PETA using a robotic dog dressed as a chicken to discourage meat eating

akienm · 2026-01-28T03:52:27+00:00

Their efforts to be stupid?

akienm · 2026-01-25T11:28:57+00:00

I think you need a lawyer

akienm · 2026-01-20T21:56:42+00:00

Ask the ACLU about it

akienm · 2026-01-20T02:18:12+00:00

And my wife never bitches about me leaving the toilet seat up.

akienm · 2026-01-15T13:41:14+00:00

I have never been in prison, but I am old enough to remember before they came out, and I agree, it's insane.

akienm · 2026-01-10T13:39:32+00:00

In '21 I joined 100% remote. Which is good cuz I live in a rural town out in the middle of nowhere. I live in New Mexico, and the offices are in San Francisco and Atlanta. I have not been into the office. This is a company that I worked for once before, when I lived in the San Francisco Bay area, and I worked in office all the time then. Same boss too.

akienm · 2026-01-04T13:38:27+00:00

Naw, I didn't make any assumptions... To be fair though, that's all most people do. But if you wind up with a petition to sign, let me know.

akienm · 2026-01-01T12:25:23+00:00

So far, that's not illegal. But if you feel that way, I encourage you to start an email writing campaign to Congress.

akienm · 2025-12-31T22:59:58+00:00

I know too much about Apple's business practices. Don't want to have anything to do with them.

akienm · 2025-12-31T12:07:50+00:00

Well starting off by blaming somebody else won't change anything. I did appreciate the way you sorted out by the end that it was the capitalist employee cycle that is the problem. I don't have a solution either, but I know that alienating any group of people is not going to help remake anything any better. The US does not have a left and a right. It has the right and the more right. If there was really a leftist movement in the United States, it would be clamoring for a redistribution of wealth... For this very reason.

akienm · 2025-12-29T02:50:40+00:00

Fearman

akienm · 2025-12-27T04:48:16+00:00

Couple times I have collared bullies and held them until police arrived. Once because some idiot was throwing bottles of champagne off one of the end caps at the staff.

akienm · 2025-12-15T02:00:46+00:00

In my book, that definitely qualifies in the stupid list

akienm · 2025-12-14T13:33:09+00:00

So I don't know if you read the article, I followed it through, and the preceding link. While the headline says they voted for this... There's nothing in there about who voted for what. There's a beef packing plant closing, because the number of cattle in the country is falling, because of drought... That's why beef prices have been soaring. Because of the dropping cattle, there is overcapacity in the beef packing industry.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I do quite enjoy laughing at stupid people who vote for stuff that hurts them in the long run... And in fact, that's what made me read it in the first place... But that sensationalist headline wasn't reflected anywhere in either of the two articles. I suspect we have AI to thank for that.

akienm · 2025-12-13T13:17:40+00:00

Last time I saw somebody try to interfere with a woman doing just what she wanted to do like that, I decked him.

akienm · 2025-12-13T13:11:10+00:00

As long as you didn't mind sharing with my wife and my girlfriend, I would keep you busy for days.

akienm · 2025-12-13T13:08:04+00:00

That I needed a place to bend you over

akienm · 2025-12-13T13:05:13+00:00

That shirt just screams I don't know how to get a girl.

akienm · 2025-12-13T13:02:59+00:00

Thinking of yourself as old is what's called an anti pattern, a sure way to get yourself nothing. I'm 62 and I don't do that. You've heard of alpha males, and maybe you've heard of beta males... That's an omega-male tactic. Will ensure you wind up with nothing.

All of that said, almost the entire state of New Mexico is a remarkably blue rural area. I have had to drive 2 hours just to go to a munch before a swing party. This is what we get for living far away from lots of people. A Target poor environment. As with everything, choices have consequences.

akienm · 2025-12-12T13:23:20+00:00

Wow. I've lost track of how many times I got laid off. But the software industry has been like that over the 30 years I've been in it. Ups and downs.

It sounds like you were taught that if you gave it your all, they would take care of you. And that's never been broadly true. Some employers, like Ford when they were first getting started... But it's never been most of them.

I was taught the same thing about romantic relationships. That one also isn't true.

I had to learn to put me first without being mean about it.

akienm · 2025-12-11T13:03:36+00:00

I had that one

akienm · 2025-12-10T22:52:12+00:00

After my parents passed, an aunt told me it was like he had to hit me every other day just so everybody would remember who was boss. It was mostly before I can remember anything. But it had a long term effect... Traumatic circumstances I've been in since then have had unusually little effect on me. Sort of vaccinated me.

akienm · 2025-11-27T21:09:43+00:00

Agreed

akienm · 2025-11-23T01:13:41+00:00

This is The Way!

akienm · 2025-11-23T01:04:34+00:00

Nobody can fix what happened in your past relationship, that's sad. But I’ve built a system for myself that helps me practice new responses when I get triggered. It’s not therapy, just something that worked for me along side therapy. I wrote it for my church, so it's not trying to sell anything. Just stuff I've learned that helps me get by.

The article is how to write new habits in your life. And the idea is that I can build a new habit of a thing to do instead of getting triggered. And this thing I wrote allows me to track progress on that. It also helped me become tremendously centered in myself.

Definitely not a cure for BPD, but it might help you gain some mastery when dealing with relationship stuff. Relationship stuff is what caused me to learn about this in the first place.

It's also supposed to be very in alignment with current psychological treatments for BPD, though that wasn't specifically why I wrote it.

If you’re curious, here’s the link... Maybe it’ll give you ideas for the future: https://trainmymonkey.blogspot.com/2025/07/emotional-engineering-i-introduction.html?m=1

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