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Who am I to go against the will of the council?

HtWFaIP - How to Win Friends and Influence People

I’ve been beating myself up for feeling lousy lately and this was the first thing in my feed

I needed that today, thanks for making this a more positive place

Bad person, probably not. That’s a harsh descriptor to apply for a single transgression.

I’d call this behaviour to avoid though. Most people don’t like being lied to or ghosted

Sometimes you can’t really avoid it, like if safety is a concern. But if you lie and ghost because feelings are messy then it causes other people to have messy feelings

“John Brown’s Body” was a folk song popular with the Union during the American Civil War

Unless there’s a deeper meaning that escapes me too, this one is just wordplay

Every girl’s crazy bout a cyborg cop

My interpretation is that people hate AI, but an individual’s rage against the machine isn’t enough to hurt it. Something I agree with.

Then it goes on to say that AI is just here to help, which I think is supposed to evoke sympathy for something that was unfairly demonized. Something I don’t agree with.

If you try to distill it further, I read this as dissatisfaction against AI is futile and unjustified. It reads as though AI was a benevolent force designed to help people, which unfortunately just isn’t true

I got back together with an old tabletop group recently.

Five or six years ago we wrapped up the campaign we were running to take a little break. Scheduling became tricky, a couple of people were expecting their first child and some others were starting new jobs. Without a common meeting, the group just kind of faded out.

Anyway, a couple months back I bump into one of the players and we start talking. Shortly after that, he starts up a new group chat trying to get the band back together.

My mental health has been an absolute shitshow the last several years, so I really agonized over whether I wanted to try to get back together or embrace the solitude that I desperately crave for my free time. Well, I went against my initial judgment and it’s been awesome playing with likeminded people again.

A couple of friends still can’t really make it, the schedule is too difficult with young kids. But we brought in a couple new players too and the funny thing is that even with new people it still feels like old times.

I used to think the Chads I work with made more work for me. Now I realise the Chads already figured out that the job is bogus and you get paid the same either way

Management is always running a skeleton crew. If everyone gave 110% then that would become the new target. Worse, they’d make 120% the new target and lay someone else off

Giving a solid 60% is enough for my boss to think I’m doing a decent job while not screwing my coworkers. In a crisis, you can turn it up to 80% and suddenly you’re a rockstar

Everyone should be acting their wage. We need more Chads in the workforce to remind management what they should actually expect of their staff

I think in Cube it was razor wire, but they may have upgraded to lasers for Cube 2

Former influencer couldn’t resist one more chance to post about their life.

It’s a good message overall, but with a healthy dose of irony

Hey, this is the skin I use. Definitely one of the best!

I dig your style

If you’re clumsy, you might be described as all thumbs.

Unless you’re clumsy enough to get into a thumb-separating accident, then I guess you’re no thumbs

I hope they have hazardous materials disposal training and adequate PPE if they’re going to be incinerating my toxic thoughts

Hell yeah!

I’d be scared too if I had to come back to work after being a victim in a hit-and-run

Satan’s not kidding around

Yeah, I’ve got the triforce. They said they broke the mould when they made me, but clearly that was a lie.

Without reading too much into it, as long as you’ve got three points you have a triangle so I’d guess it’s super common. But that ruins the mystery, so where’s the fun in that?

Mine are backwards, I think my freckles might be broken