This could be my wife. All of her coworkers and employees constantly give her their life stories in gritty detail. She is always appalled by the amount they tell her, but… she doesn’t ask them to stop.

The woman loves drama that she isn’t involved in. Internal drama stresses her out, but other people’s drama is just her reality tv shows come to life. Everywhere she has ever worked, inevitably her favorite coworker is the grumpiest person in the office who has no filter about everyone else in the office.

Actually, at this very moment, she is scrolling through people posting on a facebook group who are angry that this local doctor just got fired “out of nowhere”. In reality, we know the full story. He was fired for harassing and disparaging every woman in the clinic with a bunch of sexist shit, driving at least 3 to quit, and for massively overprescribing pain meds to a ton of people and trying to get other (women) physicians to write his scripts for him to take the liability off of himself. He’s a real scumbag. Half of the people in the threads are his patients who have been getting their fix from him, though, so they are talking about what a great doctor his is. She keeps sending me screenshots.

That’s fair. A case could be made as such for sure. I’m not aware of any case law for our against that assertion.

That’s true. But I’m not sure your average cop in Miami counts as a public figure for the purposes of defamation.

Defamation requires 4 things:

1. An objectively false statement, portrayed as fact, not opinion.
2. Publication to a third party.
3. Negligence on the publisher, i.e. failure to attempt to confirm the truth of the matter.
4. Actual harm to the victim’s reputation and business.

So number 2 is clearly covered as they produced and released a film about it. Number 4 would arguably be covered by the defamation per se doctrine which says that accusation of a crime is de fact harmful to one’s reputation.

The problem with the suit is that the film makes so claims of fact. It is disclaimed as a dramatization. A fictional story only based on actual events. Essentially it’s historical fiction but with contemporary events as the basis of the history. The characters portrayed are neither named as our based on real cops.

Those things don’t necessarily protect them in and of itself, though. It really comes down to whether a reasonable person watching the film would come away thinking the events were fictional or a claim of facts. But I think the general audience is aware how accurate “based on a true story” films tend to be. No one reasonable is expecting the film to be a documentary.

Masuka almost certainly has committed some sort of sex crime. There’s no way he’s clean whether that was shown in the series or not. Dude has sex pest written all over him. No way he wasn’t stalking or touching women without consent. Even if only as a joke, I could see him desecrating some victim’s corpse. Dude had no chill and no filter or inhibitions

Reese’s flavored Oreo flavored Reese’s were pretty mid. Reese’s flavored Oreo flavored Reese’s flavored Oreos are pretty fire tho.

My wife has a freckle on her right hand. It’s the only way she can tell left from right. Ask her for directions and watch her eyes check the back of her hands.

She and my tech lead were out of office. I probably could have got in contact with them but I was new to the team, assumed the angry manager was right, that the work was urgent, and didn’t want to rock the boat. So I just did it. Today I’m far more aware of how full of shit some of the other team leaders are.

Devs missing deadline because they fucked around, or under estimated the work required and didn’t budget themselves enough time is more there fault (assuming the reason they under estimated wasn’t lack of information from management). Devs missing deadlines because someone tells them Tuesday that they need to drop everything and pick up a 5 pointer and have it done by Thursday, is management’s fault. The “unrealistic” part of the “unrealistic deadline” was the key word there.

Here is a real life example for you. Last year we had a few tasks for migrating our logs and dashboarding from Datadog to Dynatrace. We had just gotten our logs routing to Dynatrace on Wednesday, and were going to start work on migrating our dashboards (or actually rebuilding as there was no way to directly migrate them) the following sprint.

Then on Friday, I get an angry call from a manager of some other team that had some responsibility over the Datadogs licensing asking why we still have logs routing to Datadogs. She says that the license is being hard shut down on Monday and we need to be migrated already. So I had to drop everything. I had to export everything we had in Datadogs, and start manually rebuilding in Dynatrace (which uses a poorly documented proprietary query language I’d never used before), prioritizing the most important stuff for our support team before the weekend lest they fly blind starting Monday morning.

I only found out on Monday that this manager didnt know what they hell she was talking about, that we weren’t on the license being ended, and we had another month to do the migration. I was treated like a fucking champion by my own manager, who had been out of office on Friday, for getting done as much as I had in a single day, but there was no reason for it. She was misinformed from bad communication. And even if she had been correct, her lack of observation on the matter earlier and only informing us about the issue at the last minute was inexcusable. So was her anger over the situation at our team, who doesn’t fucking work for her, btw (not even sure which team she’s over), for not falling in line with a deadline we didn’t know about, or as it turned out a deadline we didn’t even have… bad management.

It’s nearly always a failure in management. In every company I’ve worked in, at some level failures come from bad leadership decisions.

Lack of communication, unrealistic deadlines, bad processes, no guardrails, no redundancy, poor/absent/too-harsh feedback, micromanaging, lack of observability, inaccessible resources, poor morale, etc. All management’s responsibility.

Can’t really be helped. I was getting a $50/mth stipend for it for about 3 years but then they turned that off.

I have company managed apps on my device. Teams, Outlook and Authenticator. Any idea if there might be any friction there with Graphene? It’s really the only thing from holding me back and I can’t really justify experimenting if it’s going to break things

College. Traditionally dorms for US colleges are just a shared bedroom/study space in a hallway of similar rooms. The bathroom is also a community bathroom with banks of shower stalls, toilets/urinals, and sinks for every resident in that wing on that floor. Then there is a shared common space for everyone in the building for gatherings, recreation, studying, etc.

I never did a traditional dorm. I had a more apartment style arrangement on campus with two other roommates my first year in college. Unlike a traditional dorm, we had our own common area and bathroom for just the 3 of us, which was nice. But like a dorm, there was only one bedroom for all of us, with a twin size bunk bed and a twin size single bed. One of my roommates slept on a futon in the living room instead though, so it was really only me and another in the room. We were all friends from High School already too. So at least I didn’t have to share that tight space with two random strangers. We had enough drama with one of my roommates as it was.

I moved into real apartments the following years where I had my own room, even my own bathroom in one of them.

I hope one day we can return to even a semblance of the country I like to think we once had (or at least once liked to pretend that we had) where we can have different values, ideologies, and strategies between parties, but at the very least we can agree on fair representation, mutual respect, compromise, cooperation, and basic humanity. I doubt these men and I agree on much, but as a Hoosier I am grateful that they didnt let this state succumb to Trump’s attempt to make my vote count even less than it already does in my red district. They have my deep respect in this one regard at least for having good principles and the backbone to stand by them. Their replacement will probably be our loss.

The country let him too. “America’s Mayor” he was called. He was a celebrity for a while, even cameoing in movies. It wasn’t really until he showed what a crooked spineless fuck he was as Trump’s crony that his image was permanently changed.

I… don’t really know what to think about the 33% of Republicans. Are they unusually self-defeatist? Or do they actually think that this frail old man is really a tough mother fucker?

No. Shit.

I’m human, I swear.

I’m really hoping we can flip Indiana District 9. The last time a non-Republican won the seat was in 2008. But the incumbent is Erin Houchin who is straight up Trump’s ass which hopefully hurts her this year. And Brad Meyer, who was my pick of the Democrats running, won the primary and seems to be a very good and smart guy with sensible policies. It’s the best chance we’ve had in years.

“Buy the whole set. Your anus will thank you!” -One of the mugs in the anus set.