She didn’t get it wrong at all, that’s far too generous. She fucking lied as to her understanding. Now MAGA has something to repeat. FOX will pick this up, and ever so slightly work it into their talking points. They won’t outright lie, they’ll be subtle and get the meme across. I’ve seen them do this shit for 20 years!

We street urchins and the media alike have to quit giving these people the benefit of the doubt. (Not saying you did OP!)

Does anyone really think she’s stupid?! No one of substandard intelligence rises that high. Yes, her boss started at slightly lower than average, but money and a talent for self-promotion speaks loudly. And yes, attractiveness speaks loudly, but that takes real work and you’ll find stupid people mostly look stupid.

Even MTG is probably “bright normal” like me. When we bag on these people for being stupid I think we’re forgetting just how stupid average is. Allow me to rant.

I’m the guy always talking about working at Lowe’s, garden center, rocket science. Started college in honors, remedial math. Literally called MATH 1001. Hardly anyone I work with, including my customers, can do basic addition and multiplication in their head. Had to pull 150 bricks today, pallet holds 126, how many do I need to add? Oh, and a layer holds 3 x 6 bricks, how high to stack it and how many extra, if any, on top? Customer wants 30 bags of mulch, everyone starts counting as we toss it in the truck. “Just make 6 stacks of 5.” HUH? Told a dozen customers, “I’m not smart enough to keep count, I multiply.”

How many people do we think are average or lower intelligence on lemmy? But it’s 1%, if that.

And narrated Riki Tiki Tavi. Child’s cartoon my white ass. Shit was scary.

(You meant feet per second.)

People seem to think it should have torn his ear clean off. Bullets can barely nick things.

LOL, if they showed a 5.56 bullet at actual size people wouldn’t believe it’s so tiny.

I’m better and kinder than my parents. Sorry, that’s all I got.

This is not a typical home or office printer, very specialized.

I’d work double and rake in the simoleans, at least for awhile. Technically, I’m not doing any more work than I was already. Even for the long term, retire in 20 vs 40?

OR, we split down and use the free time to pursue other lines of making money. “Fuck you. Your turn at Lowe’s, I’m making dog houses today.”

I can see issues with broad language, but sick leave and min wage seem like hard numbers.

And how does the governor get a say in all this? The executive’s job is to enforce, not interpret (judicial) or create (legislative) law.

I’m listening. blade runner blues @ googles email service. Hit me.

What’s really surprising to me is how patient most cops are. I always said I couldn’t be a cop because my temper would involve beating dumbshits with a baton.

Look, I hate pigs far more than most of you guys. And I have personal experiences/reasons going back decades. But sometimes watching my wife’s cop show I’m screaming, “Just beat his fucking ass!”

Same goes for judges. Spent a night or two watching sovcits in court. Heysus, were I a judge I would bounce them out on their ear the second they starting talking that shit.

In case I get called a boot licker, and I will, here’s my latest cop story.

For brevity let’s just say I had words with my MAGA neighbor. No threats, well, except for him stomping down the street to kick my ass and me quietly walking inside for my Colt .45. This motherfucker call the cops on me! (First one to call wins. Every. Time. Remember that. I should have called first, but didn’t think some yelling would come to that. Fucking MAGA pussy.)

Pigs show up dressed in their finest Hugo Boss black and one fat fuck is trying to get me to talk. I would not, except to state that no threats were exchanged and that’s all he needs to know. Pig threatens to get a warrant and arrest me for “causing a public disturbance” if I don’t allow him to violate my 5th amendment right to STFU. I STFU, nothing happened, because of course it didn’t. Because I STFU.

Been saying for years, the Cambrian was life testing what would work. See also: 1910-1920s mechanical inventions.

At that point I thought it was an Onion article.

“Chinese people like pork, right?! And they like coffee! See where I’m going with this?!!!”

All true! But the profits still get siphoned off elsewhere. My Lowe’s employs us locals, but the hardware store downtown doesn’t exist to provide shareholder value.

Again, you’re right. Non all non-local sellers are evil capitalists, hell bent on making us poor.

🤌🏻 Perfection!

I want to know how that was done to make the edges look natural.

SOAP calls

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

Man was sporting quite a hog leg if it was soft enough to pee and still plugged that air airtight! Most impressive.

Some might be surprised how many systems are still running on AS400s. IBM still makes and maintains IBMi, the modern iteration. My last company wrote our flagship product for these machines, all green screen. Our customers would sometimes move to our GUI product and jump right back to the prompt menus. Hey, if you gotta move fast and have a bulletproof system, text menus are the only way to fly!

By my god, the skill set for running and programming those beasts touches on almost nothing I’ve learned in 30+ years of IT work. Wish I had got experience in that part of the company, seen some solid job posts for that sorta tech.

That idea often comes up in these discussions and I’ve never really had an argument against. Best I got is that parts of that software may have moved to more modern stuff that was purchased by another company. But that’s a damned thin excuse not to implement this.

People keep saying to keep these XP machines off the internet. I seriously doubt there’s much threat, especially for even older OS’s like 98 and 95. It’s the very devil just trying to browse with them, nothing much out there is going to be able to attack them. Security through obscurity indeed!

In any case, we’re no longer in the Wild West days when people had machines hooked directly to the internet and a firewall was a third-party addon. LOL, ZoneAlarm anyone!

We all have a basic firewall built into our routers so unless you deliberately expose services you’re fairly bulletproof to scanners. I remember scanning for Win2000 machines in blocks of IPs, long after it was defunct. Plenty were out there!