I have to keep track of the ever-changing landscape of what offends people this week.

“Capitalism is the point.”

“Enshittification is the point.”

They’re the same sentence!

I’ll update my slurs list. That’s an entirely new one on me.

The last time the USA tried to take my country of citizenship, even before we were an independent country, they had their capital sacked and occupied with a lot of government buildings set on fire, including what was then called the presidential mansion.

Or if someone did try to derail the focus of the forum, they’d get booted and it was over.

Or if someone did try to derail the focus of the forum, they’d get booted and it was over.

Sorry, but focused forums are far superior than any of the things that supposed to replace them (Reddit and its -alikes, Discord and its -alikes, etc. etc. etc.).

You haven’t been paying attention, have you?

The enshittification is the point of tehse “high tech” replacements for things that worked just fine beforehand.

I have no idea what word you’re redacting there. “School”?

I’ve been on holiday from January 25th and go back to work on February 10th.

I’m doing great!

That would be an import item for me and thus grossly inflated in price sadly. It will have to wait until I next make a trip to Canada and hit the game stores.

B12 is prevalent in the diet, but not everybody has the so-called “intrinsic factor” that permits the body to actually process it. If you lack it it’s very difficult to get enough B12 no matter what you eat. (Ask me how I know…)

I don’t know these games (I’m out of the loop on commercial and board games for the past 20-odd years, sadly) but I have loved this mechanism since playing the earliest rummy-family games from China. (Majiang is the most recent of a loooooooooooooooooong line of build-and-discard games in China.) The added spice of worrying if someone is going to use your discard to improve their hand or even complete it before you can do yours is part of why I like playing the rummy family.

Indeed. People were very blind to him (and he was trying to keep a mask on) for many years.

I didn’t like him from the start, but that’s because I knew the story of how he “founded” Tesla.

Oh wow. The sheer amount of tradition surrounding this, with a myriad of local variation, is impossible to keep up with. Then they make up “traditions” on the fly as well. It’s so much fun!

Have your B12 levels checked. (Don’t assume you have a B-vitamin shortage, GET IT TESTED.)

I saw someone with no fucks left to give play every step and yes, it is serious popcorn time when it happens.

You’d call it Chinese New Year.

There’s a whole lot of food involved. SO MUCH FOOD! 😱

Once you hand in notice you can start playing games so that they hustle you out the door with alacrity; you won’t have to stay for months.

First, the old tried and true tool: work to rule. Do your job, as described, and no more.

Second, the incompetence gambit. Do your job BADLY. Do what’s asked of you, but make dumb mistakes, do things slowly, “accidentally” hand in first draughts (with the correct draught already on your computer so you can produce it when they spot the problem…if they spot the problem in the first place!). You know, that kind of thing. If you’re training your replacement, key pieces of misinformation are always fun to insert.

Third, make sure all communications are in something more substantial than speech. If they tell you something vocally, follow up with email summarizing the conversation and what action items you took from the conversation. Ask them to confirm that your understanding was correct so there’s records instead of he said/she said. (This is both protection for yourself and fun.) Tinpot dictators really hate being held to account (it’s why they favour only verbal communications!), so torture her.

Finally you can play the tardy/absentee game. Come to work increasingly late. Leave work increasingly early. When the complaints start, you can make a subgame with the third technique, driving your nemesis to distraction as you roll this activity back … only to roll it forward again to test resolve and boundaries.

I mean what’s she going to do? Fire you?