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In search of sanity while surrounded by the insane.

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arstechnica, to random
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5,471-piece Lego Barad-Dûr set will turn its watchful Eye to us in June

Fiery eye actually lights up, and multiple towers can be stacked.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/05/5471-piece-lego-barad-dur-set-will-turn-its-watchful-eye-to-us-in-june/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica
It can be either Lego or kids. Not both. Because that will lead to injured soles.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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I listened to part of Morning Joe this morning and has he lost his mind? He was going on about college students demonstrating for . What is his major malfunction? I know he's a conservative but yuck. The students are demonstrating against obvious Israeli gov't war crimes & their schools' various types of ties to Israel & the war. Joe Scarborough's biases make him sound like a liar or an idiot. Giving the Israeli gov't a pass isn't a moral good.

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@Nonya_Bidniss
Reminder that supported Trump in the early days. Joe is a huckster of the standard mold. He's switched over to lick Bibi's taint.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-morning-joe-scarborough-232094

scottsantens, to random
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Money is like shit. If we spread it around, it functions as fertilizer, enabling incredible ideas to sprout and grow. If instead we just pile it up into mountains, it stinks and all the great stuff that could sprout and flourish is starved of nutrients.

Universal basic income is the good shit.

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@scottsantens
Not all shit is useful. I liken money to manure. But otherwise, your post is on point.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Is Trump ahead in the polls, because Biden is losing support amongst one of his key demographics: Black men? Or are the polls all a lie?

Trump ahead in polls?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

Biden camp doesn't believe the polls?
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-polls-denial-trump-2024-election

Either way, the most important thing to do, is to ignore, insult, argue with, and generally disrespect, Black men online! 🤡 Find a Black man, and yell "Trump is worse!" in his face as hard as you can! Swear at him, and threaten him with violence!

1/N

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@mekkaokereke
All good points. What I don’t hear explicitly said in the media or Fediverse is that the working class and poor White folks have so much more in common with working class and poor Black and Hispanic and Asian folks than with the White Elites. Sadly, voting is being done more along racial lines instead of by economic or income groups.
(Also I’m 99% wrong 100% of the time.)

GottaLaff, to random
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Reuters review of TX property records shows SpaceX & its contractors can be far slower to pay builders, suppliers than they are to break ground. Unpaid bills, finger-pting among contractors have led many construction-industry businesses to file liens against SpaceX properties in efforts to get compensated.

Result, several of those businesses told Reuters, is reluctance to work on SpaceX-related projects again. "If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to fuck off".. https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-quick-build-texas-slow-pay-its-bills-2024-05-13/

jadugar63,
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yields and higher than normal wages and then upper management investigated this “anomaly”. That nutjob MBA failed upwards and was given a promotion to another department and away from our division. But the goodwill with local suppliers was permanently destroyed. (2/2)

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@GottaLaff
I worked at a Fortune 500 company’s production plant. At one point after a re-org, we were routinely missing chemicals or parts or supplies from the small local specialty businesses. Because some dumbass MBA in the finance and accounting squadron decided he could slip their payment terms to 90 days from 30. As a result techs would sit around waiting and bill overtime but first line managers were too meek to say anything up the chain. A whole quarter went with low production (1/2)

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@kellyosullivan @GottaLaff
Yup. Looks like Musk is reading “Art of The Deal” and using that to make business decisions.
I thought SpaceX had a better leader in Gwynne Shotwell but it seems Musk still controls the puppet strings.

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@PJ_Evans @GottaLaff
This crappy behavior is normalized and rewarded. Uhh, thanks ?

GottaLaff, to random
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#TrumpTrial preamble.

Pagliery:

It's Day 16 of Trump's NYC criminal trial. The moment has finally arrived.

The consigliere. The disbarred lawyer. The author of Revenge. Michael Cohen.

Prosecutors question him 1st, so get ready for a finger-pointing session.

Prosecutors have walked in.

The chief of the investigations division, Susan Hoffinger, is chatting w the court reporter.

Matt Colangelo and Joshua Steinglass are fiddling with papers.

Becky Mangold and Christopher Conroy are talking.

