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Recent times have made me ashamed of what this site has become. I'm with jaquesm- this is ridiculous.

Tons of new accounts <1mo throwing the discourse out with the bath water and no one stopping them.

HN has become the LA of websites. Y'all think everyone thinks like you and anyone who doesn't is just wrong. But when it all burns down and people are cheering you will be left wondering why.

It has devolved and only gotten worse. I feel those of us who are more center have slowly but surely gone AFK and now all thats left are the two extremes.

Comments flagged for absolutely no reason, the attacks- it even feels like dang has gone hands-off lately.

Since Trump's election I've seen nothing but rule-breaking everywhere, and it has become absolutely rampant.

I dont even come here for the comments anymore. yall can have the burning garbage heap this has become- it was a good run while it lasted.

Ethan Suplee is a personal hero of mine. I've been watching him in movies since clerks, and felt bad as I saw him continue to get bigger. When he started his transformation some gym bros posted it to some forums we inhabit. He didn't want to be all public about it since he'd yoyo'd before, but we cheered him on online. When I saw he'd gone public I was so happy for him. His pic now hangs in my home gym with Arnold and Ronnie.

Or refuse to give in to extortion and don't.

Ah the Disney approach.

Bold strategy Cotton.

Owner did the smart thing and listened to the constructive criticism which made me feel infinitely better about using his tool.

Which I will now do, and would not have before. I am also his exact customer.

Not really. I just came off night shift and was thrown right back on it. We work 12 hour shifts, they alternate between forced overtime and disallowed overtime at their whims.

When I brought up I have yet to get my float (4x10s considered the 'easy' shift) I was told there was nothing they could do. All I could think was well how will you handle it when I leave?

Management really is that dense.

They care not one whit about objections nor people leaving.

Imho it's merely a matter of time but the younger guys all hold out hope. I've none left.

This is happening to me in the trades.

Im in maintenance as an industrial electrician.

New plants came to town paying current market rate and snagged most of the top talent.

Then the company started quiet-firing to avoid layoffs. It killed all motivation.

Then they froze hiring as we kept losing people. We are now short on HVAC, mechanics, and electricians.

Lucky me I'm the only guy who can do all three so im running ragged all day.

We have response times we have to meet but our vehicle (an electric GEM) had the charger die, it's only $2k but they won't let me order it so we all walk everywhere. Huge plant I easily bust 30k+ steps and 20+ stories climbed via stairs.

We then had a mechanic and an electrician take paternity leave so we are even more shorthanded. Still wont let us hire.

We lost the maintenance manager and cant get another one for what we pay and the condition the business is in now.

I love my job andy co-workers but I'm sending out resumes and interviewing because I can't take all the extra workload with no extra pay while our administration keeps getting more money and bonuses.

How do companies keep making the same mistakes over and over expecting different results? They don't, they know what's going on and are getting theirs before the bottom falls out.

Lol no one i know wants any of the things you mentioned.

Normies hate the AI hypetrain bullshit.

I once heard it said that we don't have a justice system, we have a legal system.

Don't recall who or where but it always stuck with me.

You did make the argument when you made people who eat meat complicit and assume they share in the company's guilt.

I think most if not all of us can agree Tyson is evil, there is no need to bring personal biases into it.

You are missing the forest for the trees.

You are simply mad it doesn't benefit you directly, the problem with most people nowadays.

I also paid mine back, but I'm glad this is happening. I'm also angry we don't use the funds for ie veterans instead and I also would like reform with the bailout.

As you can hopefully see it's a very nuanced issue and you can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Your every single comment here has broken the guidelines Ree Ree

Edit to beanjuice- this is the aforementioned crybully tactic. Break the rules until you do then point the ringer and ree louder.

Again we are fighting facts and they are replying with nothing but ad hominem attacks.l and nothing but.

The person you are replying to is what we call a 'cry-bully'.

You know when you've found one by them gaslighting you while accusing you of what they themselves are doing.

The community manager is the hateful one, and did indeed make the comments, enacted the bans, and then doubled down.

You are combating their gaslighting with facts and information, while they keep spouting nonsense and making ad-hominem attacks.

For more on this see what happened with Sony's 'Concord'.

Right, there weren't entire montages about him building them by himself.

And that's just the movies, the comics went way deeper.

Terrible take this time, I'm afraid.