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I used to work at Big Tech Co where I was told that they designed their promotion policy to avoid the Peter principle, which is why I, an engineer, would not be promoted without going outside of my responsibilities to build up my promo packet.

Later, when I was fired, I thought about how my manager was probably going to be given kudos for firing me. I had been contending with undiagnosed ADHD, and when I told my manager that I had been diagnosed and that they should accommodate my needs, I was told that I needed to be more flexible, i.e. act like a “normal”/neurotypical person. So to the company, this manager was doing a good job, since I was now a drain on resources. But clearly this manager was a failure for not learning how to manage someone with ADHD. Peter principle fulfilled!

I had heard that managers fucking suck, but experiencing it IRL was a different story. So everything ed writes here aligns with the patterns I have experienced. Managers ain’t shit.

Embed AI into physics? OK now you’ve completely lost me.

Ugh, at least some scams are novel or entertaining.

I initially deleted this because these ideas aren’t really that fascist, so I was gonna take a second pass. Then I remembered that thinking of fascist ideas makes me feel awful so here we are.

I mean yes this is all very off the rails fascist but I can do better.

• bribe the government for nuclear bombs and detonate them in volcanoes to trigger The Big One and separate the bay area from america
• Install high powered laser to roof of salesforce that sweeps the bay
• clone elon musk

I have plenty more where that came from. Money please, m4s a8n

Well it’s one thing to see someone tie red strings on a corkboard to try explain gases, and it’s another to see people in the comments buy into the idea. But then again, we are in the presence of acausal roboticists

Object permanence is calling…

If this chapter of tech drama were a video game, specifically a visual novel, and more specifically phoenix wright, this would be the part of the last trial where Google has smugly deigned to testify in person, confident they can easily deflect whatever comes at them during cross examination

Dust specks (of a certain kind) are known to cause mesothelioma

For the sake of a yudzillion dust specks, what’s another castle?

What about: “read a particular HP fanfic to try and fit in with a new crowd, was utterly repulsed by the narrative voice, discovered later it was part of what seemed like an elaborate cult that was weirdly sensitive to sneers, and finally found an outlet for their nerd bloodlust”