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Gavin Rush pulls gun on ex at the Anderson Mill Tavern
Homercles replied to GottaB's topic in Daily Texan
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I spent five years at two companies doing tech support, and I hate talking on the phone with the fiery of a thousand post-Matt’s El Rancho burned assholes. Tier 1: Wife, daycare or school…any of them calling is usually bad news, even if it’s just my wife calling to give me a honey-do Tier 2: Boss or family. Unless fully indisposed or on a critical meeting, will answer. Tier 3: Everyone else. Leave a voicemail, or don’t. I don’t give a shit.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Donkey Cigar, Monkey Cigarette, Turkey Chew…wasn’t there a Juul in there too? He’s, by far, the most visible ‘victim’ of the various Outrage Machines that actually are dividing our country. And yes, the vast majority of them are right wing and yes there are documented + intelligently-inferred instances of influence from those countries. Just because there haven’t been concrete consequences for internal individuals (Jan 6 players, Trump taxes, etc) or Putin/Xi/et al doesn’t mean that the adults in the room are wrong to be suspicious. The jury is out on his motives, I tend to lean towards a confluence of (narcissism ^ surrounded by yes men) + (possible drug problem * broken heart) more than some sinister motive as of late. I’d say that’s a damn good reason to be glad he’s ineligible to run for President because I’ve seen a variation of that formula before, and it certainly did much more to further divide us than unite the country. But you keep on keepin on, and I await the day we see Platypus Pipe or Shark Snuff or whatever comes next. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Why is their slide background the back cover of a used Scantron Blue Book? And why is the date on slide 2 from 2020…if Twitter is anything like my employer, they average about a full man hour for every minute of exec time, so someone would have caught that if it was an oversight. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Yes, you’re right…even if your dogged defense of Twitter is really stanning for Elon, along with your cryptobro / no regulation / perverse take on freedom of speech / veiled take on the incel anger machine which regularly has real consequences for innocent people…you could easily cut significant workforce at most large tech firms to shore up efficiency. But that’s missing my point. My point was that there can be a happy coexistence between the business making money and allowing the contributors to have a comfortable, balanced life. Hit that ideal and everyone’s happy. That’s also how you attract (and keep) key talent. That’s also how you democratize advancement as people feel free to speak their minds. I could get fired tomorrow and my team, my org, and the company as a whole would keep on humming. I’m the black sheep on the team in that I do not possess unique tech talent valuable to our core product for internal customers: a customized Azure sub launched with a basic core/federated governance structure but slowly evolving towards a more ideal form of data mesh as our customers upskill. I’m really good at communicating complex things via exec-ready slideware (yeah I know) and handle other bullshit engineers hate…budget execution, outside spend and vendors, running forums. Fire me though and they’d figure it out. And yes I WFH…I do laundry, I take naps, I run errands, take kids to the doc, jerk off, post here, etc. My CEO is on the record as supporting whatever format works for the individual, and the manager I’ve worked for the last 15 years says ‘family first’ and really means it…seen me through my marriage, two kids, grad school, a dark period with an associated drinking problem, and everything else. I will also work until 3am to get the visuals just right on a deck my boss needs by 9am, motivated by the sheer terror of letting him down…or my team members down. I get the flexibility I need outside work, they get my 100% commitment without complaint when it’s needed. I can’t fucking stand this reduction of real people with real lives to ‘hours’ and insinuating we are all getting ‘easy money’. People are a spectrum and there’s way more to life than the job, the pursuit of being rich. I relish the idea of Musk burning down Twitter because I want to see what he embodies fail, despite unlimited funds…out of control narcissism hitched to the hate wagon. You seem to relish an entire collection of pee-ons getting their comeuppance because they haven’t hitched their wagon to the almighty dollar. Anyways I’ve waxed poetic about this shit enough, sorry for the wall of text. I feel strongly about this shit but I ain’t solving anything as I’m just a pee-on myself. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I don’t even know why I bother engaging with Beast, probably as an outlet to how shitastic OSU’s football season has become. However, the fact that you refer to people who declined to sign a contract committing them to long, intense, ‘hardcore’ hours as ‘divas’ tells me more than enough about you. Anyone with options and self respect should absolutely have bailed out of there the moment they were presented with that form. Beyond hero worship of the rich, this secondary fascination with people who refuse to give their sanity to support large companies as being diva/lazy/worthless/selfish/etc is hopefully, slowly coming to an end via the youth of this country. This isn’t the 60’s where you have a pension waiting for you if you stay loyal. It’s been proven over and over again that they have eschewed any