@maaretp There was not even a basic understanding of testing at all. So I started there

@maaretp That is my context right now lol 🥴

#MeToo #ToxicMasculinity #SexualAssault #SexualHarassment #DomesticViolence #Predators

Men have the LARGEST role to play in this area. Be heroic. Stand up and call it out.

People are calling my phone and expecting me to pick up?!

The audacity!

On the hormonal front, being a man sounds great to me.

No PMS suffering, no menopause, just a gentle decline in old age. Seems waaaay more manageable to me!

Had an IUD placed almost a month ago. My uterus has been bleeding ever since, and I'm getting to the point where I'm completely fed up with it.

I *just* wanted to have a long-lasting birth control method, not a fucking new problem in my life.

Being a woman fucking sucks (I say this out of frustration), and I can't wait for my uterus to calm the f down.

3 working days, and then...almost 3 weeks off!

Feeling so incredibly stressed from work, I can't wait for a break.

On the other hand, the break doesn't solve the real problem (why I get so stressed), so..yeah...

@SaltyMonk I have read that book, yes. It was very interesting

@jurjen_heeck Yeah….are they all wannabe business idiots? Or just…not that intelligent? Idk

My deepest wish is to not have to work for money.

I want to be free of needing money, so I can work on the things that actually matter. It would be a mix of so many things! Cooking meals for people who need them, cleaning the street, writing, helping people live healthier. The options would be endless, really!

Can you imagine a society where ppl would be free to follow their intrinsic motivation? Sad reality is that many ppl cannot imagine this!

wow that was a great start of my day, reading a 50 min long piece about how much society fucking sucks.

I’m not kidding, I like to read this. It makes me feel less alone in thinking that, as humanity, we’ve fucked everything up.

“We have to recognize that what we’re seeing now with generative AI isn’t a fluke or a bug, but a feature of a system that’s rapacious and short-term by its very nature, and doesn’t define value as we do, because “value” gets defined by a faceless shareholder as “growth.” And this system can only exist with the contribution of the business idiot.”
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

“It’s so easy, and perhaps inevitable, to feel a sense of nihilism about it all. Nothing matters. It’s all symbolic. Our world is filled with companies run by people who don’t interact with the business, and that raise money from venture capitalists that neither run businesses nor really have any experience doing so. And despite the fact that these people exist several abstractions from reality, the things that they do and the decisions they make impact us all.“
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

!!!

“Generative AI has created a reckoning between the Business Idiot and the rest of society, its forced adoption and proliferation providing a meager return for the massive investment of capital and the revulsion it causes in many people, not just in the Business Idiot's excitement in replacing them, but how wrong the Business Idiot is.”
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

“Artificial intelligence is the ultimate panacea for the Business Idiot — a tool that gives an impression of productivity with far more production than the Business Idiot themselves.”

It’s only 7AM while I’m reading this, but the popcorn tastes good.

And goddamn, I really should get away from tech and start my Personal Training Studio! https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

Also did plenty of walking and ate a pizza today. Needed that!

Went to the huge cycle store again and now Oliver also has his e-bike. Many cycle tours together are in our future 🥰

@h5e Yeah that one drove me nuts too

Okay. I'm a teacher, so let me say this in a way everybody can understand.

If you ask me for $5 and I say no, but you take it out of my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If you ask me for $5 and I'm too drunk to either say yes or no, but you take $5 from my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If I give $5 to your friend, so you decide that gives you the right to take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If I gave $5 to you yesterday, so you decide to take $5 out of my purse today, that's stealing.

If I'm flashing hundred dollar bills on the street, just really flaunting how much money I have, so you decide to take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If I tell you I'll give you $5, but then, while reaching into my purse to get it, I change my mind and say actually no, but you decide to take the $5 anyway, that's stealing.

If you hold a gun to my head and force me to give you $5, even if I physically reach into my purse and hand you the $5 without another word, that's stealing.

If no one has ever given you $5, and you can see I have extra money in my purse, so you take $5, that's stealing.

If we're married, and you ask for $5 and I say no, but you decide to take $5 out of my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If you say "God gave me $5" and then take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If you're my boss, and you tell me you'll fire me if I don't give you $5 right now, that's stealing.

If you want $5, and I reach in my purse and only give you $1, but you reach in while the purse is open and take $5 anyway, that's stealing.

If you pretend to be my friend in the hopes that being my friend will someday lead to me deciding to give you $5, you aren't actually my friend. And if you take the $5 you were expecting to get for pretending to be my friend, that's stealing.

The reason all men can easily understand this, and that there are no "grey areas" in stealing $5, is that men value $5 more than they value a woman's body.