Things I don’t want to hear, but do. EarPods can only do so much. Why can’t we close our ears the same way we can close our eyes?
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Wednesday. The day after Trump’s election. Two people discussing the war in Ukraine:
“… millions of people are dying over there.”
“Yeah. That thing has to be shut down.”
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I just close the door to my office, but I see what you mean.
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The walls of my office are thinner than the door. And then there’s that large pane of glass serving as a “wall” next to the door…
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Work is set up to be a panopticon, except for the execs.
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I started my low wage factory job yesterday:
Coworker: “Hey a buddy of mine blew his thumb off with a muzzle loader yesterday. Wanna see a picture?”
Me: “I’m good, thanks!”
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A job I was at had a benefit allowance for recreational and outdoorsy gear. I was a bit surprised when they made a small point of changing the terms so that it no longer could be used to buy firearms. Lotta facepalm moments when people would talk about their “hobbies”. The 3-D printer guy made some great N-scale stuff though.
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I like that idea – I would love such a thing so I could get a better bicycle. Did they require pictures or other evidence of how the purchases were being used? I could see some interesting questions being raised from all the rope and carabiners. 
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Cool!
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All our offices are like this on my floor. Including the bosses. 
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Our offices are like that. Prior to the pandemic I would change my decorations to quarterly themes: an aquarium, a terrarium, an ant farm, a hamster house. I had it decorated like a snow globe when the pandemic hit, and haven’t changed it since.
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This absurd praise from Elon Musk from Richard Dawkins reminded me of something I heard at work about 6 months ago.
Two people were having a discussion about Musk. Their generally conclusion was very similar to this. As I recall, they decided “He gets a lot of bad press, but I believe he sincerely wants to help the world.”
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I mean, I believe he does. It’s just that he is an idiot who genuinely believes that enriching himself and then forcing onto the world his latest ideas about Mars colonies and free speech is helping.
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I heard half of a phone call:
“It’s a great time to be in America… You could say it saved democracy… This is what happens when you talk about transgenderism and all that other nonsense for five, six or seven years…”
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This morning, when news of Brian Thompson’s killing became news, one regularly loud person in the office was jubilant. To summarize:
“When millionaires know they can get gunned-down in the street, the world is entering into a period of healing.”
I should point out two things:
- He makes a huge amounts of money himself.
- He is also a very vocal Trump voter.
I will let you make of that what you will.
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Dude sounds like he could very well end up on the wrong side of history.
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Conceptually related:
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“Okay is it going to have the humidifier attachment thingie? Cuz we’re paying for that! I want you to call them back and make sure the humid winter air that we’re expecting actually happens. That new furnace is costing us a fortune! Okay. Love you too. Bye now.”
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Ruben Bolling is one thing I miss from TOP
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True, but you can still read it on GoComics at Tom the Dancing Bug. I’d have to check what URL I use at home, but I have it on an RSS feed so I don’t have to deal with the crappy GoComics interface.
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