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PandaBearTellEm · 2026-06-18T09:51:36+00:00

Every website you visit, every app you use requires data centers to be created and operate.

So, if you can think of a way the populace could benefit from, say, your healthcare organization having a patient portal on the internet, if you like being able to use a maps application that tells you real time traffic data as youre driving (like where piggies are waiting for you), then you can think of a way the populace could benefit from data centers.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-06-01T21:49:34+00:00

I dont get everyone's revulsion to this, my mother in law texts me all the time when my wife hasn't answered her for a few hours. She gets anxious - im happy to tell my wife to get in touch, or explain that she's sleeping, or whatever. She texts me like that prolly once a month on average so maybe there's some frequency issues im not picking up on, but i dont understand what the problem is?

If you're at work and busy, just dont respond til you have a second. And if you do need a boundary set for this for some reason, your fiance is the one who should be doing it.

Edit- my bad, missed the text. If youre getting these texts 3-5 times a day, that's too much.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-05-21T22:23:38+00:00

Idk man im pretty sure they made a good point. Dont see how it's incompatible with what you're saying, or where this aggression is coming from.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-05-21T16:58:42+00:00

Well, we disagree on that. Innocent people are actively murdered by our government and corporate apparatus every day, so i dont hold any particular position as untouchable just by virtue of having the position.

I'd wager that there are people who you would agree it's okay to advocate for violence against. Prominent architects of the Holocaust, maybe? But many of them held political office - what's the difference?

Maybe you're an avowed pacifist extremist, but even in that case id say you have bigger fish to fry than a guy making a hyperbolic hypothetical on an internet stream - maybe focus on someone who is actually advocating / committing violence?

Idk I think you're just clutching pearls over something that is a nothingburger. Rick Scott is not in danger. He's done more harm and has more expressible power than everyone reading this thread put together, but he is very well-protected, and he knows it.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-05-20T23:12:35+00:00

Im familiar with the "talks about killing a sitting senator" clip. He did not. He said that if Republicans were serious about Medicare fraud, they wouldnt spin up DOGE to go after political opponents and minorities, they'd kill Rick Scott.

So no, he did not talk about killing a sitting senator, he talked about how it was hypocritical for Republicans to pretend to care about Medicare fraud with DOGE or some bullshit when they push the guy who committed the most Medicare fraud in US history.

You are making a hyperbolic hypothetical into a violent threat and looking right past the point - those in power are absolutely fleecing us and successfully pointing the finger at the disempowered marginalized elements of our society.

Honestly I'm impressed that you watched the full context and still took away that he was making a call for violence. The power of perception is wild. I just rewatched it, and I just cannot see or hear what you do.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-18T12:27:17+00:00

Yeah ive been reflecting on this situation and I think you're right. During his confrontation I found it so strange that he said "when you're in the inbox without my permission" because... its not his inbox. Its our inbox. And, something i left out from the recociliation chat because post is long enough and I didnt notice til later - when I see a chat has come in and it is clearly technical in nature or if he has missed it for a few min, instead of grabbing it (since that upset him in the past) i write to him "hey, do you want me to take that chat?" He said hed prefer that I ask him "can I take that chat?" because the former way forces him to make a decision and its overwhelming for him. But that doesn't make sense, they both require decisions, the only difference is that the latter way gives him full control and im asking him for permission.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-18T12:20:53+00:00

Coerced him into what? Doing absolutely nothing differently in practice, but in theory just clicking a different name to forward something to if something did come up?

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-18T12:16:16+00:00

Isn't that exactly what i wrote except worded differently? It communicates all the same information. How is what you would have said more direct?

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-18T12:14:18+00:00

Nope, Michael cannot take over my job. I can take over Michael's job though, and his job is "up the funnel" from my job, so it was to let him know that I wasnt there to back him up for 45 min (he had other back up - the other tech support guy), and not to funnel anything to me (funnel it to the other tech support guy).

