Nate Cox

Are any original Gwar members still there?

There was no need to name the three dissenting justices, we all knew who they were automatically.

Really excited for the Transparent Wealth Transfer Act of 2026.

Free market totally regulating itself like we’ve always been told.

You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.

I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.

Fuck, that gives me the ick big time.

If you’re going to move the goalpost can you at least move it past my “dickhead employers are a dime a dozen…” initial statement?

I’m an exempt employee. I wouldn’t trade back.

As with all things, needs are subjective. Sometimes I have to work at 2am because something breaks, and that sucks.

But not needing to worry about how many hours I’m going to be at my desk this week because any change might tank my paycheck is extremely valuable to me. I can take my kids to the doctor without missing pay, or to one of their school events, or take an afternoon off to do something fun, or just get the flu and be out for two weeks without worrying about the mortgage.

Sorry you have had shit experiences, but the world doesn’t exist only at the polar extremes.

Not everyone lives where you do and labor laws are complex and varied. Which is why I didn’t go into specifics.

Have fun with that pedantry though.

The “correct” word for salary is usually “exempt employee”, as in exempt for overtime pay.

This isn’t always a bad thing. Some jobs need exempt employees because they run on call rotations and so forth, and if your employer isn’t a dickhead it can genuinely be done fairly with highly flexible hours and pay to match.

Of course, dickhead employers are a dime a dozen…

Also a big dude, also never have to worry about this shit.

Fucking stupid that women get treated so poorly, and so routinely.

Tweeting is not action.

Ok NRA, so they’re saying we don’t have 2nd amendment rights anymore. You’re gonna pull all that right wing funding now, right?

Right?

Executing a man on his knees is totally justified bro.

Fucking DHS lies about this are infuriating.

What a shameful time to be American.

I could absolutely be wrong about this because I’ve never really looked it up, but I thought “duty to retreat” still allowed use of lethal force once there is nowhere left to retreat (for example, once in your own home).

Part of those pesky “inalienable rights”.

Ugh, lmgtfy was the absolute worst.

Sending a link to that site was the answer to tell me you’re an asshole without telling me you’re an asshole.

I’ll take it a step further and say that most of the people I’ve worked with have been amazing. Really just some very enjoyable people to be around.

Something about the field though seems to really attract the super assholes and they’re so assholish that they color the perception of the whole field.

It’s really unfortunate how a very loud, very obnoxious minority can have such an outsized impact.

Would you walk into a religious place of worship, a strip club, a gun range, or Costco without at least knowing how to interact with that space?

I wouldn’t walk into a strip club period, but for all of your other examples I would absolutely go to those places to figure out how to interact with them. Frankly, I do not understand why you wouldn’t. Who is more qualified to explain to you how to interact with them than the people you want to interact with?

You’re accusing me of “white knighting” (hello, painfully 2010s virtue signaling catch phrase) for saying that people shouldn’t be shitty to each other. I’ll counter by accusing you of enabling that negative behavior by making excuses for it.

I’m glad that I was a beginner before SE. I think it may have pushed me out of my field before I even got started.

Exclusively book learning may have been more difficult in some ways but I’ll take it over SE any day of the week.