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meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
Bold strategy, we'll see how it turns out for him

This is common and has been common for hundreds of years.

Burn the boss, lose your job.

It isn't rocket science.

meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
Get another job.
meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
What is the rational behind it? Sagan said it best:

“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band’s, or even your species’ might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.

Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”

Maybe it’s a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds— promising untold opportunities—beckon.

meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
For every engineer who got fired, there are 100 waiting to take their place.

Nice try, but no. Employees don't feed employers.

meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
That's like comparing rocket motors to lettuce.
meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
You can be certain that when someone implies that you are a "bootlicker" for holding an opposing viewpoint, that the accuser has reached the last line of their intellectual sub-routines and can no longer store any further instructions.
meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
Employees have plenty of power.

They have the power to work someplace else.

meatsauce··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
This is pure nonsense. Neither Musk or his company owes you a job, and you certainly shouldn't work at his company if you disagree with his vison or politics. Shedding the woke weight has to feel good, for both Musk and for other employees, who no doubt had to endure constant whining.
meatsauce··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
And instances of employee sabotage are elevated in Europe. Imagine that.
meatsauce··on Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data
Good thing we have icons like AOC and George Floyd to put Musk's success in perspective.

We should all aspire to be fentanyl dropping, pregnant women torturing street trash.

We should all aspire to accomplish great things like AOC when she ...uh she did ...um ...drop Adderall and start a podcast about putting on makeup! Yeah! That podcast alone employs 50,000 engineers and has saved or created 100,000,000 jobs a month, at least.

meatsauce··on Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data
Don't be jealous of Musks intellect. The behavior is very childish. Just study and try harder and one day you can be successful, as well.
meatsauce··on Wage gap between CEOs and US workers jumped to 670-to-1 last year, study finds
Let's be honest; most CEOs work smarter and lead these large companies to immense profitability. They, as leaders, are entitled to (in essence) a commission - a reward for the work they've done, the leadership, the right decisions, and pivoting necessary to realize opportunities. The "worker" doesn't and in many cases, can not do any of what I described. They are paid for a job at a fair market rate. To compare the two is to do two things. 1) display a willing ignorance of the dynamics and 2) telegraph a tired political whine.
meatsauce··on Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console
I really want to play the old NHL. Please have NHL
meatsauce··on Twitter has suspended YC Hacker News account
You're not going to be sure. Everything done is done arbitrarily.
meatsauce··on Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels
It is clearly a real threat, that's why we have advocates for strict "climate regulations" buying multiple beach-front homes, their own islands, and private jets...
meatsauce··on Starting over when you think it’s too late
Imagine taking career advice from 20-something insulated out-of-touch Atlantic staff writers and interns.
meatsauce··on CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
Breaking news: cnn is full of shit
meatsauce··on Virtual Graph Paper
Thank you! This is great
meatsauce··on Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)
Are there any connecting to china?
meatsauce··on Advice for Overcoming Writer’s Block (2016)
Just start. Get the pen or fingers moving. Write about anything. Stupid, silly, insulting - doesn't matter. Make yourself laugh. The point is to warm up. Just like free-writing, eventually you will get into a flow.
meatsauce··on Attorney General to investigate social media companies’ role in Buffalo attack
"poverty, intergenerational stress, and systemic differential treatment"

None of those terms, nor their arbitrary meanings, account for people who are in a similar financial or socio-economic situation, and yet don't commit car-jackings, rape, robbery, white collar crime, or shootings. Neither does it account for people in the exact same socio-economic situation moving up and thriving instead of victimizing families in their communities.

"intergenerational stress"

What exactly does this mean in the context of one's behavior?

That the car-jacker who murdered a mother and her baby in order to escape prison bares a reduced responsibility for the crime? That at some point 200 to 10,000 years ago, some ill that befell someone with a similar skin color somehow absolves them of responsibility, or lessens the magnitude of their atrocity?

Crime, like racism, isn't limited to just one race. I never implied otherwise.

It is never the race that causes people to commit crime. Crime occurs in all races, globally.

And in ever single case, it is the individual's choice to commit crime.

What happened to their great-great-grandfather is irrelevant.

meatsauce··on The Texas electric grid can barely keep the lights on
To be fair, most of what comes out of a liberal's mouth is usually emotionally charged narrative-craft, and has no bearing on practical reality, and therefore can be safely ignored.
meatsauce··on The Texas electric grid can barely keep the lights on
Yea we should live in little boxes, with ice blocks and fans, because Obama said (from his oceanfront mansion) that the sea levels are rising and we need to make sacrifices for the greater good, less we destroy the planet by being alive or something.
meatsauce··on Two judges gave Texas control over Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
Damn, we might have to deal with opinions we don't like. Whatever will we do?
meatsauce··on Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks
What are some nice neighborhoods around Chicago?
meatsauce··on Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
How, in your opinion, did the Affordable Care Act affect nursing? Were you in a position to observe then?
meatsauce··on CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching
"The failed service was the brainchild of former CNN president Jeff Zucker"

That really says it all.

meatsauce··on CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching
That is a massive stretch of the imagination that could only ever come from the far left organization known as 'Media Matters.'
meatsauce··on CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching
That's hilarious. CNN is about as 'somewhat centrist' as Hugo Chavez.
meatsauce··on CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching
Spending a quarter of a billion dollars to fail this bad so quickly is not trying; it is gross incompetence.
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