commitment to individuals in the name of quarterly profit. And yes that sounds all South Park ‘the corporations, man’ hippy-ness but any remaining doubt has been killed by PPI loan handling and taking advantage of the complex drivers of inflation to continue raising prices. Massive stock repurchasing. All of it. Fucking Jimmy John’s wants me to add a tip on a pickup order because they won’t pay their people enough. Airlines stupidly furlough’d tons of pilots as a short term cost saver during Covid, are now short handed on captains, and are making us pay higher fares as demand outstrips supply. Disney was an absolute shitshow last year with record crowds and broken rides/light bulbs/full trash cans but are still raising prices to cover for their greedy failures in the streaming world. Fuck em all. I’d be out of Twitter the moment that contract shit hit my mailbox. You’re laying off half the company under the guise of cost savings / leaning, and now I have to work endlessly to pick up the slack. Fuck. That. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Because in the grand scheme it’s not going to cover the debt servicing. According to NYT they went from approximately 7,500 to 3,700 FTE…say comp and ben averaged $150k/FTE…3,700 x $150k = $555M annually. Now that doesn’t account for any severance or other related costs like lawsuits, and the debt service is about $1B annually. Considering the ad revenue evaporating, new features being put on hold, brain drain, limited inside sales reps, and a complex core mesh that seems to be crumbling…I’d suggest you are vastly overestimating the impact of indiscriminately firing half the workforce. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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5 killed 18 injured in colorado springs gay nightclub shooting
Homercles replied to 52-80's topic in Daily Texan
I mean…guys like Tim Pool and that chick on Tucker last night may not be red necks, but they’re perpetuating falsehoods that motivate these assholes -
5 killed 18 injured in colorado springs gay nightclub shooting
Homercles replied to 52-80's topic in Daily Texan
Fair enough, but it feels newer to be so publicly adopted and espoused by an entire wing of politics. Talked about in living rooms, sure, but not necessarily agreed with by public figures on national tv. Though I’m probably naive/sheltered from it. -
5 killed 18 injured in colorado springs gay nightclub shooting
Homercles replied to 52-80's topic in Daily Texan
I’m not going anywhere near the gun ‘argument’ because it’s been sadly happening for years and we will get the same old people with the same old arguments. What seems newer to me is this angle some have taken against LGBT communities that they are grooming and sexualizing children, and using that (false) accusation as a way to marginalize those who just recently were able to gain a little ground in the war of acceptance: https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-guest-expect-more-attacks-034606363.html Tucker Carlsons (lesbian) guest: —— “The shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs over the weekend that left five dead and more than two dozen injured was “predictable” and won’t be the last of its kind, said a guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Tuesday night. “The tragedy that happened in Colorado Springs the other night—it was expected and predictable. We all within Gays Against Groomers saw this coming from a mile away,” said Jaimee Mitchell, whose group describes itself as “a coalition of gays against the sexualization, indoctrination, and medicalization of children.” —— Where is this pandemic of sexualization of children they speak of? Is it all happening in that secret Democrat pizza parlor? I have to hand it to the far right, they are masters at inventing conspiracy theories that take hold of the weak minded, frustrated, and angry. If this guy does come out as trans, it won’t lead me to ‘outrage level plummeting’…it’ll ramp it up, because this ridiculous messaging that these people are somehow subhuman possibly caused a closeted person to lash out at what they were told are a scourge to be eliminated. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
In a way, I admire Humble’s tenacity…not the played-out, version 8 of whatever his first handle was…but sheer dedication to getting neg trucked, new handle, rep-up in the crypto threads, then burning it all up posting shit the bulk of the site agrees is pointless fanboi drivel. So…congratulations, I award you one Homercles -
As someone who was almost certainly that classic hard drinker, has posted about it here + TOS and hounded Twice in PMs (thank you again for you help and patience)…just wanted to say that I/we appreciate this thread as a resource that’s welcoming across the spectrum. I’ve been around long enough that I feel I ‘know’ some of y’all but it’s still anonymous, existing in a weird zone where we can get straight feedback from trusted voices without risking judgement in the real world. I needed to be told I was probably not an alcoholic, but a problem drinker starting to face consequences, to get the confidence to commit to a moderation strategy that worked for me. That wouldn’t have happened without following this thread over the years. So, thank you. I still enjoy alcohol occasionally but the big difference for me is it’s no longer a ‘fast forward’ button for the stressful/mundane parts of life. It’s just something I do with friends occasionally. Once my overall life got right, alcohol was no longer a tool. Y’all are still a big help for those of us not in the alcoholic dick measuring, and we appreciate being welcomed here.
