I am happy to finally learn the actual name of the symbol and simultaneously sad to learn it’s not called the ampers_at_

The Core

I ran into a girl I went to school with in New Zealand (school was in the UK). Didn’t know she was there working for a year, and even if I had, what were the odds I’d end up in the exact bar she was working in?

Brexet (pronounced “Bridget”)

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Sure, but the reason isn’t always just security.

We have government contracts and want more. But to get those, they insist on us doing a bunch of security things.

So it sucks for the users, but if we don’t implement the restrictions, we lose the contracts and thus the income.

And as a side benefit, holy shit we are pretty secure. Next annual pentest soon and I’m expecting good things from it!

Die Hard and Violent Night

Yeah, but the non-Nazis need somewhere to go as well…

I completely agree.

You could almost say that my reply… lacked nuance 😉

Part of it is microblogging. Part is the ubiquity of internet access and lack of general education in critical thinking. Part of it is a concerted effort by hostile actors (whether corporations, nations or other groups, such as oligarchs) to discourage long form media because it’s easier to push out Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that way than it is to be positive.

I think a lot of people have always wanted easy answers to complicated problems. Now they’re getting messages saying that they exist, and the people saying “I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that” are the ones trying to twist them to an agenda.

Easy solutions are comforting. Why think hard if you can just blame someone else and not have to do anything?

Twitter and its 160 character limit.

If they show interest, you can go into detail. If they don’t, that’s previous seconds of life you can use for more productive things.

It’s easier to tell someone you play D&D than it is to say you play Pathfinder, get the “… what?” question and then say “it’s for people who think D&D doesn’t have enough rules”

Given how people deify billionaires, I’d imagine there would be plenty of people that would defend a real life Cave Johnson.

Hell, he does get shit done. His company came up with the red and blue gels, and THE FRICKIN’ PORTAL GUN.

He actually solved the energy problem (run water over a dynamo into a blue portal, then open an orange portal above it so the same water powers the dynamo forever, and that’s just the easiest one I thought of!).

People love Jeff Bezos, and he’s done a lot less and treated more people worse!

It’s not a war crime if no one has passed a law against it…

Also, if you make it to level 20, who exactly is going to hold you accountable anyway?

I don’t support murder, but when people who do call for it like checks notes Charlie Kirk get murdered, I’ll enjoy the irony.

There are some people who the world would be better off without. Can anyone honestly say the US would be a worse place now if Trump had been killed instead of “wounded” at his own shooting?

It’s easy to do that and then say “whoops, mistake!” if Taylor Swift isn’t going to use her billionaire status to crush them with lawsuits.

She didn’t do it with Twitter when it was generating nudes of “her”, so I doubt she’ll do it with chatbots.

So they’ll keep doing it.

Rich bastards would still fuck it up.

The guy who invented insulin made it free for all rather then patenting it because it’s literally a life saving medication.

How’s that going in the US?

I think it was Frankie Boyle that said at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, the 21-gun salute was pointed into the grave…

For context, Sean Lock was a comedian. He was one of those where the humour wasn’t just in the joke, but in the delivery.

So I have no doubt he said that, and I have no doubt most of the room was in stitches while he did.

Tell me Clarice… have the flamingos stopped screaming?

Yours was the first I thought of after reading the question…