I hate that I have to worry that my clients think I'm just being irresponsible because I've been sick so much this year... like just in the past three months.

Because, idk, some folks around here can't seem to keep themselves from coughing or sneezing in the faces of other people while they're on public transit.

And I get sick easily anyway. And it didn't matter that I was wearing a mask when it happened (but the point of wearing masks is mostly to protect others, not yourself—it can help you to varying degrees, but it's more for other people).

I always find it interesting when people are like "total failure of policy and regulations" to shit things that happen because... idk. This feels like the point of policy and regulations, if I'm honest.

Like, the bad seems to outweigh the good on the constant, and the good seems like it was all designed around "well, we better do that lest we get some pitchforks up the ass tonight."

Clearly, we should be doing more pitchforking.

Honestly, I think about the way that schools of all sorts handle problems between students (usually doing some 'both sides' bullshit, which is rarely even a true statement for any situation)... And how it's definitely part of what teaches these loser techbros and oligarchs and whoever else who are like "I'm being threatened by the people whose lives I'm ruining" that it's an acceptable statement.

Sure, if I actually only consider the definition of a threat, you're being threatened, dude. But why is that? Did you, perhaps, threaten the lives of millions and are now reaping just a sliver of the consequences you should've had for years?

Y'know, if people are going to do excruciatingly loud renovations in an apartment building, it might be COURTEOUS to other people who live in (and sometimes work from home in) that building.

Literally everything I had planned to do? I can't do. Because the noise is both distracting and disruptive of what I'm working on.