SlopppyEngineer

It’s the modern version of sacrificing people in a volcano to appease the gods.

“Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

And that last group is going to be angry when they can’t keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can’t buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.

It’s the same kind of energy like the usual “the grant parents built the business, the parents expanded it and the children ran it into the ground”

Or even the theory of empires falling. The first generations establish the empire and make it wealthy, over the next generations people get greedy and decadent, infighting starts and the whole thing collapses. Some say this is happening right now to an empire in all but name.

They really want to force gamers to buy their new games which are pretty much like the old games but now with extra helpings of ads, gambling mechanics and micro transactions on top

Perhaps it can be scaled down easily to something that fits in a home. It could be a fridge sized machine that’s hooked up to power and water and keeps producing fresh food. That’ll cut out the middlemen.

Dithering, it’s a lost art. It always reminds me of Monkey Island.

“Murder your darlings” as they say in writing.

Our boss was freaking out over people sometimes doing some private calls during work hours and at a certain point absolutely forbade it. So yeah, people would just end the call at 17:00 sharp and switch off the work phone. It took one week before that rule was rescinded.

It’s EU law that if you have to be standby to pick up the phone and go on location at a moment’s notice, those are working hours and need to be paid in full. Most companies are pretty careful to not put it anywhere in the contracts or house rules that you have to be on stand-by, but just verbally keep pushing for it. If they keep pushing, push back with asking for the written rules.

Living out the last excesses of a broken system before it all falls apart