<2021-12-12T08:27:29.000Z> Amper_Sand: You're weird. Lol
<2021-12-12T08:31:39.000Z> cqi: Yes, that's right.
<2021-12-12T08:32:45.000Z> Amper_Sand: Glad to see that you didn't take it as a pejorative 
<2021-12-12T08:33:15.000Z> Amper_Sand: We're all weird down here
<2021-12-12T08:34:36.000Z> cqi: Weird account on weird instance on weird fediverse
<2021-12-12T08:34:54.000Z> Amper_Sand: Wouldn't have it any other way
<2021-12-12T08:35:34.000Z> Amper_Sand: I got banned from mastodon within 5 minutes when I was a sweet summer child
<2021-12-12T08:36:30.000Z> cqi: Not bad; speedrunning the pipeline
<2021-12-12T08:37:51.000Z> cqi: Sorry to hear your union's cucked
<2021-12-12T08:38:47.000Z> Amper_Sand: It is a constant source of consternation
<2021-12-12T08:39:09.000Z> Amper_Sand: I have half a mind to mAkE mY oWn uNiOn
<2021-12-12T08:39:32.000Z> cqi: The days of flipping over management's cars in the parking lot with your bros regardless of origin are over
<2021-12-12T08:39:42.000Z> cqi: for now
<2021-12-12T08:40:30.000Z> Amper_Sand: Hey don't be giving me ideas now
<2021-12-12T08:41:08.000Z> cqi: There's a reason they used to sell strike insurance
<2021-12-12T08:41:47.000Z> cqi: It's a real uphill battle; building solidarity is difficult enough where no union exists in the first place, even harder when there's a tame union smothering you
<2021-12-12T08:41:53.000Z> Amper_Sand: What a terrible shame it would be if corporate HQ got SWAT'ed
<2021-12-12T08:43:05.000Z> Amper_Sand: Solidarity is nonexistent. My employer is hiring workers that I am ashamed to represent. 
<2021-12-12T08:44:27.000Z> cqi: The general idea is to make working men forget that there was ever a Chapter One on this shit; return it to zero and then sand off any remnants.
<2021-12-12T08:44:50.000Z> cqi: You're seeing that sandblasting firsthand in the new folks
<2021-12-12T08:45:24.000Z> Amper_Sand: Agreed. 
<2021-12-12T08:45:43.000Z> cqi: Only through systemic castration will we reach our ideal sexless pet care utopia
<2021-12-12T08:46:13.000Z> Amper_Sand: My union rep, while being a nice guy, Is an unrepentant socialist with well-guarded communist sympathies
<2021-12-12T08:47:13.000Z> Amper_Sand: I could strangle him sometimes. The strain of universalist do-gooder runs deep in him.
<2021-12-12T08:48:54.000Z> cqi: Union work can be a real shitty gig; it filters out all but those who need to cling to the Beautiful Dream.
<2021-12-12T08:49:27.000Z> cqi: Unions comprised of hard-headed, smart pragmatists were disproportionately targeted by everyone.
<2021-12-12T08:50:39.000Z> Amper_Sand: Haha. Why is it that my rep and his boss are old school Marxists in the vein of Ira Ringold (the protagonist of Philip Roth's "I married a communist) 
<2021-12-12T08:51:16.000Z> Amper_Sand: Do-gooding idealists who believe in the ultimate moral authority of the "good men" of our times, i.e. Abraham Lincoln
<2021-12-12T08:53:55.000Z> cqi: What a sad waste of a useful urge
<2021-12-12T08:54:02.000Z> Amper_Sand: 100%
<2021-12-12T08:55:18.000Z> cqi: When you're king it will all be different
<2021-12-12T08:55:24.000Z> Amper_Sand: I am tainted by my own usefulness. If only all of my fellow workers were carbon copies of me. We would be unstoppable!!!
