“Guys, you don’t understand, my MBA specifically said this would work!”
Often followed by “Hmm, can we pay someone to help us solve this personnel puzzle? Let’s find a consultant. I’m no rube though, I’m a shrewd business cretin - if we don’t find a consultant with an MBA fancier than mine, we’ll just be wasting our money.”
The bowties! Holy shit lol, what a uniform
What a great way to frame it, I love this! I typically spend something like 60-80% of time available for a given task thinking through approaches and trade-offs, etc. Usually there comes a point when the way forward becomes clear, even obvious.
After that? Bliss. I’m snapping together a LEGO set I designed, composed of pieces I picked (maybe made one or two new ones!), and luxuriating in how it all feels, when put together.
Hard disagree. Corporations taking L’s due to consumer choice is just about the last non-violent message we have that ever gets a response. Calling reps doesn’t matter at all, and I have no idea how changing shopping habits is expected to be harder than the degree of protesting required to achieve anything.
Many of our lives are improved by ditching the abusive relationship with these giant corporations, anyway, so the idea that it’s even strictly a burden is just not accurate.
Hell yeah, you just made it an “Exercises in Futility” kinda day. Well, musically anyway. I had the rest covered already
Ow! My sperm!
Is that actual “audiophile” nonsense? I sure hope so, that’s a new one on me. If so they are starting to cross over into accidentally cool (cool but verifiably utterly useless, to be clear).
The problem with making that assumption is that it downplays the very scary degree of spying technology (evidenced by contracts with firms that supply such) they are using.
It’s a new degree of surveillance escalation to this fascist organization, and it’s bad news for everyone.
Haunted, made ravenous, beastly, low - by knowledge of a flavor too pure for this world. Left lurching, bereft, cursed to sin against kith and kin, searching desperately, urgently, for a satisfaction that can never be born.
The heavens weep!
Hate to tell ya but I had the same inverted experience. “How come this gross artificial banana tastes nothing like bananas?! Ohhhh…”.
It does kinda drive me nuts though, not knowing what the real deal tastes like. Can only imagine, for you!
Ha, good choice. After all these years it’s still among the more creative and fun.
Just out here rubbing bug goo on plant corpses, guess we’re weirder than the bees
Wise words, Bil.
Best way I know is to observe them being unable to comply with legal demands to supply data when they receive them. From what I’ve heard Mullvad has passed that test, but I’ve never tried to follow up and find details.
That’s how it reads to me too, accidentally saying “hurry up and riot already, something’s gotta piss some of you off enough to do it”.
Wild that this is where we are - our president trying to bait us into helping him justify massacring us.
I use these too. The “team sports” nature of it all is really deeply engrained, like a “water is invisible to a fish” kind of way. You can use that to surprise them and build some genuine curiosity sometimes.
It’s really disarming and opens up convo when I seem to disagree with them on everything… but then just agree and help them attack whichever hideous Democrat they go after during a given conversation. Same for news, the conversation shifts in useful ways when they learn I dislike “their” (Fox and worse) news, as well as what they think of as “mine”.
It’s not enough to magically deprogram anyone, but it can start the gears turning. In my experience it usually takes the situation from two people standing across from each other fussing at one another, to two people standing together fussing at everything else. It’s a start.
Not quite the same type of jackboot here, but nonetheless “Uvalde” is all we need to know about how heroism LARPers pick and choose their violence in the most vile ways.
Guarantee if we ever see an armed response to one of these ICE raids, the LARPers will fall into chaos and shoot everywhere, likely killing a WHOLE lotta people by accident, probably including a lot of each other (all of which will be blamed on the targets of course).
And you’d imagine if there were any of these hardened criminals among their targets like they claim, at least one of em would’ve tried to shoot their way out of deportation by now. Weird!
Honestly, with some tweaks, sounds like not a bad way to start getting your random corporate social media enjoyers to care about privacy.
Idk, being locked in to using only communication protocols that are known to be roughly wide open seems like kind of a privacy non-starter, right? Sort of fails the attempt before you even start, no?
Edit: a wiser person than me reads the rest of the thread before a comment like the above, but I’m not them sadly. (AKA, plenty of good points made by others)
This is even worse than I already knew, holy shit.
4-wire USB 2.0 in a USB-C cable should be fucking illegal. Utterly counterintuitive if one stops short of reading specs and merely “keeps up” by having to use this nonsense all day every day. Learning about that alone put to bed some head-scratching confusion I’ve run into with my own stuff over the years.
The cabling problems in particular…just woof!