dukeofdummies

I for one cheer and root for my flip phone friends.

I'd never do it, but we have one at work and he's singlehandedly causing so much grief at work. Because none of the engineers wanna use a security app for login. They want a fob.

IT refuses to pay for fobs and wants us to use an app, but they also don't want to pay for a phone for anyone in engineering just to use the security app because it opens a floodgate of people with company phones.

It's just wonderful to watch this fight from the sidelines sipping tea.

You know, I have been thinking that my 3d printer has been more reliable than my 2d.

Every day I get closer and closer to just attaching a sharpie to the carriage.

In practice, you're probably right.

But in terms of "I wanna cut waste, and make the government lean! So I am gonna delete the space part of the government and replace it with my own!"

Just sounds bad, like really bad. Even worse than the armored Teslas. I can't imagine NASA is the top of people's lists of "utter wastes of time" It's not a regulator, it's not in the "known enemies" list unless you're a flat earther. I dunno how you spin it to be palatable.

... I mean that would've been the clearest conflict of interest you could've possibly summoned.

I mean, they had 14 years didn't they?

Have they ever tried to pass an ammendment for this?

Like seriously, if there was ever a time to do a concerted push for linux, it's now. Start the campaigns, start the tutorials start the memes and the warnings and get the process down to under an hour. It won't be a weird thing, it will be the lord and savior allowing your PC to continue even when windows says it can't.

Is there even a point to which one you pick? I just picked .kbin because I liked the UI, and when that fell apart I moved to .world mostly at random.

Is there really a large difference between them?

better yet, make it a shifting line. Should be trivial to spot if the line is shifting through all the chroma and lux values.

I really struggle to see a unilateral mobilization and that the US military truly goes through with it.

Especially when foreign assets are getting absolutely left stranded by Trump, programs are getting gutted (he hasn't touched the VA, yet) and everyone who helped after 9/11 were getting shafted by their government in terms of Healthcare.

If you take away the rather potent motivators of "national security and safety or preventing terrorism" I think you're gonna get a lot more of a strike from soldiers. Unless you can somehow believably apply that to canada.

Had a new hire try to do all his automation programming in python with an AI. It was horrifying.

Lists and lists and lists of if else statements they caught if a button errored but never caught if it did the right thing. 90% of their bug reports were directly due to their own code. Trivially provable.

Work keeps trying to tell us to use more AI but refuses to mention whether the training data is using company emails. If it is then a buttload of unlabeled non public data is getting fed into it. So only a matter of time until a "fun fact" from the AI turns into a nightmare.

Most of our stuff is in an obscure field with outdated code, so any coding assistance is not really that impressive.

No, they had a Scotland to fight for. A Scotland where they could have a home, a family, a community, where they could ask a doctor for help and that they could build in a general upward direction.

America nowadays has skyrocketing home costs, a kid who can't leave your basement to make a family, record breaking loneliness, doctors who can't help you even with insurance, and absolutely nothing implying that any of it will get better.

Defend this from the man who will make it hell, so that it will take longer for us to reach hell.

Such a powerful message to send the voters.

I'm sorry, I just think that the Democrats could've won so many more people with better messaging. I have no faith that they will have anything better come 2028. Assuming we still have a democracy come then.

The issue I have here is that Trump was not new to politics this time around.

Giant wall of terrible things Trump has done.

... Yeah, I agree. As a matter of fact, it sounds exactly like " if you’re not with us then things are going to go to hell." or "if you don’t vote for us you are gonna feel even worse we promise you", but a lot more verbose.

If you want to rally people to a cause, you need TWO THINGS. A thing you don't want, and a thing that you do. Either a thing you will have, or a thing you have right now. If you don't have that thing you want, then you don't have a better of two options.

You just have a less hopeless of two options, and you shouldn't be shocked that you didn't draw a fighting force of people together like Mel Gibson in Braveheart.