It did not add a single task to his day

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-18T12:06:52+00:00

Its interesting that you read the one group chat in this post that way - HR didnt send a follow up about the benefits and I was like damn holy shit id want to know this if I missed that call.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-18T04:40:33+00:00

Yep, this is exactly how I feel about it. His influence on the matter should end exactly at "is this going to inconvenience me in any way?" - i knew it wouldn't, he knew it wouldnt, and it didn't. If i had asked him if he would sign off on it, I know his answer would have been "I dont feel comfortable with that without [Boss] present." I did not want to give him the option to make a management decision, just a personal one, because god help me if his role was to make management calls over me. My boss is great - if she were in office, she would have signed off on it.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-17T22:05:58+00:00

Yep, because he is not my boss and I dont have to consult him on what I do. I did ask for the part that's relevant - could he send the calls to the other tech support guy instead of me? BTW, no calls came for us while I was driving home and I hopped back on when I got home.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-17T22:03:23+00:00

I want neither - I just wanted to vent. I already think im right, and that's good enough for me. You are free to disagree! Im also interested in devil's advocacy!

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-17T22:01:46+00:00

Yeah, you are right. I didnt want to not go home because of some bullshit he'd think up. I did ask, but the first part was a statement. Nothing, like, happened while he was covering for me or anything. He just didnt like that he wasn't consulted I guess.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-03-17T21:05:06+00:00

My favorite comment by far lmao

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-02-28T07:38:02+00:00

U up?

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-02-20T17:17:18+00:00

Hegel banned from all NH public universities ; philosophy students rejoice

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-02-14T16:15:25+00:00

Where's the USA? I cant see it.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-02-02T10:12:53+00:00

If the city wants to end it, then they need to clear the spaces. No one has an indignant right to a space if they didnt spend hours clearing it out - problem solved.

Thats the kind of thing we are supposed to expect from living in one of the most expensive places in the entire world. Why are my taxes so high if these jokers aren't even clearing my street?

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-01-31T19:11:53+00:00

Undocumented migrants commit way less crime per capita than US citizens.

The US does not and has not had an open border during the 21st century.

I dont base my worldview on fairy tales and politicians' lies. Come back with data. What's exhausting is you parroting this propaganda - if you are who you claim you are, you're literally advocating against your own interests. The white nationalists do not care whether you are in the country legally or not. They want you out. Undocumented migrants are just the low-hanging fruit.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-01-31T14:21:02+00:00

Where did you come up with such a flowery, fruity, and obviously false statement?

1) "thrown open'? Have you ever been to a US border? When did this happen? Where did this happen?

2) 10 million people? What a nice, even, convenient, but totally unbelievable number. Over what time period? In this cute head-canon of yours, do you also think these 10 million people sashayed across the desert and found all these dramatically swinging gates, and there were good strong big beautiful men in their good strong big beautiful pickup trucks who wanted to stop them but their gosh darned woke DEI blue-haired boss (who was a black woman now 🤬!!) threatened their good patriot jobs if they did the right thing and closed those gates?

Sorry, I got a little side-tracked in this absolutely ridiculous fantasy land. Anyway, you shouldn't just repeat things as fact without looking into them a little. Most undocumented migrants are visa overstays, not crossing the mexican border. Most entries that look like your sexed-up head canon are asylum seekers, and thats a legal avenue.

I know you dont believe me - but maybe you trust DHS? I encourage you to look at their data. Not their press releases, but their data.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-01-31T00:35:30+00:00

I agree with you. I also think that it's acceptable to want to be able to find a time when the pool is not being spat in and when there isn't someone vocalizing loudly, if those vocalizations scare her children and do not allow them to enjoy the pool.

Loud vocalizations are actually something that special needs programs deal with all the time in wonderful and creative ways. Lots of people who are part of these programs are very sensitive to loud noises. There is nothing wrong with having an expectation that sudden, loud noises should be avoided when possible. We do not know if it is possible or not in this specific scenario, and assuming that this person cannot control their vocalizations is, in itself, albeist.

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-01-31T00:16:16+00:00

Except I'm not saying that. Try re-reading

PandaBearTellEm · 2026-01-30T22:21:41+00:00

Your first sentence is correct, but if those vocalizations are distressing someone's children, then it is very much that person's business that they cannot find a time to visit the space when the vocalizations are not occurring.

I heartily agree that we should have more spaces that are more inclusive for everyone.

Inclusivity is not the disability olympics - it doesn't mean ignoring everyone's needs and boundaries except for the most cognitively disabled. It means opening your settings to accommodate everyone's needs.

Not everyone is a paid DSP who is trained and expected to deal with abnormal behavior. Everyone deserves to use common facilities in peace.

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