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Murph Jr. sprouted another mushroom.

I'm somewhere between letting him keep the fungus as a roommate for the fun of it and worrying it'll spread spores and propagate to the other houseplants. Internet says it's harmless, fortunately. It's just... Uncanny that there's this fruiting body that sprouts up overnight in the shape and order of my houseplant ecology.

mindustry modding community went from 'hehe just cause 3' to 'i want to commit genocide' and 'blow up a mosque' in like thirty seconds flat

like, actually what the fuck

how/why do small gaming communities tend towards being fucking vile

The courts will laugh it out, of course. This is capitalism championing the 'fascism', and the god-emperor Profit that must not be jeopardized, global pandemic be damned. If the Fed cared, they'd mobilize emergency programs to train new staff or offer them some kind of boons or protections, and even that's too much work when that funding could go instead to building another nuclear submarine- it's not at all likely that this injunction gains any traction.

This is just the exceptionally shitty outcome for whomever continues to hope that corporations will do the right thing/protect their workers/accommodate the pandemic, or that they'll create the change we need to overcome the pandemic without federal action. Not that I'm asking for authoritarian government control in stating this, but worker rights and protections would go a long way in, I dunno, not killing people, or filling in the boogeyman of 'the worker shortage.'

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...

Hospital is trying to file an injunction in court to stop most of their radiological intervention/trauma team from being hired by another hospital. Instead of, y'know, paying their staff properly, managing their hours better, or making their lives bearable in the second year of the pandemic, they're threatening legal action, arguing that the staff are obligated to provide critical care instead of the idea that they're, y'know, employed to provide critical care and are no longer required to do so when they're not longer employed.

Also, it's an at-will employment state, so the staff can literally just stop being employed by their own choice.

Welcome to America, where health care has profit margins that must be met and companies will take legal action to keep their staff burnt out and underpaid. Hooray.

Android is ad-riddled?

Identifying incremental progress and understanding goals at particular points in a timeline, I reckon. Well, that and hitting those goals.

My friend has not seized for three months and as such can drive herself home from work now- this means I get four/five hours back a week. Hooray for continuing health!

Here, this should answer some raised questions.

no wait actually this one but the first one should hopefully raise some more questions itself