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Cancel culture strikes again... From the right as usual.
Can't wait to hear Bari Weiss' take on this.
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I'm beginning to think this Microsoft company might fucking suck.
I don’t really think Microsoft is at a fault though. If the US supports it, they are not taking a side as much as they are supporting the military
It's a hard sell to say they aren't at least complicit, BUT realistically what could they do?
They have heavy US contracting ties, who's to say the US govt wouldn't pull funding over non-support of Israel.
Oh I’m sure they would pull contracts. The government has contracts in probably every major cloud provider in the States and wouldn’t mind moving to any other.
Plus where do you draw the line if you’re a cloud provider? Can you support any military IT? Or just ones related to Israel? If you don’t provide cloud support to the US and to Israel, are you supporting Palestine? You basically just can’t win
War Profiteering: It's not just for weapons manufacturers any more!
We all knew that Microsoft wasn't a good company. Let this news motivate you to switch to GNU/Linux.
just deleted windows earlier and am no longer dual booting 👐 Linux is pain but the pain is worth it
I am waiting for the gaming industry to make it worthwhile. Anti cheat is a bitch
The goalposts have moved to hopefully their final position
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99% of my games don't work! I'm not switching!
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About half of my games don't work, I'm not swiching!
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20% of my games don't work but the ones that do are all perfect, I'm not switching!
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10% of my games don't work and Valve is pushing for functioning anticheat with EasyAntiCheat and BattleEye, i'm not switching!
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You are here → 0.1% of my games don't work because of holdout companies being assholes and going out of their way to specifically block Linux despite the massive success of the Steam Deck, I'm not switching!
At some point you have to ask yourself if it's the companies thats holding you back or if it's really actually you who are holding yourself back. Switching is gonna always require some kind of sacrifice or another, and currently that sacrifice has never been this minimal.
Either that, or you are just the kind of person who enjoys being a contrarian and has no interest in actually contributing anything meaningful.
Relax. Choice of operating system is entirely a personal one and you're turning it into some kind of obligation.
There's no goalposts to move because it's not a debate. You've never spoken to that person before and all you know about them is that they don’t personally feel ready to switch. Don’t be cringe
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I was going to. But then I found out that GNU’s not Unix.
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If it didn’t get approved, I can understand why the company would take that stance.
But I do think they should have just approved the event
This seems like it should be more of a "write-up" type of offense, rather than skipping straight to terminating employment. This is a vigil, not a protest. Microsoft: "how dare you mourn those killed by a genocidal regime."
BTW - what is everyone's favorite non-MS suite of office programs? I've been using Only Office, but curious what others think.
Microsoft makes a lot of money hosting the platform that enables the efficient leveling of Gaza. They're the new IBM in many ways.
In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.
Unionize
Obviously, since they "fix their bugs" so much, they need people to not be distracted. Right? Right? It's not because they're probably racist assholes.
remember this when they talk about being gay friendly or anything else even remotely "woke"
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Right, my daily reminder that the US doesn't belive in human rights. Article 23 of the UN human rights declaration for anyone curious. This is also a fun, yet basic resource: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/countries-with-independent-national-human-rights-institution?time=latest
It's sad that the west still glorifies this fucking homunculus that not only doesn't try to adhere to any agreed principals and values, but actively goes against them. The republicans are against half the things written in there, while the dems "compromise" so hard that "barely making it" is the ultimate unachievable goal in the distance to aim towards. Fucking pathetic.
How do people have the time to organise vigils and get into "coalitions" and politics in the workplace?
Granted I don't work at Microsoft, but I feel me and everyone around me is overworked enough that when we have the time to stop working... We head home (or close the laptop if WFH) and rest, not engage in additional activities in the workplace.
In giant companies, there's a lot of wasted time and money.
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They are right, why da fck someone organize a political vigil on a work place? People need to start using their brains
Political vigil... for genocide victims... for people murdered in a genocide... I guess having a holocaust remembrance day at work is a political act now?
Is the only vigil that's not political is for American white men that died?
Bro dont organize nothing in your work place, its common sense. You want a vigil? Nice, go to a public place and do it, first you are trying to drag the company to your fight and maybe the company just dont want to take sides, second: what is your target audience? The people that you can talk to on the rest room of the company? Cmon...
Bro dont organize nothing in your work place, its common sense.
I understand your sentiment, but you're basically asking people to be only protest in places it's easier to ignore
You know full well this wouldn't have happened if this was any other vigil not for black or brown people. Specifically not Palestine as well.
But yeah, obey the masters. Make them more money. As they siphon your wage and downright steal from you. Hope it works out in the long run and doesn't come to a singularity or some other dystopian reality. Not like we don't already live in one.
You know full well this wouldn’t have happened if this was any other vigil not for black or brown people. Specifically not Palestine as well.
Yep. The pro-Israel bias of those in power in the U.S. is absolutely disgusting. A vigil for other groups would have been no problem.
When the workplace is assisting the genocide of the people the vigil is for.
Honestly I don’t know much about the war over there because I’ve been actively avoiding info about it (just got enough problems without piling on a war I have no skin in) but organizing unsanctioned political events on company grounds sounds like it’s looking for heat. That’s a publicity traded company but not a government entity so freedom of speech isn’t really a shield there.
Grieving murdered family and friends is political?
Politics is everything
I never understand how people are surprised with this sort of thing happens.
They did something on company property that the company probably would not approve of and got let go for it. And it sounds like they seem to think they company should be providing space to do it.
People really should learn to keep their political opinions out of the office where your opinions might run counter to the person that controls your ability to pay your bills.
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Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.
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