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We didn’t do that here in America, because perversity is a human right in MAGA America.

To be fair, “MAGA America” is no more responsible for the lack of a law than, e.g. Obama America. I think it’s more likely because Americans are less likely to be in close enough proximity to strangers to have up-skirt photos taken than in Japan and South Korea which do have these laws. That’s not to say we don’t have unscrupulous perverts of course, I remember a man being ejected and banned from a convention I attended because he was walking around with a phone on a selfie stick held low and beneath other people. Bizarre behavior.

(Edit: I looked into it more, and it’s not really clear to me that Japan has any actual laws about this, I found a lot of conflicting info. It seems it may be an Industry self-regulation thing in Japan, and also you didn’t actually say anything about laws in the first place. South Korea does have relevant laws though.)

Not to mention, it has nothing to do with having a new computer.

I know you know this, but PC RAM is useful for a lot more than games. Workstation PCs are where I find this situation really hurts. I suppose that to an extent, some of what you describe might apply to development and design tools.

Before this shortage took off, I got a rock-5-itx (ARM computer) with a whopping 32GB of RAM which was definitely overkill for the home server I use it as, but now it feels insanely decadent. I’m looking for ways to utilize it, like running Immich with the full AI facial recognition features and whatnot, Nextcloud with the full text search, etc.

Mine is “hence why,” I become irrationally irritated when I see it, but try to harbor no malice towards people I see using it.

Yeah, I didn’t mean to cast doubt on what you observed, just to say that using a VPN might introduce an abnormal circumstance. I am curious to see for myself. I’m actually hoping to find a different result because man… That is dark.

Go try it. Use a VPN to block your IP, make a brand new account from a brand new email address and pop on and off a few times. I gaurantee that their shorts section will show you little girls in bikinis or skin tight leotards doing “gymnastics” that aren’t actually gymnastics. Click on one of them and read the insane comments from men very clearly saying they want to fuck these children.

I might actually try this, but using a commercial VPN isn’t exactly picking an IP address at random, it’s using an IP address that thousands of other people use for who-knows-what.

Ehhhh, I’m sure it will be fine. 😎

Incidentally, do you know a way to overwrite you comments now? My 15 year account was banned for absolutely ridiculous reasons, but all of the options to blank out my comments cost money or require having a reddit dev account. Which, obviously, I cannot acquire.

I can imagine such a scenario. I can imagine being a manager of a team, and having someone come in and say that, and just feeling dread and sympathy. You’re right, and not all employment situations are the same, not all managers are psychopaths. For many, though, they are not working under such “managers.”

But I’m grateful to you for pushing back against the pervading darkness in our collective mind. Let it not, however, dampen our efforts to seek a remedy.

Probably. It probably still feels nice to take a hatchet to it and limit reddit’s value to others going further. As anti-social as that sounds.

Boss: “Fair enough.”.

Seems optimistic to me! I would expect “it is your responsibility to be here on time and ready to work. Leave earlier if you must.”

Capitalisme

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French speaker fighting autocorrect, perhaps?