I was recently let go from my IT job because my new boss is an ass and said they didn’t need a programming person anymore and they were doing some “reorganization” (I was in the middle of a difficult script they assigned me to do and never finished, lol, they are going to struggle, and of course, this is bullshit and I suspect other reasons for my early termination) after gaslighting me and telling me I don’t have to worry about my losing my job and that they would find work for me in hardware. Everything they ever told me was a lie, and it didn’t take even a month for them to betray me on everything they said. Absolute sociopath. Worked there for over two years. I didn’t realize how much the old boss liked me and worked hard to fight back against higher ups snuffing out our team.

I am getting out of the IT industry and working towards getting my CDL so I can work with my spouse, doing month straight work and a week off, and pay off our debts and save for me to go back to college for electrical engineering. My autistic ass probably can’t get a job in IT because I am too smart in the industry that I threaten the incompetent managers and higher techs.

I have to sometimes post in the chapotraphouse community if there is no other relevant community as I assume it is the default.

Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan (CW: song about SA from religious authority)

I never said it was cheating. But I remember in a textbook, I believe history, there was no mention of anything related to the question problem in the chapter. It was actually answered in the next chapter, so I think it was an error made by the author/publisher.

I was just saying it wouldn’t surprise me if schools scanned textbooks or provided ebook versions and provided chapters piecemeal, and then students would be screwed because they wouldn’t be able read ahead to find out the out of place question was answered in the next chapter.

Even if it was an entirely different book provided, my experience in online college is that you have to work with absolute slop. It wouldn’t surprise me if the same errors that were minimal in old textbooks were more frequent in the rat’s nest of online courses and their app abominations where the content created by slave wage staff is rushed and half-assed.

When I was in school, I had to read ahead in the book because the answers to the questions in the previous chapter were actually in the next chapter. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is still the case, and now students are screwed with a crappy, incomplete pdf that has out of place questions.

I typically use NewPipe and just fast seek forward until it is done.

Ugh, even revolutionaryth0t accepted the Israeli VPN sponsorship.

So really the only legit reason is “I want to police my people” and “I want my co workers to be policed.”

It’s also because of the sunk cost fallacy of their investments in the expensive office, which cannot be justified if people are not working there.

Funny, I saw this on eBay a while ago:

Primary source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc1c8

Arxiv format: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12267

NYT article: https://archive.ph/CLUEl

University of Cambridge article: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/strongest-hints-of-biological-activity

I somehow missed someone already posting the NPR article: https://hexbear.net/comment/6064565

I figured, I was playing along.

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