As requested: WISDOM!
Not /s - genuine:-(
A good manager is worth their weight in ~~gold~~ ~~diamonds~~ platinum. :-D
The /s is absolutely needed - and even then, sadly it does not always help:-P.
Imagine being cooped up all day, only able to go outside 2-3 times a day. I'm with the dog on this one - if that sparks joy in them then the dog has the right idea!
Managers are willing to spend company money - and your goodwill - chasing that feeling of "being in charge", which is apparently a more pure high in-person:-P.
I made the mistake of replying to someone in Chapotraphouse once, something I considered fairly innocuous like Biden had done better than my initial absolutely zero expectations for him.
What followed was a hailstorm of WEEKS of replies with the most batshit insane - and more importantly derogatory and demeaning - replies, worse even than I had experienced on Reddit, which at this point is really saying something! I stopped replying, I think I deleted the original comment or edited to say that I would no longer be replying, nothing helped. My consent to the "dunking" process was irrelevant - never mind that I was not OP, never mind that I had not read the community statement prior to engaging bc it appeared as an isolated post in my All feed, I was now being used as a target to vomit their feefees (feelings) all over onto.
And then a week later I did the same in a lemmygrad.ml post. I almost left the Fediverse after that - there is zero reason to put up with such nonconsensual and unannounced shit voluntarily. However, I was not made aware bc I was relatively new to the Fediverse, and my prior instance (Kbin.Social) had preemptively defederated from them, so I had no idea what I was walking into. Fortunately v0.19.3 came out allowing user blocking of an entire instance, so I blocked them all, recently adding lemmy.ml to that list, and now I'm happy.
So go to those instances at your own risk. No, it's nowhere close to mere differences in "political thinking", it's more like if you want a polite conversation using factual statements and logical reasoning vs. the polar opposite of that where if you don't parrot the talking points precisely then you get ridiculed ruthlessly for not knowing their internal set of "alternative fact talking points". i.e., I suppose it's what passes for "political differences" these days, like Russia would like to commit genocide in Ukraine while the latter would like that to not happen - you know, a "political difference".
If you are interested, here is a link to where I previously answered someone asking why people defederate from hexbear.net, including a link to read their very own words along with my commentary on that.:-)
a staggering 15% increase from the numbers recorded in 2012.
Is it though? I did not "stagger back" when I read that, nor was I "astonished or deeply shocked" upon learning this, and if anything, the rate of increase seems to have slowed down quite a bit from the 60s & 70s, based on the slope of the red squiggly line.
It seems rather like this increase was entirely to be expected, and if anything might be lower than some naive expectations based on that earlier slope value would have predicted?
But that description would probably bait fewer clicks so... shockingly staggeringly extremely excessively massive increases in numbers it is then, it seems. A whopping 15%.
Rent is crazy regardless. Someone with an SO and children have many more expenses than someone alone.
That's... beyond sarcasm. Hey, are you harassing us!?
/s btw :-P
What is even going on right now!? :-D