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Knock sensor bad on 4Runner? I’m boned
Homercles replied to bluto's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
If it were me I’d also get a case of beer and my pellet gun, spend a few hours in the garage every weekend under the guise of ‘sorry honey I gotta care of the rodents’. Hell if a rat showed up I might offer him a beer, and if declines my hospitality I’d start blasting before hanging his body on the 4Runner as a warning to the others…be cool or get capped. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Have it hosted by Mike Leach dressed in pirate gear and I’ll gladly PPV that shit
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I was on a pretty heady career arc to my early 30’s, serving as an IC to some powerful people at my employer and could have leveraged my own name recognition to jump into leadership…who knows what woulda happened, but the groundwork was there. Then I got married and had our first kiddo, and my life priorities changed. My long-time boss had always said ‘family first’ but I saw that he really meant it…two kids with the associated missed time they require, grad school, patience as I worked through a tough adjustment period in my life (and associated drinking problem), etc. A buddy of mine who did make that leap is now a Sr Director who they want to make a VP…he works 12 hours a day, phone never stops ringing, his wife practically raises their daughter solo, never gets to unplug. He doesn’t want those VP stripes even though it’ll probably mean his upward mobility will halt. Meanwhile I’d do anything for my boss because he enables me being a good husband/father and that’s worth untold amounts of money to me. Point being, I can’t respect someone who asks for endless sacrifice for the ‘firm’…let alone someone who demands it, in writing. Forget his accomplishments, I can’t respect Elon as a person. -
A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Homercles replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
It was so fucking nice to not hear that whiny, dry voice going off on rambling, pointless rants recently. Even the way he often just leans against the podium and drools ‘words’ into the microphone is pathetic…and yet Biden ‘can’t string sentences together’. But I’m with Stache, I wanna see him get primary’d and then run as an independent. He can leech votes away from the GOP like he leeched global goodwill away from our country, and it’ll be their own fault for hitching the wagon to this dumbass grifter in the first place. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Elon confidently tweeting about remote procure calls, micro services, serial requests and all the other examples where he’s publicly proven wrong… -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Homercles replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
So you’re the reason Tapatalk is such a flaming pile of shit -
Having the same issues with Yellowstone flashbacks as I do with House of the Dragon…outside of Lloyd and obviously Beth, have a hard time always telling who is who. Was really ‘proud’ of young Rip playing it smart in the bar, however, and along with Jimmy/Lloyd are about the only characters I can really stand. On further reflection it’s really just the Beth/Jamie dynamic that is borderline exhausting to watch. I get that he made a poor choice when helping her sweep the unintended pregnancy under the rug, and he dug his hole deeper with his biological father…but once I saw the next episode preview I said to myself ‘oh boy, here comes yet more flogging for Jamie!!!111’. You keep beating someone down for a past transgression, their mood goes from regret to resentment to outright rage…giving them no choice but to seek out alternative paths for ANY positive reinforcement. It’s a fictional show so you need some arc to tell a story, but after awhile the Beth/Jamie dynamic is like listening to The Wall on repeat and eventually get to ‘JFC Roger stfu and cage that dripping self pity…have some grace and accountability’. “End up like a dog that’s been beat too much until you spend half your life just coverin up” Regardless I’ll keep watching it. It’s a show for my wife and I to watch together, need something to bridge until Ted Lasso / White Lotus episodes + burn time until Stranger Things / HotD / etc, and it’s gorgeous to look at. But damn I’m tired of the all powerful, beyond-the-law, pissed off, predictable pigeon hole they’ve jammed most of the women into. It feels lazy.
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