I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • The problem with most companies is that they are not led by people with clear visions.

    Companies that succeed typically start with a clear vision. However, once that vision is fulfilled, then it starts to become run by people who are simply trying to make money.

    Chasing after money becomes the vision, and that is how you get to the way things are in America today.

    Having a vision often times means having goals that you’re willing to lose money if it gets you closer to achieving them.

    That being said, ratuer than voting for your paycheck, something that is much more straightforward and less prone to being taken advantage of would be having set wages based on years of experience and time with the company.

    include an opportunity to earn extra during the year by going above and beyond while making it clear that this is not expected of the people at their current job role.

    Going above and beyond would be determined by your boss on recommendation, and they would have a limited number of recommendations every year.

    Another thing you could do would be to publish what everybody earns on a website that is internal to the company, and make the going above and beyond rewards part of your annual meeting or something so nobody would know if they’re going to get an above and beyond reward until then.

    Then to actually make it a good thing, you would need to make it a rule to fire the people that do not meet their performance metrics, at least after a set number of times or like failing to fulfill a pip or something.



  • It’s amazing the lengths people will go to to avoid a difficult conversation.

    Whether you like it or not, you are a part of the total equation and if you have issues with it, you should try to communicate your concerns with all relevant people.

    Once you have communicated your concerns, It’s not your problem anymore.

    People don’t have to listen, don’t have to do what you tell them to do, and they don’t have to take your concerns into consideration.

    If they choose to do something stupid that’s on them.










  • Just so that I get this out while it’s fresh on my mind, what’s wrong with the internet right now is cyberfeudalism.

    The internet is essentially an infinite world, so no matter how much the large companies gobble up, we’ll always be able to go somewhere else.

    That being said, it gets really fucking exhausting to move over and over again to different apps and different locations just so to talk to people without some greedy, megalithic corporation there, snooping on everything you say and ingesting your words to feed some abomination intelligence simulation or to figure out the best way to sell you a new pair of fucking socks.

    All of that being said, I’m just saying it fucking sucks to continuously be a refugee, and what sucks about apps and companies and programs that end up selling out for a dollar is that if you don’t emmigrate to a new platform, you become nothing.


  • The word trans means across, or on the other side, and gress once again would mean step, so to transgress is basically to cross the line, right?

    I did a quick search, but there isn’t really a word to describe the people that don’t cross the line.

    The opposite of the prefix trans is the prefix cis, which means “on the same side”


  • There is an etymology word joke that says something along the lines of, “if “pro” is the opposite of “con”, then is the opposite of “congress” “progress”?”

    And if you don’t know etymology, then that seems to make sense.

    When you break down the word Congress, you get the prefix con and the root word gress, con means with, and gress means step, so it means to step with or to walk with.

    The opposite of walking with someone is to walk apart from someone, so, the actual opposite of congress would be digress, and the opposite of progress would be regress.

    Etymology is great at ruining jokes, but it’s also great at helping you understand what words mean and why they mean them.



  • That would be something like an AI technocracy where the AI owns itself and is considered as a living human being for all intents and purposes.

    If the AI’s continued existence was predicated on them ruling fairly and maximizing happiness without causing any kind of like asimovian technocratic exterminations, then you might have a chance at something working like that.

    The problem is the people who think they are smart enough to pull off such a specific combination of events to make something like that possible are not smart enough to pull it off and will kill us all if given the opportunity.