Tone-deaf bosses be like, “actually we have a return to office mandate… We’re gonna need a note from your doctor.”

Fuck, let’s Adobe

You must be fun at parties.

That is peak shittiness. Thank goodness your Mum has you to advocate, and I shudder to think of how many others don’t and were shafted or continue to be shafted.

Their competition for PDF Reader; Foxit, jacked their prices up considerably this last year too. It used to be an affordable alternative. They too got greedy (I assume since Adobe was getting away with it!) and have lost a considerable amount of customers in both the consumer end-users and the business side.

PDF becomes increasingly more used and ‘standard’ with the fracturing of ability to edit them or do ‘advanced’ tasks like merging multiple PDFs.

There are some alternatives which are free but also either Freemium or just plain questionable in their usage. I don’t want to trust some random company and I don’t want to be nickel and dimed for basic features like merge.

I spent a long time testing and trying tools. Sadly nothing as comprehensive as what Acrobat offers, but not an option at their pricing. Same with Foxit. I use PDFsam for some basic merge stuff. An interesting project is also Stirling PDF. but pdfsam is like Freemium and Stirling I’m pretty requires docker and it’s also not in all languages.

Well, as a gay man myself, I suppose I didn’t consider it’s not obvious that the person commenting this (me) was gay themselves. So in my own defense I was thinking it internally that he should talk to ‘us fags’.

They should for him to deal with only ‘fags’ in Politics. Push his agenda however he wants, but it’s gotta run through the fags he keeps talking shit about behind closed doors. Let’s see how well his agendas will play out.

Pope Francis uses anti-gay f-slur while refusing to let gay men join the priesthood

For the second time in a month, Pope Francis used an Italian slur in association with his opposition to gay men in the priesthood.

I installed a Windows 11 update. Office no longer worked. Office refused to re-install despite trying a huge number of things. It literally refuses to install. Tried their help tool which even does removal of old references in the system. Failed 5 times.

Tried using the web version for a simple thing. First localization struggle which doesn’t carry across sessions. Excel column formatted to number. Then to currency. Then to general. Autosum shows #Div!0 still. Tried seeing if the AI could help. Have to re-login. (Using Mozilla this whole time btw). After re-login, ai tool says stop using private mode. I’m not…

Literally trying to do the simplest autosum on about 25 lines and it can’t function.

Installed LibreOffice. No problem with ‘Excel’.

I’m really not exaggerating. I saw online a similar issue and the guy had to reinstall the entire OS to get office to work again 🤨

It’s true the biggest issue with capitalism is that it’s ‘not ok’ for that line to go down, ever. It’s ridiculous. A healthy business can ride things out up and down over time if they have good policies and smart planning. Prioritizing shareholders above all is a shell game.

You can only do so much marketing though. People don’t want to fly in these planes if it means a huge risk to their life. It’s simpler to just say no thanks. Businesses don’t want them if customers aren’t going to pay to fly on them. So marketing can only do so much. In the end your product needs to work. If it doesn’t, then again people don’t want to fly in them… And so on.

I was curious but only enough to get it summarized:

T-Mobile is trying to get customers who filed FCC complaints about recent price hikes to drop those complaints. However, at least one customer, “mjsztainbok,” is refusing to back down, citing T-Mobile’s broken promises and misleading claims. T-Mobile’s “Un-contract” and “Price Lock” guarantees appear to have been violated, with the company’s explanations being unsatisfactory. Customers feel cheated, and T-Mobile could face legal and regulatory troubles, including a potential class action lawsuit, over false advertising. The issue is unlikely to go away anytime soon for the “Re-carrier.”

Literally my first thought. What about students? We are saddled with debt at the start of our adult lives after being told by our parents and grandparents and teacher and school counselors that we HAVE to go to college or we end up broke and on the street or ‘flipping burgers’. This toxic push has ironically made people broke and end up on the street, and flipping burgers is actually something people can do to get by due to minimum wage increases.

Colleges and private lending firms can get fucked on this in my opinion. My college experience was basically feeling like a money piñata. Figuratively every step in any direction was designed to bleed the student dry, ON TOP OF their tuition. I mean books, parking which is not even guaranteed, fancy gyms and rec centers (you all must pay, even if not using) to draw in or attract new suckers students for the same shill.

I’m not saying students don’t benefit or learn anything. However the cost and the massive debt students take on when not even fully aware of what consequences this will have on their future is staggering. If life lessons have a number, a good kick in the cojones would be the cost of going to college because literally everyone around you including family peer pressured you into it, and then later struggling to find work in normal jobs.

Trickle that down to being unable to then afford a home or barely housing, food, energy. But you know, avocado fucking toast and everything is our fault amiright?

But hey, back to not being able to call bankruptcy on student debt or have that affecting adults and their credit scores.

This is not a new problem and Biden is the first to actually do something tangible about the debt problem there, but it’s still a start in my opinion. Real change needs to happen or the debt reservoir fills back up and colleges squeeze rocks ever harder.

P.S.: And no, we’re not enrolling in underwater basket weaving degrees you right-wing parrot twats.

It’s ok to hand out water here, but not when people are in lines for voting right? 🥴

The New York Times quoted Bibi on this:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel condemned the report, saying in a statement that the country’s military “is the most moral army in the world, and no delusional decision by the U.N. will change that.”

Who’s delusional… 🤨 Most Moral Army… Uh huh. Kill those women and children. Moral my ass.

It’s not antisemitic for criticizing Bibi. Especially that he’s acting like an asshole dictator.

The cache part pisses me off. I’m fucking paying you to stream me music. Not the same fucking shit over and over and over again.

Also the whole privacy aspect. When companies are bound to things like GDPR and other regulations, it makes taking up the technology harder because they use it to further train the models. Anything you give up to the cloud is basically out of your hands ultimately. You have to trust that Microsoft for example, is really handling cybersecurity properly, and isn’t fallible at all. Even then, they have so much paperwork to sign beforehand that they won’t face any real consequences if something does go out of hand.

I feel like a lot of people don’t. It’s just so insane it makes the news whenever she word vomits. She thrives on the controversy. I think deep down she knows she’s in too deep and just keeps doubling down. I kinda wish she’d have a aneurysm in the middle of a foaming at the mouth rant.

Drilling deeper? Just in time for pride season 🏳‍🌈🦄🫦

In other news (hopefully): Sheriff locked up for being on the wrong side of the law he was meant to enforce.

Come on. Help me manifest this.

“Became everything” is giving it way more credit for the shit stain on history that it is.

My weight fluctuates. Sometimes I bloat up from medicine. Sometimes I can’t eat and lose weight. I can’t seem to just be me and be happy and have people like me no matter what my weight is. It is really frustrating going through your whole life hating your body because of external standards.

“Don’t care what other people think.”

Ok yeah well when you feel like people stare at you and silent judge you all the time, and internally you do the same thing to others and hate yourself even more for being part of the problem.

It’s constant brainwashing of the ‘ideal body’ when the reality is people come in all shapes and sizes. It’s hard to change that mindset when all the ads you see around you tell you differently.