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@Nonya_Bidniss @GottaLaff
FWIW, #tuberville actually lives in #florida . And #JDVance is a city boy who tries to act rural per his #HillbillyElegy fantasies.
Trump is surrounded by genuine #idiots

wdlindsy, to random
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Heather Cox Richardson comments on how Republicans exploit the cowboy myth to attack the notion of strong federal governance. As she says,

"The cowboy myth originated during the Reconstruction era as a response to the idea that a government that defended Black rights was 'socialist' and that the tax dollars required to pay bureaucrats and army officers would break hardworking white men."

#Republicans #cowboy #racism #MaleEntitlement
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-12-2024

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@wdlindsy
So, white people working harder at creating and perpetuating a myth about themselves than actually working hard?
Umm yeah, par for the #gop #republicans

w7voa, to random
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Russian President Putin proposes as defense minister Andrey Removich Belousov. https://www.rbc.ru/politics/12/05/2024/6641077c9a7947597327cab5

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@w7voa
Shoigu going for a skydive from a Russian hospital window?

QasimRashid, to random
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A man asked Prophet Muhammad (sa), “O Prophet of God! Towards whom should I exhibit goodness and kindness?”

The Noble Prophet replied: “Towards your mother.”

The man then asked: “And after that towards whom?”

The Noble Prophet again said: “Your Mother.”

He asked again: “And then?”

Once again, he replied: “Your mother.”

For the fourth time the man asked: “And then?”

This time he said: “Your father.”

Happy Mother’s Day!

jadugar63,
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@QasimRashid
So at what point during this series of questions did the Prophet say “everyone regardless of background and religion, and non-believers, and animals and nature” ?

aiefel, to random
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    @aiefel
    There’s a corporate contagious malaise for monetizing anything and everything, without testing for edge cases or other critical conditions. It’s more a “garbage in, garbage out”.
    My kids don’t enjoy making AI art. They’ll play with it for giggles but say it really isn’t their creation, and prefer to draw, paint, sketch (even if digitally).

    flexghost, to random
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    Matt Gaetz flipped.

    If that’s not the case then this is too depressing to think about.

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    @Dave3307
    100% on the money. DoJ can't trust the House Ethics Committee. Snitches get stitches; I wouldn't mind Gaetz getting a few scars since he likes to act tough. But after he's puked all the details.
    @flexghost

    ferricoxide, to random

    One of the (many) problems with modern collaborative communication-tools, like Slack, is that they don't lend themselves to conversational-tangents. If they have threading (and, what Teams has is definitely not threading), it's pretty limited: you can start a thread, but not subthreads.

    These group-chat tools lack crucial functionality that don't really let them match up to ancient tools like email or Usenet.

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    @ferricoxide
    Teams, on the customer workstations, is bad. There's two versions, both throwing errors and not working with SSO. So I nuke 'em both. Start the new version, it pukes. Start the old version, it asks if I want to use new version, then signs me into new version. Repeatable. I guess that clusterfuckery consistency is a plus with this customer's implementation? Or has MS not tested/learned of this scenario?

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    @ferricoxide
    On MacBookPro, old version worked fine. Occasionally would hijack the built-in mic so other apps like Google Meet couldn't use it, but a client restart would fix that.
    New version just doesn't work. Then if you uninstall and delete the cache/folders, you get a colorful error string when trying to use the browser-based Teams.
    Then, tried to use it with a Win11 VM on Parallels, it fails to see the mic. But Google Meet in the same VM perfectly sees the mic and camera.
    Hot poop!

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    This interview is seriously whacked out, both the questions and Dorsey’s bizarre answers.

    He has “a strategy for ending censorship forever!” lol

    https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

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    @CStamp @Green_Footballs
    Totally. Absolutely. Too much money that got him too much power (via his platform) corrupted his mind. No matter how much beard he grows or shaves his head, Dorsey is another Silicon Valley man-baby.

    Wileymiller, to random
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    The reach for victimization is limitless in MAGA world...

    A spokesperson for Giuliani, Ted Goodman, told the Guardian in a statement late Tuesday night: “While it is true that the permanent Washington political class is leveraging all of its power and influence to bully and scare people from defending Americans who are willing to stand up and push back against the accepted narrative, Mayor Giuliani will be appropriately represented when it comes to his accounting and finances.”

