Notices by jay_chi (jay_chi@mastodon.social)

I cannot believe that Canada's PM just resigned.

It's Trudeau.

#dadjoke

@hacks4pancakes can you please tell my employer "a big database of id info is always a target"?

(as they outsource every HR function to dinky 30-employee PE-owned companies with techs in China)

Language is helpful, it betrays a person's viewpoints and their level of respect.

Mispronunciations and other triggers to start ignoring a person:

kaMAHlah
Barack Hussain Obama
EYErack
EYEran
EYEtalian
Nevahda
Nookyular
President Trump

A caveat: I was taught that the President title was for life and "former" is improper. The problem is that Trump claims to have won 2020 and addressing him as such leads to confusion. So I think the rules have changed because of his treason.

@jeffowski Possibly right-wing intellectuals leave academia because private enterprise offers more reward. This would result in left bias because the only ones remaining in academia are lefties.

@gwynnion would you rather that they didn't give accommodations such as freezing rents, pausing loan repayments, and extending deadlines DURING COVID? We all knew that the economic squeeze was going to snap back in place.

@snacktraces @mattly same here. PREDICTABILITY=safety.

The rules (traffic laws) and the roads are designed presuming that the agents (drivers) are selfish and not courteous.