The United States #Senate, in its current #toxic#senescence, offers a great deal to loathe. Its members posture and bluster and never do anything or leave; the ubiquity of the filibuster during Mitch McConnell’s time atop the institution ran it into a state of permanent brownout long before McConnell himself started powering-down like C-3PO during public appearances. Nothing works, nothing happens; as a general rule, the most action in the Senate is either when it pulls together to deliver itself of a 3000-page omnibus funding bill once per year or when one of the chamber’s many grandiose octogenarians seems notably closer to death than usual. With the filibuster’s supermajority threshold making regular business impossible, there is nothing left but a competition between variously exhausting aesthetics.
This is just a reminder that the jobs migrant workers are taking are jobs that you don't want to do. Like hand-picking the fruit that ends up in your grocery store. YOUR jobs were taken by corporate boards so that they could send them overseas to countries where labor costs were lower, so that they could take the money they used to pay you and put most of it into their own pockets, so that they could increase their salaries by 1,500% while you got nothing.
These corporations overwhelmingly support the Republican politicians who keep telling you that it's migrants who are taking your jobs, but who refuse to cooperate to "fix the border problem".
"All we have to do is get Fox to report (accurately!) that gay humpback whale sex was only ever observed after atmospheric CO2 concentration reached 421.6ppm, and suddenly the conservatives will get on board with reversing climate change."
@zakalwe
That works for me. But then, that would be better if he were a tad younger than he is, so he could experience the humiliation for a long while. As it is, I just would like to outlive him.
Yopu know, I love how some of the bugs in Diablo just go on and on and on. Some of the oldest bugs in Diablo are still there in the very latest Diablo games.
Like, there's this one bug that I first saw in the original Diablo, and it is still there in Diablo Immortal. You'll be trying to fight some mob, and you swing, and you miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. "Nothing there to hit," says the game. Or "You can't hit that." (It doesn't tell you its rationale for why you can't hit that mob, you just keep missing and missing and missing.)
In desperation, you try some AOE attack, and it works.
"Oh, THAT monster," says the game. "Well why didn't you SAY so?!?" And from then on, you can hit it.
@zakalwe 🤣🤣🤣 so true and so weird. Messed up hitboxes? Lag? The server lag kills me more than anything in IV. I do dig Immortal though. Demon hunter & necro and then jumped back in with blood knight. And never paid a dime! 🤣
"Capitalists hate capitalism. For a corporate executive, the fact that you have to make good things, please your customers, pay your workers, and beat the competition are all bugs, not features. The best business is one in which people simply pay you money without your having to do anything or worry that someday they'll stop. UBI for the investor class, in other words."
— Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)
Look, FFS, can we stop this stupid posturing? Do you seriously expect ANYONE to believe that you agreed to pay a nearly $2bn fine for NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG?
I speculate that companies think this is some kind of face-saving measure, that it makes them look more respectable. Instead of looking like a toddler with chocolate still around his mouth earnestly insisting that he didn't eat the chocolate chip cookies. It's not as though anyone actually BELIEVES them. We just point at them and laugh in derision.
A jury ruled on Monday that Google had violated antitrust laws to extract fees and limit competition from Epic Games and other developers on its Play mobile app store, in a case that could rewrite the rules on how thousands of businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system, Android.
After deliberating for a little more than three hours, the nine-person federal jury sided with Epic Games on all 11 questions in a month-long trial that was the latest turn in a three-year legal battle.
"You have a #vulnerability," says security researcher to #OpenCart author, "here's the details and a fix"
"Not a problem, not a vulnerability, stop wasting my time, says OpenCart author
Oh look, CVSS severity 8.8 (on a scale of 10), says #CERT
tl,dr on the article: This is not a one-off. Kerr (author of OpenCart) has a well established history of cavalier attitudes towards reported security vulnerabilities. "Shut up, I meant to do it this way."
So. You have an outdated email address that you no longer have access to on your Barnes & Noble account, and you want to update it to a current address.
You can't. Because the only authentication method B&N will accept is a 6-digit one-time code sent to the old address. Even if you're already logged in. Even if they already let you update the password using your "security" question.
Customer service can't do it for you, either by phone or chat.
The only thing you can do is delete your old account. Except that you can't do THAT, either, for exactly the same reason. And neither can Customer Service.
So you go to create the new account and just hope nothing jams up because it conflicts with the old one. You HAVE to set a security question. And it has to be chosen from a fixed list — the usual list of Stupid Questions The Answers To Which Are Almost All Public Record. Ykou know, the kind of things you were warned NEVER to use as a a password.
So you pick the least awful question and start composing a non-obvious-yet-rememberable answer to it. And that's then you learn you're only allowed fifteen characters for the answer.
FOR FUCK'S SAKE, PEOPLE. Are you trying to ENSURE that you have identify breaches? :blobcatfacepalm: