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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Hey, so, I always like it whenever I find album/song recommendations on Hexbear, so this morning, after seeing this post, I decided to give “More Constant Than the Gods” by SubRosa a listen.
    I started listening to the first song and I have to say that it started great, like a good album that I would listen to a few more times and then who knows, I was listening the first two songs for the first time and I was enjoying my time.

    Then I had to get out of the house to go to work, so I take my wireless headphones and keep the music going, as I approach the metro station, the third song “Cosey Mo” starts (keep in mind that the first two together are 25min, that’s why I was still at the third one), I get to the platform and the metro is right there, slowing down and stopping at my station (lucky me for not having to wait I guess).
    That said, as I’m getting into the car of the train, I see that mine has an issue with the lights, instead of being the classic strong, cold white, office like light, it was almost dark, with only a feeble red light being emitted. I guess that light was maybe the emergency light for when the normal, more powerful light, doesn’t work ? Anyway that doesn’t stop me from sitting down on an available seat and prepare to wait for my stop in a few minutes.

    Then the doors close, the train starts gaining speed, and as we exit the station, my train car is quickly engulfed by darkness, with nothing but that feeble red light.
    And here, as I was inside the metro, moving in darkness, occasionally interrupted by either another train, with fully working lights, passing by; or by a station as I was surrounded by the noise of the wheels on the rails, and the brakes, and the vibration of all this movement; and the music, playing in my hears, all of this things started to combine together into a unique vibe that is hard to describe with words. All of it became part of a symphony and I suddenly felt like I was inside the song, living both here and there at the same time, in unison. There was no more metro moving and making noise, there was no more darkness and lighting, there was no more music, but rather, for lack of better words, I just felt for a moment, as if there was harmony between all of this things and they were one.

    It was an interesting thing that, while I tried, I probably didn’t to a good job of describing.


  • The boss wants to sit down with us troublemakers, and we figure we might as well. It’s not going to sway us from our goal, if anything, it will be another chance to slap the boss around again.

    Actually I have to say that when I tried to unionize my office togheter with some collegues (we were in the very early stages of trying to figure what we needed to do), the manager requested a meeting with all of us “troublemakers” (only the ones they knew where getting involved in lamenting the low wages) and I have to say that (after a group meeting and some individual meetings) they succeeded in stopping, at least for the time, the “energy” of the movement. Some people just didn’t feel anymore like “risking” it.

    So, I guess my suggestion is to be careful about who goes in what meeting, especially in the very early stages, because some people might chicken out, and then other people might see those people and feel like unionizing is going too far.

    Because of this, we had to stop at getting a small wage increase for our team alone, and now, only after a year, is some of that energy, to do something about the wage and the workplace, coming back.




  • That’s actually kind of fun:

    "Why on Earth do you think I go out of my way to use those blasted search operators if you’re just going to completely IGNORE them?! Brave Search is utterly PATHETIC—so incompetent that they just dismiss the operators because they CLAIM there aren’t enough results. THAT’S THE ENTIRE POINT of using search operators in the first place! I DON’T want a ton of junky, irrelevant results; I want just a FEW GOOD ONES! This is basic, essential, COMMON SENSE! Now! Get your act together and SEARCH “spouse husband” PROPERLY for me—do the job right so I finally get the RESULTS I NEED!

    Imagine, if you will, telling you to make me a simple sandwich with TWO ingredients, and instead, you go and THROW IN a thousand more just because you think it’s “not enough.” THAT’S NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!

    And tell me—WHAT’S the POINT of having this “search operator” feature if you’re just going to completely FLUB it and IGNORE it at will?! What’s the USE of a tool that the system simply DISRESPECTS and dismisses on a whim?! I am the ONE sitting behind the wheel, I’m the ONE with the goals, and I DEMAND you do what I ask! Stop wasting my time with idiocy!"