Marketing. My responsibilities involve funneling online leads into sales through online campaigns.

The owner (not my boss) wanted me to walk around knocking on doors and giving fliers because “that’s how we always do it”.

I laughed and went back to my desk, doing what I’m good at.

Owner hated me in the first 6 months and then left me alone because I’m good at my job.

But between setting up the birthdate when creating my children’s local account on their computers, and having to send a copy of their ID to every platform under the sun, I’d easily chose the former.

This is how they move the goalpost. They changed the argument.

You currently can just create a local account - period. It’s yours. No tracking. No personal info.

But now you’re accepting that you’re willing to give a third party information, even just a little.

The next argument is: “If giving your age is okay, why not your home address?”

This is what police do to fish information out of you.

I’d even agree to a simple protocol (HTTP X-Over-18 / X-Over-21 headers?) to that.

In a era where privacy conscious people don’t even connect their TV to the internet… This is okay to you?

You went from “Why do they want my information?”

To

“I’m not concerned with sharing my age. But how should we do it?”

And that itself is the root issue.

I don’t like Proton after the CEO posted the pro-Trump statement and did not use them after that.

Its really weird how people are blaming Protonmail when it was the Swiss government that complied with the FBI. That to me is really suspicious. The US government is currently not a trusted source of accuracy, and for the Swiss to readily agree to it?

Worse, the chuds blaming the proton user?

Protonmail is used by a lot of reporters/whistleblowers. As what point is their work also a threat to the US government and will the Swiss force Protonmail to hand that over too?

The FBI did not serve the subpoena directly to Proton Mail.

“We want to first clarify that Proton did not provide any information to the FBI, the information was obtained from the Swiss justice department via MLAT,” said Proton AG’s head of communications, Edward Shone. “Proton only provides the limited information that we have when issued with a legally binding order from Swiss authorities, which can only happen after all Swiss legal checks are passed. This is an important distinction because Proton operates exclusively under Swiss law.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/privacy-focused-proton-mail-handed-protester-data-to-police/ar-AA1XH3R5

My stupid ass city let’s morons park in bike lanes as long as they have that little light flickering there. It’s like a cheat code.

Episode 3 is better when you watch it as a meta movie. Or with the commentary on.

George Lucas really started to learn that his shit does smell with episode 1 & 2, and asked for help with Episode 3. So watching how he got help, and the behind the scenes, just makes each scene more enjoyable.

Which is why I can’t stand Will Smith movies. Or Vin Diesel. Or any of the other dozen actors who don’t actually go out of their way and act.

Hot take: movie goers are so used to suspension of disbelief that movies are too afraid to take risks that challenge the audience.

Like Netflix pushing every movie to say the plot.

But also, how many braindead takes from “influencers” or morons who don’t understand the film.

Is this a hot take?

Chris Pratt as Mario was when a lot of people went “wtf why?”

It’s definitely what nailed the coffin closed. Disney releasing a new Star Wars show every few months was what killed it for me.

National Movie theaters are now trying to show UFC and sports games. I support it. Because there’s a lot of abandoned movie theaters and I would rather them fill seats with anything, than become the dying empty malls.

Also, I don’t go to national movie theaters. My local neighborhood theater charges $5 for movies and $3 for pizza and popcorn.

One-upmanship time! My take - Much of the movies in the Criterion collection suck.

Socks. Underwear. For women, hygiene products.

When I was text book definition homeless (I slept on couches for half a year during college), all I wanted was cheap rent. I feel like we tend to only focus on the homeless we see with our eyes, and not the homeless families out there living in shelters.

I don’t like sea world or zoos either. Also all the shitty safari places which breed wild animals so tourists will pay to see them.

But it’s also a weird position for many zoos who have now become sanctuaries for animals. My zoo, over the past decade, (according to their website) doesn’t buy animals.

During the pandemic, the cops raided some mansion of some drug lord and all the exotic animals were given to the Zoo, where they can live out their lives.

I think by law, all zoos should follow that philosophy and not be a tourist money making scheme, but a sanctuary for wild animals that were stolen by rich fucks.

Whenever I see Brave as part of the list of browsers people recommend, I know it’s astroturfed.

Because every time someone calls it out, there’s an immediate reply of “Oh yeah you can turn off the crypto mining” or whatever security issue there is.

When I was a kid, I biked on a manhole cover. Right after I passed it, the manhole cover collapsed into the street.

That Final Destination fear never left me.

That’s not true. There has been arrests and punishment.

We’ve arrested people who demanded the release of the Epstein reports. And we punished the victims.

Depends where you are in the spectrum.

Lots of us exist doing data science, writing technical documentation, and programming.

On-going communication is a must though. If not the person, it’ll be your teammates who you trust who can help translate and take notes. No company is going to just give work with zero communication and expect a perfect end result. There’s always communication.

I wear pants to protect my password! No, please! Don’t hit me in the password!

Yep. Real fucking easy answer for me.

If someone tells you a story about how they lost their dog, if that person tries to one-up them, dismiss them, or hurts them… They’re a bad person. No negotiation.