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Cake day: February 22nd, 2026

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  • The firm took £70m from small investors before it collapsed in 2015, Southwark Crown Court heard.

    Pickard, who pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading, was jailed for six years. Greenaway and Laver, who also admitted the charge, received sentences of five years and three months and four and a half years respectively.

    That sentence doesn’t seem appropriate. Do they lose everything? They should have to make up for their harms, not just sit in a cell and come out to a cushy life.





    • poor heating/cooling. Usually offices aren’t a comfortable temperature for everybody.

    • not getting compensated for the commute. It’s a pay cut. Fuck you, management.

    • people that just walk up to your desk and start asking questions. Send a message like “can we talk about XYZ?” and I’ll get to it when I get to it. Though this maybe is a learned behavior from people who are bad at responding to messages.










  • The people who do work don’t keep the profits of work. People who “own” stuff do.

    You have a guy who “owns” a factory. He pays some dudes to make widgets, market widgets, sell widgets. They all get $10 a day. They sell $200 of widgets a day. The guy who owns the operation, who’s probably just sitting at home, keeps all those profits. Capitalism.

    The workers decide they want more rights. Get paid in real money. Sick time. 8 hour days. Owner says nah. Workers go on strike. Owner gets the police or the army to break the strike with violence. Arrest any leaders they survive. Historical context of capitalism.

    Also the guy who owns the factory, maybe he just got it because his grand dad was friends with the king or something. Maybe they killed some natives and the state said the land is yours now.


  • My job is making everyone use AI for everything (while also not keeping staff levels up)

    I hate it. Even when it works I kind of hate it.

    I’ve been using it as a search supplement for like “how do I make a uuid in a GitHub action and use it in future steps” stuff. Sometimes it works. I’d kind of rather have well written docs.