Wait, what? For real?

fiddles with some buttons

And it was a good plan, for a while. Shame about that plague, though.

It’s a good thing we don’t have the gubmint compiling lists of, say, neurodivergent folks, so everything’s all nice and ready when the time comes.

AI?

Plot twist: the toddler has a multi-year marketing push worth tens if not hundreds of millions, which convinced a lot of people who don’t know the first thing about chess that it really is very impressive, and all those chess-types are just jealous.

Yeah, but they might have Mad Mad Bunny disease. You don’t want none of them prions, dawg.

Wait, I thought their job was to revoke approval for safe drugs that the snowflakes don’t like?

And just look at all those anchor babies.

Fascism 101.

This is the sort of thing that could be actionable, in criminal or civil court.

The rich:

This is something that even larger corps struggle with. My old company would buy some other company, lay off a bunch of people, others would quit, and then it was shocked Pikachu faces all around when That One Thing stopped working in an office they turned into a ghost town and, well, no, nobody was going to be there until Monday morning to power cycle etc. True lights out/OOB reachability is WORK. And there’s always going to be a SPOF somewhere that requires hands on-site.

Do what you can, when you can. And thank you for all that y’all have done so far.

Thanks for the heads up, try not to stress too much.

I never understood the beef with FlyingSquid. Every time I heard this hue and cry about how he was abusing his powers, I asked for details, and it turned out the details were that he sent one rude message to one user, months ago, or that he liked to argue with people. Whatever. If he’s now in a bad place I hope he gets some help. Life is fragile.

Exactly this.

It could be worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Engineer Guy went years between books uploads. I had to do a double take when he came up in my feed a few months ago.

Agreed. And in gif/video heavy communities, it really bogs things down.