US and it kinda sucks.