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If you look at how the Missouri GOP works they will sandbag any campaign to vote against the repeal, run ads saying a yes vote is a vote for women’s rights actually and muddy the waters so much that voters don’t know what to do and either vote inadvertently for the wrong thing or stay home because they aren’t sure and then the evangelicals will bus people directly from church to the polls and the repeal will squeak by.

Missouri really hates democracy, this isn’t even the first time they’ve gone to great lengths to overturn the will of the people.

I stopped reading at Financial Tech startup. From that alone I know what kind of people we’re dealing with here.

Would this be the first direct conflict between two nuclear powers? Plenty of proxy wars in the past, but I can’t think of a time where two nuclear-capable nations went at it like this.

Absolute favorite is Outer Wilds. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I can’t experience it again. A true masterpiece of a game.

After that, probably Noita for sheer insanity. Deeply unfair, but getting a god-run going is that much sweeter. It took me ~100 hours to beat it the first time, now I can consistently win if I try but I’m addicted to doing stupid things to see what happens.

We used to just call it Work to Rule.

The local shipping port was empty yesterday. The last time I saw it that empty was during covid. It is genuinely frightening.

At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.

Actual escalation I got:

contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me

me: show me what you are doing.

contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc

another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.

After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

Getting awfully Blade Runner in here.

if your router is able to you can set up ACLs to allow the TV access to your network but not the internet.

It’s usually two quarters. By the time we are officially in recession we have been for half a year.

The victims here are all children. I am intensely angry at their irresponsible parents and even more so at the profiteering hucksters who convinced them that vaccines (that the parents already received) were bad.

People who intentionally infect their children with deadly pathogens and assist in spreading disease should face criminal charges.

If a bunch of conservatives buy Teslas to own the libs and end up accelerating the decline of ICE vehicles that would be pretty funny.

Fortunately my dad is a retired cybersecurity architect so they live as modern-day Luddites.

Oh gods, I had forgotten what a pain in the ass that setup was and how it would just randomly stop working when they changed something on their side.

Considering TASS was among the few outlets allowed to attend, I think this was a performance for an audience of one.

I work with Teams as an admin.

1. Teams is a resource hog.
2. Under the hood it appears to be a mess.
3. The user workflow aggressively tries to prevent users from multitasking, despite many jobs requiring this.
4. Product design is a shining example of the greater Microsoft philosophy of forcing customers to adapt their business to Microsoft’s technology instead of having technology flexible enough to adapt to a customer’s business needs.
5. From an admin standpoint it has numerous questionable design decisions surrounding UC. For example, you can register non-Teams SIP phones to it, but you can’t see the IP addresses of these registered devices(?!). In general, from a telephony standpoint, Teams is good at providing dial tone and some very basic telephony features, enough to make senior leadership think that it does everything, but if you need UC functionality for more than users who sit at a desk all day it falls apart quickly.
6. My conversations with representatives from the product team at Microsoft suggests they are out of touch with how businesses use telephones.

I think in Texas it would be criminally negligent homicide, but I doubt the conservative justice system there will punish anyone for intentionally not preventing a deadly disease.

What would be the purpose of US support in Europe if not defending against Russia?

The US presence in Europe exists to facilitate US power projection, if we are not stopping Russian advancement then there is no reason for host countries to allow US bases in their territory.