I definitely recall talking to someone at Cisco TAC (or maybe Fortinet…but most of my dealings with FortiTAC lately are with the same groups of people…you get to a point in understanding the tech that only certain people can help you…) who has a “villainous” middle-eastern name.
There’s likely more than one though.
Democracy is broken.
It worked when everybody had the same information and we worked from the same facts (and only people who looked and peed like me could vote…but that’s besides the point).
But when the majority is uninformed or misinformed, the whole thing breaks down.
We are amidst an actual information war, where objective facts are in the crosshairs, and our wonderful media institutions have determined that only sharing part of the facts and filling in the gaps with strongly-worded and thinly-veiled opinions yields the most clicks/views/whatever, and in return, more money.
Society is fucked at this point.
Yeah but police follow the money until it gets too hard to pull people in (or someone on the force is protecting them).
So usually they just take your basic B&Es and corner street dealers and shoplifters and leave it at that.
Nobody ever asked why the criminals chose a life of crime.
Nobody goes after the employers that are paying slave wages, training employees how to sign up for welfare, or getting their employees to work off the clock.
The welfare one especially. People get mad at welfare recipients and not the people that put them in that position. Welfare is subsidizing the Walton’s more than anything. They could afford to pay their employees a living wage, but why would they when they can pay the minimum and working-class taxpayers can pay for the rest. Dumbass redcaps should be shunning Walmart, not sucking its proverbial dick.
I think if someone’s coming from an unchallenged experience of masculinity that when people ask for accommodation they feel it as a personal attack because they never had to expend a single calorie of energy on it before, and now someone is asking them to.
This is it.
Equality feels like oppression when you’re privileged.
My chickens do this too. Its called a dust bath. Its an integral part of their self-care routine.
This one’s in dirt right now but most of them really love my kids sandbox if I let them out of their area. They treat it like a spa. Good thing my kids are too big for a sandbox now.
She was really in it though…stretching out those feathers and getting it in the little crevices. Rolling around. Just having a grand old time.
Oh shit does he work for Cisco TAC? I think I’ve worked with him before. Forgot all about that.
Literally Hitler.
Also hes 59…so he’s born in 1966-ish. Hitler was recent history. That’d be like me calling my kid Suddam Hussein.
Oh really was there someone else by that name already? I hadn’t known.
You’d think at least a nurse or something would be like “uhh you might want to reconsider”.
I think they are saying that her suicide was for the benefit of all humanity.
I honest to fucking God don’t understand how cybersec is so fucking bad that there are so many damn data breaches that I lost count
Really? It’s hard to understand?
Dude it’s a fucking arms race between cyber security teams and attackers.
And there’s more money in attacking than there is in defending. Defending is an expense. Attacking is almost entirely profit
And some attackers are backed by nation-states.
Attackers only have to get through once. Defense has to work 100% of the time.
That sounds awesome. Can I get an invite code?
I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they’re everywhere.
The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.
Oh man if that’s all they charge at your ER, I’ll go there next time I have an emergency.
Man, imagine if Musk could just tell his fleet of cars to accelerate into the nearest utility pole or off the nearest bridge. He could just push that patch down to anybody he wants. Probably completely untracked.
Eh, he most likely could do that. Reason#253 why I wouldn’t buy a Tesla.
Well it’s a good show regardless.
Oh, well, you should. The comment about running a hotel reminded me of it. He was a big part of the inspiration for Psycho (and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and probably others), and there’s sidebar stories with Alfred Hitchcock and the actor from Psycho.
We’ve had two kids.
The first one was in a major birthing hospital, huge building that pretty much did only maternal/ob&gyn/neonatal.
The second one was a small suburban network hospital.
Without a doubt, hands down, no questions, even if we were in the parking lot of the other when she went into labor…we would choose the second one.
The first one literally treated us like we were buying a car. Just, constantly upselling us everywhere. Talked her into an unnecessary C-section because he had a large head and shoulders. Treated us like bad parents when she struggled with breastfeeding (seriously, the breast-is-best folks, and the LLL, can all get fucked).
The second one…the kid was trending larger and they were incredibly supportive of a VBAC. Which went very well.
All this to say…I really do not get surprised when people get skeptical of the medical industrial complex. In this particular instance, they did it to themselves. And of course that has rippling effects in other healthcare (i.e. vaccination).
Bonus story, A year or so after the birth of our second, my wife met a woman with two little kids at a COVID playgroup (like, an outdoor playgroup during COVID…not like a pox party), the same age as ours.
Over time they (and our kids) became best friends. We come to realize and piece stories together…she was one of the overnight maternity nurses taking care of us with our second.
Did you see the Netflix Ed Gein limited series?
No, that’s how Mamdani gets federal AIDS. Totally different.