In his official statement, he said "Fools, I'll destroy them all!"

After iconic actor Lance Reddick died, leaving the central role of Zavala vacant in Destiny 2, there were fears that Bungie would try this, or kill the character off.

Fortunately they hired another excellent actor with a similarly interesting voice, dodging yet another ethical bullet (so they can carry on with addictive reinforcement channelling into microtransactions and subscription-rentier value extraction, but eh whatever).

Most of that is just 'don't be an asshole'. A bit of it is stupid over correction. The rest is a loss of privilege that triggers a sense of entitlement.

Remember that the Blackshirts were famous for their slogan hinting at the ever present disdain and trolling underlaid with violence: "me ne frego", or 'it's nothing to me, your opinion doesn't count' --or 'get fucked' as it was used.

SOP

If people don't want to be called fascist, they should stop quacking like one.

Ethnicity, culture, nationality, language are all useful and somewhat neutral distinctions. Race is a bullshit term that only makes sense in the context of historical abuses that it was used to justify, like slavery or disenfranchisement.

So no, that isn't the question, unless you believe that race isn't a bullshit term... and then you should ask, which side am I on, humanists or racists?

Maybe rephrase the question with non-bullshit terms and go from there.

Yes, more energy in a weather system means more: more heat, more moisture, more movement leading to more cold and or arid as the energy concentrates elsewhere. Expect the formerly unexpected, like 49.8C in Canada where a town then immediately burns down.

It's a well-developed fascist strategy of destabilization.

Here's a choice excerpt from "Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A Tale of Three Elections" recently published on emptywheel.net:

From trial testimony, regarding hashtag hijacking....

"Itâ(TM)s like if you have a hashtag â" back then like a Hillary Clinton hashtag called âoeIâ(TM)m with her,â then what that would be is I would say, okay, letâ(TM)s take âoeIâ(TM)m with herâ hashtag, because thatâ(TM)s what Hillary Clinton voters are going to be looking at, because thatâ(TM)s their hashtag, and then I would tweet out thousands of â" of tweets of â" well, for example, old videos of Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton talking about, you know, immigration policy for back in the â(TM)90s where they said: You know, we should shut down borders, kick out people from the USA. Anything that was disparaging of Hillary Clinton would be injected into that â" into those tweets with that hashtag, so that would overflow to her voters and theyâ(TM)d see it and be shocked by it."

"In the 2016 election, this methodology served to take memes directly from the Daily Stormer, launder them through 4Chan, then use Twitter to inject them into mainstream discourse. Thatâ(TM)s the methodology the far right still uses, including Trump when he baits people to make his Truth Social tweets go viral on Twitter."

Excuse it? No, but they would do it anyway if it was feasible.

No one's saying communication is bad. I am saying that an expectation of constant availability and immediate responsiveness, which conflicts with having any periods of sustained focus, is bad for jobs that require sustained focus.

Agreed, it's not is if Slack causes these problems by itself. But in my workplace, it's an additional medium that encourages a culture of immediacy and interruption. Slack did not create that culture (I received "urgent" e-mails before Slack and I still get them after Slack), but now instead of N ways to interrupt me, people now have N+1 ways.

In my fifteen years on the current job, I've *never* been told I need to be on call 24/7, that I was expected to answer email outside working hours or that I should call in on vacation. Probably one of the reasons why I keep working here.

You're fortunate. At my current job, I've set strict limits with my coworkers - I don't have any push notifications turned on, I refuse to install Slack on my personal phone, and I don't check e-mail when I'm not at work or on weekends. However, I'm probably the only person at my company who behaves this way, and it gets noticed and called out as being "inflexible".

I'm incapable of simultaneously holding a conversation and performing complex, detail-oriented work (as are most people, "multitasking" isn't really a thing). Slack is a real problem, but it's not the only problem. My complaint with Slack is that it further encourages a workplace culture of interruption and immediacy that is largely antithetical to solving difficult problems.

f someone chats with you in person, or you have an in-person meeting, does this immediacy "destroy your mind"?

Um, yes? I can't the stand the constant "Got a minute?" questions, where someone walks up to your desk and interrupts whatever you're doing (thanks, open floor plans). Or a string of meetings with a half hour or hour between each, so that you don't really have enough time to get into a flow in between.

At my company, Slack fosters an "always-on" culture that fosters the expectation that people should always immediately respond to any request (even when not at work), and in my case, takes away from the ability to sustain focus on any complex problem for more than a few minutes. It's terrible, and I hate it.