I called my dad the other day, and he was in the middle of installing automatic locks on their doors at church and a new camera system.
Their congregation of 50 people, in a town of 8000 in rural Kansas, is so convinced someone is going to come shoot up their church because they are christians and there is a war on christianity by the left.
That's where we are, this country is so fucked
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16 wowsI am still trying to process this. As I left the Symphony/Haken concert last night, I took the Red Line (Chicago Elevated train otherwise known as the L) back to where my car was parked near my office downtown. I was hungry, it was 10:30, so I got off at the Chicago and State exit to go to the McDonald's that I thought was open until 11 pm. It's right next to Holy Name Cathedral, the seat of the Chicago Roman Catholic Church. In an area we call the Gold Coast and right near River North. This area is 3 blocks from the Water Tower Place Mall, Michigan Ave, and it near a whole slew of shopping, restaurants, and upscale apartments and condos.
As I was about to get on the escalator to get me to street level, this happened: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-shooting-state-street-20220520-5wmewlvx2nfchgsnds2tgh2mju-story.html
As you can imagine, mayhem activated. People running everywhere. Screaming. I didn't know at the time, but the shooter fled down into the subway area - I turned around and got my ass back down to the trains and got on one going towards the loop and my car. Sounds like I was on one of the last trains going through the area as they shut down the entire red line for a few hours.
I know this is a political issue, but this is the second shooting in the tourist area of downtown Chicago in a week. It's being blamed on young people, using social media to find points to gather, and then getting into fights and/or doing mass smash and grabs. I don't know if the blame is accurate, but I am not ashamed to admit I thought I had to change my underwear when I finally got to my car.
The reaction to this is going to be heavy police presence in the area (which is already heavy in police after the retail damage of 2020) and curfews. I don't know if that will help.
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15 wowsI did it guys. Nobody asked for this, but I did it.
I 100%'d Into the Breach then proceeded to finish the game at every difficulty level including Unfair with every single squad.
https://i.imgur.com/XxLpSTR.jpeg
I only poured 620 hours into this game no big deal. Maybe now I can play something else?
What are y'all playing?
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15 wowsThat Twitch streamer who broke her back in the foam pit says she found out she was pregnant during the surgeries and they had to abort it. What in the actual fuck?!!!
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15 wowsI sat through the wildest all-hands meeting today.
Spent an hour on the usual corporate crap. Same slogans we've been hearing for a while.
"FY 23 is the most important year in company history."
"Return to office initiative is going great"
"We're better together, as proven by <contrived anecdote about learning more about (thing) in one meeting than in six months of remote work>"
"Expected to announce record profits for the fifth quarter in a row."
"Focused on hiring talent"
That kind of thing.
But what was wild was that the employees were having absolutely NONE of it. The comment section of the livestream was absolutely bonkers. People openly and publicly calling out the company's hypocrisy. Record profits, but can't afford cost of living raises. Introduction of stack ranking for performance reviews. Massive attrition across the org, but hiring freezes.
My favorite was "I'm the only person left on my team. I'm doing the job of four people. You refused to let me hire. I have a job offer for 3x what I'm making now. What are you going to do when I quit? PS this is my resignation."
My second favorite directly called out when leadership directly contradicted itself: "You say you're focused on hiring talent, but you just said you've initiated a hiring freeze. Which is it? Which one is the lie?"
It was so wild I threw all the questions into a spreadsheet, did some quick analysis, and threw up some pivot tables.
Two thirds of the questions were openly frustrated or angry.
Over half openly discussed lack of faith in leadership.
Nearly half of the questions were about manpower issues.
A third of the questions were about compensation, cost of living, or variations of "I don't get paid enough for this shit."
A third of the questions were about the return to office initiative and how much the employees hate it.
(There was significant overlap where many questions touched more than one subject)
The best part is this was just the product/engineering all-hands. The company-wide all-hands is next week and will have triple the attendance. If they don't lock down the comments they may have a full on employee revolt on their hands.
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15 wows> The hacker used a flash loan to borrow close to $1 billion in cryptocurrency assets, and exchanged these for enough beans to gain a 67 percent voting stake in the Beanstalk project.
> With this supermajority, they were able to approve the execution of code that transferred $182 million in cryptocurrency assets to their own wallet.
> The attacker then instantly repaid the flash loan, netting an $80 million profit.
> Based on the duration of an Aave flash loan, the entire process took place in less than 13 seconds.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/18/23030754/beanstalk-cryptocurrency-hack-182-million-dao-voting
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