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I’m not sure I’m understanding what you’re saying.

Are you saying you’re having trouble with dry & sarcastic humor or are you saying the events of the days we’re living in are so farcical that you’re having difficulty determining truth from fictional statements someone says to you?

Your thesis missed one important element right here:

As if the ability to restrict the creativity of others is a natural right like the freedom of speech.

Practically or legally speaking there isn’t a restriction of creativity. Its a restriction on the ability to profit from that creativity or negatively affect the profits of the rights holder with your work using their name.

If you call yourself the Burger King in your kitchen, there’s no trademark infringement there. However, if you start selling you food and calling yourself the Burger King, then that is a trademark violation. If you want to write Twilight fan fiction using the characters and story lines from the books, you’re free to do so. There is no copyright violation. However, if you want to profit from your expansions to another author’s work, you have to rename the characters and setting and call it “Fifty shades of grey”.

There is a reason respect for copyrights is at an all time low.

I’ll agree with this though. Large rights holders have been able to get changes to law that exceed the original IP mandates. This means extensions wildly beyond what was reasonable before, or getting things protected by IP law that are questionable at best.

Poor #4 had to settle for knees.

Settle? We don’t kink shame here, sir.

En français s’il vous plaît !

and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.

That’s a very brave act to do to someone in building full of guns within arms reach.

“You’re on trial for shooting a co-worker to death. What is your defense?”

“He intentionally stuck a hypodermic needle in my penis”

“Case dismissed, you’re free to go.”

I don’t know much of Warhammer lore, so I had to look up tech priests:

"No longer the master of its creations, the Cult Mechanicus is enslaved to the past. It maintains the glories of yesteryear with rite, dogma and edict instead of true discernment and comprehension. For instance, even the theoretically simple process of activating a vehicle’s engine is preceded by the application of ritual oils, the burning of sacred resins and the chanting of long and complex hymns. "

Its clear to me the author of this block of text was having trouble starting his vehicle’s engine, and was pissed off when he/she was asked to put in a ticket before help would be rendered to the him/her.

Anthropologist 100 years from now will describe it like this:

Prior to the internet, memes existed only in newspaper form. Because of “the war” data wipe, we don’t have any evidence of computer/digital based memes prior to 2071. However, with this newspaper, we can see that memes started in paper form delivered daily. This meant the value of each meme was much higher as only 4 or 5 could be consumed daily. With relation to the publication date of this newspaper, it would be decades before humanity invented shitposting.

Oh, I know being laid off is coming anyway regardless of how good a job I do at some point. Its how our industry works. I’m prepared, can weather it, and will have a fine and safe landing. I hope you’ve been watching so you’ll be equally prepared when it happens to you, as it will.

Sorry son, I’ve got a change control window open and code to deploy. If it passes the smoke test in prod, I’ll take you out for an ice cream later. How does that sound, champ?

I’m talking about the future. Your future specfically. See, I’m not offended by your misunderstanding about the industry or trends. You’ve not been in the industry very long. Time will be your best teacher.

I’m not going anywhere pal. I’ve only been in the advanced field for 3 years. I do more than the people in my field do

So you’re still a child in this industry then. There’s nothing wrong with that unless you’re too arrogant to realize it.

and I’m learning programming on the side. I’m good.

If you don’t at least scripting already you’re already dreadfully behind in IT. The days of click-ops IT having a solid career path was over more than 15 years ago. Even most infrastructure is IaC today if you’ve got a chance for a long future in this industry.

Identify all of the candles that burn twice as bright, but only half as long.

That definition is still regular gaslighting isn’t it? The person doing the gaslighting is convincing the victim that a certain set of circumstances existed in the past even though those circumstances never did.

she thinks i’m disgusting or inferior because of my disabilities.

If she said this to me, this bit right here is the “full stop” where I would have cut ties with her and she’d be gone from my life. At best she may be younger, and this may have been said as a tantrum of someone too young. She may grow out of it, but its not my job to “fix” her. There is much better use of my time, effort, and empathy with anyone else but this person. Its also possible this is who she is.

The result is the same: I’d simply never interact or talk to her again, and move on with my life. There are literally billions of other people in the world that aren’t this person. I’d like to get to know those other people instead.

I ve worked since I was 9 years old, i just hit 6 figures in an advanced IT field with no schooling or certs in that area all self trained. Try harder.

I’m likely older than you, and in more advanced IT than you are if you just now hit 6 figures. I can tell you, that your “try harder” is incredibly myopic and out of touch. The younger folks today are facing challenges older generations never did. You are also not properly recognizing all of the luck you have had to get where you are. Sure, you might have worked hard, but working hard isn’t enough if you aren’t lucky too. Keep a leash on your hubris or it will strangle you in the end.

Don’t think your job is safe either. Globally IT jobs have been hit hard, and this will continue for some time to come. Exercise some empathy today, because you’re going to appreciate it later when your luck turns in the future.

“Your printer is low on magenta.”

“Fuck you, HP, I’m not printing. I’m playing my Steamdeck”

“Not without replacing the magenta ink cartridge in your printer, you’re not”

I hope not too much of your parents are relying on Social Security for retirement. The current administration is making some bad rumblings about cuts.

Speed Queen brand still exists and is mostly what you’re describing.

Got it. Shitposting. I’m out. Enjoy your day.

In another post you made here you said you had a silly original post to have interesting in serious conversation in comments. Are you just shitposting?