At least he has an ethos.

Common, you can do better than what the media tells you to say. Woke? People will stop harping on that will stop shortly. There will be some other word the righty tighties will come up with. What wont change is that when you are a VP for a company, you represent that company and their interests. Part of your job is thinking carefully about how you behave and what you say to others. If you don't do that, you'll have problems, as this person did. Also, apparently you do not understand what the word, "vulgar" means?

"I don't need to take meds, I'll just do breathing!" Said the crowd. How many will be disciplined enough to do it, and how many will die because of it? I'm betting you have to actually - do it?

But some people have to sail down that once in a while.

That's what I want! I want MORE ADS! Ads EVERYWHERE! I want to be smothered by them, because... we all know, it's all about love! These giant companies are looking out for us. Sure everyone hates ads, but ... they're just trying to do the right thing... right? I mean, am I right?

Do they think they are talking about human reality and work? Who's coming away from what he says, then looking in the mirror and saying to themselves, "how can be a more productive Google worker today? How can I give the company more focus?" Basically it comes across as a threat, and everyone knows it. Then when things go a little awry, they can take people into little rooms and say, "you know John/Ashley/whoever, I think your focus and productivity has been not up to Google standards." If they did that to me, I'd say, "show me the exact numbers and why they are relevant. Then we can start talking about reality."

I'd dig it myself, put the cable in, and tell them hook it up. They'd probably want... $26,500 for the ... "hook up" work?

I think the fact we lose about 12,000 children a day in the World to starvation - might be a bigger, medical problem than extending the healthy years of the World rich.

I use Windows 10 as my main platform, and have several Linux computers around. I have a lot of audio video stuff that needs Window's compatibility. And I like Windows 10, once it's configured the way I like. But Windows 11 offers me nothing as far as I can tell in improvements, and seems to be designed to take away some of those things I like about Windows 10, like being able to move the taskbar to any part of the screen, and the use of the "Full Screen Start Menu," which is something I really like. Press the Windows Key, full screen start comes up, click your program. One key; one click access to most of the programs I care about. They are taking this away. So what are the compelling reasons to upgrade? I'm not finding any.

I find nothing surprising here. Call me mildly amused.

I understand the need for revenue. However, if I have to sit through ads, it's not free - because it's taking my time. I wish they'd stop constantly attempting to manipulate users. I remember when the Internet was enjoyable, and not dominated by money grubbing liars.

Just cancelled Netflix. Why pay for something - when I can hardly find anything (more) to watch? Everyone knows these various payment schemes are nickle and diming us to death.

Yeah, people get demoted from their positions in development projects... because they are really nice people. People who are called out, for being bullies or asses, often try the "chaff and redirect," of "it's political correctness," or some other thing. Usually people do not get pushed aside, or demoted, because they were really great workers/developers because they really got along well with others on the teams. "Hey, that person is really great! Let's demote them." People generally get demoted because they cause problems that end up not being able to be dealt with any other way than to mitigate the situation by moving, demoting, firing, etc. As a software release engineer I happen to be gifted with an ability to say, "no, this isn't launching. It isn't ready." to crowds if a launch is awry in some way. At times I've been a little too rough. What I have to do, and have had to do, is realize that I made a mistake in being too rough, and accept responsibility for my behavior. Then, I make it a point to go apologize, and work to behave in a less forceful way. No one at work, or people being worked with, deserve to be treated poorly. I've never been fired, for my behavior. I won't say that I've been perfect. But if someone bobs and weaves when accused my multiple people of having behaved in a poor way towards others, usually this is a sign of not accepting responsibility for the behavior. "It's not MY fault I behaved that way."

Usage based video streaming. Imagine that. Now, "oh, you want to watch that ONE show? Well you have to pay for our ENTIRE PLATFORM MONTH AFTER MONTH FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!" I'm so sick of that. Sick enough that I'm considering throwing in towel with all the providers. How many more times am I going to look at these services and find nothing that interests me specifically?

How about this, watch the *conditions that the virus is creating in reality,* and base your decisions on that! I know, it might be a little too reality based.