This shows how short the collective public memory is. There are still people alive today who had polio. I knew an elderly gentlemen who’s face was half paralyzed from having it as a child. Vaccines have increased lifespans and improved the quality of life for humans around the world. Advancements which are now in jeopardy because people lack critical thinking skills and are highly susceptible to bullshit propaganda.
“I stand for the flag. I kneel for the cross.”
Only uttered by people who have never once knelt in front of a cross.
The smallest dog yips the loudest.
I bet you’re right. That’s one promise that I’m sure he would like to have forgotten as quickly as possible.
He also had a drivers license. Basically state sponsored terrorism.
Y’all aren’t gonna believe this but the guy used electricity in various ways while planning the attack.
Looking forward to reliving the circumstances that led to the formation of the FDA. That’s gonna be fun times. /s
“Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it won’t sound so bad.”
At some point I need to migrate off Hyper-V. Probably to Proxmox.
Ugh. I don’t wanna.
You would think being THE place that’s known almost exclusively as a career stepping stone in tech would set off some alarm bells in the c-suite. Then again, narcissists and sociopaths aren’t exactly introspective. It’s probably just easier to keep pretending that everyone else is the problem.
Corporate: “We need better CoLlAbOrAtIoN.”
Also Corporate: Crams a bunch of people who don’t work together in an office where they spend all their days on Zoom meetings
In the still, sadly, relevant words of Lyndon Johnson,
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
I would like to once again thank the motion picture and recording industry associations for their contributions to both the sophistication of media piracy and the quality of content.
Without their efforts, we would probably all still be playing Russian Roulette on Limewire for a low quality copy of Zoolander. The first person to record a movie on Betamax would probably shit themselves if they could have seen what could be accomplished with some arrogance, incompetence, and blind greed. There’s no doubt that you guys are the real MVP when it comes to promoting media piracy.
The anti-piracy industry couldn’t be more Mickey Mouse if it were run by the Marx Brothers.
Tesla originally had some star power because they were doing things that traditional automakers claimed were impossible. A litany of poor engineering decisions and Elon showing his true colors have worn off any remaining novelty.
“Because I have no self-respect and base my poor decisions on the false belief that I can’t or don’t deserve to do any better.”
I would just like contacts that work well with my astigmatism. Then I wouldn’t have to wear glasses at all which would be fantastic.
A contributing factor in all of this is that US manufacturers have spent the better part of the last 30 years turning their engineering departments into glorified parts replacers. A complaint I have heard from nearly every electrical/electronics engineer that I’ve known is that “We don’t design things anymore. Now we just spend most of our time trying to find replacements for chips that we can no longer get.”
From what I can tell, from my very limited perspective, there has been a significant lack of investment in engineering capabilities and a resulting lack of innovation for a long time. As usual, short term thinking is expensive in the long run. We’re only just beginning to find out how expensive.
Clearly doing her best to keep all that dirty money from being used to bribe other officials.
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Once everyone figures out your can fix things pretty much regardless of where you are, they start to form the expectation that you’re going to do that every single time.