<2021-12-12T08:56:07.000Z> cqi: You could elect yourself representative of yourself and then implement total industrial democratic fascism
<2021-12-12T08:57:01.000Z> cqi: CLONE UNION: COMING 2037
<2021-12-12T08:57:16.000Z> Amper_Sand: You think they would go for it? My hand is hovering over the purchase of a Hugo boss outfit
<2021-12-12T08:58:40.000Z> cqi: Go tailored in that style instead; cheaper and sends better signals
<2021-12-12T08:59:26.000Z> cqi: Why wear another man's name pressed against your heart?
<2021-12-12T08:59:27.000Z> Amper_Sand: "I think that guy is a fucking Nazi but GODDAMN he is well tailored
<2021-12-12T09:00:57.000Z> cqi: - Every beret-wearing spaghetti socialist chick
<2021-12-12T09:01:16.000Z> Amper_Sand: Spaghetti socialist?
<2021-12-12T09:01:51.000Z> cqi: Straight-line socialist until things get hot and wet.
<2021-12-12T09:03:42.000Z> Amper_Sand: Clever 
<2021-12-12T09:03:49.000Z> cqi: I leave discovery of the proper coinage to those with more talent than I.
<2021-12-12T09:04:22.000Z> Amper_Sand: You could have taken credit for the bon mot, I wouldn't have known better
<2021-12-12T09:05:06.000Z> cqi: Oh, it's mine, but it's still chimeric and clumsy. Won't transmit.
<2021-12-12T09:05:17.000Z> Amper_Sand: Marry me
<2021-12-12T09:06:17.000Z> Amper_Sand: "Honey... He used chimeric as a verb again"
<2021-12-12T09:06:29.000Z> Amper_Sand: "The boy ain't right"
<2021-12-12T09:08:57.000Z> cqi: "Ain't no fruit o' my loins gonna conjugate in that manner unbecomin'. Let him run, gonna end up with another declension or summit."
<2021-12-12T09:09:51.000Z> cqi: "Didn't think a boy could get too much bible."
<2021-12-12T09:10:06.000Z> Amper_Sand: When the conjugation is sus 😳
<2021-12-12T09:10:17.000Z> Amper_Sand: *adjective
<2021-12-12T09:10:25.000Z> Amper_Sand: Fuck it im drunk
<2021-12-12T09:10:56.000Z> cqi: Cunning linguistics.
<2021-12-12T09:11:41.000Z> Amper_Sand: The Rum Diary: "they raped him to death?
<2021-12-12T09:11:54.000Z> Amper_Sand: "Lasanga died in a cubicle
<2021-12-12T09:13:19.000Z> Amper_Sand: I wish I could react-emoji messages
<2021-12-12T09:19:54.000Z> cqi: nigga das free verse
<2021-12-13T04:14:09.000Z> Amper_Sand: Not a fan of the anime stuff
<2021-12-13T04:14:15.000Z> Amper_Sand: But I appreciate the sentiment
<2021-12-13T04:39:49.000Z> cqi: That's how we roll here at CQI.
<2021-12-13T04:43:01.000Z> Amper_Sand: sentimentality or anime?
<2021-12-13T04:43:12.000Z> cqi: Both.
<2021-12-13T04:47:36.000Z> Amper_Sand: is it morning where you are? Im winding down for the evening
<2021-12-13T04:48:35.000Z> cqi: My timezone is indeterminate.
<2021-12-13T04:49:02.000Z> Amper_Sand: just say you live on the moon
<2021-12-13T04:49:41.000Z> cqi: My moon shack is only for occasional getaways; I project a personal timezone around myself.
<2021-12-13T04:50:19.000Z> Amper_Sand attached file https://i.poastcdn.org/e160cbed5c142d79cbb280e717464185d6973b8c131fe1eca0c64d721a205050.jpg
<2021-12-13T04:53:56.000Z> cqi: How did you get that photograph
<2021-12-13T04:54:05.000Z> cqi: you moonfed
<2021-12-13T04:56:08.000Z> Amper_Sand: Im living in the walls of your moonshack
<2021-12-13T04:56:19.000Z> Amper_Sand: getting high off of mooncheese