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holy shit check out this beautiful cloud of dust around a triple-star system, trying to imagine what those skies would do to a sentient creature born on a planet in there is pretty crazy

like, motie or krikkiter levels of different attitudes about the rest of the universe

syfy.com/syfywire/a-triple-sta

re: Work rant 

Also... somehow two separate sales folk asked if HR would help them commit UI benefit fraud while the corporate general council was in the meeting..

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Work rant 

Grrr... HR fucked up and was totally unprepared for this clusterfuck of forced 2 weeks unpaid vacation... with 3 weeks until CARES ends.

Thanks a lot asshats. Especially for the misinformation about being able to claim CARES and take 1 day off a week for the remaining days in july and then coming back after the weekend and admitting you were wrong and salaried employees must take a full week, Sunday-Saturday off to make an unemployment claim.

The worst part is, if this bullshit was announced or decided on even a month ago.. things would have been dramatically easier instead of having every single fucking salaried employee in the US scrambling to fit 2 weeks of unpaid vacation in the next 3 weeks because CARES covers a good chunk of the salary reduction.. Like for me... CARES covers 1/3rd of my missing income from having to do it.
Also... extra fuck you HR because some people will literally not be able to afford to take the 2 weeks off... straight, claim UI+CARES then wait... 8-12 weeks for the benefits to actually arrive.

re: CW: US Culture, US Gun Culture, Guns 

@kelseyhusky My guess is the culture around the firearm industry dissuades sensible developers and tech people in general.

@kelseyhusky Factorio!

Also Factorio allows you to reenact starship troopers on the native wildlife that would just like you to stop polluting their planet... including micro-nukes that you have to run the fuck away from after firing lest you get caught in the blast.

Amazon VP Tim Bray Resigns, Calls Company "Chickenshit" for Firing Protesting Workers 

vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/

> In his resignation letter, Bray said that “firing whistleblowers isn’t just a side-effect of macroeconomic forces, nor is it intrinsic to the function of free markets. It’s evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture. I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.”

Fuck YEAH! :blobcheer:

re: Econ, pol, - 

@kistaro Yuuuup... I know that that feeling.

@Oneironott As much as I used to be against it, I mostly just hang on on the discord servers belonging to a couple of artists that I commission these days.

@IrisKalmia They really are... I love all of them from the first 3 games... and some of Vaygr and Higaaran designs are great too... like fuck... though Kushan Heavy Cruiser..

@KinkyKobolds Only because they stole my bed.. but it is the only bed in the only air conditioned room in the house and it is hot today.
I suppose I can forgive them.

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