eldavi

The last time I was a team lead, I would sit in on meetings and whenever this one admin assistant was present she would complain about an analyst's appearance saying things like he looked disheveled because his shirt had some wrinkles; but he was very much silicon-valley/california-shabby-chic fashioned for the time.

We got bought out by a bank complete with stereotypical old fashioned management and dinosaur sensibilities from the East Coast. She brought up the analyst again during one of our meetings that included the new management and the analyst was fired the next day.

and don't forget to add taxes to that list

i wish that the article provided more insights into why because it'll only lead to conspiracy theories if they don't.

when LUGS where a thing, i was kicked out my first one and for this reason. lol

i've since learned how to control my enthusiasm so that i don't keep scaring other people when i talk to them. lol

i think that all of the brics members want to see an alternative to the dollar dominancy; but they're afraid of pissing off the americans so they still do the american's bidding when asked, but support brics as much as they can when not asked to otherwise.

it's sort of like how americans keep voting for the lesser evil, but it keeps getting worse either way. like american voters, the brics members are being forced to make decisions by american interests and those decisions guarantee that brics will never become a viable alternative anytime soon.

I just hope there is enough adults in the room to keep them in check. It doesn’t seem that way :(

i think that this is the problem that led us into the election results; assigning all the work to an "adult".

this isn't an indictment on you; i think that is what most americans do and the "adults" we've been trusting became disconnected a long time ago. there were plenty of voices warning us about it, but we went with those "adults" anyways because of tradition; we're all adults and being one doesn't mean that you're right and foresight requires hindsight (eg 2016 election).

and also since we're all adults things like taxes or voting or fixing our system are our responsibility. only the rich can afford to pay professionals like accountants, lawyers, politicians, etc. to do their "adulting" for them and the dnc's dependency on doing the same thing means that their version of "adulting" is automatically different than the rest of ours.

you and duckduckgo just taught me that "american indoctrination" is the wrong descriptor since it's already a well known phrase that describes something else; i used like i used my dnc/democrat distinction, it was my own personal shorthand until now.

what i named "american indoctrination" (as of 30 minutes or so ago) described my impression of modern day zeitgeist of the american middle-to-upper middle class. those two classes mostly share similar material conditions and usually do not have social relations with anyone outside of those two sub-classes. (they also tend to ostracize the lower middle class and working poor). the french used to call them petite bourgeoisie and most are not by american standards but they unquestionably are so by global south and empirical periphery standards; they're also the democrat's most loyal voters and most of the ones in that latter upper-middle-class category are republicans.

i try to look for silver linings and i think that this and rfk combined makes it possible for another covid like pandemic to take place and maybe that coupled with the dnc's resurgence could change things around for the country.

experience tells me that this won't happen because the dnc is incapable of self introspection; but i try to stay positive and always expect change. lol

during the hiv/aids crisis; people who had spare bedrooms; or could afford to cook extra meals; or took it upon themselves to distribute those extra meals; or volunteer basic healthcare services for free (ie candy stripers); etc. would put up "help offered" posters in gay safe spaces with contact information on them. the posters where mostly hand made back then, but i've seen a more modern day version of it with home printers and the bottom section of the paper scored off so that people can rip off and take the contact information with them and i've seen a newer version of that with the mutual aid community in hexbear: https://hexbear.net/c/mutual_aid

any leftist safe space, both virtual and real. will have something like this; seek them out and you can ask someone in person what you can do to help that's tailored to you circumstances. (and to set your expectations: it's probably going to suck a lot; that's why they need the help)

i agree that theory matters and that the dnc cannot be changed.

i use "democrats" to distinguish the people from from the dnc and i've learned that democrats mostly align with all leftists views but american indoctrination prevents them from learning and that's my biggest source of anxiety.

i also agree that you can't bring democrats to where they need to be because "you can bring a horse to water but you can't make it drink" is true and this is one of those hurdles that add to the anxiety; there doesn't seem to be a way around it since it requires appeals to reason in a reality that uses pleasure, emotion, and social ostracization to combat that reasoning.

starting every single doom binge election coverage watching democracy now first has helped me immensely with the fear and the anxiety comes from learning how far apart democrats are from reality and the seemingly insurmountable hurdles we have to overcome to bring them closer together.

the last time i was in a position like yours i almost learned the hard way to make documentation to protect yourself.

the next time you and your boss have a conversation on security things like that windows 7 computer; tell him that you're going to send an email at the end of the conversation restating what he told you to do; then send that email; and then use your smartphone to take a picture of the email. (time stamps are important so make sure that the phone's picture metadata is enabled and they're usually on by default or make sure that the picture includes something with the date & time on it like a calendar on your computer).

do this for anything security related like passwords or administrator access. if you have a good boss, they'll realize that you feel like you need to protect yourself and they'll start making changes.