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  • There’s 182,502 employees at Google.

    Maybe if Brin wants to work hard, he can do all the work at 60 hours a week himself, since he’s so fucking smart.

    That’s only 10,950,120 hours a week, Brin. Those are rookie numbers! You can do it yourself, right? Right?

    You wouldn’t be sitting on your ass doing nothing demanding others do all the work, right? Right??


    Narrator: Brin was indeed sitting on his ass doing nothing.


    Also, for context, 60 hours a week divided by 7 days a week is 8.6 hours a day with no days off or 6 ten hour days with one day off or 5 twelve hour days with two days off.








  • Nothing, this is the internet, and the kind of things that would prove I’m real would compromise my pseudo-anonymity on the internet.

    Also, I don’t owe that to anyone. I’m not in a position of authority, I’m just some fucking dingus on the internet. Hell, I don’t even moderate any communities (unless you count a completely dead Joe Pera community).

    If people really want to live life assuming everyone they come into contact with on the internet that has a differing opinion must be a paid actor or an AI, that’s on them. I came to Lemmy to get away from that.

    I don’t do that, and I think it’s pathetic that people do. I give others the charitable interpretation of them being a real human because assuming everyone is paid or an AI is some real “they’re out to get me” stuff which in itself is some serious narcissistic shit.



  • A lot of the “oh noes the US is losing influence” comes twofold from:

    1. General sinophobia as China is often seen as the next viable global superpower.

    2. Americans who deep down know exactly how good they’ve had it because of that influence and are suddenly scared that their own country could become the true corrupt, broke shithole it has always really been. We only ever had wealth because we dominated and stole it from the rest of the world.

    I’m with you, US losing influence isn’t a bad thing. It’s only bad for US citizens, who need to get a grip on how comfortable and coddled they have really been, even if they are poor. US poor is not international poor, once again, because we stole so much wealth from the rest of the world. I say this as a US citizen who is daily disgusted by the selfishness and coddled ass attitudes of his fellow Americans.

    A good example of why is how we took the worlds outpouring of compassion after 9/11 and squandered the fuck out of it by playing world police and killing untold millions in the middle east and Europe has been dealing with the aftermath for 20 fucking years now.