Plenty of places don’t have HOAs, like my neighborhood. We just bitch at each other. If things got really bad you could just call the city.

I’ve been maining Linux for a decade and I’m completely lost. I think I need to catch up

Lol father juice

All right then let’s establish a neutral war crimes tribunal and prosecute some war crimes — on both sides, obviously.

Maybe lay off the Root

Legitimately wtf

I see right, yeah, it’s the conditions social and material that give rise to the “disorder” whereas if we fix the conditions, it just evaporates. Like abolishing slavery or private property.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that […] hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity.

I could make some guesses, but I’m not sure what you meant by this. What did you mean?

That was a fun day

I’m becoming convinced it’s an actual mental disease, or at least grossly maladaptive

While we’re at it don’t get me started on people who have these giant bookshelves, practically floor to ceiling, then when you go to visit it’s all the woke books, subverting fiction motifs, and really dense theory that shows they really take kindness and truth seeking seriously - it’s like, I get it you’re smarter and more empathetic than me. But it’s not like you have to throw it in my face. I can see their big beautiful bookshelf from the sidewalk for fuck’s sake.

(Goes back to struggling through “Bifo”)

Not a fan fat shaming that gets bundled in with that but basically. It’s the vice of greed, plain and simple.

Like imagine rolling up to a potluck and just buying the table, leaving naught but a bag of chips for the rest of the party. Even if you can afford it, it’s still a crime against your fellows.

I don’t think I’ll even ever leave my continent at this point, but I do have a driveway…

Here’s a little sample https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/99258/why-do-corporate-mergers-require-the-approval-of-foreign-governments

Same thing with open concept offices. To extraverts it feels more productive and collaborative, but it’s actually the oppo to anyone engaged in any kind of focus work.

That’s great. It’s like you were temporarily a worker’s co-op.

I remember my company at the time also admitted that COVID was threatening the bottom line and many in the all hands and public chats suggested just what your company did.

Instead we got multiple rounds of gutting layoffs mid-pandemic, a mass exodus of core talent, and the founders selling out to some B tier silicon valley fucks who fly in every now and then to complain about morale.

I only had a 360 back in the day, and I feel like I got in and out at the absolute peak. So many great couch coop with roommates memories.

Companies used to need approval to do such things

Only the high profile ones

Username tells me you know your stuff