EddieDante's comments

> And you didn’t answer the question - is there any amount of money you could be offered to work at Twitter?

I'd do it for $1024/hour on a 1099 contract with guaranteed time and a half for overtime.

As for the question in the headline: my wife lost her job just before COVID. She hasn't been back to work since because I make more than enough for both of us and by not working we were able to get rid of a car, cut various expenses in half, and have more time together since I was working from home. We went from DINK to SINK: single income, no kids.

> "Good" means you didn't think about your answer...

Bullshit. I gave my answer plenty of thought, and came to the conclusion that, "Mind your own business. Let's focus on work." would be counterproductive.

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." --Barry Goldwater

That's dang's decision, and he is welcome to act accordingly. Until then I will speak from the heart; I honestly believe that women, LGBTQ people, non-white people, non-Christians, and neurodiverse people should arm themselves, learn tactics, and be prepared to enforce their human rights with violence -- since the law will not uphold them on their behalf.

I called out schools and employers because of the inherent power imbalance. Students are compelled by law to go to school. Workers are generally compelled by necessity to work for somebody; you aren't free when the invisible hand of the market has a knife to your throat.

What you as a customer or an employee do is your own business, but I do not regard employers as customers for rented labor.

Turn off the electronics. Read books on paper. Write in a notebook with a pen.

Good. What a student says outside of school ought to be none of the school's business. Likewise, what an adult says outside the workplace ought to be none of their employer's business unless they have explicitly identified themselves as their employer's representative.

She should have brought a gun, and forced this asshole to put aside his self-righteousness and do the job for which he was being paid on pain of death. Give these fucking Christians who mistake mockery for persecution something to cry about.

Zoom with video on isn't face to face.

Neither is a conference call.

Face to face only makes sense when everybody is working in the same location, not when they're scattered across the width of a continent, and to me face to face isn't worth the hassle of commuting when I don't get paid for the time, expense, and risk to life and limb that driving to work entails.

Being a developer, I have yet to attend a status meeting that couldn't have been handled over email.

Likewise, if family farms, businesses, and trades were still viable corporations would have to pay more to lure people into working for them.

It works for the ruling class. That it doesn't work for the ruled is of no concern to your masters.

I'd be happy to do the honors. I'll just drag JS out back and give it the Old Yeller treatment.

I knew that star looked tasty for a reason.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/150/

Obligatory C. S. Lewis: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

What the olds don't seem to get is that when young people grow up, it becomes their turn to decide for themselves what it means to be a grownup.

If I want to spend a night doing what uptight people deride as "kid's stuff" after I've put in a solid day's work at my day job, that's what I'll do. Likewise, if I want to dress in jeans, band t-shirts, and Doc Martens in my 40s when I'm not in the office then that's what I'll do. There is fuck-all anybody can do to stop me because this is America, bitches.

If Ben Sasse doesn't like it, he can kiss my ass. And he better put some heart and tongue into it.

> We don't have to be too grateful.

I'm not grateful at all.

I'm not quietly quitting. I quietly quit in middle school. All I ever wanted was to hide in my room, smoke cannabis, and listen to heavy metal while reading 70s New Wave sf. Unfortunately, those turned out to be rather expensive tastes, and I didn't have the sense to be born into money.

I'm not interested in killing myself to live. I show up, put in a solid day's work, and get paid. I'm not going above and beyond, I'm not gunning for a promotion, and I sure as shit ain't working overtime unless I get time and a half.

I only majored in CS because I had to major in something unless I wanted to drop out of college and join the Army. I'm not passionate about it; it just pays reasonably well because somebody has to make boring-ass CRUD applications.

> Idk its in the JS ecosystem so HN will probably hate it lol.

Not my style, but it's your site so do it your way.

tdarb has a nice one called pblog (https://pblog.xyz). It uses pandoc, xsltproc, a shell script, and a makefile. It's barely a SSG at all.