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    @Wileymiller
    Has he tried asking Four Seasons Accountants?
    Heard there are great bookies in NY/NJ.

    Quinnypig, to random
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    This UniSuper thing is getting weirder. “Joint statement” with @ThomasOrTK only posted on their site? That looks like they’re lying.

    Imagine I posted a joint statement on @LastWeekinAWS with Adam Selipsky; without seeing it from AWS directly, who’d believe it was real?

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    @mweagle @Quinnypig
    Yeah, would have thought there’d be a message on Google Cloud’s status page. Like how AWS/Azure do.
    This is mega-sus.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Breaking: Kristi Noem offers to shoot RFK Jr. brain worm.

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    @MissingThePt
    Might be more effective with some bashing instead. Easy to miss with bullets.
    But I won’t discourage her because of her choice of method. 😜

    aiefel, to random
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    @aiefel
    She should just ignore them.

    dangillmor, to random
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    It is heartening that the editor of the New York Times is being widely condemned for his indifference to saving democracy. Dan Froomkin's piece today has a sampling of the loathing Joe Kahn unleashed. https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

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    @dangillmor
    Joe Kahn’t be bothered to give a fuck about democracy.
    (F word used here in Carlinesque style for emphasis. Also Fuck Joe Kahn)

    ferricoxide, to random

    Got word, today, that one of the contracts I contribute to is reducing headcount. The focus of most of the contracts my company works on is some variation on "cloud enablement". My immediate team's (we actually have two teams providing services) particular contribution is automation of things like security compliance, build standardization and deployment automation.

    The organization we do this for has really segmented budgets. Basically, each business program that produces applications for the rest of the organization has their own budget. Similarly, the group we're budgeted through has its own budget, but its mission is to help ensure that all of the organization's other groups are more easily able to do what it takes to securely provide their individual services.

    The group we're contracted to apparently wants to reduce their spend. They see many of our enablement tasks as prime for cutting – offloading the burden to all the other departments. If you thought to yourself, "won't that just result in a lot of extra and duplicative effort for all the other departments that will increase the overall budgetary requirements for the organization as a whole," you'd be correct. We've been through similar exercises before. Generally, each time there's a change in management, a new manager comes in and decides this type of change is how they can look good (by reducing their individual department's spending) and get a promotion.

    Usually after 12-24 months, the higher ups discover that the total budget has exploded, all the other departments' timelines have slid, etc.. They then bring in yet another new manager who's explicitly told to ensure their department does what it takes to help the larger organization deliver on time and on budget. Usually, this also results in those higher ups specifically seeking our company out to help them get back on track.

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    @ferricoxide
    Case of “can’t fix stupid”.
    Disaster Is Acceptable, Competence Is Optional.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Justice Merchan called ’s lawyer to a sidebar to say Trump was “cursing audibly” & possibly intimidating Daniels... “I understand your client is upset at this pt, but he is cursing audibly & shaking his head visually & that’s contemptuous. It has the potential to intimidate the witness & the jury can see that...I am speaking to you here at the bench because I don’t want to embarrass him. You need to speak to him. I won’t tolerate that.”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/07/stormy-daniels-testimony-trump-hush-money-trial/

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    @DJ_2280 @GottaLaff
    I have a dream....
    I want 45 to croak in court.
    But after verdict is delivered.
    At some point his heart has gotta give, given his predilection for hamberders and diet cokes and covfefe and steaks well-done.
    But I also want this to happen 48 hours before the general election so the GOP is truly fucked.

    Back to reality. Tired of 45 being handled with kid gloves and being given oxygen by the media. Lock him up!

    flexghost, to random
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    Trump had
    27 documents in his office,
    Of those
    6 Top Secret
    18 Secret
    3 Confidential
    75 documents in a storage room
    Of those
    11 Top Secret
    36 Secret
    28 Confidential

    Fuck Aileen Cannon

    Fuck Donald Trump

    Fuck every traitor in the GOP

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    @flexghost
    I doubt an indefinite postponement is possible. Maybe Cannon’s interns/aides have run out of options and this is their Hail Mary. Let’s see what Jack Smith does next. In a 4D chess game, I don’t think Cannon would last many moves. At some point she’ll run out of excuses.

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